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Every website with cookie tracking. Which is every website. Anything electron: massive hog of resources and will never be rewritten on a nonbloated platform.
by AtlasBarfed 5y ago
Every website with cookie tracking. Which is every website.
Anything electron: massive hog of resources and will never be rewritten on a nonbloated platform.
Every single package manager and scheme still seems fundamentally broken and are bad compromises. But there's no money in fixing it so it will always be broken. I salute people doing the thankless work of packaging OSS and language libraries. You are fighting the good fight, even if it is a losing war.
Any and all OTP (time suck, blocks automation, debatable gain over "good passwords").
IDEs (every IDE becomes an intense love/hate relationship... Intellij is dragging to a halt on a couple "medium sized" projects... but what would I replace it with? Eclipse hahahahahaha?)
Javascript: still an awful language, even with a ton of improvements and typed options. May webassembly kill it, although webassembly is probably another google trojan horse to control the web.
Java: should stop "improving" itself and just work on the JVM and migrating people to Kotlin/Scala/Groovy/Clojure.
G Suite (well, it's better than outlook, but spying and the sword of Damocles with getting locked out with no recourse)
Microsoft Windows (still have an iron grip on games, I hate everything else about it since Windows 7), although a glimmer of hope is that it does eventually have a real unix core.
Bash: the number of stackoverflow searches per line of code whenever I have to write bash is like 5:1, as in five stackoverflow searches per line of code written. But what options do you have? Perl is dying, fish/zsh isn't ubiquitous, etc.
Installing any software written in python will probably fail, or worse, break all my other python apps. Example: AwsCli
AwsCli: again, stackoverflow searches to line of code/command ratio is terrible. options aren't well documented, responses aren't documented or well-exampled, error codes change between releases (seriously, HOW MANY DIFFERENT error messages can expired credentials result in?)
Aws: please someone start beating these people. Oh, the options are google and microsoft. Oh well.
OH! The AWS CONSOLE: What a piece of shit. How much money does AWS make every minute? Basically enough to actually fund a team for this? This is for ec2/secgrps/r53 aka the bread and butter. And they DID rewrite it, and managed to make it FAR WORSE. Performance is awful. Screens refresh and move items as you try to click on things. Do I have a choice for adhoc stuff? Oh the cli? See above.
- gaws 5y ago> Perl is dying It's very much alive and kicking.
- Spooky23 5y agoSounds like you don’t like computers.
- andrecarini 5y agoThe unavoidable fate of those working with computers long enough!
- t0bia_s 5y agoSo true. There will be great tech work resignation. Oh wait... Isn't that happening?
- anthk 5y agoAfter that you'll embrace Gopher, C, Perl, TCL and maybe Gemini happily, discarding even web browsing for the daily news reading. It happened to me, I don't even start X to watch movies, music or chat/IM. Even gaming, then. Roguelikes and IF have amazing playability and stores, and Mednafen has an SDL2 backend, so running it under the framebuffer/KMS does everything faster. There's no ads, no notifications, no social media bullshit with mental manipulation, no Electron turds eating half of your RAM. Wordgrinder and sc-im plus Gnuplot do magic in the CLI/TUI. It's like the old K.Mandla/Inconsolation's blog but with a step taken further.
- kortex 5y agoTwo tips: use brew or the dedicated installers promoted by the developers for awscli. Don't use python, pip, pipx, or conda to install awscli. Use pipx to install any python "tools" (cli executables and the like). keeps each package in its own venv, so they don't clash.
- anthk 5y agoPerl is still alive at OpenBSD's base and it rocks. If awk+sh is cumbersome for some tools with more than 10 lines, you can pretty much do all the advenced exercises of The AWK Programming Language in Perl in record time.