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by WD-42 8mo ago
You've always needed skepticism, of course. But it used to be if you came across an article about a super obscure video game from the early 90s (referencing the blog post here) you could be reasonably sure that it wasn't completel
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by WD-42 8mo ago
This is why my friends and I are setting up a mesh network in our town. The open internet has been going downhill for a while, but LLMs are absolutely accelerating it's demise. I was in denial for the last few years but at this point I
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Def agree. It feels unnatural to be using gobject in Rust. Refcell everywhere. But the end result (at least on Linux) is fast, well integrated and looks nice.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
I’m currently writing an application that uses virtual lists in GTK: GtkListView, GtkGridView, there may be others. You ruled out GTK because of its looks I guess, I’m targeting Linux so the looks are perfect.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Find it somewhat ironic that the first screenshot shows stack overflow, the once place where comments are still potentially useful - if we ever visit the site again. Author if you are reading: maybe use a screenshot of somewhere else like H
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by WD-42 8mo ago
When you say "we aren't" I hope you realize you aren't speaking for everyone. Even doctors across borders probably needs an IT person. There are jobs available for less pay that are fulfilling in other ways. I know I hav
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Turns out it was bad intentions, I respect the optimism though. And thanks for taking a look!
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Am I reading this correctly? You got offended on behalf of LLMs because of some quip I made about how I choose to write code on my spare time? This is fascinatingly psychotic - but for your own good you might want to shut down the agents
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Yes to be clear what I meant was that it’s not a prompt engineered project. I actually, for the most part, understand the code I’ve written :p I have used LLMs to understand certain concepts and unfamiliar APIs. Gtk and Rust is actually a p
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Are you serious? You don’t think I’m capable of running the codebase through an LLM? Or is this supposed to be some kind of gotchya? Rude and lame.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Pretty much. I plan on using this program for a long time. I don’t want a codebase that looks like something out of a H.P. Lovecraft novel when I have to fix something in the future.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
A Jellyfin music client for Linux written in Rust and GTK: https://github.com/Fingel/gelly I thought it would be pretty simple, but here I am almost 6 months later still adding features. The positive feedback has been
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Sounds like you need to find a better job.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Because hacking the registry or installing 3rd party de-bloat tools is for average users? You only think so because you've done it a bunch of times.
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by WD-42 8mo ago
Opus 4.6 found and proposed to my current wife :(
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by WD-42 9mo ago
This is such a weird use of the domain, and kind of sad. I know the original movement was very diverse and had different ideas, but I'm not sure dispensing what ultimately amounts to financial advice from within the system really fits.
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by WD-42 9mo ago
This has always been true. I just don’t see how AI makes accumulating tech debt more attractive, as the original poster seems to be implying. If anything it seems to make things worse. At least when you write shit code by hand you know it s
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by WD-42 9mo ago
That’s not the point of the person you are replying to. They are saying if we somehow come up with the tech that makes harnessing the sun a thing, the best we can still do is put a bunch of GPUs in space? It makes no sense.
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by WD-42 9mo ago
I keep hearing this but I don’t understand. If inelegant code means more bugs that are harder to fix later, that translates into negative business value. You won’t see it right away which is probably where this sentiment is coming from, but
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by WD-42 9mo ago
They don’t care, or they don’t know? What they do know is their computer that’s only 5 years old goes to shit with only a few apps open. Time for a new laptop. Thanks for contributing to the obsolescence cycle.
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by WD-42 9mo ago
This has to be the dumbest thing I’ve heard from microslop this morning. It’s like they are forgetting to be a real software company.
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by WD-42 9mo ago
You forgot the most popular language in the world right now: Python: The Python Software Foundation Turns out two of the best languages don't need corporate overlords to steer their development.
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by WD-42 9mo ago
Yup just like google doesn’t actually control chromium right
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by WD-42 9mo ago
It’s not. The Apple devs will tell you it’s a great time on Linux, just like the MS people will tell you the same for C#. Rust wasn’t designed for any specific platform and you can tell. The ecosystem on Linux especially is fantastic.
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by WD-42 9mo ago
I'd be willing to bet that your AI written issues, docs, etc look impressive initially but are extremely low signal to noise. You might be checking some boxes (docstrings, etc) but I do not envy anyone on your team that needs to actual
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by WD-42 9mo ago
Who is “we”? So we can know who to avoid.
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by WD-42 9mo ago
Yea but humans would have fixed it, this person didn't even bother. Straight copy and paste.
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by WD-42 9mo ago
> without warning, replace your config files and update software to versions incompatible with the previous. This is just nonsense, pacman doesn't do this. If you'd modified a config file, it will create a .pacnew version inste
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by WD-42 9mo ago
We had that announcement of a new "Verifiable" Linux project from Pottering, other kernel devs, and a bunch of ex-microsoft employees yesterday. Gives me the heebie jeebies.
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by WD-42 9mo ago
If you are wishing they used QT instead the fact that they chose Rust only makes that less likely.

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