I remain sceptical about the "Planet Tracker"-task. The task was to debunk claims about historical positions of Jupiter and Saturn.
If the task was to find those planets were NOT in a certain (claimed) position an erroneous program would still appear to "debunk" the claims. Did they check if Devin's code's calculated positions were actually correct? Did they check in some NASA-database?
If Devin gave arbitrary positions for the planets it's much more likely that they're different than any claim and appear to debunk it.
I was able to read the code it wrote, and check that (as hoped) it was using a good existing library to do the heavy lifting. And I had it make plots that I could visually use to check that the values were 'reasonable'. The value in that case was simply that I didn't have to leave the couch and write the code myself (although if the result was actually needed for anything more important than a smug 'i thought so' confirmation I would still have taken over and validated it kore carefully).
A rather extensive video that explains in detail scheduling tasks ion an embedded device (the microbit) and explains while updating incrementally the ideas of async Rust.
The nicest way to avoid the "oh a lot of boilerplate!"-problem with implementing "Add" for a custom type is by using the "derive-more"-crate. Then you simply put a "#[derive(Add)" above your struct. That was the initial reason I switched to Rust myself: because I was writing a dynamical systems solver in C++ and had to overload arithmetic operators for my state-struct. But doing this was so complicated and I never felt sure of it performance wise (what if one side is a reference? And so on).
In rust I have a macro and don't have to ever worry about that again.
This is a small segment of a weekly program that is broadcast on the french-german tv station "arte". The program is called "karambolage" and highlights interesting peculiarities in French or German culture or funny anecdotes about etymiology, history. It's quite fun.
They had this piece about a french exchange student that discovered
a requirement to regular "stoßlüften" in the rent-contract.
That would be interesting in VR to have syntax highlighting that moves variable names towards the viewer, or puts context menus with possible methods of some object above.
Would probably just be stupid gimmick, but I want to see somebody do it :-D
I tried this, using https://makepad.dev our GPU accelerated UI and renderstack. And unfortunately it wasn't a great experience. Text popping forward for whatever reason is not really an improvement (i tried indent depth, syntax highlighting reasons, cursor behavior). Maybe 'veeeeery' subtly could do something, but otherwise you dont want it to break visual symmetry as we are used to
Hm.... I've spent a lot of waiting time in this station (Rosenthaler Platz) over the years.
And these tiles (in different colors though) are in a considerable amount of Berlin subway stations. Are they all radioactive like these here? Or is it only caused by the orange pigment?
we should! We have laws against oil spills, we should have laws that prohibit languages with the singular purpose of making me point a gun to my foot and pull the trigger repeatedly.
In my opinion hn is still here because it is still only text. I was a very happy Reddit user way back when most of the content was links to other sites and/or pure text posts. Today the most visible parts are just images or videos - highly stimulating content that does not encourage calm, thoughtful and nuanced discussions.
HN is still only text based _and_ it is mostly about technical issues. Nothing could be improved here, it's already perfect.
Telegram chat bots are pretty useful, because you're supposed to tell them commands, not natural language. Alexa wouldn't need sophisticated software if you interacted with it with a series of limited commands instead of natural language.
I highly recommend french comics - or "bande dessinée / BD" as they are called there. I believe France has the biggest and most interesting culture when it comes to comics - so many different kinds of genres, art styles and forms are alive there. Reading "L'Incal" as a very young and slightly unattended child in a french bookstore put some really freakish images in my mind.
