uglycoyote

yes, the title of this post should be, "Zed, a collaborative Mac-only code editor....". I also find it kind of obnoxious that their front page says they are focused on making the world's best code editor without mentioning that it is tied to one platform. I don't think it can come close to being the best editor with such limitations.

I'm a game developer but not specifically a graphics programmer. Although I work with modern graphics APIs and GLSL shaders in my day job, when my 13 year old recently graduated from wanting to program in Scratch or Python to wanting to learn C++, I decided the best thing to do was break out the old OpenGL 1.2 DLL's that I still had on my machine since 1999 and starting him writing some code using glut and glbegin/glvertex/glend type of immediate programming.

it is just a lot more fun than trying to suffer through all of the setup that one needs to do with modern APIs. he is more interested in computational geometry type of things like voronoi diagrams so the graphics API is really just a means to an end and fancy shaders and lighting aren't important right now, and performance in C++ and old school OpenGL is about a thousand times faster than Scratch, so I think we hit a sweet spot for where he is at in terms of his progression of learning.

even with the simplified API of OpenGL 1.2, he is still biting off a pretty ambitious chunk of learning to try to grasp c++ at the same time as OpenGL, so the simplicity helps keep it sane and manageable, and things are going well. He did some neat marching squares demos and I helped add an IMgui menu to tune parameters at runtime. it has been entertaining!

which is why the title should have been "discover volunteer opportunities around the US"

if you're targeting enterprise clients, they may insist that your course fit in to their existing LMS (learning management system). A bunch of large corporations use these old and stodgy technologies and require learning materials to support the ancient SCORM API or the slightly less ancient xAPI API. You might find, if you go that route that you spend more time dealing with the complications of improperly implemented APIs, poor developer documentation for integration into those systems, organizations who don't really have people with the technical knowhow to help with the integration issues, Subject Matter Experts who aren't actually experts at anything, etc., and less time developing your own technology.

Compilers have always been making guesses about what the most likely code path is behind the scenes, but it still needs to behave correctly in the case where it was wrong (that will just be the less-optimal code path). All these attributes are doing is helping the compiler know instead of guess what the hot path is. if there is any way to confuse the compiler into giving undefined behavior with hints like this, that's a compiler bug. (not saying compiler bugs don't exist, but are you aware of a specific bug like this)?

this resonates with me.. I fell in love with python because it made it really easy to write 100 to 1000 like I scripts that I could whip out in no time and make something happen. I still love it for that. But I fell out of love with it working on a large codebase -- mostly someone else's code -- where I felt imprisoned by not knowing the types of most function parameters, what I could do with those types, and what code I could change without breaking other code. The lack of ability to navigate in the way that I can navigate C# or Java killed python for me

I still have to use python though. I make an effort to type-annotate everything I see, and python's type annotation features keep improving, but it still often feels like an awkward uphill battle

hmmm.. they don't seem to really explain the rules of the game here. Doesn't the length of time it takes to crack a password depend on the rate at which you are allowed to try different guesses at the password prompt, and whether or not you get locked out or penalized with delays after a certain number of wrong guesses?

When they say it takes 48 minutes to "crack" my password are they assuming some specific rate at whichever the system they are trying to log in to responds to failed login attempts?

Very frustrating article to read. The article is setting up a straw man and attacking it. He is acting like everyone else thinks:

1) edges are the only important features in images and 2) line drawings can only represent edges.

Who are these brainless absolutists that he is attacking?

Then he's acting like he is the only one with other bright ideas that nobody will listen to.

I think it is obvious to anyone who thinks about this that:

1) edges are a useful feature for recognizing objects in images but not the only useful feature 2) lines in line drawings can and often do represent edges, but there are a lot of other things they can represent. Light and shading and texture of various kinds.

It would be fine to write an article that goes in to depth on the different nuances, but it is annoying that this author pretends that most other experts have naive and simplistic views, with "uncritical certainty", and "no one seems to question it", and the author "has a hard time convincing them otherwise". It is a very condescending tone that comes off sounding like the author is presenting themselves as some brilliant but misunderstood outcast, and the only one who can see the light of truth.

we could do without the drama!

I'm in the field but don't actually use USD so when I heard some colleagues talking about it I googled to try to figure out what they were talking about... but was unable to find anything that wasn't talking about currency. Even if I Google something like "USD format converter"I tend to get a bunch of currency converters. it is kind of a pain in the ass.

it seems to me, if there is one discussion forum where you should be able to point out that a website it broken for technical reasons and why, it is HN.

I found this comment interesting (because it explained why the content was completely unreadable) and useful (because the sub comments lead me to a solution that allowed me to read this content).

I can't tell if that is the case here, but a lot of time it is the original author posting their content on HN because they want feedback from smart people, so hopefully this is useful to them as well and they unbreak their website.

Please consider revising this rule. It seems like such complains should be allowed when the website is completely unusable.

in my experience HDMI works better. I have had Dell 4K monitors both at my home and my work, on three different PCs all have the exact same issue: with DisplayPort I can't get more that 30hz and the mouse is so delayed that it is practically unusable. I almost sent the first monitor back, but when I decided to try the supposedly-inferior HDMI I had no trouble driving it at 60hz and the mouse movement feels buttery smooth (no latency). it's not a case of a weak video card... my card at work easily drives two of these 4K screens at 60 hz over HDMI but for some reason can't drive a single 4K monitor at more than 30 on DisplayPort. what's up with that?

I was disappointed in that example for a different reason. it ran on my phone, but when I pinch -zoomed (which is what I assumed a zoom widget built for web was supposed to support) it kept zooming towards the same point, which was a boring black spot. it didn't pan and zoom like I would have expected.

I think you still need to explain further. it is not clear why you think the author is being annoying. it sounds like you are agreeing with the author in your last sentence. I'm confused.

> in context learning using large language models

In which context is it learning the language models of what?

If it's learning the language models using a different context than the context of the company I work for, then it's learning not learning anything relative tho the codebase that's important to me. So what use it is?

Generally speaking, companies have their own libraries and their own style of coding. Having a language model of how someone at facebook is coding their javascript isn't going to help me at all with generating useful completions for my FORTRAN code against some 20 years of legacy code on my company's own codebase. But training it locally on the 20 years worth of legacy code sounds useful.