Readit Newscwnyth commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil
So the main news is that they're giving up on develping an independent IDE and turning into another VS code fork. The loss of biodiversity and reliance on a no-so-reliable steward is mildly concerning.
They (reps? devs? I don't remember) have recently mentioned that they won't give up on RStudio, that it will stay separate from Positron. I really hope that stays true.
ChatGPT and similar tools hallucinate and can mislead you.
Human doctors, on the other hand ... can be tired, hungover, thinking about a complicated case ahead of them, nauseous from a bad lunch, undergoing a divorce, alcoholics, depressed...
We humans have a lot of failure modes.
Human doctors also know how to ask the right follow-up questions.
cwnyth commented on IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023) blogsystem5.substack.com/... · Posted by u/AlexeyBrin
Well...as the Master says:
The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler.
The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages.
Each language has its purpose, however humble. Each language expresses the Yin and Yang of software. Each language has its place within the Tao.
But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it.cwnyth commented on LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles therecord.media/linkedin-... · Posted by u/thm
They also make it difficult to destroy. Try deleting your post or comment history, and you can only do it slowly one by one, with only a few sketchy tools for making it faster that go against their terms of service.
Compared to HN, which doesn't allow for any comments to be deleted?
cwnyth commented on The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh deadlanguagesociety.com/p... · Posted by u/penetralium
cwnyth commented on Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet (2015) discoveringegypt.com/egyp... · Posted by u/teleforce
That website is a super simplistic breakdown. There is so much more to actual hieroglyphs. You get semi-alphabetic, bi-consonantal, tri-consonantal, determinative, and logographic functions all in the same system, and the order you see it isn't always the order it's read.
cwnyth commented on You Had No Taste Before AI matthewsanabria.dev/posts... · Posted by u/codeclimber
There is no objective measure here. What i call good and bad is right for me and doesn't apply to anyone else-
wait - I though I was arguing for consensus here and everyone else was calling me wrong
Did I mix that up? Regardless of whoever it may be, taste is indeed subjective (de gustibus and all that jazz).
It always seemed to me the people who deride Linux's desktop GUI are those who actually never bothered to use it, especially not seriously in the past decade.