feedback:
- I want to repeat just the word, lots of times, without waiting, so a "rapid repeat" button would be nice.
- Context is good, but the player keeps going, well beyond the initial useful section. My attention span struggles with this.
- I want it for Chinese!!! I would pay for this.
You're looking at the wrong metrics. The risk of using a solo-dev product is them losing interest and stopping support (or as someone else pointed out, not being able to deliver the required level of support).
Both types of products also have a chance of being bought for cheap when they are failing, and at least kept alive on life support.
At worst, it helps me type fast by finishing my lines of code for me, as pressing `tab` is faster than typing boilerplate.
At best, it is scary in it's ability to pre-emptively suggest context-specific implementations of functions before I have even considered what I might need to do. It probably helps that I am very particular about how I name variables, which seems to help copilot infer my needs.
But at least a couple of times a day, I am blown away by it.
> currently federal law enforcement can hack online accounts, remove, add, or modify data
Terrifying -- we are trusting officers who are incentivised to make convictions with the power to remove, add and modify data which could be used as evidence in determining the outcome of criminal cases.
Would love for someone to tell me that I am missing something here that makes this acceptable.
>You can type anything in the terminal, and it displays all the matching commands (with help snippets) in real-time
Like when you start typing something and press tab for autocomplete options (on a Mac at the moment but PowerShell does this too IIRC)?
> Then, if you type a command, it displays its help (snippets around the words after the command).
If I understood correctly: I'm imagining something similar to many code editors when you type `someFunction(` a popup appears with the arguments, their types, and a docstring if the function has one.
> the author wants to paint this as essentially the arrogance of the tech elites.
Clearly you didn't read the second paragraph of the article:
> In fairness, this particular problem isn’t by any means endemic to Hacker News. It occurs at the crossroads where a bunch of smart people meet general tech industry discussion. I’m sure there are plenty of places that suffer from Hacker News Disease (and they probably had it first, have a terminal case of it, and are much less civil about it too) but HN is just the only one I’ve participated in, so they have the misfortune of being the community I’ve named it after.