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I am thankful for arXiv only made minor adjustments to its UI over the years, and I hope arXiv keep it that way.

I suspect after the job cut, AI is rewriting the cloudflare UI. Today I tried to add a DNS record using the cloudflare dashboard. The UI looks very different from what I remember, it took me a while to find the add new record button, which is just a blank area without label. The popup dialog is basically unusable. It is transparent and impossible to know where to input. I gave up after 20 minutes.

> "Is anyone still using emacs?"

I have never used emacs seriously as an editor, however, I couldn't work without magit. I even manually build emacs 28 so I can re-use the same set of magit configure files.

I wonder how many comments are from bots in this discussion. Few days ago there was a discussion of traffic stall at the strait of Hormuz on HN. One comment from an user with over 9000 Kama went like "I just checked the traffic on the road and it is normal ...". Unfortunately other bots are not as easy to spot as this one.

Interesting idea, but somehow I feel the world is shaking. For the processing program, what used to black(0.0) and white(1.0) has became very dark gray and very bright gray.

I use DuckDB and like it. Since many mentioned GB level json in this post, so they have large amount of data. Been column based, DuckDB uses more RAM as row count grows. It can be an advantage or disadvantage depends whether memory is constrained. Traditional row based DB such as SQLite can deal with large database with less memory.

I feel your pain. I also get "chatgpt/gemini/grok... CONFIRMED blah blah" as if these are ground truth. What is even more sad is it sometimes mixed with "from first principles...".

I have a gut feeling that human as a creature learns better when looking at the information from several different angles, both physically and mentally. Been physically I mean looking at the same concept on screen and on hard copy books, perhaps taking notes and mark relevent sentences with a highlighter. Similarly, seeing a concept on physical book and write some short code snippet is viewing the concept from different mental angles. Though I don't have a proof for that and have yet to find a formal research on this topic.