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rmsaksida commented on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?   stephenramsay.net/posts/v... · Posted by u/sramsay
sramsay · 2 months ago
Author, here. This is exactly the question I was trying (perhaps ineptly) to pose: If we designed a programming language with the idea that it would be primarily or exclusively vibe coded, what would that language look like? Might it look something more like Lean? Or more like theorem provers in general? Or would it look more like a natural language PL (think Inform 7)? Or what about a heavily declarative DSL like FAUST (for audio DSP)?

None of our existing programming languages were designed for quite the circumstance in which contemporary programming now finds itself; they all address an ergonomic situation in which there are humans and machines (not humans, machines, and LLMs).

It's possible, I suppose that the only PL that makes sense here is the one the LLMs "knows" best, but I sort of doubt that that makes sense over the long term. And I'm repeating myself, but really, it seems to me that a language that was written entirely for the ergonomic situation of human coders without any consideration of LLMs is not addressing the contemporary situation. This is not a precise analogy, but it seems to me a little like the difference between a language that was designed before vs after multicore -- or before vs after the internet.

rmsaksida · 2 months ago
Unrelated - it looks like your blog's RSS feed isn't up to date. :-)
rmsaksida commented on Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform   anthropic.com/news/contex... · Posted by u/benzguo
qwertox · 4 months ago
I wish every instruction and response had a enable/disable checkbox so that I can disable parts of the conversation in such a way that it is excluded from the context.

Let's say I submit or let it create a piece of code, and we're working on improving it. At some point I want to consider the piece of code to be significantly better that what I had initially, so all those initial interactions containing old code could be removed from the context.

I like how Google AI Studio allows one to delete sections and they are then no longer part of the context. Not possible in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, I think there one can only delete the last response.

Maybe even AI could suggest which parts to disable.

rmsaksida · 4 months ago
> I like how Google AI Studio allows one to delete sections and they are then no longer part of the context. Not possible in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, I think there one can only delete the last response.

I have the same peeve. My assumption is the ability to freely edit context is seen as not intuitive for most users - LLM products want to keep the illusion of a classic chat UI where that kind of editing doesn't make sense. I do wish ChatGPT & co had a pro or advanced mode that was more similar to Google AI Studio.

rmsaksida commented on Redis is open source again   antirez.com/news/151... · Posted by u/antirez
kiitos · 9 months ago
Statistically nobody is using valkey.
rmsaksida · 9 months ago
I've been using Valkey simply because after I updated to the latest Fedora version, it dropped redis and pointed me to Valkey instead. I assume as more distros do this and more people update their systems, the Valkey user base will grow. But perhaps with the AGPL redis that will no longer be the case.
rmsaksida commented on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant   economist.com/the-america... · Posted by u/jcartw
PaulDavisThe1st · 10 months ago
Presumably it has the same simple safeguards that a US system like Zelle or Venmo have. I needed to pay my sister-in-law $1300 the other day, and forgot that I have a $500/day transaction limit in place for such transfers, at my own choosing (setup when I opened the account).
rmsaksida · 10 months ago
Yeah Pix lets you choose limits. There's decent granularity for those, you can pick max $ per day, per transfer, per period, and per device. There's a caveat that when you increase a limit it takes a day or two to come into effect (basically to avoid people being forced to increase their limits by criminals).
rmsaksida commented on Bluesky now has 30 million users   bsky.app/profile/bsky.app... · Posted by u/belter
bpoyner · a year ago
You mean the social network that keeps showing my wife dick pics even though she turned off adult content? That social network? Pass.
rmsaksida · a year ago
It was a few months ago, but when X was banned in my country I tried Bluesky for a while. It took a lot of effort (adding blocklists, muting words and blocking individual accounts) to cleanse the timeline of k-pop and furry content. I am not interested in either type of content and didn't follow any such accounts, but still, the "Discover" feed kept showing that stuff to me. It was the strangest onboarding experience I've ever had in social media.
rmsaksida commented on IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star   iac.es/en/outreach/news/i... · Posted by u/ohjeez
dmix · a year ago
How do they evolve when they are frozen part the year before evolution?
rmsaksida · a year ago
Life in that planet evolved to essentially hibernate during their long winter. Presumably the processes that resulted in the very earliest life forms happened countless times until some surfaced that had that feature.
rmsaksida commented on GIMP 3.0 is on the way   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/99... · Posted by u/chmaynard
lovegrenoble · a year ago
affinity is the best one: https://affinity.serif.com

Affinity V2 Universal Licence For macOS, Windows & iPadOS

rmsaksida · a year ago
Affinity is good but it's a shame they don't have a Linux version.
rmsaksida commented on Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative   github.com/voideditor/voi... · Posted by u/andrewpareles
rmsaksida · a year ago
> All of the code is OOP-based, and they mount DOM nodes the old-school way (which is what React was supposed to solve..)

I don't know about VS Code, but I remember Atom was refactored to use manual DOM updates because the performance penalty of using React wasn't worth it.[1] By the way, isn't OOP by far the most popular paradigm for building desktop UIs? I imagine VS Code is a difficult codebase to work with that has a lot of intricate code (as is usually the case with large software projects), but that's a strange piece of criticism :-)

1. https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/5624

rmsaksida commented on D&D is Anti-Medieval   blogofholding.com/?p=7182... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
bovermyer · a year ago
I know how the RPG hobby played out in Japan, but I'm unfamiliar with other countries' experience.

Has anyone written about this?

rmsaksida · a year ago
I think at a time Vampire: The Masquerade was the most popular title in Brazil, but D&D eventually won.

Tormenta and Old Dragon are pretty popular as well.

u/rmsaksida

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