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New comment by gcmeplz in "I keep tripping over "true, false, true""

gcmeplz — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:58:32 +0000

yeah, I immediately came to the comment section to look for inlay hints, and your comment is the only one that mentions them. I guess many people might not be aware that they're a standard editor option?

fwiw, while inlay hints are great, they don't work in either git-delta or github, so they're not availabe in a good chunk of the places that I'm looking at code, so for TypeScript, I do lean towards object arguments with keys the way the article suggests.

New comment by gcmeplz in "ChatGPT Images 2.0 Still Can't Draw the Seven-Legged Spider I Want"

gcmeplz — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:50:52 +0000

Nice! It's great to confirm that it can in fact do it, and it's interesting that even with the clear guidance from an expert it took a few tries.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/ is fascinating btw!

New comment by gcmeplz in "ChatGPT Images 2.0 Still Can't Draw the Seven-Legged Spider I Want"

gcmeplz — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:57:04 +0000

Your example doesn’t quite work btw! It removes two legs rather than just one.

It’s possible for sure, but it really doesn’t match most people’s intuitions for what these models should be able to do

New comment by gcmeplz in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

gcmeplz — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:03:45 +0000

Non-consumer printers are also pretty good! I used to teach 120 students, so printing out materials for all of them for a week would sometimes be 1,000+ pages. 500 pages? I can't picture that causing problems for any org that needed to print things regularly.

And toner? I'd wager that the printer is going to use a print drum. That does have toner inside, but you'd talk about replacing the drum–not running out of toner.

Even consumer drum printers are pretty good nowadays. I have a Brother drum printer, and I wouldn't worry about sending a 500 page job to it if I needed to.

https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/183926/...

Nano Banana 2 Partially Passes the Seven-Legged Spider Test

gcmeplz — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:48:18 +0000

Article URL: https://will-keleher.com/posts/nano-banana-2-partially-passes-the-spider-test/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171822

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gcmeplz in "Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash"

gcmeplz — Sat, 24 May 2025 15:56:40 +0000

The types look great on remeda, but one thing that looks intriguing about SuperUtilsPlus is the focus on being tree-shakeable. Lodash's lack of tree-shake-ability is a drawback to using lodash on the frontend.

edit: the types on remeda look great though! If I were doing a backend-only NodeJS project, I'd be super tempted to test it out.

Xkcd's "Is It Worth the Time?" Considered Harmful

gcmeplz — Sat, 10 May 2025 17:12:21 +0000

Article URL: https://will-keleher.com/posts/its-not-worth-the-time-yet.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43947209

Points: 27

# Comments: 18

New comment by gcmeplz in "Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools"

gcmeplz — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:09:52 +0000

State-based ACT scores are also highly influenced by who takes the ACT. If more students choose to take the ACT, the scores might go down even it's because your education system is doing a better job because more kids are trying for college.

For the same reason, you'll see some surprising state scores for SAT/ACT. If you're in a state that prioritizes the ACT, the main students taking the SAT are the strongest students who are looking at out-of-state schools.

Aside from the time lag, I don't think you can look at voluntary test scores and draw many useful conclusions from it.

New comment by gcmeplz in "Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf]"

gcmeplz — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:43:27 +0000

I write a lot of JS/TS for my day job, so zx (https://github.com/google/zx) has been a nice tool for bash scripts that start getting a little too complex.

I avoid easy things I haven't tried

gcmeplz — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:20:41 +0000

Article URL: https://will-keleher.com/posts/I-avoid-easy-things-I-havent-tried.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613146

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gcmeplz in "Most engineers have Git aliases; what are yours?"

gcmeplz — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:05:53 +0000

Should probably say "most engineers I've worked with," but I think that's mostly a testament to the git workflows where I've worked (lots of small commits and short-lived branches).

Plus, once you pair with one person with snazzy aliases, it might make you want to make your own

New comment by gcmeplz in "Most engineers have Git aliases; what are yours?"

gcmeplz — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:02:33 +0000

> Nowadays I instead just clone a repo to a ramdisk, purge the .git folder and then rsync it to my hoarded stash of git repos.

You're probably already doing this, but if you do a shallow clone (git clone --depth=1 ..) you'll limit the amount that ends up in .git that you need to purge.

Even with shallow clones, I'm still surprised that it ends up with a .git that's a decent percentage of the total. I just tried it on a repo and ended up with 16% of the total size being .git. I would have guessed that it'd be much smaller than that.

Most engineers have Git aliases; what are yours?

gcmeplz — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:22:49 +0000

Article URL: https://will-keleher.com/posts/what-are-your-git-aliases.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43483229

Points: 3

# Comments: 7

New comment by gcmeplz in "fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'"

gcmeplz — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:54:29 +0000

locate is nice, but I think that on most distros its index is only updated once/day (unless you adjust the cron job that updates it more often). Most of the times I'm trying to find something, I haven't modified it recently, but it can definitely lead you astray.

New comment by gcmeplz in "Just: Just a Command Runner"

gcmeplz — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:13:54 +0000

I love the look of `just` and have been meaning to try it out, but this feels like one of those examples where Make's dependency management shines—it lets you specify that many of these commands only need to run when particular files change:

    node_modules: package.json yarn.lock
         yarn install --pure-lockfile

    prettier: $(shell find src -type f -iname "\*.ts")
         prettier --check src

    ...

    ci: node_modules prettier eslint vitest

And as time goes on, I always end up wanting to parallelize the commands that can be parallelized (citest, lint, eslint), so I'll turn `make ci` (or `just ci`) into its own little script.

Indexes are sorted arrays (sort of)

gcmeplz — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:51:45 +0000

Article URL: https://will-keleher.com/posts/Indexes_are_like_sorted_arrays.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38000902

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gcmeplz in "Clever code considered harmful"

gcmeplz — Mon, 29 May 2023 15:09:21 +0000

I think sometimes "clever" is just a term for bad code that you don't like. The clever-code react example doesn't seem like a good example of clever code to me—it just seems awful! If you were do something clever for that function, it could look like this:

  function extractDataFromResponse ([Component, props]) {
    return _.pickBy({Component, props}, Boolean);
  }

I'm cheating by using lodash, but I think this code is a fairer comparison to the unclever example that's given in the article.

New comment by gcmeplz in "Anki SRS Algorithm : Spaced repetition explained with code"

gcmeplz — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 02:27:57 +0000

Could you link to some examples of your cards? Your usage sounds cool, but I have a hard time picturing what cards I'd actually want to make.

So, what can you do with a process ID?

gcmeplz — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:31:15 +0000

Article URL: https://will-keleher.com/posts/What-can-you-do-with-a-pid.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34016518

Points: 90

# Comments: 25

New comment by gcmeplz in "Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT"

gcmeplz — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 01:40:08 +0000

Absolutely bonkers. It can even ^C its way out of loops.

> while true; sleep 1; echo "yay"; done

> yay > yay > yay > yay > yay > ^C