With this in mind, how concerned should we really be about a pre-registered list of unverified plugins? The only new information exposed is the URLs of these various plugins, is this information so private if it was already registered in their list to begin with?

By the same token, often it takes a stab at generating code based on something's name (plus whatever context it's looking at) and does a better job than the IDE could, because the IDE just sees datatypes and code structure. It really does feel like a complementary tool.

Copilot (the existing gpt-3 one) definitely helps at writing unit tests. Yeah, sometimes it doesn't nail it, but one thing it can do reliably is to repeat a pattern, and I don't know about you, but my unit tests tend to repeat the same pattern (with some tweaks to test this-or-that-case). Quite often it infers the correct change from the name I gave the test method, but even if it doesn't it'll write a 90% correct case for me. I imagine the GPT-4 version will do more of the same with better results.

It cannot replace reasoning, but it can augment it (by suggesting patterns and implementations from its latent space that I hadn't thought of), and worst case it can replace quite a bit of typing.

Long-term, it remains to be seen how far bigger/better/stronger LLMs can push the illusion of rationality. In many fields, they may be able to simply build their ability to pattern-match to beyond some threshold of usefulness. Perhaps (some subset of) programming will be one of them.

This strikes me as a bizarre take. What do you consider a "suburb"?

Unfortunately, toxic content is a lot harder to regulate than toxic chemicals, when one man's truth is another man's fake news.

We now know what it takes to protect a person from COVID in an environment where they are likely to be exposed to significant virus concentrations; unfortunately, getting kids to scrub up like COVID ward nurses is probably not realistic.

ADHD is a category of psychiatric diagnosis; psychiatric diagnoses exist to address deficiencies in function. Separating the one from the other, as you perceive, renders it meaningless -- or perhaps, useless. If one happens to have some of the traits of ADHD but it doesn't affect their life negatively, so what?

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The only thing stopping me from spending more money on games is the fact that I expect it to just evaporate one day and take the games I "bought" with it. Moving to a licensing arrangement to let me play the games I already own/could retain even if Stadia goes away, would help a lot in this regard.

    {
        tag: "button",
        attributes: {
            "id": "baz",
            "class": "foo bar",
            "data": "1",
            "onclick": f,
        },
        children: [
            "Hello",
            {
                tag: "em",
                attributes: {},
                children: ["there"],
            }
        ]
    }

    [:button#baz.foo.bar {:data 1 :on-click f} "Hello" [:em "there"]]

I have seen lineups out the door and around the block on this occasion. I think this illustrates very well people's well-known tendency to irrationally value free stuff.

I've yet to see the equivalent of Django or Rails when it comes to rapidly assembling a database-backed CRUD app in a statically typed language.

The JVM and .NET are presently about the same capability-wise, but Java is (or at least, is perceived as) much easier and cheaper to freely experiment with. Unless you need to use C# for some deep Windows integration, this makes Java the obvious choice for anyone without sunk costs in the .NET ecosystem.

- Keywords (i.e. `:vehicles`) can be used as getter functions, as covered in the OP.

- mapcat (like most collection functions in clojure) treats `nil` as an empty sequence