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fourthark
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  1. The end product is... just the website?

    I feel like I'm missing something.

  2. Thankfully there is a Typst port of this package!

    https://typst.app/universe/package/fleck/

  3. The policy in TFA is a nicer way of saying that.
  4. It's not that hard to fix the area problem with sunburst charts, by decreasing the radius for outer rings.

    E.g.

    https://github.com/vasturiano/sunburst-chart

  5. Yes as lostdog says, it’s a new feature that writes plans in plan mode to ~/.claude/plans. And it thinks it needs to continue the same plan that it started.

    So you either need to be very explicit about starting a NEW plan if you want to do more than one plan in a session, or close and start a new session between plans.

    Hopefully this new feature will get less buggy. Previously the plan was only in context and not written to disk.

  6. But PowerShell 5.1 is still the one that ships with Windows.
  7. It will get pattern matching when JS does. Not certain yet but in progress.

    https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching

  8. True, you have to add guardrails outside the LLM.

    Very tricky, though. I’d be curious to hear your response to simonw’s opinion on this.

  9. Yes that’s the point, you can’t protect against that, so you shouldn’t construct the “lethal trifecta”

    https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

  10. We probably wouldn’t be here without it!
  11. Weirdly, I’ve found that when that happens I can close Claude and then run `claude --continue` and now it has room to compact. Makes no sense.

    But I have no idea what state it will be in after compact, so it’s better to ask it to write a complete and thorough report including what source files to read. Lot more work but better than going off the rails.

  12. Most people don’t take this opportunity, though.
  13. > It’s a lot easier than working with actual people because you don’t have to worry about offending or discouraging them

    But you have to worry much more about confusing LLMs by introducing contradictory ideas or talking about too many things at once.

    They will not call you out and they will not recover.

    You don’t need to reboot your coworkers.

  14. Yeah if it’s obscure stuff you might have to guide it, show it just the relevant code / context. Outline the design for it.

    They seem autonomous but often aren’t.

  15. I’m curious what you mean. It’s a language with an open source implementation.

    Others can and do implement parts of the language - e.g. Pandoc implements a parser and evaluates Typst.

  16. Seems like training would be a better match, where you need tons of compute but don’t care about latency.
  17. Don’t worry, this is false and the article says so.
  18. You aren’t addressing the argument, which is that the word Deno is not similar to the word JavaScript.

    Also Deno is not claiming that trademarks are bad, they’re claiming that JavaScript is a commonly used term.

  19. Think they meant their C++ bindings for Luau, not Luau itself.
  20. That's fair.

    I guess I've had various reasons to count time, and every once in a while check how well I count time, and if I didn't, perhaps I would start to count time faster. Thanks for the reference and clarification.

    Seems counter-intuitive to me, because common sense tells us that old people think slower and therefore the world seems fast to them. So why would they be counting faster than actual time?

    It also seems to contradict the thesis of the OP, as others pointed out. Years flying by is the opposite of counting time faster than the clock.

    Oh well. Time is confusing!

  21. > A study asked different age groups to mentally count 120 seconds. People under 30 averaged 115 seconds; those over 50 just 87. That's a 24% reduction in perceived time.

    This seems bogus to me. I’m 51; I set a timer on my phone for 2 minutes, put it aside and counted to about 128 before it went off.

    Why would your ability to count seconds change over time? A second has always felt a little slow to me, probably because my resting pulse is above 60.

    (I think it’s also ambiguously described? Maybe they meant the opposite, in which case it took me about 114 seconds to count to 120.)

  22. Who builds phones?
  23. Upgrades and “collateral evolution” are very strong use cases for Claude.

    I think the training data is especially good, and ideally no logic needs to change.

  24. Originally it was based on HyperTalk, then it switched to ECMA later on.
  25. How long would it have taken if you had written “the detailed specs, detailed commit log, and thousands of tests”?
  26. I asked Grok and Gemini and they both said there have been reports that Google search has dropped below 90% for the first time, so it’s significant but it’s like a 1-2% drop.

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