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il y a 2 moisdiscuss

Thx, that often works, but that's still inaccessible to me.

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

> Not a X. Not a Y. Not a Z. The thing he was most proud [...]"

This construction - how is it called? It is clear "AI speak" - at least I remember Claude talking like that (even if it is code).

protomikron

il y a 5 moisdiscuss

If you think about it, it makes sense.

Say what you want about LLM-assisted software development, the chances are high that it will stay, meaning a non-trivial part of code will be written by an LLM.

So is it better to have

  - git commit (mostly only code)
  - magic or blackblock (meaning back and forth by developer with LLM, before commit)
  - git commit (mostly only code)
  ...
  (rinse and repeat)

  - git commit (prompt and/or code)
  - git commit (prompt and/or code)
  ...
  (rinse and repeat)

Obviously for that to work the LLM output has to be deterministic and a commit chain has to be pinpointed to a specific weight blob.

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il y a 7 moisdiscuss

You can use ctrl+shift+t to open the recently closed tab again.

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il y a 10 moisdiscuss

Ah I see, thx, it's a pretty default configured "gnome-terminal", which probably captures the F10.

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il y a 10 moisdiscuss

It's an interesting file browser, the default "blue" colors gives old-school vibes nowadays.

If you wonder how to quit (if started from a terminal):

It's `ESC 0`. Or "exit" like from a shell. Took me some time I have to admit (q, ctrl-c, ctrl-q, F10, ESC all did not work).

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

Does anybody know something about the main differences to the first edition? Is it the same HACK computer (and stack, with assembler, high-level language, etc.), or did they change that?

The original architecture had some caveats - e.g. no external interrupt capability, so IO was implemented using busy polling and inspection specific IO-mapped memory regions (I don't blame them, as it made the book more concise and you can not cover everything) and there has been discussion about a HACK-2 from the community, so it would be interesting if somebody knows more.

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

Maybe I have expressed myself unclear, but I don't want to advocate against networked software and loading resources over a network in general. I would like to have a more "typed" API to networking services (including web-pages) that provides sufficient information to render the application on my client - the term "whitelist" may indeed be a sub-optimal term.

> Having "specifications" that websites and authors would have to enforce based on content would make the web less free.

We already have enforced specifications (HTML, HTTP, TCP, ...) and they did make the web free, as you could and can participate, when you implement these specifications (at least to a sufficient degree). However we could go further and provide specifications for more high-level tasks.

Consider the problem of going from A to B via public transport. Cities with a working public transport infrastructure normally provide a webpage that allows you to search for routes and reporting journey time, cost and additional information. However these webpages are more or less convenient to use and every transportation provider has to implement its own shitty webpage. Hypothetically it could implement an API that provides this information and the "Browser" has its builtin GUI (configurable by the user) to access this information.

> Software authors have the right and the freedom to write whatever they like, any way they choose, up to and including the UI.

I am more talking about users who should have the possibility to access the information they seek in an uncluttered way. And we can keep stuff like <canvas>, so you are still able to draw your pixels.

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il y a 8 ansdiscuss

What I would like to see is some kind of "white-list" browser - I think it's our best chance to keep an ad-free environment. Maybe it is a bad idea in general to allow a remote page write pixels to your screen: images, videos, text and now applications

It is nice that the web is open (at least reasonably), but maybe raw JS, HTML and CSS is too general? The most valuable webpages have simple designs and are liked because of their content, like

  - wikipedia.org
  - HN
  - stackoverflow.com
  - maps.google.com
  - ...

These pages could implement

  - Knowledge-Base
  - Topic-Comment-Community
  - Answer-Response-Community
  - Interactive-GIS

specifications, that obviously do not exist. E.g. if a newspaper implements a hypothetical "Newspaper-Specification" it would have to provide original, sourced content containing text, images, audio and video via some API (which is often already the case when single page apps fetch content client-side via e.g. JSON). There would be no visual difference between reading "The Guardian" vs. "USA Today" or browsing "OpenStreetMap" vs "Google Maps" as content would be rendered on the client.

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