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> We need social media less than before, because you can talk to the bot for information instead (and for human connection, there's still the old-fashioned solution: going out and talking to people in real life).

I kinda believe this. The web for collaboration, work, dumping out information and doomscrolling is a great tool, but I think is bad for any kind of socializing or 'communitizing' at a human level, where you are forced to treat humans as such instead of looking at some transduced digital representation of a real person in the form or chars or pixels prone to dehumanization.

Some high quality RLHF from the wikipedia editors for free.

Anthropic allegedly legally learned literature for large llms from illegally laundered illicit LibGen looted Stanford libraries?

A markovian prussian rubber duck?

This is pure dev astrology, but in the subsidized Sonnet 3.5 times in copilot I'm guilty of prompting 'You're Uncle Bob make this legacy java services read like a book top down with the cleanest code' just for fun and I might have learnt something and had some fun so I'm not judging.

Not the case in my Zen (macos) looks fine.

I use oxc tooling and it's great to see the rust rewrite singularity in action and get to ride the fastest horses, but I would like that they made a branch for 7.2 as experiment to see how it compares. Maybe this ends in a win for Microsoft, they could cut operating expenses by keeping just Anders Hejlsberg in a hammock reciting invariants to claudpilot.

To me adding 'tldr' at beginning or end of the prompt whenever I need is enough. Sometimes I want more explanatory responses.

tmux is great, specially when you need persistence in a remote server where you don't want or can't install any other software, and when you are stuck with some 2010 terminal emulator.

But if you have control over your setup, I would use a capable terminal and ditch in-band multiplexers that sit in the middle of the process and your terminal eating up escape sequences and native features while adding latency. Then use a separate tool for session persistence (I like zmx but there are more for this).

> Many programmers spend relatively little time ac- tually doing programming, i.e., writing, debugging, test- ing, or documenting code. Much of their time is occupied with mundane chores, meetings, or various kinds of breaks and interruptions. Additional time is taken in becoming familiar with new applications or new devel- opment environments.

> One of the key problems in analysis and specification of systems is that the eventual users do not have a good idea of what they want the system to do.

> Automatic Programming The term "automatic programming" has been used for many years to refer to the process by which an executable program may be produced from nonproce- dural specifications of the task to be performed. Some limited forms of automatic programming are already available and more will become available in the medium term. Over the longer term, it will be possible for pro- grammers to create running programs by providing a specification of program functions and outputs, without having to proceed with a detailed program design or with the production of code.

Am I living in 1982?

> And other outlets for sexual desire were more acceptable, for example fictosexuality: the expression of romantic or sexual feelings towards fictional characters.

> A 2017 survey of Japanese students aged 16–22 found that 14–17 per cent of them admitted to having romantic feelings towards a character in a video game or anime.

TIL about the name of this phenomenon. I see this always in the context of "terminal online anime fan" but it made me think and look into other occurrences of similar parasocial behavior like the early Sherlock Holmes fandom.

With this current social and tech trends I think we are going to see more Pygmalionic SexBots startups in next cohorts.