Watching the screencast I realize how often text and an editor are a replacement for lists, treeviews, tabs, scrollbars etc.
Maybe AI is the answer for enforcing the format and for discoverability since it provides GUI-like hand holding without the hassle of actually writing GUI code.
> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.
> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
It's not how it's being pitched, because nobody wants you to admit "bullshit" out loud, especially when it reflects the "work" that's been done for years. But it _is_ how people are actually using it; as a rubber ducking tool + autocomplete, and in that regard, I think AI has a ton of utility for a ton of creative work, especially since nobody wants to talk to actual people if they can help it...
In the daily downtown crawl at 5PM I count about one in four drivers on their phone. Is there a way to tell apart the adaptive cruise control cars from the ones without ? ACC is the only way I can explain why there isn't a crash every 5 minutes.
Many cars do have “stop-and-go” assist, including lane centring, meaning the car will maintain distance to the car in front down to 0 while maintaining its position in the centre of the lane, and then accelerate from 0 when traffic starts moving again. This is a relatively new feature, being generally available on luxury marks from ~2016 or so. Many cars with ACC prior to that wouldn’t engage below some speed, but would continue operating down to nearly 0 or 0, and then require the driver to take over until the engagement cutoff speed was reached. Some cars as far back as at least 2012 supported this (that I’ve driven), possibly older as well.
Seems to vary across models. Googling for Honda Civic: "And the Low-Speed Follow function can bring the vehicle to a complete stop when a vehicle detected ahead slows to a stop, and it lets you resume operation by pressing a button or the accelerator."
Much easier to block or mute and look away than the other format ("and before we contine, I want to tell you about Squarespace, which is a great way to ...").
They possibly store just the version number for each cookie in shared memory, whereas storing complete cookie data in shared memory would need more synchronization.
Hey, one of the authors here. That’s pretty much it. That said I’m currently working in the next iteration of this which would indeed share more. That said for now it’s not super trivial because it needs a cross-platform condition variable like abstraction that works across shared memory. The pthread based one is not that bad and I’m hacking on it.
They don't quite spell it out fully but it seems like a good guess that they use a datatype (like a 64-bit word) for the version number that can be read and written atomically, so no synchronization is needed at all and it can be very fast. So it's only if you don't have the latest version that you do a slower fetch of the updated value (that you can cache) with a mutex to make sure you don't get a partial update.
You could come up with a scheme to store each version of the cookie in an accessible part of the SHM at a fixed address, but then you have to do GC to evict the oldest versions over time without causing problems etc. So I'd bet they are still retrieving the actual cookie contents via an RPC like before.
Is it the one at the crossing of Cheyenne Ave and Las Vegas Freeway ? The instant I dropped the little Maps guy in the middle of it and saw the street view, the "I'm in danger" meme started playing in my head.
Apparently Joan Mitchell and Bill Pennebaker were the key driving force behind the JPEG format [1], Ms Mitchell having already invented the widely deployed fax compression algorithm, and a few related things.
Maybe AI is the answer for enforcing the format and for discoverability since it provides GUI-like hand holding without the hassle of actually writing GUI code.
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