xigoi

I guess the missing brace is a scope delimiter and easy to notice if missing, while the tab is an indentation marker and much harder to spot, and might get you into an invalid state but still parse correctly, just not doing what it was meant to do

simoncion•

4 days ago

Additionally, file segments [0] written with a grammar that uses scope-defining character pairs survive round trips through email, chat, the paste buffers of a series of less-than-maximally-careful coworkers, etc. etc. etc. much, much better than those written with a grammar that uses whitespace to define scope.

[0] sections? snippets? fragments? Hopefully you get what I'm trying to say here.

nalekberov•

4 days ago

JSON isn’t ideal either, however missing curly braces are much easier to fix than figuring out where you misaligned entries without going through entire config file.

xigoi•

4 days ago

I’d just like to know what kind of workflow you have that causes indentation to randomly change in your files.

simoncion•

3 days ago

Do you not use an editor that permits you perform at least one operation that would alter the indentation level of multiple lines all at once? Separate from that, have you never fat-fingered the tab, space, backspace or delete keys? Never deleted one too many whitespace tokens when cleaning up an inadvertent or misdirected paste? (If you've never done that, then kudos to you... but in two to six decades, it's certain to happen to you annoyingly often.)

xigoi•

3 days ago

> Do you not use an editor that permits you perform at least one operation that would alter the indentation level of multiple lines all at once?

Yes, but I don’t just randomly perform the operation when I don’t want to change the indentation.

> Separate from that, have you never fat-fingered the tab, space, backspace or delete keys?

When I’m in insert mode, I look at what I’m writing, so I immediately undo any such accidental edit. Outside insert mode, it’s hard to accidentally change indentation.

> Never deleted one too many whitespace tokens when cleaning up an inadvertent or misdirected paste?

I use indentation-preserving paste, so… no?

simoncion•

3 days ago

Ah. You're The One. Got it.

Well, I'll likely be long dead once time's erosion of your body's self-repair machinery has destroyed your ability to be The One. Given that, please do accept this package containing my condolences for your loss. Time's insults are profoundly cruel and unjust.

xigoi•

4 days ago

•on: Is AI Profitable Yet?

> Or, tokens are more like energy and prices will drop over time until they reach some equilibrium.

In that case, AI companies will never get their money back, leading to a huge crash.

xigoi•

4 days ago

•on: Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying...

They aren’t, because builders with hammers will get their job done much faster.

hsbauauvhabzb•

2 days ago

That’s my point.

xigoi•

5 days ago

•on: An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture...

Being in the top 99.9% is not a big achievement.

JacobAsmuth•

3 days ago

I know - it's pathetic and embarrassing. If there's billions of people on this planet then being in the top 99.9% means that you're just as unique as a person who decides to move to New York City. Who cares?

xigoi•

5 days ago

•on: An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture...

It would be more impressive if it wasn’t behind the closed doors of a rich company. For all we know, they could’ve paid some mathematicians to work on the problem and pretend that their results are from ChatGPT.

xigoi•

5 days ago

•on: An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture...

> at one ply it has an ELO of around 2300, Stockfish is probably closer to 1800

Nitpick: it’s Elo, not ELO. The name comes from the inventor’s surname and is not an acronym.

xigoi•

5 days ago

•on: An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture...

> I can walk up to the counter and say "Big Mac Large Fry Small Coke"

In what culture is it normal to just state your order without greeting or saying “please”? You also didn’t include the time taken squinting at the menu and trying to figure out what you can even order.