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by ilovecaching 4y ago
And that’s exactly how dystopias are created. People give away their privacy feeling like they have nothing to hide, up until the point that they really need it back when it becomes a tool of oppression and espionage, but by then it’s alrea
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I find this shift to paid, online code editors and IDEs very dystopian. The last thing I want to do is rely on a proprietary non-free tool that I need internet to access, can not only gather telemetry about my usage, but also all my code…
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I hate the state of chat right now. IRC is the kind of open standard and FOSS technology we need, but terribly outdated, Slack and Co. are shiny but inflexible and locked in.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Language fatigue and settling on C seems to be a thing, as I've encountered several people with the same opinion. I wonder what the physiology is behind it. For me, C is the lingua franca. With C I can read kernel source, I can read sy
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I really don't like the two trends Github is pushing for: 1. Code editor is full of telemetry and costs money, only accessible over the internet. 2. Code regressing into lots of boilerplate and automatically copied stack overflow answe
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Ask HN: Do you still use Docker?
1 points by ilovecaching 4y ago|2 comments
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Haskell is fun to learn and play with, but it's almost never the right choice for a real business. Using a language you can hire for, that your employees can google solutions for because it's already a popular production language,
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
When writing your OS from scratch, what order did you develop your components in? Did you start with an assumption of UEFI, long mode only?
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Mutt's downfall is it's designed around a single account. Most people have at least a personal and work email account, if not more. People also access their email through IMAP these days. Mutt has many config hacks to try and make
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. I won't touch VSCode with a 10 foot pole. Pick an editor that will last 40 years and isn't run by a mega-corporation that wants to eat FOSS so they can get us to buy into their subscription ecosystem.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Please make zed capable of running in a terminal. If I could have a modern editor that can run in the terminal and had a nice GUI, I would definitely pick it up. There's still many instances where I'm working on a remote dev machi
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I'd still rather support a project like (Neo)Vim or Emacs that isn't developed under the auspices of a corporation (whose mantra is embrace, extend, extinguish), and have proven staying power. We've seen IDEs and text editors
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Ask HN: How do you organize your home directory?
2 points by ilovecaching 4y ago|4 comments
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I gave up on Emacs and went back to Vim because of the slowness and the bugs I was encountering while using the Emacs GUI (granted a lot of them were from lsp-mode and other heavy packages). While digging for answers I was told not to use c
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I think a lot of people confuse Computer Science with SWE or something similar. A lot of universities and programs do a terrible job of explaining CS. You will get some CS knowledge working in the field, but its akin to any field where some
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Linux newbies jumping into Microsoft's arms is still something I'm trying to wrap my head around.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Vim added a debugger plugin that is installed by default called termdebug. I work on kernels and various pieces of the boot process, so my needs when it comes to debugging aren't a typical case.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
It's a weekend of learning for a tool that you use your entire life. Any computer scientist should realize the power of amortization.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
There's 0 configuring. It's as simple as installing one of the many LSP clients, like ALE, that will automatically detect and start a language server for you with the right arguments.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
Except that I can use vim on my iPad Pro with just a terminal app, which I can't do with VSCode. Vim is portable anywhere you can get a terminal connection, even if it's over serial.
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I will never understand why people choose VSCode/Jetbrains over a terminal based editor. I can edit the kernel with clangd and get hover reference, autocomplete, go to def, ref, dec, smart refactor, and that's on top of being able
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I don't think you understand the scope of what you're talking about. Linux is tens of millions of lines of code, most of which is drivers that have to be written by vendors. Vendors aren't going to write drivers for your ho
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I work on the kernel for a living, and I find this claim exceedingly dubious. We're currently talking about experimentally supporting modules written in Rust, which is an entirely different beast than replacing pieces of the kernel cor
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by ilovecaching 4y ago
I don't understand why the industry hasn't switched over completely to hidpi screens. Once you use one you can never go back. I feel so bad for people still using 1920x1080 screens. Truly the price of freedom is having to squint a
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by ilovecaching 5y ago
I've been really worried about whether COVID has affected my brain. I had very mild loss of smell and flu like symptoms (I contracted COVID before the vaccine was available). I also had what felt like brain fog as well afterwards. I&#x
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Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in patients with Covid-19(jamanetwork.com)
172 points by ilovecaching 5y ago|177 comments
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by ilovecaching 5y ago
The answer is so incredibly simple. SSH to the machine. Start vim or emacs. The end.
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by ilovecaching 5y ago
There is a good talk by one of the authors of the X windows system as to why MIT for them was a mistake and how he'd wish they'd used the GPL. One could argue that a copycenter license is really just doing you doing the work of co
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by ilovecaching 5y ago
The Free Software we are talking about is more of an assertion that you have a right to something, and not just a licensing model. By right, I mean something akin to a constitutional right - as in it's in the public's best interes
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by ilovecaching 5y ago
In one of his talks (it was some TED talk) he even drew pictures of companies with leashes around the necks of their users. In his words, if the source code is not available, the software owns the user, the user doesn't own the softwar

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