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by phforms 5d ago
HN mostly depresses me these days, so I appreciate this! (nice to see vibe-coding put to good use for once)
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by phforms 7d ago
I see a possible future where we have ultra thin devices that can be successively unfolded to larger formats based on this ratio, making size-based product variety obsolete. After that we get screen origami.
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by phforms 14d ago
I really like the EDN[1][2] (extensible data notation) format that is used mostly by Clojure for config and data transfer/exchange. It is so much more expressive than JSON and supports a well thought-out set of elements for the most co
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by phforms 21d ago
Yeah, "first source" is the key here. The information should be available openly and independently of any 3rd-party platform. In a broader sense, I believe that every person who publishes on the internet should have a standard way
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by phforms 24d ago
My guess is that everything "reliable" in LLM/agentic-coding comes down to either calls to reliable/deterministic tools or providing well-defined success criteria (such as loads of unit tests) for the LLM to throw its st
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by phforms 24d ago
I second that. Not using agents myself but trying to get an idea on how this stuff works, so I always wondered what an "harness" even is, since anyone seems to assume that this is common knowledge. Now it is really clear to me!
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by phforms 27d ago
I really like the “persisting of intent” part of this approach. I don’t have any experience with coding agents, but it seems to me that this could make it much easier/quicker for others to understand an AI-written codebase (or even PR)
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by phforms 1mo ago
I agree. There are decades of work in Mathematica and the Wolfram Language, with a lot of carefully made design decisions, working closely with scientists in so many fields, trying to capture what is important for their work and what knowle
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by phforms 1mo ago
From what I’ve seen so far, I would also not dismiss it as slop, even though I’m generally against vibe-coding (but more for ethical and environmental reasons, not because the code is inherently bad/slop/whatever). Many people see
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by phforms 1mo ago
As a more-or-less neutral observation (I still kind-of like the project): What I find curious - perhaps a sign of these times: After just 2-3 months in development (judging from the repo commits, obviously I have no insight into what came b
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by phforms 4mo ago
I have switched between left and right mouse every few years when I was younger, just to see what works best for me. I could adapt to both, even though I can only write and draw with my left hand. I have settled with left-hand mouse because
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by phforms 4mo ago
Same, I always misread the title like this when it comes up and it amuses me for a while, since it sounds like it could be a book written by Franz Kafka.
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by phforms 8mo ago
Years ago, someone demonstrated an improved mobile text editing system called "Eloquent" [1] and I wish this would be the default today. However, my biggest issue with mobile text selection is accidental scrolling or scrolling too
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by phforms 9mo ago
Don’t know if it was added after your comment, but there actually is one separate page for each character, just click the arrow in the top-right corner of each box. For more "giant" character previews I can recommend https:/
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by phforms 10mo ago
Maybe the structure and operation in LLMs is a somewhat accurate model of the structure and operation of our brains and maybe the actual representation of “thought” is different between the human brain and LLMs. Then it might be the case th
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by phforms 10mo ago
In the past few years I have seen some serious efforts from the Clojure community to make Clojure more attractive for data science. Check out the Scicloj[1] group and their data science stack/toolkit Noj[2] (still in beta) as well as t
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by phforms 10mo ago
You might have forgotten the language but I bet it must have had some influence on how you think or write programs today. I don’t think the value of learning Prolog is necessarily that you can then write programs in Prolog, but that it shif
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by phforms 11mo ago
It is unfortunate, but I can absolutely understand it. Keeping up such open-ended, time-consuming projects year after year while the person doing it changes inevitably – their personal life, habits, job, interests, etc. – must feel like a b
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by phforms 1y ago
As an autodidact who never learned this stuff at school/uni, his lectures are what made linear algebra really click for me. I can only recommend them to anyone who wants to get a visual intuition on the fundamentals of LA. What also he
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by phforms 1y ago
Years ago when I was reading this (just a couple of chapters, not all of it), it opened my eyes to the power of diagrammatic representation in formal reasoning unlike anything before. I never did anything useful with string diagrams, but it
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by phforms 1y ago
Okay, I can see the issue now, maybe I haven’t really used dired intensely enough for it to bother me. I just tried your snippet and having the cursor remain on the dired buffer for a quick preview is a feature I didn’t know I needed. Thank
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by phforms 1y ago
I guess you already know the command `dired-find-file-other-window` (bound to `o` by default), which reuses the right split window, if already there and opens a new window if there is none. Horizontal splits do not seem to be reused though
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by phforms 1y ago
Processing is what ignited my passion for programming and Quil has become my favorite way of writing it. It is amazing that you can re-evaluate the draw/update function in a running sketch and immediately see the changes, without havin
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by phforms 1y ago
I am not sure if this is what you mean, but the original UCBLogo (which I think is used in the Turtle Geometry book) is still alive and maintained[1] (not by the original authors, but Brian Harvey seems to chime in every now and then) and i
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by phforms 1y ago
My Emacs wouldn’t be the same without Prots modus themes[1], which I found to be a great foundation to build my own theme on top of. I am grateful for all the work he did for the Emacs community. I also enjoy watching his videos where he ta
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by phforms 1y ago
I like using LLMs more as coding assistents than have them write the actual code. When I am thinking through problems of code organization, API design, naming things, performance optimization, etc., I found that Claude 3.7 often gives me gr
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by phforms 2y ago
I’ve been considering Parinfer, but my issue was that it is a bit unpredictable where parens end up and I have to be careful to not mess up my code structure. Maybe I should give it another try for a longer time period. My favourite structu
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by phforms 2y ago
Apparently, it is set to false by default in Zen Browser. In my Firefox it was still true.
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by phforms 2y ago
I believe convenience and actually wanting to give something back to the creators would have many people pay for pro features, since it’s actually “Pay once, use for life”, which is a rare and welcome sight in this subscription-flooded worl
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by phforms 2y ago
It seems like they borrowed heavily from Notion, Obsidian and RemNote, as far as I can tell (wouldn’t call it a knock-off though, since there are sooo many apps in this space that you don’t really know who came up with what anymore). But th

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