"If you're going to teach people to program, learn J first, so you can remember what it's like as an utterly confused beginner."
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I certainly see the appeal of ChatGPT as a conversational interface for knowledge questions, but it's wrong often enough that I can't trust it.
Prompt: What does :extend do to an Emacs font face?
This is wrong (it's confused with :inherit) and it's hallucinated a version constraint.
Syntactic diffs can get confused by adding whole functions. I've added two functions and modified the function afterwards. Difftastic would associate the parens of the new function with the outer parens of the modified function!
This is "correct" (minimal edits) but unhelpful.
I've been experimenting with multiple link colours on my notes website: https://notes.wilfred.me.uk/HomePage
I tried mediawiki-style red for nonexistent links, but it confused my test user.
I'm relatively happy with grey here, but I can't think of other sites with different colour links.
