Be more specific. Is he a bad person for having an amateur interest in mathematics, for exploring that interest through language models, or for writing a blog post about his experience?
That's an excellent question for the maintainers of the MacPorts project! It can supplement the very clear and polite answer you've already received from a maintainer of Homebrew.
It kind of is an explanation though - the explanation is that they believed the stochastic parrot / "just" next token prediction nonsense, and that those are actually not true.
You can ask for a deeper explanation of why they aren't true I guess.
I'm just surprised that so many intellectuals on HN hang on to false models of reality for so long after that reality has been demonstrably destroyed. It's not humble at all. In fact it's the opposite, completely arrogant and stubborn. It's been obvious and demonstrated at least since the end of 2025 for anybody that used LLMs at any capacity without dismissing them. If you are still surprised that your model of reality doesn't hold up, then someone needs to bluntly tell you what's wrong at the core of your being.
Notice the original comment is asking people to validate their false premise about next token prediction.
The deeper subtext of the original comment is that they are surprised that there's dissonance from observed reality and this false premise that they have convinced themself is true.
I'm explaining that dissonance because it doesn't matter what the actual mechanism is if they are still working with their false premise. The dissonance exists because they, without evidence and a very weak understanding of how LLMs work, believed an oversimplification and meme about them being stochastic parrots. Here's a tip: Just because you hear something repeated over and over on social media, doesn't mean it's true, or at the very least: you don't need to take it literally to the point where it conflicts with demonstrated reality.
It is deeply disturbing that such a large cohort of HN writers and redditors exemplify such stubbornness, because I must imagine that some of this cohort hold real positions of responsibility within society. If you can't get this simple thing right about reality, I firmly believe much of your model of reality is wrong and you should have no business shaping society.
Another comment to the original comment frames it perfectly: "At what point do you challenge your own assumptions?"
The author of the original comment has demonstrated no progress towards making this trivial act of self reflection. It's straight up intellectual dishonesty, the opposite of how you're framing it.
Their judgment in all other matters must be questioned as well. I am alarmed that I have to participate in the same reality and be affected by such people that can't seem to get it together.
So yes, it is derision and sometimes that's called for.
With an open-weights model, anyone with the hardware to run the model can act as a provider. The median provider pays nothing for the model, so they do not contribute to the cost of training it.
Are you sincerely advocating that Wikipedia should never delete anything, regardless of notability or verifiability? Do you think that would make it better or worse?
But what _is_ a "Text User Interface"? Google Images just returns what is being discussed here: "GUIs" that run in some kind of text mode. And to me, that's also what a TUI is.
A more textually oriented environment (like a normal Unix shell) is, in my experience, usually referred to as a CLI: Command Line Interface.
I did find an interesting hybrid in the Pi coding agent: it seems to leverage the normal terminal scrollback, while still enhancing it with things like transient input fields and status lines, so that it can display those without cluttering scrollback.
That's pretty much the distinction. A CLI is stream-oriented, may accept user input from standard in and/or write to standard out with buffered I/O; a TUI is full-screen, interactive (responds immediately to keystrokes), and uses text characters to represent visual elements.
> "It's so odd to me that we haven't come up with a term for high functioning autism to separate from low functioning."
If you are interested to learn, autistic people are typically assigned a level of support needs on a scale of 1 to 3. Most people who would once have received a diagnosis of Aspergers now receive the "level 1" designation. Based on your description, your family member is likely "level 3", possibly with comorbidities? I was assigned "level 2".
> "I cannot recall why Asperger's as a term was dropped or deemed controversial"
It was dropped because a number of labels, now all considered to be ASD, were discovered to be different presentations of the same underlying disorder. The divisions break down under scrutiny and the apparent modal jumps disappear when you control for comorbidities and the ability to mask.
> "How is it any different than people with obsessive compulsive tendencies claiming they have OCD? There's a huge difference."
I'm not the other poster, but I'm a different autistic adult to whom your complaints might apply. To answer this question, the difference is that I call myself an autist because I have been diagnosed as autistic, due to meeting the diagnostic criteria of autism.
> "this is the equivalent of stolen valor"
Please go to the equivalent of hell.
Disabled people are allowed to call ourselves by the correct labels without apologising that our suffering is less severe or less obvious than someone else sharing the same label.
> Disabled people are allowed to call ourselves by the correct labels without apologising that our suffering is less severe or less obvious than someone else sharing the same label.
I think you guys are perhaps talking past each other.
The fact you acknowledge and recognise 'less severe' (a significant understatement when comparing ASD to Downs) suggests that you do understand parent's point.
Parent, I also note, was not seeking or implying an apology was sought from people with less severe genetic conditions. Rather, that the implications on QoL, lifespan, social / familial imposition etc of Downs, is nothing at all like so called high-functioning ASD.
The parent comment was specifically and exclusively talking about autism, not Down's syndrome. I'm addressing their claim that it is "ridiculous" for an autistic person to "claim" to be autistic when other autistic people have worse outcomes.
I'm not interested in litigating the fairly obvious point that Down's syndrome is a much worse prognosis than ASD, and the comment to which I responded says nothing about it either.
What you're missing is that each segment (typically a word) only needs to be measured once, in the setup phase. The canvas gets thrown away after that, and subsequent layout passes all reuse the cached measurements.
If you only perform layout once, it doesn't save any work. If you need to reflow many times, it saves a lot.
I'm sure the browser does do that, and plenty of other optimisations too!
This thing isn't trying to do standard text layout faster than the browser, it's trying to enable more exotic/dynamic/custom layouts while keeping reasonable performance. Take a look at the demos linked in the repo's readme; those are things which the browser's layout engine can't do on its own.
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