SirLordBoss (u/SirLordBoss)

SirLordBoss commented on Your brain changes based on what you did two weeks ago newsweek.com/brain-change... · Posted by u/thunderbong

amelius · a year ago

Researcher: hey, that's odd ...

HN: N=1. Move along, nothing to see here!

SirLordBoss · a year ago

To be fair, they're not exactly wrong. Worth repeating with N=10,100,... until we get a robust conclusion, but as it is, there's not much to go on in this one

SirLordBoss commented on Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE github.com/yetone/avante.... · Posted by u/simonpure

d4rkp4ttern · 2 years ago

Surprised nobody mentioned zed which is open-source, rust-based and also has some compelling AI-edit features where you can use your own model. I haven't tried Cody yet but zed and Cursor are at the top of the list for me to spend more time with.

zed: https://zed.dev/

HN Discussion from few days ago (397 pts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41302782

SirLordBoss · 2 years ago

The lack of an option on Windows makes it harder to justify when alacritty + nvim achieves great speeds as well, with all the customizability and what not.

Can anyone chime in on whether using zed on wsl is viable, or loses all the speed benefits?

SirLordBoss commented on We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad lesswrong.com/posts/PJu2H... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

bambax · 2 years ago

> X already has been happening and yet life is just fine

The OP doesn't say life isn't fine. He says that if we don't aim for perfection, if art ceases to matter because we cease to truly care, then there's no point. We'll eat shit and reproduce just the same -- but there is no point.

He's got a point.

SirLordBoss · 2 years ago

This is such an all-or-nothing thought. We can aim for "better", or even just "good enough", without aiming for absolute perfection or mediocrity, and things will still keep getting better.

His point is excessively perfectionistic at best, to the point of detriment, and at worst... well, it's pedantic.

SirLordBoss commented on We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad lesswrong.com/posts/PJu2H... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

pclmulqdq · 2 years ago

> But not really. Because if I truly cannot tell the difference between two objects or the way they sound, then they're the same to me, and I don't lose anything by listening to one over the other. If I could tell the difference, and it was important to me, then maybe I could do something about it.

Trust me, as a former piano/harpsichord tuner, that the audience absolutely can tell the difference between a perfectly tuned instrument and one that is badly tuned. They just can't put their finger on what that difference is.

It's the same as when the viola section of an orchestra is out of tune or the horns drag (both very common problems for amateur symphonies). The overall effect is "muddier" and less "brilliant" than other performances, and you can tell as a listener, but very few people in the audience can say "the violas were flat in the adagio section."

SirLordBoss · 2 years ago

To follow this analogy, isn't it possible then for someone to study precisely what the difference is, and become an expert, thus bringing us back into the level of expertise we were at at the start of the analogy?

Surely the experts didn't all learn from each other; who was the first expert? That expert surely learned in some other way, so the only thing lost at the start of the analogy is the time required for someone interested to (re)achieve mastery.