Back when computers were actually expensive and wireless networking technology wasn’t as good/common, they would take your card to the back office and run it on the single, hardwired card terminal.

Nowadays it’s less of an issue as those terminals cost peanuts and WiFi is ubiquitous so they have many of them and can just bring one to your table.

I guess the snark is funny, so I'll bite.

I've used Safari daily for … must be 20 years now? Every day, for everything, minus the odd exceptionally rare circumstance. And I couldn't tell you what the last one of those was, it was so long ago.

I'm a web developer. I use its devtools constantly.

People ask why do you use Safari and not Chrome and I think the question is backwards. Why, given how lovely Safari is, would you go and download Chrome? It's really ugly and doesn't look like any of the other apps on my Mac.

When I do want other devtools, I vastly prefer Firefox's to Chrome's.

The question on everyone’s minds: did Claude write all this prose (the readme has the exact same tone & vibe as the above comment) or was it ChatGPT?

I’m guessing v4 C didn’t have structs yet (v6 C does, but struct members are actually in the global namespace and are basically just sugar for offset and a type cast; member access even worked on literals. That’s why structs from early unix APIs have prefixed member names, like st_mode.

Normally they aren't, but maybe the US will take over Sweden and the Nobel Foundation and make it happen.

Thinking from first principles, a large part of the content on stack overflow comes from the practical experience and battle scars worn by developers sharing them with others and cross-curating approaches.

Privacy concerns notwithstanding, one could argue having LLMs with us every step of the way - coding agents, debugging, devops tools etc. It will be this shared interlocutor with vast swaths of experiential knowledge collected and redistributed at an even larger scale than SO and forum-style platforms allow for.

It does remove the human touch so it's quite a different dynamic and the amount of data to collect is staggering and challenging from a legal point of view, but I suspect a lot of the knowledge used to train LLMs in the next ten years will come from large-scale telemetry and millions of hours in RL self-play where LLMs learn to scale and debug code from fizzbuzz to facebook and twitter-like distributed system.

> A layout grid is not a table

Ain't it? Rows and columns get you a table.