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by imiric 10mo ago
Nobody is claiming ownership over Xorg. That's ridiculous. If anything, it's the people who are deliberately trying to "kill" it. Some people simply want to keep working on it, many people still want to keep using it, ye
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> Why not? It's open-source software. Depending on your architecture you may be able to reuse parts of it. "The system is not modular, but you can make it so." What a ridiculous statement. > But as a more flexible choic
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by imiric 10mo ago
> GitHub is free after all, and it has all of these great properties, so why not? The answer is in TFA: > The underlying issue is that git inherits filesystem limitations, and filesystems make terrible databases.
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by imiric 10mo ago
What's in very bad faith is twisting the words of the people who work on these projects[1], and blaming me for echoing them. It's very clear from their actions[2][3] that they have been actively working to "kill" X11. Th
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by imiric 10mo ago
Because one property doesn't guarantee the other. A modular system may imply that it can be extended. An extensible system is not necessarily modular. Wayland, the protocol, may be extensible, but the implementations of it are monolith
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by imiric 10mo ago
Far from it. The recent XLibre release[1] has a long list of bugfixes and new features. Besides, isn't the main complaint from the Wayland folks that X11 is insecure and broken? That means there's still a lot of work to be done. T
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by imiric 10mo ago
The thing is that I'm not experiencing this clipboard issue on Plasma, but on a fresh installation of Void Linux with niri. There are reports of this issue all over[1][2][3], so it's clearly not an isolated problem. The frustratin
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by imiric 10mo ago
Exactly. This myth keeps being perpetuated, for some reason. I'm typing this from a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 running Void Linux, and UPower is reporting 99% battery with ~15h left. I do have TLP installed and running, which is suppose
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by imiric 10mo ago
You can't be serious. Wayland is the opposite of modular, and the concept of an extensible protocol only creates fragmentation. Every compositor needs to implement the giant core spec, or, realistically, rely on a shared library to imp
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by imiric 10mo ago
> If you wanna make the world a better place > Take a look at yourself and then make a change <3 MJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps Merry Christmas!
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> Conceptually yes, but trying to understand what affordances you have what tools you can use what options are about, to begin to then decide to learn those systems, is incredibly incredibly hard. And programming isn't? It requires
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I'm not too concerned about the US. They've made their bed. I'm more concerned with them dragging everyone else down, and someone much worse taking their place.
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> By the time you see a bug, the AI has already committed it to main If you have given your "AI" full control over your repo so that it can commit unreviewed code to the main branch, you have far greater problems than a 45 seco
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by imiric 10mo ago
Your computer? I use a small HTPC with Linux, but whatever works for you. LibreELEC might be a good choice depending on the content you're streaming.
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> Fortunately, once you've toggled Live Plus off, you no longer have to worry about your TV screen constantly being read to see what you're watching and to give you targeted ads. Eh, I wouldn't be so quick to let my guard
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This has always been possible, even if you weren't a programmer. You just needed to have the desire to customize your computing environment, and the time and patience to do it. There is so much software out there, written by people who
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by imiric 10mo ago
Hhmm I could be misremembering if it was `ValueError` or `TypeError`. This was a few years ago. I know that typing issues were always the most frequent in any Python project I have worked on. How is your experience different?
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Agreed. Besides, it's not like types don't matter in dynamically typed languages. The (competent) programmer still needs to keep types in their head while programming. "Can this function work with a float, or must I pass an i
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by imiric 10mo ago
That doesn't make sense, considering that the idea of an "agentic workflow" is essentially to invoke the model in a loop. It could probably be done in much less than 100 lines. This doesn't refute the fact that this simp
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by imiric 10mo ago
I don't understand. You're highlighting a project that implements an "agent" as a counterargument to my claim that the bulk of improvements are from "agents"? Sure, the models themselves have improved, but not
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by imiric 10mo ago
The idea that this technology isn't useful is as ignorant as thinking that there is no "AI" bubble. Of course there is a bubble. We can see it whenever these companies tell us this tech is going to cure diseases, end world hu
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by imiric 10mo ago
I use something similar. It's surprising to me how many projects can be replaced with just a line or two of shell script. This project is a slightly more sophisticated shell script that exposes a friendlier UI, but I don't see why
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Love this. My favorite is the link in the footer: <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/">Sell 7% for clout</a>
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> I think the "second way" is good for demos now. It's also good for quickly creating legitimate looking scam and SEO spam sites. When they stop working, throw them away, and create a dozen more. Maintenance is not a conce
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The job of a software developer is not just to prove that the software "works". The definition of "works" itself is often fuzzily defined and difficult to prove. That is part of it, yes, but there are many others, such a
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You're right, that was harshly worded. I meant to contrast it with the capability of making a quality assessment of the generated output, and understanding how and what to change, if necessary. This is something that only experts in an
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by imiric 10mo ago
I'm not swayed by appeals to authority, but this is a supremely bad take. "AI" tools are most useful in the hands of experienced developers, not juniors. It's seniors who have the knowledge and capability to review the g
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by imiric 10mo ago
Someone's accomplishments don't make them incapable of having bad opinions and being wrong. Cults of personality are harmful to progress. Opinions should hold the same weight and be held to the same scrutiny regardless of who voic
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We can live without the former, but not HN!
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Next time try not to beat a dead horse expecting it to resurrect. :)

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