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Today's models are far from autonomous thinking machines. It is a cognitive bias among the masses that agree. It is just a giant calculator. It predicts "the most probable next word" from a sea of all combinations of next words.

Anybody out there who has tried to convert js to ast and back and got OOM?! (I tried @babel/parser). I pray this one doesn't disappoint.

Oh, and comments!!! My general observation is that one cannot capture the comments when code is generated from ast. Although esprima has something in the standard to this effect, implementations generally stuck with weird commenting styles and how to generate code from them...for e.g

var /* hello */ world, foo, /* bar */ s;

Did anyone do an analysis on what happens after the test? Like in nodejs if we keep the application running after the so called test and left it idle for 1 or more hours. Does the memory come down?

We are thinking of an alternate way to make loopback 3 faster. Not the way loopback 4 is today.

A raspberry-pi might do better than this calculator. Besides comparing different things, a calculator's main design goal should be to assist with calculations and last for a long time. Anything beyond that it is overkill. If your goal is to visualize-and-study, use a PC.

The language died because of Microsoft tried to woo java developers into using the .net ecosystem. So whenever the CLR got more features, C# (rather than VB) started supporting them more readily. Experience wise, it looked more elegant in c# than in vb.

VB originally wasn't thought of as an OOP language. But through vb.net when that paradigm was "imported", the language lost its charm.

Further more, web development took flight. No one was interested to build desktop applications anymore.

Also I wouldn't say the influx of java developers into the .net ecosystem was that considerable. (Or for that matter other platform developers like python, delphi). It was definitely slow during the 2002s. Because the java ecosystem had achieved code-once-and-run-any-where paradigm. You could write desktop applications developed on windows, on, linux machines. From a business POV why would application developers "want" a different ecosystem to achieve this?

All this sort of eventually killed classic VB.

PS: you should also ask bing ai this question. :)

Not sure if AutoHotKey is the tool for this, but, I am looking for a functionality such that, when I get a ping from MS Teams (say), I want some other system in my home network to notify me of it - perhaps a notification in my android phone?

Anyway we can achieve this?

Harari doesn't pose the question to the reader! Europe's obsessions with exploration and conquests were driven by the scientific revolution. He does say that China could have very well done they part in it, but the Chinese rulers had no such global ambitions. With all this, it is a little premature to conclude that we are what we are because of our history. Although that is apparent if you look at it with that kind of objectiveness. But it could have been very well the Chinese if fate wanted it to be.

[Non-contributory commment] Who else thought the bear was an owl?

Is no one irked by some capitalistic policies/monopoly by giant corporations?

For e.g. you ask the voice assistant to play a song, it will deny that request saying that you need to buy their "premium" offering first.

Another fact is that voice integration to other apps which are not of the same vendor as that of the phone is virtually non-existent.

Well, I certainly hope that the Hacker News FM podcast on spotify doesn't come to an end. But as long as stuff is on the internet and accessible, I don't see the point of denying people visiting the webpage.

Restricting access helps a little.

But in the end the kingdom of humanity is all good and bad. Your life will only be worse if all you think or worry about is the bad.

PS: for reasons unrelated to the topic I do believe that podcast might curtain soon.