satyanash

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Comment · 23 days ago
Am I missing something here?

What terminal / agentic workflows spawn the demonstrated dialogue boxes that require the User to click/reject the action? Aren't most such flows actually inline UIs? And finally, if the core issue is that these confirmation boxes are tied to the terminal that triggered them, which does not autofocus, what's the point of said "big arrow" that is also lurking behind without focus?

If the said "big arrow" automatically gains focus, isn't the real fix here to just make the dialogue boxes themselves gain focus automatically? Both are similarly disruptive anyway.

Comment · 10 months ago
On Firefox, newlines in code blocks are broken for this website. This causes the page to scroll horizontally to accommodate all the code blocks. The code is all wrapped in a single line.
Comment · 1 year ago
> "Please drink a verification can to continue"
Comment · 1 year ago
> narrative only got picked up because people needed a reason to demonize evil corps

Either they aren't evil in which case they're being demonized, or they're already evil in which case demonization is redundant.

Keeping aside the motives of people, what is clear is that scale effects of AI cannot be ignored. An AI "learning" millions of pieces of content in a short span is not the same as humans spending time, effort and energy to replicate someone's style. You can argue that its 'neural nets' in both cases, but the massive scale is what separates the two.

A village is not a large family, a city is not a large village, ... and all that.

Comment · 1 year ago
> having positive branching first

This is advice I've never seen or received. It's always been the latter, exit early, etc. Languages like Swift even encode this into a feature, a la if guards.

Comment · 1 year ago
> MY ONBOARD WIFI STILL DOESN’T WORK, I had to buy an external USB WiFi adapter. Thanks for nothing DriverHub.

All this, for literally nought

Comment · 1 year ago
> Prepare to make final mean final

missed opportunity to call it "final final"

Comment · 1 year ago
While it has CSV download, the schema is quite unusable. Someone have a cleaner dataset?
Comment · 1 year ago
Full title is "You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications... And Other Myths"

Omission of trailing part changes the meaning and makes it clickbaity.

Comment · 1 year ago
> "Why did you decide to merge Keras into TensorFlow in 2019": I didn't! The decision was made in 2018 by the TF leads -- I was a L5 IC at the time and that was an L8 decision. The TF team was huge at the time, 50+ people, while Keras was just me and the open-source community. In retrospect I think Keras would have been better off as an independent multi-backend framework -- but that would have required me quitting Google back then.

The fact that an "L8" at Google ranks above an OSS maintainer of a super-popular library "L5" is incredibly interesting. How are these levels determined? Doesn't this represent a conflict of interest between the FOSS library and Google's own motivations? The maintainer having to pick between a great paycheck or control of the library (with the impending possibility of Google forking).

Comment · 2 years ago
> Optimising for the wrong metric, and what do about it, is an important issue.

All metrics are wrong, some metrics are useful. Finding the useful one and then recognising when it ceases to become useful is the hard problem.

Comment · 2 years ago

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