windward

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by windward 10mo ago
Good question. I've gone with: >Live under your means and save as much as possible? which, while obvious, isn't being done by all of us. A part of me gets angry that collective action was so unpopular thanks to the view that it
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by windward 10mo ago
>we are in a very weak economy especially outside of the leading AI firms Isn't that part of the cause? It sucks up so much investment, there's nothing left for anything else. Or at least nothing without such perceived upside
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by windward 10mo ago
You're zooming out and considering this negative sentiment with similar times in the past. I think that's wise. I think we should keep zooming out to other industries. Imagine you're an engineer for GM in Detroit in the 70s -
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by windward 10mo ago
You've put that command in quotation marks in three comments on this topic. I don't think it's as prevalent as you're making out.
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by windward 10mo ago
We've known that since the first assembler.
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by windward 11mo ago
Is it clear enough that you could explain why tar has multiple zip options and why find has a DSL? Is it clear enough that you could explain to Rob Pike why he's wrong about cat -v?
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by windward 11mo ago
And it numbers empty lines (-b) and non-empty lines (-n) and the end of lines (-E) and elides empty lines (-s) and search-and-replaces tabs (-T) and nonprinting characters (-v)
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by windward 11mo ago
BSD is given as an example of the cathedral in the book.
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by windward 11mo ago
Those are solid reasons not to like MacOS and Windows but I'm left without your case for loving Linux. I'm reminded of when people advocate for politicians by attacking their opposition, not by praising their own candidate.
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by windward 11mo ago
Oh I don't care: I do it all the time when I compose cli commands. But is it doing one thing, and doing it well, to use `cat – concatenate and print files` to open a file? I think it's a good example of when it's worth strayi
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by windward 11mo ago
It's funny how many people fall in love with the Unix philosophy because they enjoy using an OS with a macrokernel that ships with awk, tar, and find, which they operate with useless uses of cat.
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by windward 11mo ago
ZSTs are a choice, if you're not benefiting from them in development time or correctness, why are you making that choice? Rust isn't just C++ with static analysis. The safety is only about 1/3 of what makes me enjoy working w
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by windward 11mo ago
I don't spend significant time making the borrow checker happy, because I learned how to write C++ that works.
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by windward 11mo ago
And I'm saying it isn't any slower.
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by windward 11mo ago
In my experience Rust development is no slower than C development (in a different environment) or C++ development (in a comparable project)
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by windward 11mo ago
I'm still here
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by windward 11mo ago
The internet was better when it repulsed a significant portion of people.
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by windward 11mo ago
The original died in 2010. It was replaced with a very significant, large fork.
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by windward 11mo ago
>Every project of any significance is now fending off AI submissions Not anything with a cathedral model. 'open source' is too ambiguous to be useful.
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by windward 11mo ago
You're right. Personally, now that it's getting wet and cold, I'm getting kind of landlocked by mud. There's one tarmac road out in both directions, but only one of them leads to somewhere that somewhat resembles civilis
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by windward 1y ago
Getting drivers stuck behind what is visibly an autonomous burrito taxi will make anti-cyclist rage look tame
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by windward 1y ago
dabbawalas have existed for a century
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by windward 1y ago
ntfs-3g uses a userspace driver that crap-ifies the performance
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by windward 1y ago
So it's unrelated to the analog face buttons?
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by windward 1y ago
Sorry, IDK, I've only used their laptops
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by windward 1y ago
I've only seen it on Macs
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by windward 1y ago
USB devices can be USB HIDs
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by windward 1y ago
I've had conversations at work where the difference was important. Mass adoption of quicksort implies I'm not the only one.
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by windward 1y ago
At some point it became unacceptably rude to gatekeep, king-make, or be otherwise judgemental of taste. It was at around the same time that subcultures and counterculture melted into an homogenous mass. I think we lost something in that. Em
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by windward 1y ago
>their Graphene or Calyx phones An important reminder: if your escape hatch is an economic irrelevancy, it might as well not exist. See: Google search with '-ai'.

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