Stack Overflow Traffic Slumps As Devs Turn to ChatGTP

Thought this might be of wide interest. Microsoft's early and heavy investments in OpenAI ($13B), GitHub ($17B), GitHub CoPilot and VSCode appears to be working, in contrast to Google and Amazon.

Re: What Was I Working On???

Trying it out got me to thinking that it would be handy to be able to log quick little notes. The following script writes the cursor line on the body to a note log file, whose path can optionally be specified in a setting. The idea is that you could write a brief one-line note and pop it

Re: ENB: Sweet spots in the new importers

On Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 7:50:21 AM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote: *i.__init__*: ...It may be possible to eliminate this ctor! Not likely. self.c will always be required. But everything else can probably go. In fact, the Importer class is already stateless. Edward -- You received this

ENB: Sweet spots in the new importers

This Engineering Notebook post discusses design issues involving balance. *Importer methods* There is a constant tension between simplicity and generality. The new code generally gets the balance exactly right. *i.delete_comments_and_strings: *Leo's per-language settings tell this

Re: New importers: status report

On Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 5:52:40 AM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote: Previous importer architectures were overly clever. Importers overrode too many methods of the base class. In this go-round, importers override just three: - *i.import_from_string*: These importers do *all* the work. -

New importers: status report

Two recent PRs are now part of devel. Work continues on PR #3347 , optimistically called finish *all* importers :-) The mods are picky and tedious, but there have been only happy surprises! *The new design* The new design is a great

Traveling until June 6

Rebecca and I will be take a road trip to see our daughter and granddaughter in Seattle. We'll leave on Friday. I'll have my laptop with me in case of emergency :-) I'll continue working on Leo 6.7.4 when I return. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: What Was I Working On???

On Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 5:31:04 PM UTC-5 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote: The script registers as an idle time handler. If a minute has elapsed since the last check, the script looks to see if the currently focused outline and node have changed since the last check. If so, it writes the time and