- This 1000x over! On Android you have this and you can tune how long a long-press is. It's amazing and should be an advanced feature on iOS.
I wish Apple would get over itself and expose settings for all-the-things, like how you can write default finder settings on macOS using the terminal.
- Not a defense of the poison value approach, but in this thread Araq (Nim's principal author) lays out his defense for exceptions.
- In Avatar they are literally mining a room-temperature superconductor. If you had to think of a way to make interstellar mining plausible that certainly would be a candidate.
- Congratulations and amazing job! I've loosely followed Unison for years; hitting 1.0 is a big deal.
Unison has many intriguing features, the foremost being hashed definitions. It's an incredible paradigm shift.
It does seem like a solution searching for a problem right now though.
Who is this language targeted at and who is using it in production besides Unison Cloud?
- I think JetBrains is in general a very consumer friendly company. They contribute heavily to open source as well.
- Feynman shared your hesitancy for very similar reasons. He states in Surely You're Joking that he was offered, but never took them.
- I assume they put the dog down though? My understanding is that's what happens in these cases.
- I think you would need a complicated set of metrics to claim something like "improved" that wasn't caveated to death. An immediate conflict being total number of articles vs impressions of articles labeled with POV biases. If both go up has the site improved?
I find I trust Wikipedia less these days, though still more than LLM output.
- `@` makes the array (stack allocated) into a sequence (heap allocated).
Edit: Just read the second half of your post—
> I don’t think the equivalent Python code would look much different. Maybe more concise
He could be leveraging [std/sugar](https://nim-lang.org/docs/sugar.html) to make this look cleaner.
- You've done a lot for the community yourself! Thank you for your excellent libraries and high-visibility usage of Nim at Reddit.
- I'm not that familiar with his employment history; you could be right. Either way, he'd still be an example. If you have longer term ones, I'm sure it would add to the discussion
- Since we're all being exacting here… =p
> (first day of spring)
It's actually the March equinox. "Spring" is true only in the northern hemisphere. What's more it's the ecclesiastical equinox, not the astronomical equinox, whose date actually varies depending on the year.
Never mind that all this is descriptive of dating in countries that grew up with Western Christianity. Countries where Eastern traditions dominate often date it differently.
All good will to you both = )
- A few examples that spring to mind, Steve Wozniak and Mitchell Hashimoto
- Deep things often, not always, take more attention to appreciate than the superficial. It's a precious resource people are seldom disposed to allocate a lot of when headline-surfing HN.
- I assume you mean the sharing of the article, because the author was a philosophy prof.
Do you have anything I can follow up on for,
> most people prioritize "extrinsically" meaning, whether or not something is "interesting" is not primary information in their prioritizations.
I would have thought the quest for dopamine was pretty universal and there's a good friend in my life who has a serious case of ADHD.
- LiveSvelte or LiveVue have some impressive demos. I've never used them though.
- Right, that specific claim should be understood with US high schools and higher education in mind. There the massed approach rules the day.
Since these things I mentioned are well demonstrated to be effective and you don't think there's anything left to be had with a subject-agnostic approach, I infer you have a high opinion of how well these countries have implemented these "tactics". Is that right?
- Yeah there seems to be some confusion. I agreed with the comment I replied to in the sense that teaching well requires specific domain knowledge and some specific pedagogy. Where I disagree is the assertion that the "tactics", to use your term, have been perfused through the system and there's nothing left to gain here.
He specifically says, "I think we've got everything we can out of the subject-agnostic approach to improvement"
So we all agree that subjects would benefit from specific interventions. The difference is he's going further and saying this is the only way forward; there are no general gains left to be had.
From the strength of the claim alone, this is hard to believe. Where do you stand on this?
I'm overall happy with the decision and would recommend others try it.