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It wasn't inherently yellow, it was the inverse of whatever it was on top of, but since the main window filling most of the screen was dark blue, it looked bright yellow most of the time.

My needs as a user are for a UI to be consistent and predictable.

Good luck.


To be fair, I didn’t say it was a _good_ idea…

No. For most of human evolution, we were hunter-gatherers. Imagine trying to hunt game with the accuracy of LLMs. You'll starve. Picking edible fruits from plants also requires precision, both in terms of the hand/eye coordination of actually picking it as well as in terms of knowing what's edible and what's poisonous.

When you fill up your coffee cup in the morning, I sure hope you aim accurately and don't pour half of it all over your desk. And don't even get me started on the process of making coffee that isn't completely unpalatable.


Do you have a source for that claim? I'm curious. I genuinely thought it was the OSA.

I believe you misunderstood them. The way I interpreted it is: 1) the development is already done, so the developers have broad consensus on how it should work; 2) the only thing that can break that consensus is a new RFC that tells them in no uncertain terms to do it differently.

Oftentimes the important data that needs restoring is in the checkout: uncommitted and unstaged changes that represent hours of work.

Word boundaries are one way to address that, but they require you to list all the inflections (and you missed “fixing”). Another way is to say (?<!de)bug.


I'm starting to feel that this line of reasoning has turned into pseudoscientific divination. And it's really unfair to writers who put effort into blog posts.


You saying “bear mode activated” reminds me of Dicey Dungeons...

(For those who don't know, there's a place in the game where, with a moderate amount of luck, you can trigger an item that transforms you into a bear, which changes your stats and available equipment, and you remain that way for the entire rest of the dungeon)


I am in fact a bear at this very moment.



I would have enjoyed a blog entry detailing how this works, regardless of its practical utility.


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