mike_ivanov's comments

On: Programming languages used for music

[mike_ivanov]

Opus Modus (mentioned there) is quite notably Common Lisp

On: Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

[mike_ivanov]

Corporations play the role of gods in our society.

edit: about the same role as Greek or Roman gods.

[ljlolel → mike_ivanov]

Equal chance of them replying to your prayers and offerings

[mike_ivanov → ljlolel]

miracles happen

[Ylpertnodi → mike_ivanov]

Source?

On: We're losing our voice to LLMs

[mike_ivanov]

You didn't, but you've learned.

[adamzwasserman → mike_ivanov]

I did, but it did not have much to add

On: Python is not a great language for data science

[mike_ivanov]

Please read the article. It literally shows pandas code as an example.

On: Google Antigravity

[mike_ivanov]

New Era. A New - think about it for a sec - Era.

On: Some people can't see mental images

[mike_ivanov]

Not the OP - I think it's the same process. The difference is in what my inner narrator is doing. When I asleep it is almost always gone, and this is when I typically see things in full color. When awake, my attention is split between listening to its storytelling and the mental imagery, which I believe makes the latter more dull. I noticed that the narrator is more loud when I'm in a minor mental state, like tired or annoyed. When happy/refreshed - there is no voice in my head and I can "see" things very clearly, especially their colors. So, I started looking for ways to divert my attention from the narrator. The most effective seems to keep the narrator busy with commenting on my breath ("in" and "out"), got some boost of mental clarity from that.

On: Subvocalization: Toward Hearing the Inner Thoughts of Developers (2011) [pdf]

[mike_ivanov]

I worked with a (very nice and smart) dude who would angrily shout "CRAP!" every few minutes while working on his XUL-based project. I guess, that would teach LLMs a thing or two.

On: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

[mike_ivanov]

All GUI apps are different, each being unhappy in its own way. Moated fiefdoms they are, scattered within the boundaries of their operating system. CLI is a common ground, an integration plaza where the peers meet, streams flow and signals are exchanged. No commitment needs to be made to enter this information bazaar. The closest analog in the GUI world is Smalltalk, but again - you need to pledge your allegiance before entering one.

[array_key_first → mike_ivanov]

We have systems for highly interoperable and compostable GUI applications - think NextSTEP or, modern day, dbus, to a lesser extent.

Really, GUIs can be formed of a public API with graphics slapped on top. They usually aren't, but they can be.

[wpm → array_key_first]

I weep for what happened to AppKit/Cocoa

[topaz0 → array_key_first]

Just because it says compostable on the container doesn't mean it will actually break down in a reasonable amount of time on your home compost heap, or that they don't leach some environmentally harmful chemicals in the process.

[antonvs → array_key_first]

Many modern web apps are just APIs with a browser GUI.

[mike_ivanov → array_key_first]

I'd say ROS (Robot Operating System) is the closest to this ideal.

[p_ing → mike_ivanov]

> Moated fiefdoms they are, scattered within the boundaries of their operating system.

Yet highly preferred over CLI applications to the common end user.

CLI-only would have stunted the growth of computing.

[anthk → p_ing]

I'd love something like the Emacs approach. Multi-UI's. Graphical, but with an M-x (or anything else) command line prompt in order to do UI tasks scriptable, from within the application or from the outside.

[skydhash → anthk]

Emacs is smalltalk with characters instead of pixels.

[igouy → skydhash]

Smalltalk does characters and pixels.

[jadeopteryx → mike_ivanov]

Apple ShortCuts and AppleScript integration is also cool.

On: Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high

[mike_ivanov]

Self-care is being Karen since when?

[CSSer → mike_ivanov]

It's not. I was trying to evoke a world where it's become so common place that you're a nuisance if you're one of those people who questions it.

[incone123 → CSSer]

Need to work on the comedic delivery in written form because you just came off as leaning on a stereotype

[_9ptr → mike_ivanov]

"Cancer? Me? I'd like to speak to your manager!"

[ponector → _9ptr]

In reality it's always a good decision to seek a second independent assessment in case of diagnosis of severe illness.

People makes mistakes all the time, you don't want to be the one affected by their mistake.

On: Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything

[mike_ivanov]

I had some success with Claude in this regard. I simply told it to be blunt or face the consequences. The tweak was that I asked another LLM to translate my prompt to the most intimidating bureaucratic German possible. It worked.