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by alexeiz 3y ago
I got P14s with 64GB of RAM, 1TB SSD and other specs maxed out for $1050 (patiently waited for a sale from Lenovo). Other than the battery life, the P14s is roughly equivalent to a Macbook Pro M2 Pro for $3500. Windows sucks in the default
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Emacs survived because it adapted. LSPs are the new hotness? Here's the LSP mode for Emacs. VSCode emerged with a massive number of extensions? Here's Doom Emacs with declarative package management. Emacs continues to evolve
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Theoretically I can map any keyboard layout to anything else, but what's the point of getting a Thinkpad then if it doesn't look and feel like a Thinkpad anymore?
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Who are the "geniuses" at Lenovo who are trying to destroy the legacy of the awesome Thinkpad keyboard? As a Thinkpad user I expect a certain keyboard layout. If that layout is changed, there one less reason for me to buy a Thin
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by alexeiz 3y ago
> The only thing that is a problem is “branch” and “commit”, things that use the index. A git branching tool that breaks git branch and commit - what a novel concept!
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by alexeiz 3y ago
If you need a lot of local changes that you can't commit, then either your repository or your project (or both) are organized improperly. You must have committed files to git that should never be committed or you project doesn't
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Google hiring process was always flawed. They didn't hire talented generalists. They hired people who gamed the hiring process. Most of them are mediocre at best. As an anecdote, I worked with a couple of guys who were later hired
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Pixel phones are OK. They are just not priced competitively. They are priced like iPhones. But who are you kidding? Pixel phones are nowhere near iPhones.
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by alexeiz 3y ago
> non-tech management MBAs running Google are all using iPhones That's a kiss of death. I remember while working at Windows Phone team at Microsoft, a lot of program managers and designers were using iPhones and Macs. Unsurprising
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Supposedly Google only hires the best of the best. Now it appears they hired a lot of mediocrity? So much for their lauded hiring process.
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by alexeiz 3y ago
That NSOpenPanel class reminds me of MFC days. For those young enough to remember, it's Microsoft Foundation Classes, the UI framework for Windows. Everything had to be a class in MFC: new window - a class, file open dialog - a clas
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by alexeiz 3y ago
A lot of scientific research code is execute-once-throw-away code. Once the code obtains a result you can put into your research paper, it has served its purpose and it'll never be used again. There is no need for any kind of abstrac
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by alexeiz 3y ago
The Mozilla foundation pays millions to its CEO [1] while reducing funding to Firefox development and Firefox market share is falling year after year, but hey, please switch to Firefox. Right. Let's face the reality: Firefox is dead
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Better yet, download more RAM.
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by alexeiz 3y ago
I'm on openSUSE TW, and I considered systemd-oom, but the setup/configuration procedure for it is pretty elaborate. So I opted for earlyoom, which worked just a fine and required no manual configuration whatsoever. In my opinion,
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by alexeiz 3y ago
This course is a bunch of presentation slides. The idea that you can learn anything from slides is rather silly. Learning from slides is almost as bad as learning from random youtube videos.
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Live streaming doesn't automatically mean you can't cheat. There is a software that reads the chesscom/lichess board in real-time, calculates a bunch of lines using a chess engine and overlays the evaluation of the next best
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by alexeiz 3y ago
This is what I find the most annoying thing about Windows. Without the expert mode when you have a problem there is no easy way to figure out what is wrong. You google for the symptoms of the problem and all kinds of suggestions and &quot
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Tuxedo planned the ANSI keyboard for their other laptops such as InfinityBook too. Never happened. So I wouldn't hold my breath.
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by alexeiz 3y ago
> We are much more adaptive than that. Sure if I get this laptop for free I may adapt. But for $1500, thank you!
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by alexeiz 3y ago
> The right way to generalize "for", i.e. with iterators, was introduced by Alphard in the same year with C, i.e. in 1974.) (Compare "for (I=0;I<N;I+=5) {" of C with "for I from 0 to N by 5 do" or "f
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by alexeiz 3y ago
There is so much complaining for a patch with just a few lines of code. > I spent a lot of time and effort doing root cause analysis, fixing the bug, testing and validating the fix, getting feedback from other engineers at my company, ad
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Have you watched the video? It doesn't matter that the hardware is good, if you can't use most of it under Linux. Thunderbolt 4 becomes USB 2, HDMI? - no, camera? - no, sound? - no, HDR display? - no, battery life? - likely suck
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by alexeiz 3y ago
I wouldn't use a closed source C++ compilers either. But with C++ compilers, if one is abandoned, you can switch to another. With Circle, there is nothing else. The best outcome the Circle author can hope for (and this is likely the
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Circle is irrelevant because it's closed source. It's been out there since 2019(?) and never gained any adoption or mind share among C++ developers. I've looked at it back when it first appeared, and it seemed interesting,
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by alexeiz 3y ago
I don't care if it's a reskin or not. Brave needs a killer feature. As of today it doesn't have any. But let's imagine it had guaranteed hardware video acceleration on Linux. I would switch to it in a heartbeat.
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by alexeiz 3y ago
It's available in openSUSE repos. Just saying...
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by alexeiz 3y ago
> Introducing Intel One Mono, an expressive monospaced font family that’s built with clarity, legibility, and the needs of developers in mind. This font has the worst clarity and legibility I've ever experienced. If you try to read
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Hey, our grandparents wrote FORTRAN 66 code without any dynamic memory management (not even the stack) and landed on the Moon.
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by alexeiz 3y ago
Who needs exit() when you have kill().

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