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It's a sad story about the state of Qt Creator's plugin API.

In any case, I kind of agree with the author here that QtCreator basically peaked in both usability and performance somewhere around Qt Creator 3.4 . I would even say 3.3 since that's when it could no longer be built with Qt 4.

The biggest problem with such older versions of QtCreator is however the internal C++ parser limitations, e.g. poor 'auto' support. The outdated C++ parser is the main reason I had to stop using old QtC -- at some point, the parsing is so bad that Find Usages stops being reliable. Any clang based replacement is just 100x slower and tends to have even worse support of recovering from parse errors than the internal parser.

I ponder what the author's using -- I can't guess from the screenshots.
> Unfortunately, in the 21st century, "The Man" is always going to have a shitload of bigger, more lethal "muskets" than you and could swat you like a fly if he felt like it.

I think you should study how it went down in Afghanistan. This argument simply doesn't hold up to reality.

And we're talking about a civil war where using mass destruction weapons like bombardment is much more likely to be out of the question. Additionally it is much harder to differentiate friend from foe.
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Adobe is much more than only creative suite, it is usually on pair with SAP in enterprise deployments for content management and tooling for CMS.
When their only skill is being the 'ideas guy' I guess it makes sense that when an idea generator comes along they exploit that too. And I assume they are selling some bootcamp or course or community access to 'teach' suckers how to do this stuff?
I guess it really depends on your definition of "make it". :)

Elixir today is used by startups, unicorns, fortune 500, and at least two of the FAANG (for whatever it is worth). It is used for web apps, embedded, distributed systems, data processing, and making inroads on AI and machine learning. It has a vibrant community with events around the world, several dozens books, and more.

It is on the [top quadrant of Redmonk][0] and [top 25 on most GitHub language stats][1] while being the second youngest language there (only older than Swift which was created by Apple).

Considering it is a language standing on the shoulder of giants but started by a 30-person company, I would say we definitely made it (I am obviously biased!). Of course there is _a lot_ to improve, realistically speaking it is unlikely we will cross top 10 (maybe that's your definition of "make it") but I also want to be clear that we will be here for quite a while!

0: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/10/20/language-rankings-6-22/
1: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2022/4
I mean, Stable Diffusion came out mid August (almost exactly 6 months ago) and the past six months have seen tons of refinement by hobbyists, so we went from having what amounted to a tech demo with practically closed access to a really functional diffusion model that you can run on your average gaming machine. I'd say that's kind of major.
Many countries use them the opposite of what you're probably used to, and it's hard to keep this in check when writing in a foreign language (in the author's case English).
This isn't worrisome at all.
At least it would put some money where their mouth is. Are they spending any of their lobbying money on increasing their taxes? Until then it's nothing but hot air pretending to care
You've just summed up the core of the Gartner Hype Cycle in a nutshell.
There's many repercussions from this. It's going to get harder to publish to those platforms as a legitimate individual, and it's likely going to be harder and harder to prove you're a human online...

This means even more tracking, captchas, verification to prove "you're not a bot", resulting in less privacy and anonymity online...
Can you 'leave' the organization here? https://myaccount.microsoft.com/organizations
I'm just pointing out the cognitive dissonance of seeing something that's literally happening in the US and saying it sounds like China.

It doesn't sound like China. It sounds like the US, because it is.
Sure, but as I've noted elsewhere if it goes to court it ends up in the hands of a jury. Let's just say that 12 random jurors off the street aren't exactly the HN crowd. In fact, I doubt a single HN user would ever make it on a jury for anything technical unless they lied or deliberately mislead counsel during juror questioning.

"Juror number 7, what is your occupation?"

"I'm a software developer..."

"We move to dismiss this juror".

In this case it could probably be argued for cause due to prejudice which means they can do it all day.

A big part of the calculus here is banking on that.
Can't speak for consumer applications, but in the niche of developer tools the recent advancements in AI are anything but garbage.
LLM based chatbots are already more useful than all of crypto combined. Whereas crypto wastes energy as "proof of work" AI models try to be as energy-efficient as possible. The energy needed to train these LLMs is also 10,000 times less, so let's not act like they're in the same universe.

Moreover, training the base layer of a LLM has to be done only once (for each generation) and subsequent training for domain specific purposes can happen on top of the base layer. This means these AI startups are not going to require an unlimited number of GPUs.

Another big difference is that fundamental AI insights are what drives these AI innovations. Throwing more training data at a neural network is not what makes ChatGPT different from older generations of chatbots (although ChatGPT certainly does benefit from its huge training data set). Transformers for example are a new development, first introduced in a 2017 paper "Attention is all you need".

It's unclear if LLMs will turn out to be a big deal. Maybe this will turn out just to be another AI summer. Too early to tell. But cynicism is unwarranted here.
Only difference in this case is, AI has actual real positive use cases, compared to Crypto which just burned coal.
Just don’t Microsoft. Seriously. It’s not worth the aggravation.
I wonder how this compares to LLVM. That project had building a directly interpretable bytecode and a virtual machine as an initial goal.
You quoted "classical music aficionados". I was mainly reacting to that part and explaining what an aficionado would do. A random person buying a Big Mac is not an aficionado. Also from the article, 2.5% paid, 0.6% listened and 0.1% recognized him. This is more or less in line with my expectation. I certainly know classical music is a niche hobby. When I go to some chamber music concert, I often see a room of elders, very few young audience.
Without a proper app development stack they won't go far, it is going to be Electron as always.
The “direction” of that efficiency is always toward profit and against the very laboring class that makes the product the owners use for profit.

With a collective, co-op, employee owned, or government run industry - one can edict the various rates and ratios.

Look at the US energy company “eversource.”

Posting huge profits in an industry directly related to life and health and yet, doubled one of its rates this year. DOUBLED. Why? “Fuel costs”.

Fuel costs which have fallen.

With a gov run electric system, people will game based on votes. Not shareholder ROI.

Plus, people have a very “interesting” history when they disagree with a gov. From protest to removal of heads from bodies...

It’s not as simple when corporations are involved.

They are more evil than any of history’s evil men.
As always it's a question of deception.
Not sure many "struggling with an unplanned pregnancy" would want to discuss the issue with an "anti-abortion group" ...

If you want less abortion maybe work on preventing unwanted pregnancy with maybe something like increase support for contraception not try to manipulate vulnerable women ...
70% of my coworkers use vi but most of us are in our 40's. About 20% use emacs and the other 10% use some other usually GUI text editor.
It seems like FreeCAD's "Assembly" (Assembly3?) support still is WIP, but not yet works.[0]

BTW, FCStd-files with multiply bodies/parts already works. Here is a viewer link[1] for FreeCAD's built-in `ArchDetail.FCStd`[2] example model.

[0] https://github.com/kovacsv/Online3DViewer/issues/312

[1] https://3dviewer.net/#model=https://raw.githubusercontent.co... (ATTENTION! Huge CPU/RAM load on start!)

[2] https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/tree/master/data/examples
I kind of see where the "outrage" might come from in the lead as apparently they promised that the shoes were going to be recycled.

However, the mantra is "reduce reuse recycle". Clearly it is better in the save the planet sense that perfectly good shoes were reused rather than destroyed for playground padding.

I'm a liberal in general but this kind of false outrage makes us look foolish.
I learned this stuff without having people show me.
That’s not a patent. That’s a published version of a patent application.

The patent has actually been granted thought. It’s here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9131302B2/
I used vim for 5 years, afterwards I switched over to Emacs, and I couldn't disagree with you more. What's clumsy and slow is having to switch between insert mode, normal mode, and visual mode hundreds of times while working rather than just using modifier keys for special actions.
The roma and similar sub $100 espresso machines (I have a delonghi model in that category) use a pressurized basket and aren't really making espresso comparable to more expensive machines. Expensive machines have more powerful pumps and boilers that ensure a proper 15 bar of pressure delivered to the puck vs. the roma and similar pressurized basket machines have a valve in the bottom of the basket that forces the basket to build all the pressure. The end result is an inconsistent brew as pressurizing on the basket wreaks havoc on the puck. Basically these cheap machines are designed to give a lot of crema and a meh espresso shot.

I've had more success with my machine after removing the valve and depressurizing the basket, but then you start to run into the limitations of the boiler and pump not being up to the task. It's why I said you really need to spend about 500 on a brewer to get espresso comparable to what you get at a coffee shop. This isn't snobbery or whatever you want to say, it's just a simple fact pressurized basket brewers don't work the same way and are difficult to get consistently good results--they're designed to make a pretty looking brew.
If you are in space and you look at the Earth from below it's rotating clockwise in space. It's only counter-clockwise when you look from above.
Every time I dip into this world I'm shocked at how credulous and clueless the customers are. I think (or hope) the average person in society is able to spot this stuff for the grift it is, but man, those less bright are lambs to the slaughter, losing their life savings on various web3, NFT, AI grifts.
But how do you know that it has taken place without the light reaching you?

Without the light (or radiation), all you can say is that "something may have taken place everywhere".
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Nothing about cryptocurrencies are needed for making a decentralized encrypted messager.

That Signal has public, known contributors and servers is a choice by their developers, not something necessitated by the fact that they didn't host it on ethereum or whatever.
Remember that HN is first of all a marketing tool for YC. It would be silly for them to allow views that are too inconvenient to their (actual and potential) business partners. And those partners are predominantly from USA.
My partner is looking for a new job, and ChatGPT has been an amazing help in writing the cover letters that recruiters can't stop asking for. Previously, she would spend hours molding her previous cover letter to the job description. Now she can just give the job description and a bullet point list of her relevant experiences, and spend 15 minutes on the ChatGPT output to polish it a little bit and correct any potential misstatements.
Billions for wind and solar. Good luck plugging them in
Before ChatGPT I spent around 200 usd per month to practice German with German native speakers for 2 months.

Then I use ChatGPT to practice German and I am very happy about the experience. AI can't replace real human yet. But I'm already willing to practice with ChatGPT given my current use case and my budget. It's not 10x better, but 20x cheaper. From my experience, AI is not hype.

Imagine integrating a more fine tuned AI and text-to-speech feature to make a better AI teacher. Such an app already exists, I believe. I'm waiting for a German and Japanese one.
I really have little respect for any opinions that shame the use of electricity for things like training AI models. Being mad at it for crypto I can at least understand. But this should be at about the millionth place in the list of things to complain about electricity waste. And if that's how you prioritize your worries, I'm not sure how to trust any other opinions.
vim equivalents:

20g line number

/ find what you are looking for

same for pgup and pgdown

i think what you're describing sounds a bit like visual mode which is just v

d and p for cut and paste if moving stuff around needs to be done (dd for whole line, 5dd for 5 lines, v and then j a few times in visual mode before d or y for yank (copy), etc...)

Note how you don't have to strain your pinky to hit ctrl for any of these?
Try searching TikTok for ChatGPT and you'll quickly get exposed to a whole bunch of this stuff.
Yes, it is excessive.

The UK is highly restrictive, in so many ways.

As for knives in the UK: so long as the blades under 3 inches long, and it is a non locking folding knife, it is legal to carry in public (with some exceptions).

Any knife longer than 3 inches, or any knife with a locking blade, cannot be carried unless you have a good reason (eg: going to/from work, etc).

You likely will have to argue this reason in court if the police officer is a cunt, and most of them are cunts when it comes to having common sense around blades.

Fixed blade knifes of any length require a "good reason" to carry.

A lot of coppers in the UK are ignorant as fuck too, and will confiscate your folding, non locking, sub-3 inch Swiss army knife requiring you to jump through burning hoops, wade through an ocean of piss, and sacrifice a virgin goat at midsummar to get it back.
It's a double-edged sword, IMO.

On the one hand, GPT and AI is immediately usable and arguably quite cool to the layman. It's not a perfect system, but it can write Bash scripts and handle your resignation email. Anyone who does copywriting or programming for a living will probably find a couple uses for it. It's fairly cheap, and it's definitely "worth it" more than analogs like Cryptocurrency.

...on the other hand, though, AI is kinda a bubble. It's our nature to put our hopes and dreams (and money) into the most-promising fields of computing; that's fine. But AI truly has limited application - anything that requires accountability, determinism or trust is a bad fit for AI. When you really whittle down the places you can apply AI, it looks a bit like those 4D theaters from the early 2000s - a cool concept for some stuff, but experience-ruining for others. The eager over-application of AI will be the bubble, not the technology itself.
If they used ChatGPT to generate their course, are they really lying?
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That’s not what I spoke of. I stated “if it’s free.”

Don’t mix up direction and order of operations here.

MS “giving” is an investment.

GPT being free to use (us) is also a form of investment.

Look at healthcare. Govs (taxpayers) funded research into vaccines that then … get returned to profit to corporations. Not to lowering of taxes.
I believe there was a documentary of sorts on the subject

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Igai_Zenbu_Chinbotsu
Or a stool transplant.
LLVM is more heavyweight. Has a lot of analysis and optimization passes for static compilation. UVM is currently very lightweight, will be JIT compiled. Crucially UVM will provide graphics, audio and networking primitives.
Publications will use AI to summarize the press release into their own article.

For sports, take the timeline of events and generate a story around them.
Are they lobbying for that or just writing it like it's a dream?
Human Art Already Has So Much in Common with AI
If you treat it as a surpercharged search engine on a compressed snapshot of the internet in 2021, then its quite useful. If theres ever a function I forgot, but I know how to explain what it does in natural language, chatGPT most of the time can find me what I'm looking for. On some more obscure bugs or if I'm sorting through a new codebase, chatGPT can help me out from time to time to understand new topics.

Of course, we shouldn't rely on chatGPT. It has give me wrong and insecure code before. However, its a nice tool to have around
> …and doesn't need anyone's permit to make its endpoints accessible to anyone.

Until exactly that is being made illegal.
See my other comments about patents in practice. They don't matter until you end up in front of a jury (or settle with a troll, which is a different case). A jury comprised of 12 random people off the street, specifically selected by counsel to be as ignorant as possible on the subject matter at hand (easier to influence).

My original point - this isn't enough of a distinguishing feature to drive sales and revenue for any manufacturer to risk that.

Ok, you sold 1% more laptops because you have good speakers. Then Apple sues you and potentially wins damages on a larger percentage of ALL of your sales of that "infringing" product.

Not worth it, not even close. Not even worth it to try to circumvent and still risk getting sued.
One of the big issues with legacy systems is the hidden edge cases that everyone that uses said legacy system doesn't talk about. I call this the 'silent specification'. If you look at the real specification of the legacy system and try to make a modern system with it, the modern system won't work for the users needs. The users attempt to implement the silent specification on the new system and workflows break down, or huge amount of manual mental work need done. So to use the new system it involves a huge amount of retraining to the point you realize you designed the wrong new system for what the user/workflow/job requires.
it's hard to stay positive when people used 'credential-based' reasoning to disregard your questioning/criticism; this is very standard in academia.

and it's not like you can say "let's see who does better in the real products marketplace" with many of these research things (over 20 years before viable commercialization, if ever).
It’s literally just a cloud.
MS messed up the design of their user and auth system completely. I can't even setup fingerprint for login on my local machine without Windows forces me to connect it to my onedrive account. An account that has nothing to do with my Windows account.
> they are insisting on depreciating the local-only accounts

That's just.... Insane. This is going to be a disaster. I'm so sorry, Windows users.
Because the the largest corporations often clamor for more taxes and/or regulations knowing that it hampers their competitors more than them.
That's what LLVM is today, but IIRC their goals were the same. It might be worth it to look at what made it turn away from the minimal idea and into the heavyweight that it is now.
Every single person on the planet makes contradictory choices every day.

Go ask people how many of them go to bed at their desired time each night.
Mr. Rich Moneybas probably pays no personal income tax, and certainly pays a lower effective rate than Joe Schmoe.

Taking the tax money as corporate tax means they end up paying the same percentage, without Moneybags’ CPA leveraging shell companies and loopholes to avoid tax than Schmoe pays.
you're essentially passing the ball to the mathematicians:

seems like you're saying "we physicist got this from the math people, take it up with them"

but what irks me, is the attitude that disregards the proper understanding of things which you are making use of (in this sentence: 'you' is a informally defined: 'physicists from community')
Nice one.

From the referenced ORN link (dead but archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20060101001857/http://www.oreilly...) you can also reach Doctorow's (still living) plaintext life hacks (https://craphound.com/lifehacks2.txt).
In regards to alternate nostril breathing:

The instruction just say to inhale and exhale, which a person might interpret as a partial breath. I was taught that the inhale and exhale for alternate nostril breathing should completely fill the lungs and completely empty the lungs. Don't try to force too much out or force too much in; just be comfortable. The instructions should also state that the flow of air coming into or out of the nose should be steady throught the entire inhale or exhale. It should not start at 100 CFM and as it gets full or empty change to 25 CFM; try to keep it constant.

Also, when starting alternate nostril breathing; one should balance the flow between the left and right nostril. Then do the alternate nostril breathing for 10 cycles. To balance: if the right nostril is more clogged/slower than the left, then breath in throught right and out through the left until it clears and is the same as the left. Do the opposite if the left is more clogged. Note some times, this will not clear/balance out. In those cases, a nasal saline solution works nicely. Also, oxygen advantage nostril unblocking exercise can be used.
Only if you choose a parochial frame of reference like a small planet in the middle of nowhere instead of the centre of the galaxy.
I mean bad as in “the people paying for the ad slots wouldn’t want it” not “it’s better for society”. Obviously the only morally good answer here is to abolish capitalist profit-seeking organizations altogether, but I’m Assuming I’m preaching to the choir. If you have a company that’s bound by law to seek as much profit as possible, can you really get mad at them for not wanting to show their dumb mobile game ads next to stories about a recent massacre?
Kinda pointless to speak in such broad strokes because people will have a range of experiences based on the specificities of the projects they interact with.
Easy. We’re getting better at prompt engineering.
It happened there then. We see it happen here now. We couldn’t have known about it in any other way, so for us it doesn’t really matter that it was there then.
Question from a non-Windows user: In this situation would the school admin have access to the author's personal data?