oantolin

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[–] oantolin@discuss.online 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It depends on the type of facts, but sometimes it's much easier to verify an answer than to get the answer in the first place. For example sometimes the LLM will mention a keyword that you didn't know or didn't remember and that makes googling much easier.

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago

And even among runtime environments some are much better than others. I don't really mind dotNet or the JVM that much, but Electron seems particularly wasteful. I don't use a single Electron app.

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago

How could I forget to mention ctrl+f!

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There are a couple of functions that web apps almost always have and that native apps tend to lack: (1) selecting and copying text from anywhere in the app to the clipboard; (2) bookmarking individual views within the app. Of course, natives apps in principle could be faster and use more of your hardware —in practice though, they tend to be horribly bloated electron crapps. 😅 So yeah, a decent native app can be better than a web app, but good luck finding one for your purpose.

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One interesting feature in this paper is that the programmers who used LLMs thought they were faster, they estimated it was saving about 20% of the time it would have taken without LLMs. I think that's a clear sign that you shouldn't trust your gut about how much time LLMs save you, you should definitely try to measure it.

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 93 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Normally people use ChatGPT to vibe code, this is the first instance I'm aware of of ChatGPT using people to vibe code!

 

I explain what I dislike about which-key and what I think people should use instead.

 

Charles Choi (of Casual fame) explains how he came around to appreciate Eshell.

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 1 points 3 weeks ago

Kris Jenkins is a top-notch interviewer! He lets the interviewee talk, really pays attention and asks good follow up questions. I know that sounds like standard things an interviewer should do but at least in tech podcasts few seem to.

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

Zero. We didn't get engagement rings, not later wedding bands. The first few years of our marriage we used to get asked about the wedding bands a lot, but people eventually got used to us not having any. I think it's probably been about 15 years since we last got asked about them.

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 2 points 2 months ago

Pocket Casts is fantastic.

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What advantage does the Wikipedia app have compared to the mobile website?

Agree on Voyager, that's what I'm using to post this comment!

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago

My wife and I watched a classic noir film: Double Indemnity (1944). As expected, it was great.

[–] oantolin@discuss.online 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I hope it's live action.

EDIT: No such luck.

 

I'm looking for opinions on org-roam from people that used plain old org for notes extensively before trying org-roam. I've trying to figure out if I'm missing anything by not trying org-roam and it's hard because when I ask org-roam users what they get out of it they tend to reply with stuff that I already know how to do in org: daily notes, capture notes quickly and unobtrusively, searching for notes, linking to other notes. Often it turns out these org-roam users did not use org before org-roam. The exceptions to functionality being available in org that I see mentioned are automatic backlinks and a graphical representation of the link structure.

I have no interest in the seeing the link graph, but I'm not sure about automatic backlinks. In what ways do people find them useful?

It could also happen that the org-roam features I feel I already have in org (daily notes, capturing, searching and linking) are somehow better in org-roam than in plain org. Fair enough, for example I wasn't completely happy with searching and linking in org by itself, so I now use the excellent org-ql package for those tasks. Could someone who has done these things both in plain org and org-roam describe if and how they are improved in org-roam? Particularly, is capturing in org-roam somehow better than org-capture? Are org-roam dailies better than a datetree?

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