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by gregjor 2y ago
They aren't executables.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I used the word "install" but the usual rule says I can't install, upload, or execute any non-approved software. Usually that just gets stated as a policy, but I have seen Linux home directories on noexec partitions -- govern
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by gregjor 2y ago
Like I wrote, I looked at Helix. Seems cool but not enough for me to switch. And I would have to install it on the machines I work on, which very often I can't do because of company policies, or can't waste the non-billable time o
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by gregjor 2y ago
I don't have to use TeamViewer, though I very occasionally have to use Windows RDP. You can transfer any kind of file over ssh. scp, sftp, rsync will all copy binaries. Mainly the issues come down to policy and billable time. Many of m
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by gregjor 2y ago
I get your point, but VSCode does far more than text editing. The line between an advanced editor and an IDE gets blurry. If you look at the Wikipedia page about IDEs[1] you see that VSCode ticks off more boxes than not. It has integration
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by gregjor 2y ago
I looked at Helix but since I dream in vim motions at this point (vi user since it came out) I'd have to see a 10x improvement to switch. VSCode didn't give me a 10X improvement, I doubt Helix would.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Lol, I'm not working with COBOL or Fortran. Legacy code in my world means the original developers have left, not that it dates from the 1970s. Mostly I work with PHP, shell scripts, various flavors of SQL, Python, sometimes Rails or ot
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by gregjor 2y ago
Considered it and have tried repeatedly to get it to work with mixed success. As you wrote, it takes "some time" to set up. In my case it would only offer marginal improvements over plain vim, since I'm not that interested in
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by gregjor 2y ago
ctags?
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have mixed thoughts on this too. Fortunately grep (rg in my case) easily handles it: rg -i ‘foo.?bar’ finds all of foo_bar, fooBar, and FooBar.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I abandoned VSCode and went back to vim + ctags + ripgrep after a year with the most popular IDE. I miss some features but it didn’t give me a 10x or even 1.5x improvement in my own work along any dimension. I attribute that mostly to my se
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by gregjor 2y ago
That’s right, not everyone uses an LSP. Nothing wrong with LSPs, very useful tools. I use ripgrep, or plain grep if I have to, far more often than an LSP. Working with legacy code — the scenario the author describes — I often can’t install
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by gregjor 2y ago
ctags.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Nothing the author wrote would necessarily make code harder to read or maintain. Consistent naming of the same thing throughout, not constructing variables or table names dynamically, etc. benefit both readers/maintainers and searching
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by gregjor 2y ago
1. iSH. Works, a bit slow and buggy. 2. repl.it supports C and C++ through a browser. They have a free plan. 3. Set up a small VPS at DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, etc. and ssh into that. You get the most control that way. A VPS costing
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by gregjor 2y ago
As if algorithmic trading, automatic bill pay, and scheduled direct debits haven’t existed for decades. No one calls those things AI — they have obvious utility without needing a hype buzzword — but the same work gets done.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I can’t understand anything you wrote.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Like asking if people prefer to cook at home or eat out. Some companies use recruiters, some don’t, some only for specific jobs. No one can give a meaningful answer to your question. In my long experience companies very often try to hire on
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by gregjor 2y ago
I don’t understand the purpose of your question. Do you intend to help homeless people find shelter? They figured that out from direct experience already: homeless shelters, tents, cars, tunnels and overpasses, under awnings, etc. Do you in
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by gregjor 2y ago
In practice homeless people don’t “spawn” and probably can’t get around all 9 counties. If you have visited SF and the Bay Area you’d know the answer: everywhere. The Bay Area doesn’t get a lot of rain. More than LA, a lot less than Portlan
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by gregjor 2y ago
Good example of an LLM suggesting something useful, even if just RTFM for forgotten tools. O’Reilly put out a book about expect back in the old days (1995). I used expect a few times to automate remote admin, and even to scrape terminal-bas
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not to minimize the very real pain from RSI, but I don't think "most" programmers develop RSI. I have over 40 years at the keyboard, and then using a mouse, trackball, and now trackpad. I have worked at quite a few places wit
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by gregjor 2y ago
I agree that getting something from a recruiter or employer you've spoken to, or emailed back and forth with, seems the polite thing. Having done a fair amount of screening, hiring, and working with recruiters I can give one reason y
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by gregjor 2y ago
This seems like retaliating against someone who doesn't want to date you after some online chatting. I think you focus on the wrong thing. Ghosting doesn't happen because the recruiter or employer has a problem you need to identif
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by gregjor 2y ago
I use them all the time, never had one refused. The web site front end validation can only check the number with the Luhn algorithm — number looks valid. Actual validation and accept/decline gets done by the payment processor.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Wrong. Optimus stoically raw-dogged the trade show rather than showing off. It demonstrated a level of parity with humans, especially tech bros that the competition will envy and try to emulate.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I start with the assumption that anything sent through or stored by any provider can get decrypted and read. Then I don’t send or upload or backup anything I absolutely have to protect. The number of things in that category in my own life a
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by gregjor 2y ago
Card companies can usually trace when and where a card number got used. Using fake numbers would not make that any easier. Likewise card companies can and do report fraud to the relevant law enforcement authorities. Credit card fraud detect
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by gregjor 2y ago
Can you show Mars too? I plan to move there by 2030, world like you know what areas to avoid.
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by gregjor 2y ago
What “stack?” Do you even know what that means? You don’t need a tech “stack” to type. Hire an admin assistant who can take dictation

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