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by int_19h 11mo ago
The right answer to this is that IDEs should wrap lines automatically according to the actual dimensions of the editor, but they need to understand the syntax of the language they are wrapping to do that right.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Try explaining /usr to a kid these days. "That obviously means Users, so that's where the home directories are, right?" "Well, no. And it actually means Unix System Resources" (but historically it was in fact &
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by int_19h 11mo ago
This page presupposes that the graphics tool to install .deb packages is not preinstalled, which isn't true for either Ubuntu nor Mint. If it is preinstalled the steps are really just "double click on it and then click install&quo
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by int_19h 11mo ago
> Any sufficiently large codebase that runs an operating system will have security exploits eventually Indeed, but the one that has been around for much longer is likely to have more bugs flushed out by now.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
FreeBSD is also extremely conservative by comparison to Linux. It's not just systemd; things change less in general, and it's closer to old school Unix. Some people like it for nostalgia reasons, some just got tired of having rug
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by int_19h 11mo ago
I think it's because stuff like HDCP pretty much requires a "trusted" (i.e. locked-down) implementation.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Yes, the time-honored strategy of keeping the poi holloi fed and entertained just enough to prevent riot, but not anymore. Long-term, it usually fails because the elites become too greedy and too complacent because they haven't seen
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by int_19h 11mo ago
I remember reading an article that argued that it was basically a matter of being path dependent. The earliest steam engines that could do useful work were notoriously large and fuel-inefficient, which is why their first application was for
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Ironically, if generative AI ends up killing social media, it might actually be a net positive. How do you avoid engaging with AI content? Why, go find an actual human IRL and speak with them.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
> Hallucinations that lead to code that doesn't work just get fixed How about hallucinations that lead to code that doesn't work outside of the specific conditions that happen to be true in your dev environment? Or, even more s
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by int_19h 11mo ago
It's not even true that HTML/JS is easier than something like, say, WPF.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
The ones who own the robots will be doing the consumption. Of course, this all implies that the rest of us will just sit and starve quietly. Somehow I don't think that's likely.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
https://starlabs.systems
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by int_19h 11mo ago
> Windows file chooser is essentially small Windows Explorer and you can do almost everything that you can in the explorer while you are in file chooser mode. None of the Linux desktops have anything close. I remember KDE copying that a
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Gnome has a desktop sharing feature these days, and it's actually RDP.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
This isn't true for Apple silicon, which is the main reason to use a Mac.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
The other problem is things like DRM being increasingly common. Last I checked, many video streaming providers either don't support Linux, or only serve low-quality videos. With Macs you know they'll get support.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
I had a Windows laptop set up to dual boot Linux recently, and Mint was the one that gave me the least hassle. Cinnamon edition looks a lot like Windows 10, too, before they broke everything.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
It's like an intern that is incapable of learning. But a very enthusiastic one.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Anything that kills of "exclusives" as a business model is worth considering for that reason alone.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
I think it would make more sense to simply start taxing copyright as property, if we insist on "intellectual property" in the first place. Have an exemption in place for the first few years, then gradually ramp it up - the longer
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by int_19h 11mo ago
It's kinda funny because "Unix philosophy" was never a coherent thing in the first place. Arguably Plan 9 came the closest to that in practice, but, well, you might note it didn't exactly have a strong uptake. Unix itsel
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by int_19h 11mo ago
The reality of my life is that I have to write code targeting Node because of choices that other people made for their libraries and products. I didn't hate JS & npm with a passion before. I do now, and it hasn't even been two
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by int_19h 11mo ago
This kind of thing is precisely the stuff that needs to be in stdlib. C++ is hardly a good example to follow here, but then again it does have Boost which is the de facto "extended standard library" in practice, and gets treated d
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by int_19h 11mo ago
I think first-party Microsoft packages ought to be a separate category that is more like BCL in terms of risk. The main reason why they split them out is so that they can be versioned separately from .NET proper.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
> Compared to the JS ecosystem and number of users both Python and Rust are puny This is just plainly false in case of Python. > also the the NPM ecosystem also allowed by default for a lot of post-install actions since they wanted to
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by int_19h 11mo ago
OP might be remembering how things were 10 years ago or so, before .NET Core became the .NET. Although there are still many companies with legacy codebases running on .NET 4. That aside, dependency graphs in .NET land still tend to be muc
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Python includes logging, and packages generally use it. It's far from perfect, but it's important to have at least a standard interface so that all components use it in concert. When you have a proliferation of logging libraries w
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by int_19h 11mo ago
You don't know what it's geared for until you try. Like I said, GPT-4 could consistently encode and decode even fairly long base64 sequences. I remember once asking it for an SVG image, and it responded with HTML that had an <i
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by int_19h 11mo ago
My implicit point was that this: > The only weird ones I can think of are the ones that end in -y. For example, Görgey. They're meant to be -i endings. is not actually surprising to an English speaker.

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