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by pdimitar 2y ago
Most people I knew didn't want to forever get more and more and ever more. Is your life experience and observations on the average human the opposite to mine?
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by pdimitar 2y ago
This is why having a physical form might be super important for those new organisms. That introduces a survival instinct which is a very strong motivator to not shut yourself down. Add some pre-programmed "wants" and "needs&q
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by pdimitar 2y ago
> But, you are right, the human fundamentally can never be satisfied. Even if AGI delivers on every single one of our wildest dreams, we'll adapt, it will become normal, and then it will no longer be good enough. Yes, and? A good
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by pdimitar 2y ago
> Seriously, AGI to the HN crowd is not the same as AGI to the average human. To my parents, these bots must look like fucking magic. So does a drone show to an uncontacted tribe. So does a card trick to a chimpanzee (there are videos
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Well, you can at least check out Zed and Helix first? Many people say they work perfectly for them and that they are simpler than both Emacs and [Neo]vim. LSP Code Actions is super neat though. You can have a compiler error or a warning and
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by pdimitar 2y ago
That's much better, thanks. > The evidently misguided assumption was that whoever uses it will need to tweak it anyhow, so might as well read it through. As I wrote - it’s very close to throwaway code. Even if that assumption is
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Zero documentation? Do you expect potential users t9 figure it out by themselves?
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I was in a co-dependent relationship as well. I have to admit it was extremely uncomfortable to "part ways". > * I envy your brain's ability to excise editor-induced trauma.* That's a really funny way of putting it, t
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Indeed. Elixir for most things (as it steps on Erlang's excellent runtime and has hygienic macros and an an amazing ecosystem), and when performance and system footprint really matters, get out the big guns -- Rust. I quickly fell in l
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I am here to lengthen your suffering: of course**
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Dude. Criticizing a contrived example that is never used in production code is a very fair game. You didn't need to go all "but actually!" here.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Okay, but what do you use then?
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Okay, but what are the viable alternatives?
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by pdimitar 2y ago
> I don't think you'd normally choose Go to train your ML/AI model. It has really only gunned for Python in the server realm I don't think anyone ever claimed Golang will displace Python in the ML area. But in a wor
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Really bad example if you ask me. Banks are literally the last institutions that will make a change.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Yeah, async Rust is needlessly difficult. I can't quite put my finger on it but having to sift through 10+ crates docs definitely left a very sour taste when I had to modernize one tokio 0.1 app to a 1.x one. I do love Rust a lot as we
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Emacs was sold to me as an editor however, and technically that wasn't a lie. The distinction you're making is too only technically correct. Emacs is still (also) an editor. I judged its editor abilities and found them lacking. Fi
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Yeah that was the one. I too left it unconvinced that Rust can get measurably faster than C, for what it's worth. But as said in another comment, even being 1-2% around the same ballpark is a huge win already and it would be enough for
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I am no longer impressed by the gray color treatment of my comments when it happens (don't get the impression that it's the norm; it's fairly rare). HN has showed me that it's much more about group-think and cargo cultin
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by pdimitar 2y ago
My apologies, but I no longer remember. I only remember my huge annoyance that almost anything I did, even successful, led to some warnings or unnecessary notifications in the command bar. Always some noise there. Not to mention the occasio
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Well you kind of answered yourself. After limping with Emacs for 19-ish years, during most of which I never made the serious effort you alluded to, I finally admitted I just don't have and don't want to have the mindset that'
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Nope. Neovim. And even there some of the "distros" got on my nerves. I guess at one point I'll just learn Neovim's API and make my own blend like everyone else. NOT looking forward to it. But I suppose there's no ot
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by pdimitar 2y ago
> All the people from Elixir community I met, kept telling me "Mnesia sucks, use Postgres instead" through Ecto DSL of course. And using Postgres via Ecto is a bad thing, or? What was your point or a complaint?
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by pdimitar 2y ago
As mentioned, I didn't go to Rust for the performance alone so I didn't track the articles that tried to prove the claim. The stated logic was that due to having more info to work with the toolchain could optimize away, quite aggr
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I found Golang to be a gateway drug to Rust for me. If you want strong control and very unforgiving type system with even more unforgiving memory lifetime management so you know your program can get even faster than corresponding C/C++
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Call me when they figure they should include UTF-8 strings by default. And stop having several low-level string libraries flying around. OCaml needs more coherence and unity. It offers too much choice.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
1. I ain't willing to die on any hill. In fact I was 100% certain I'll regret commenting negatively on Emacs. Pretty ardent and devoted fans, it seems. 2. The ivory tower thing is dedicated to the parent poster sounding a bit elit
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Sadly that's not worth anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anecdotal evidence in both directions. I had a soft spot for Emacs for a _long_ time (almost two decades)... FWIW. ;) Key word: had.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I have set it up 50 times and it crapped the bed every time. Before anyone yells "skill issue!", I'll say that if any plugin author can make the editor crap the bed, then the editor is not good. There are degrees to freedom.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Wake me up when its authors realize most of us don't want to "hack" our editors. They're still stuck in 1980. We actually have to pay bills and want to spend time with our families and go out in nature. I appreciate cust

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