I find the need to have an account in order to contribute to projects a deal breaker. It causes too much friction for no real gain. Email based workflows will always reign supreme. It’s the OG of code contributions.

This is dumb. I have followed the simple 12 step process to set up git send-email and it was so much more hassle than creating an account on GitHub or Codeberg or whatever, and in the end the UX is much worse.

Interesting. I guess as long as it doesn’t have any false positives this seems like an ok idea.

Still, it would be definitely better if it could use tsc. They mention this… but don’t really say if the Go version of tsc will allow it. IMO the slowness of tsc is largely overblown.

FreeCAD 1.0 is actually pretty good now. Definitely usable if you’re only doing basic things.

SolveSpace is also nice but it has some deal-breaker limitations like not supporting chamfers/bevels.

I think this actually happens when you do a speed test. Bittorrent being throttled? Hmm let me just run a speed te… oh it’s working now is it?

Nah AI can be extremely useful for learning technologies. You just need to be careful to verify they aren’t bullshitting you.

For example find an explanation of PPM compression that is concrete and simple. As far as I can tell it doesn’t exist.

But I could ask ChatGPT and it told me how it works (probably) in just a few seconds. I haven’t verified yet (at a BBQ) whether it is the correct algorithm but it’s certainly a plausible one that would work.

It told me that you use a trie (typically) of symbol prefixes to record the probability of the following symbols, so for example you know that for the prefix “Th” the probability of “e” is 90%. Then you encode the symbol with arithmetic coding using the modelled probabilities. Apparently the typical max context length is 4-6.

That would have taken me hours to find by reading code and ancient papers but I can verify it a lot quicker.