semiinfinitely's comments

On: A History of IDEs at Google

[semiinfinitely]

same! how do you deal with cloudtop latency though? sometimes my neovim is very slow and laggy because of the remote connection / network file system

[alienchow → semiinfinitely]

Spin up one in the US central region instead of an instance near your satellite office. The bottleneck is usually not your shell connection to the instance but the connections from the instance to all the infrastructure that's mainly based in the US.

[wmedrano → semiinfinitely]

I use a workstation specifically to improve latency. Needed to get approval at some point to get a refresh though.

[semiinfinitely → wmedrano]

like a workstation under your desk? is the latency bad when you remote access it not in the office?

[wmedrano → semiinfinitely]

Yeah, under my desk. I rarely remote which is a good excuse for me to disconnect from work anyways.

[darkvertex → semiinfinitely]

Ever tried SSH'ing via "Mosh"? https://mosh.org

[j2kun → semiinfinitely]

I have a (Google-issued) desktop in the same city I live in, so the latency is not so bad.

[j2kun → j2kun]

I will say that the latency of the filesystem is a different problem. Most of the google filesystem tooling is not built for command line tools that expect to index large subsets of the filesystem at once.

On: The Boston library where you still can borrow a giant puppet

[semiinfinitely]

as a child I found puppet exposure disturbing and semi traumatic

[Loughla → semiinfinitely]

I have an old puppet of animal from the Muppets. He's wearing a skateboard shop shirt and has a little skateboard. Just the sort of thing you could picture sitting in a window in the late 70's.

My oldest was FUCKING TERRIFIED of the puppet out of nowhere when he was like 5. He wouldn't sleep unless we could prove that it was no longer in the house.

You just never know what's going to make a formative memory until it's far too late.

[all2 → semiinfinitely]

I'm on the opposite end of this spectrum. Puppets are absurd, hysterical, and it used to be a family thing to get together and make puppets every Christmas. I'd try to make the goofiest looking puppet possible. The last one I made has a wide brimmed hat, blond hair, glasses, and the weirdest looking braided mustache. Oh, and ping pong balls for eyes.

It makes me chuckle every time I see it.

On: Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

[semiinfinitely]

temple OS?

On: Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79

[semiinfinitely]

science advances one funeral at a time

On: OpenWarp

[semiinfinitely]

what is the point of an "ai-terminal" when you can already just directly run ai in a normal terminal

your banner says:

> Bring any AI model into your terminal

its already there. there is no need for a special terminal to do this. in fact better to not have such a thing

[crooked-v → semiinfinitely]

Despite the newish "AI" branding for what I would presume is marketing buzz reasons, most of Warp is really centered around trying to make a terminal interface not anchored to legacy assumptions, like the blocks functionality (https://docs.warp.dev/terminal/blocks).

[Zetaphor → crooked-v]

This page doesn't tell me anything useful about what this feature does or how it works. The attached screenshot is pointless. I assume the actual information is in the embedded Youtube video. YouTube is not an acceptable alternative to written documentation

On: TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough

[semiinfinitely]

"AI vectors"

[0xA2kag → semiinfinitely]

lol, my bad. This is too wrong. Fixed it.

[semiinfinitely → 0xA2kag]

it should probably just say "compressing KV cache vectors"

On: Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

[semiinfinitely]

have you heard of TextEdit

On: I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support

[semiinfinitely]

absolute garbage support was the reason why I canceled. who would have thought that an AI company has only bots as support agents

On: Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)

[semiinfinitely]

where are the measurements between 2012 and 2020

On: Fields Medal Video: Maryna Viazovska (2022)

[semiinfinitely]

I always think its funny when someone says "I am a chair" and really means it

[j7ake → semiinfinitely]

I think it technically means they have a permanent endowed position.

[smcin → j7ake]

Reminds me of an old 1990s/2000s post from News of the Weird [0] about endowed chairs with funny names, such as an XYZ Corn Chair at some midwestern US university, or an NEC/ Nippon Electric Chair at some Japanese university.

[0]: www.uexpress.com/oddities/news-of-the-weird/archives , can't find the exact citation.

[semiinfinitely → j7ake]

Ceci n'est pas une chaise