jgb1984

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by jgb1984 2y ago
Yeah, no thanks, I'll stick with Django (my bread and butter for over 15 years now!).
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by jgb1984 2y ago
I'm tired of LLM, full stop.
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by jgb1984 2y ago
As a long time (20+ years) vim user the passing of Bram came as a shock. But it has become clear to me that the project is in safe hands, and I've seen slow but steady progress, continuing the tradition of stability that Bram always sa
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by jgb1984 2y ago
I tried chatgpt and claude, several times over the past year. To get it to say anything sensical is a laborious game of prompt trial and error, and even then in the end the code is of junior level at best, containing subtle bugs, inefficien
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by jgb1984 2y ago
Been using Debian and vim for almost 25 years now. Tried many IDE's but they're distracting, bloated and slow. My main language is python and for that I use jedi-vim (which allows me to jump to a definition), fzf with ripgrep to e
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by jgb1984 2y ago
Fake news. I've got my bare metal server deployed and installed with my ansible playbook even before you manage to log into the bazillion layers of abstraction that is AWS.
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by jgb1984 2y ago
I've used postgresql in most of my previous jobs, but using mariadb in my current one, and I must say it's a joy to administer. The replication and high availability that mariadb offers is rock solid, and much more advanced than w
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by jgb1984 2y ago
I've been writing python for a living for almost 20 years. Big projects. Never felt the need for static typing. And I strongly dislike the verbosity and complexity it adds to the language. Python is beautiful because it's simple,
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by jgb1984 2y ago
As someone who is using python professionally for over 17 years I sincerely hope this PEP gets rejected.
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by jgb1984 2y ago
Again, making the false argument that instead of learning a system engineer skillset you need to learn nothing at all. As if instead of spending time on systems, everything will be magically done for you and it costs zero FTE headcount. Wro
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by jgb1984 2y ago
If you think knowing apt / vim / postgresql / bash / linux intimately is a waste of time and just a pile of Unix trivia, then you and I are entirely different type of engineers / developers, I don't think we ev
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by jgb1984 2y ago
Because setting up your server takes an infinite amount of time, while configuring things on AWS takes zero minutes, right?
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by jgb1984 2y ago
It's weird how the same straw man argument comes back when this topic is discussed. As if the only two options in the world are cloud and on-premises bare metal. While the best solution is often to simply rent a bare metal server from
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by jgb1984 2y ago
It takes me more time to find what I need in the infernal hell hole of an AWS web interface, try to understand their hopelessly complex jungle of lingo and abstraction layers. Hell, I'll deploy a fresh Hetzner bare metal server with De
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by jgb1984 2y ago
The woke / sjw disease really ruins everything.
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by jgb1984 2y ago
I have a visceral dislike, even hate, for what the LLM hype brought the world. The never ending slop it is spouting, filling up the entire internet. More and more I get confronted with images and media that turn out to be AI generated, when
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by jgb1984 2y ago
Source? Unless you're locked into the Amazon flavor of cloud hell I'm pretty sure most people are using the "real" elasticsearch. I know I am.
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by jgb1984 2y ago
This is a copy paste from the relevant part of my vimrc. Keep in mind I mainly develop in python. Plug 'alvan/vim-closetag' Plug 'ap/vim-buftabline' Plug 'davidhalter/jedi-vim' Plug 'dense-a
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by jgb1984 2y ago
Most of the negatives mentioned (fragility, bugs, plugins breaking often) are specific to neovim. It's one of the reasons why I am and will always keep using vim instead of neovim. Vim is a much more mature ecosystem, less chasing the
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by jgb1984 2y ago
Your comment resonates with me! I'll stay on X with openbox for as long as I can, it works very well for me and I've collected a number of tools and scripts over the years which have no equivalent on Wayland. The most painful thin
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by jgb1984 2y ago
AI generated ANYTHING is an instant turnoff for me.
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by jgb1984 2y ago
That's incredibly funny, since I've been developing software for 20+ years using debian and vim (look mom, no IDE!) and I'm pretty sure that's what I'll be doing for the years to come. Imagine how valuable it will b
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by jgb1984 2y ago
ChatGPT, when I was forced to use it often got confused which is the bigger number, 2 or 3. I don't care how many lines of bottom of the barrel code it can throw up, I'm not using any of it. AI generated spaghetti debt. LLM'
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by jgb1984 3y ago
Maybe it's time to move away from xz which has been criticized in the past as a not great format, has had maintainer issues for years, and now turns out to be infiltrated with security problems. Moving to zstd seems worthwhile.
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by jgb1984 3y ago
I'll stay on Xorg, which has worked perfectly fine for me for decades, for as long as I can. I use openbox, and fluxbox before that. A bit of pekwm and bspwm in between. I love the diversity of Xorg window managers, and I prefer its ar
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by jgb1984 3y ago
That's a lot of FUD. Look at the commit log of vim. As alive as ever. Capable hands took over when Bram passed away. I'm sticking with vim, neovim doesn't offer anything of value to me since I don't want to use Lua, tree
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by jgb1984 3y ago
You can pry xorg + openbox + tint2 + polybar from my cold, dead hands!
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by jgb1984 3y ago
I would have written a similar comment, if I hadn't found yours first. I've been a vim user for 20+ years, combined with debian and bash. Those, together with python, have fused into my DNA by now I suspect. I've tried out ne
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by jgb1984 3y ago
"The total cost of immigration for the period 1995-2019 for the Netherlands was 400 billion euros." Quote from the conclusion of one of the studies mentioned here: https://miwi-institut.de/archives/2028#:~:tex
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by jgb1984 3y ago
Same here! I'll keep using X and openbox for as long as I can. It's the way I've been using Debian the past 20 years. Dwm, pekwm, fluxbox, openbox, so many cool windowmanagers... X works perfectly fine for me since ages, Wayl

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