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What are neovim folks using these days instead of MacVim (or for that matter gvim)? VimR? Neovide? Goneovim? nvim-qt? fvim? neoray? uivonim?

you know I am starting to think that COM objects might be kind of a bad idea

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I am not struggling or suffering and there's a lot going on in the world right now, but as those struggles percolate through my audience, some of my (pretty small) patron base has understandably needed to pull back, and that makes it kinda difficult to justify ambitious projects like this to myself and my family, so, kicking in even a $1/mo subscription as a vote of confidence makes a big difference.

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but, if you really think about it, isn't, like, society, a barn?

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no, that's not a barn, only barns are barns, that's the problem

I keep trying to actually follow the advice of other successful speakers and write talks that can be delivered more than once so that I can get practice delivering them and select among several recordings and just generally do less work for equivalent impact, but then I go and add load-bearing lines like "then why are we in a barn" and that's very hard to replicate in a nonspecific tech-conference context #ExcavaCon

If you attend tech conferences, how many of them would you voluntarily pay more for *after* the event is already done, just to make sure that it is more accessible for *other* people next year? It's one of those.

It's been a few days now and I'm going to stop posting about #NBPy soon but I do want to stress this before I do. I've mentioned that the event is pretty special, but it's hard to succinctly articulate why in a direct way. As a way of gesturing at what I mean though, consider that this is an event where the organizer can get up *after the conference is over*, say "it would help us if some of you could pay more for your tickets" and a bunch of the audience *does that*

https://social.coop/@chrisjrn/114418138639298001

Back home after @NorthBayPython and once again this little conference is a very special experience. You should absolutely make plans to attend next year, especially if you're in the Bay Area.

A bit delayed getting on the road tonight, so I may miss the pre-opening festivities for @NorthBayPython. Hopefully I'll catch some of you at the tail end, but in case not, is anyone heading from Hotel Petaluma to the venue with an empty spot in their car tomorrow morning? (DM or Signal is fine to coordinate)

Boosts on this would be much appreciated, particularly to get it in front of some more folks who *do* like LLMs; my followers are probably weighted pretty hard in a particular direction :)

TIL that if I ever lose a UUID there's a website I can use to go find it https://everyuuid.com

There are like nine people in hank’s mentions at various points in this explosion of replies saying stuff like “but they are super useful, for me! They make me so much more efficient at my job!” And then someone inevitably says “oh? What is your job?” And none of them have answered yet

Once again I am asking what are these things actually good for https://bsky.app/profile/glyf.bsky.social/post/3lnjrqdyzl22i

@zenkat @dngrs dngrs, as an example of how you may be experiencing some cognitive distortion, I should just point out that the character in question's proper name in the show is "demon cat", and that his main function in the episode he appears in is to promise to eat Finn's (the main character's) eyes, skin him, and rip out his heart. this is not a sympathetic comparison to be making.

@zenkat @dngrs I would like to explicitly take the temperature down assuming you have not blocked each other or me yet:

this was in response to an explicit invitation on my part to discuss the benefits of this technology, irrespective of its costs. it's very unfair to yell at zenkat for doing what I asked here.

I can respect needing to disengage from this conversation (I, too, find myself upset by LLMs with some regularity) but there's no call to be rude.

@zenkat @dngrs Personally I haven't had these sorts of at-scale experiences, and all of my small experiments to dip my toe in have been such total failures that it's hard to approach a claim like this one and square it with my own personal experiences.

However, given that most of my work is on is open source, and the IP concerns surrounding that, and the impossibility of finding what Simon Willison would describe as a "vegan" model, it's difficult for me to do a realistic test