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Do you also like watching tennis matches from up close? It’s a similar head motion…

Isn’t it just a bunch of static pages? You can get that hosted for free.

There wasn't free hosting in 2003 when I first made it. I have thought about converting it to static, but it would be a complete rewrite, and there is always some other new shiny thing to play with instead.

The newer things I'm doing (like UnicodeSearch.org) are static, though I don't like forcing everyone to have JavaScript enabled.


Is there any free static hosting that has lasted longer than a few years?

Notepad = making fire with sticks and stones

Vim/Neovim = making fire with matches and lighters

VS Code = making fire with a magic box that weighs 60 kg, you don’t understand how it works and it could randomly stop working at any time


It's a code editor. It's not that much more complex than vim. It doesn't do magic to your codebase that makes development different. I've written plugins for vim, neovim and VSCode... VSCode at least has well documented interfaces for everything (edit: well ok not everything, there are some difficult gaps in the docs), and it's pretty clear how things work under the hood. Neovim is fine too, lua is nice. Vim plugins I didn't enjoy much.

Vim/Neovim = cutting down wood and chemistry for the matches, molding plastic and metal for the lighters.

With fish, `for f in *.pdf` Just Works™.

This is also a crutch. Take the time to learn the kludgier tool. It will make you a better developer.

/s (I'm a big fan of fish)


Terminal emulators are a crutch you kids are spoiled by. In my day we had to create programs on punch cards. Copy a file from one directory to another? fifteen cards full of custom assembler code. Print out a file listing on the teletype? Ten cards... uphill... in the snow... both ways.

/s (no, not really)


Same with zsh

Also French: je ne sais (I don’t know) → je ne sais pas (I don’t know a step)

And recently even dropping the negation itself while keeping the meaning: “je sais pas”

I never thought about that. Interesting. This negation related cycle is apparently called Jespersen’s cycle and happens in many languages. The English equivalent

I say not -> I “do” not say -> I don’t say. -> ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jespersen%27s_cycle


Vending machines run by an LLM have not been a thing until recently.

Vending machines are static experiences. They sit there and wait until told to give an item and paid for it. Why would you need an LLM for that? There’s nothing to solve there

The comment is a reference to a well known benchmark in which LLMs inevitably lose money attempting to run a simple simulated vending machine business.

> At 19 you’ve never had a friend? I honestly don’t believe it. I suspect you’re experiencing a depressive episode that is clouding your memory.

Gaslighting people is not a good way to help them.


Presumably exactly the same as a div/span.

No difference from using a div/span.

> if you set the junk value for a non-converging Riemann integral to the average of the lim sup and lim inf you can obliterate a huge number of integrability side conditions

Wouldn’t this still cause problems if the lim sup is ∞ and the lim inf is -∞?


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