I just had a realization. Usually in my private repos I do “what;why” so I can go back to commits when I brake stuff. But I should be using branches for what and commits for why…
My suspicion is it is a bias to one’s mother tongue. I feel the same way about Arabic. English feels “lawless” and “undeconstructable” in some cases, no equation for “creating” words that works every time. In this sense Arabic is way more “Mathematical “ to me although all the number theory, graph theory, discrete math etc. books I’ve read are written in English.
No, Arabic is not my mother tongue, but it does have a very strong 'logical' feeling to it, primarily due to the derivation rules from three letter roots.
I found that the main difficulties with Arabic were the sheer size of the vocabulary, and the fact that what is spoken is usually not written.
Japanese is in my opinion significantly harder (insane writing system, all words sound the same, lots of homophones, completely different sentence structure, very sophisticated social rules embedded into the language, etc). It feels a bit like reverse polish notation though!
Size of vocabulary is the main problem in learning any language. I have the same feeling about Japanese, and had it about English while I was still learning it.
I agree that in Japanese this is exacerbated by the Kanji system, where many words have the same (or very similar) sounds but completely different meanings, and the fact that most words at the advanced level are just two or three kanjis attached together and read in the supposedly "Chinese" way (aka the sound reading).
Having Arabic as a native language makes this even more difficult because in Arabic most of the time if words sound similar it's because they have the same root and are thus related in some way.
RTM -> SO question (not found) -> IRC/Discord -> post question on SO.
As opposed to this:
LLM -> RTM -> SO (maybe post a question)
Simply has SO earlier in the pipeline. The later does not render it obsolete (yet?) from what I can tell.
If a simple annotation to how the LLM got the answer is deployed I think that is where SO will be visited only to ask questions rather than find an answer (still not obsolete).
P.S. this is speculative at best at this stage. SO can be rendered obsolete by some hidden side effect of LLMs/search engines
The benefit is this: every job has it’s own window.
Note that still it is 100% the case that when not in “production/building” mode the default is consuming. This setup merely helps heighten awareness to the fact.
I do the same, but right now I just keep tabmanager.io on my right screen to show a grid of all my windows. Some which I save for later, e.g. switching between projects.
Lego mind storms. The blue kit with lightning all over it. “Programming” the RCX was probably what got me hooked on computers. And oh those damn alien Lego pieces, I probably spent more time with these thing than with almost all my siblings combined for the next 3 years.
Isn’t it so interesting - the instant pull of attention that you have to something.
My dad brought a Tandy 5000 home when I was in second grade. I am one of five children. We all enjoyed creating stories with a storybook program where you could place art and have the computer voice read what you wrote.
But I instantly was completely fascinated. I explored every program on it. Particularly this music making program, where you could write music for four instruments and hear it back. Fond memories of hitting the space bar and hearing it play out in our kitchen.
