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by skydhash 1mo ago
We usually don’t. We look at the harm/benefits ratio and if way too big, we usually ban them. Guns, various chemicals, explosives,… is not allowed for any random cases. I’m not calling for regulation but you can understand why someone
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> Computers have produced untold exabytes of spam. Hit pieces, security vulnerabilities and data leaks[...] massive increase in water and electricity consumption. etc. Then you must blame cars and airplanes as mass murdering tools as wel
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> He says “a lot of developers have not learned git IN DEPTH” and you respond by saying that’s not true because you’ve gotten away with just using a small subset You forgot the “because it's actually kind of terrible from a UX stand
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by skydhash 1mo ago
Not really. Learning the piano and learning music theory is two different things but tied together. One is skill and muscle memory, the other is theory and understanding. It’s the same with git and version control. One is a process and the
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by skydhash 1mo ago
I read many 400 pages books to learn various things about software development. So one more to learn about version control was worth it.
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by skydhash 1mo ago
That's very much a credible scenario. I think I use code from SO in a single digit of occasions. But I use it a lot more for giving me insight like a keyword for doing a proper web search. Or the name of a flag for a cli command, or th
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> I'd argue that the reason a lot of developers have not learned git in depth is because it's actually kind of terrible from a UX standpoint Not really. I remember my early years with git and the favt was that I never needed mo
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by skydhash 1mo ago
I remember when I was scrounging memory sticks to get to 512 mb for my windows xp setup. And I was able to play Unreal: Return to Na Pali[0] on that. [0] https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Unreal_Mission_Pack:_Return_t...
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by skydhash 1mo ago
I gifted my sister my kindle this morning (it was unused for years) after loaded it with azw3 files converted from epub using calibre. The other options is to send epub via email. But I told her to never put it out of airplane mode and get
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by skydhash 1mo ago
I'm using mu4e as my MUA and one the things that it offers are actions (something similar in mutt is macro) where you can map a keybind to some code that do something to the current message or the set of selected messages. This is gene
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> Recent OpenAI/HuggingFace incident shows us that even in a very controlled top AI-lab setting, humans can't know what agents are really doing. “very controlled” is disinformation.
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by skydhash 1mo ago
I’ve been using vi (nvi) and mg and both doesn’t have syntax highlighting. I’ve copied a monochrome theme of github for my vim setup and my emacs config is using modus operandis which is somewhat minimal and muted. While I can use rainbow c
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by skydhash 1mo ago
That’s like one of two lines of i3status. Awesome if you need something like this one and built it. But don’t pretend that there aren‘t myriad solutions out there that have solved a lot of possible use cases.
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by skydhash 1mo ago
I was watching one guy explaining the xv6 code and it was pretty much one shot with a single camera pointing at the listing on paper. Not sure if you need professional video if you want to really expound on something.
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> etc. the list is endless. Why is the list endless? I don’t even remember the last time I check or change any on my mac settings. And my unix things haven’t been touched in months. My debian server is basically frozen at this point.
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> How you came to the decision to write the code in a certain way is certainly an important artifact of the development process. Otherwise how would your coworkers know whether or not a particular piece of logic is still relevant Not rea
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by skydhash 1mo ago
Isn’t WSL2 vm based?
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by skydhash 1mo ago
I think there are notes that warn you about the consequences. And they have been written with sys admin in mind which knows about user groups and security.
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> Bug: this blog has no max-width. Lines of text will grow infinitely long with width Are you maximizing your browser’s windows?
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by skydhash 1mo ago
Why wouldn’t it be? If you were in charge of writing a letter and use words that hinders the purpose of the letter, thus resulting in a flawed communication, wouldn’t it be your fault? Especially when dictionaries are easily available?
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> Seriously, this was a huge thing in C and C++, where you had to know/remember/know to look up very specific error codes and conditions in an API and if you didn't then it was very much considered to be a skill issue. It
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by skydhash 1mo ago
I think projects today are too trigger happy about updating dependencies and using dependencies that are too volatile. IIRC, the task runner just couldn’t be built on debian 12 because its rust package was too “old”. Just two years have pas
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by skydhash 1mo ago
I think the appeal of tree sitter is to have a single query api for traversal of the nodes in the abstract tree of the language. So it become easier to adjust or adapt the parser.
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by skydhash 1mo ago
Should they install make for you too (default command for compilation-mode) or the various sql client (for the sql-mode) pr a lisp runtime (for the repl)?
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> I always tell people "Give me any task, and I'll find a better tool than Emacs." And "If you want to get up and running quickly for your task, Emacs is not a good choice." Followed by "What makes Emacs wor
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by skydhash 1mo ago
You might just as well require a sqlite db as the persistence layer. Emacs has always been about using plain text files as both data and interface while lisp is the control mechanism. That’s why you got org files and a handful of lisp funct
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> Winners are managers (who hired nephews) and nephews themselfs, they did barely any usefull job and got paid a lot. That is what the hype is about. They created their kingdom/empire with software and data. And they’ve been looking
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> Like if the next torvalds ships something great in the open, who cares how was it written. I was reading a biography of Tovalds and one of the core things that mark the birth of Linux was the drive to learn. Same when reading “Coders a
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> Yes, most people will never do it because they're not the type of people that are self-motivated and courageous enough to dive into something with confidence to see how it goes Or they’re just not interested. Just look around to s
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by skydhash 1mo ago
With an actual good programmer at the wheel, so it’s like saying SO is good at programming or GitHub is good at programming.

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