I don't think this guy's blog tries to sell me on a subscription enough. Maybe he could add even more pop-ups or inline pleas for funding. I'm sure he's got a newsletter he's desperate to monetize.
> Rewrite this Python code to use match/case instead of if/elif/else chains
Is this a real example of something people use AI to do? If so, I don't understand why that's difficult, because prompting the AI to do stuff with ASTs etc. seems a bit over the top.
> I forget that what I miss was not the system, but the community on the system.
Same. I had VMS running on an AS200 next to a beautiful X terminal, just like the computer lab at school. But my dad wasn't sitting next to me, hunting and pecking away at his old C.Itoh terminal. None of the usual suspects were across the table, locked into their favorite MUDD. And so on. I miss them all so much.
Hallelujah and thank you, sweet little baby Jesus. Now I can get rid of this bullshit from my dotfiles:
rm -rf ~/.emacs.d/tree-sitter
mkdir -p ~/.emacs.d/tree-sitter
set _plat = windows
if ( `uname` == Linux ) set _plat = linux
if ( `uname` == Darwin ) set _plat = apple
set _arch = x86
if ( `arch` == arm64) set _arch = aarch64
gh release -R emacs-tree-sitter/tree-sitter-langs download -p "*${_arch}*${_plat}*"
tar -C ~/.emacs.d/tree-sitter --transform 's/^\(.*\.\(so\|dylib\|dll\)\)/libtree-sitter-\1/' -xzf tree-sitter-grammars*.tar.gz
rm tree-sitter-grammars*.tar.gz
That's csh, BTW, just like the Founding Fathers intended.
This is a gift to reactionary gerrymandering and voting restriction efforts, along with things like yesterday's FBI raid of an Ohio voting rights organization.
> most people who work in tech do not make good instructors
Guilty as charged, despite my best attempts to the contrary. I wish I had time to go back to school for some kind of teaching degree. Is there something else I can do or read or watch or something to make me a better teacher? Knowledge transfer is probably the most important aspect of my job.
> To [switch users], /bin/login would need to be setuid, and it certainly isn’t on Linux... _Perhaps_ Solaris (or SolarOS) is different?
The login command is indeed setuid root on SunOS 4, to which the movie pays homage, as its documented behavior is "to [permanently] change from one userID to another". The su command explicitly means "temporarily switch to a new user ID".
Here are copies of the SunOS 4 manual pages, if you're curious:
Can someone explain how the ChatGPT Codex Connector works in concert with GitHub access controls? I am not sure how to add it to my GitHub repositories, accounts, or organizations without potentially giving any OpenAI customer access.
I'm amused at how thoroughly Google adopted Microsoft's playbook. Chrome supplanted Internet Explorer by embracing the open web. But then Google immediately started on extensions, and now they're trying to extinguish the open web with nonsense like Cloud Fraud Defense. All very smoothly done. I mean, people are actually _asking_ for this junk. I'm impressed.
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