I see shell as an instrument through which you use other tools. In that sense, vi feels much more like a shell, because you have to use other standard unix programs with `:.!` for much functionality.
Where Emacs comes with all bells and whistles included in one big distribution, much like an operating system.
Maybe it's me who's weird, but I find animations as much worse - it's basically pointless and wastes slightly more time (even when program is fast enough!).
The interface without animations feels snappier even if sometimes it takes a second to load. I disable any and all animations in software that I can - particularly in Android (via developer settings) and Linux (i3+vim vs something like KDE+VScode).
Then it's probably small enough - where you don't need a help of AI, and should do it yourself.
My position is that AI could be useful to find the potential places for these changes, but it should be someone who's capable of thinking to implement them.
You can't. You must prove it. And I don't mean that you need a rigorous scientific proof - that would obviously be too hard to do for every single function/library/program.
Human developer can work on a program incrementally, ensuring at each step that it is mostly correct.
But LLMs can't think, they fake reasoning and explore problem space in random walk until they stumble into something that looks like a solution. And these "solutions" will have hilarious and absolutely unexpected failure modes.
"In the discrete world of computing, there is no meaningful metric in which "small" changes and "small" effects go hand in hand, and there never will be." - E.W.Dijkstra (EWD1036)
Yes, emulators up to PS1/NDS. There are also many bespoke and commercial linux games that run on these devices via portmaster[0] (for commercial games you need to provide your own files).
I use my 34XX clamshell to listen to podcasts and audiobooks in rockbox [1].
If you take some time to setup alternative OS (e.g. MuOS) there is a good video player and even terminal emulator available with root shell.
And of course, you can write your own games and apps to run on it (SDL, pico8, Godot, Love2D, etc).
I would've got one if it wasn't so pricey for these specs.
You can get a cheap Anbernic for 40-60$ running linux, with decent ARM CPU and a good backlighted screen.
My TV does have an audio jack. It's a cheap dumb TV. And almost all of my electronic devices have a 3.5 mm jack.
You won't find it in top flagship models, but plenty of budget devices still have it.
> People talk about a Butlerian Jihad against AI as if you could just ban LLMs and be done.
I don't think we're talking about bans. The word Jihad, in Islam means struggle and usually it's accompanied by a religious "war", but not necessarily violent (see below).
> jihad , In Islam, the central doctrine that calls on believers to combat the enemies of their religion. According to the Qurʾān and the Ḥadīth, jihad is a duty that may be fulfilled in four ways: by the heart, the tongue, the hand, or the sword. The first way (known in Sufism as the “greater jihad”) involves struggling against evil desires. The ways of the tongue and hand call for verbal defense and right actions. The jihad of the sword involves waging war against enemies of Islam. [0]
Maybe people can't win against machines, but they sure can fight e.g. by refusing to interact with AI online, at their job, vandalizing mass surveilance cameras, etc. etc.
That's actually a great argument for Nim[0]. Easy interop with C, native-speed performance, and a syntax very close to Python in both readability and how quickly you can get something working.
Batteries included, automatic memory management without a conventional GC and metaprogramming - is a really cool combination.
Is this really a hard problem? Rendering some text with coloring?
I believe we're just making everything harder than it needs by constraining it to a browser interface. This would be trivial as a terminal application written in native code.
> I’m fairly certain if you give any substitution cypher to an LLM it will decipher the message.
*with sufficiently long cyphertext
You can construct encoding in the way that every 2-5 words will use a brand new different key. Remember, Unicode is big enough to fit over 10000 English alphabets.
You can see the full work in his other blog post[0]. There you can clearly see that red circles coincide with vertical blue lines on the graph. And the very fine print in the bottom left corner explains that "Displayed years indicate when Coffee Maker computers were built". Overlapping the red points with title text is probably just a stylistic choice.
Where Emacs comes with all bells and whistles included in one big distribution, much like an operating system.