what you are arguing for is objectively extremely bizarre. if you take a step back, this is what is playing out: company C makes a device. it needs an operating system to run software, so they add it. if there was no operating system the device would be useless and no one would buy it. now person A buys said device. it's theirs, they have paid money for it, they own it. person B writes some software. it runs on the device's operating system. they want to sell it to person A. person A wants to buy it from them. why should company C be involved at all? I found this super weird and distasteful when game consoles were allowed to use this business model, and am even more taken aback that general purpose computers get away with it.

very apt that xerox parc was full of tenex engineers!

> I think I'm a pretty skilled programmer, or I'm at least good enough at interviewing to convince other people of that, but it's pretty obvious from comparing LLM generated code to code I'd write myself that in many domains LLMs are superior to me.

there's an important caveat here - LLMs absolutely can write better code than me, but they can also write far worse code, and often don't seem to be able to tell the difference. I find myself spending a lot of time prompting the bots to refine their code in specific ways that I only know about because I read the generated output.

"if words starts with hones" fails for "hones" itself; I suspect that should have been "honest" in the code.

Good catch — "homes" wasn't in my /usr/share/dict/words for some reason so I missed this case!

*hones

my guess is that they also had to prove that the complement process was mathematically sound

scans roughly to "macarena" if that helps (:

it seems like a natural name choice to me - "v + unix"

Vlang + Unix = Vinix (name choice). I suppose they could of went with Vunix, but "Vin-ix" flows better with both "Lin-ux" and "U-nix".

Think the majority or the V community, would vote for Vinix as the best name.

there was an old riddle I saw on usenet, "there is a key I use for one of its intended purposes several times a day, but when it stopped working I never missed it. what key was that?". the answer was the caps lock key, one of whose intended purposes was reverting back to normal after accidentally pressing it to go into caps mode.

I rebind capslock on all my new computers, usually to ctrl or cmd.

Mine is usually Esc or, when it’s an option, “Esc when pressed, Ctrl when held”.

ctrl+u and ctrl+k (to delete the line forward/backward from the cursor) are super useful too

ctrl+u generally works for lots of password prompts to reset/remove what was typed, wherever you come across a password prompt and a keyboard including those two keys.

I've been using it happily for longer than that! I do remember having to tweak the default search behaviours when I first installed it but it's been largely problem free ever since.