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Thanks, we (Linux/BSD) users cannot bring up this topic often enough. I totally understand, that it cannot work unless money is there, which simply is not, in the Linux desktop wor…

Amen. It is so frustrating... in tech circles, it is widely known/understood for at least 2 decades, that an open file/data format is much more important than open source software.…

Thank you very much, and I also agree with your points: Electron Apps simply never feel right, even if I work within them all day (VS Code for example). I also agree, wxWidgets is …

Nicely written and I totally agree with you. I like, that you also added backwards compatibility and ABI stability, two very important and valid points. There is to this day the jo…

For the record: I have a terminal open at all times, my life is automated trough Bash scripts and I am a VIM / TMUX user. With that background, most TUIs are really two steps back …

What really annoys me about Python, is that a lot of problems that the language/infrastructure/community has can easily be tracked back to well understood problems that have been s…

Does anyone know, how this compares to [autojump]( https://github.com/wting/autojump )? Could not imagine using regular cd for navigating file systems anymore.

Programmed over the years in almost all mainstream programming languages at one time or another. Saying this, Java was and is in many ways one of the best ecosystems to write softw…

IMHO there are a lot of problems with the advice from Eskil. His ideas about abstraction of the platform made a lot of sense in the past decades, but IMHO are not that applicable n…

It is an Apple problem. Virtualization has been solved for good, even the cheapest consumer hardware has virtualization support since at least a decade by now and I sometimes run v…

Running Trixie/Gnome on a machine with 4GB (3.6GB usable) w/o any trouble. Gnome runs better than ever, the problem is in my experience usually the web browser when it comes to RAM…

Tried to upgrade from Bookworm to Trixie for my desktops end of April. Only thing that was broken was the desktop background, everything else worked great w/o any issue and even so…

IMHO it is one of the big tragedies of modern IT history, that JavaScript and Python 'own' the market for scripting languages in the mainstream. From a pure technical perspective, …

I am happy to read your success story with LLM and thanks for sharing. Fully agreed, that LLMs/assisted coding is nice for these kind of contained tasks.

As a experienced software developer I read a lot about how AI tools make coding faster and speed up development of software. In my personal experience, LLMs help with: - answering …

Fair enough. Still, I was out of luck for some fairly simple SQL statements, were the model knows 100% of the DDL statements.

Could you perhaps point me to a youtube video which demonstrates an experienced prompter sculpting code with Cursor/Clause Code? In my search I just found trivial examples. My crit…

Could you point me to a youtube video or a blog post which demonstrates how LLMs help writing code which outperforms a proficient human? My only conditions: - It must be demonstrat…

I have read somewhere, that LLMs are mostly helpful to junior developers. Is it possible the person claiming success with all these languages/tools/technologies is just on a junior…

I do not rule out, that I am just very bad with prompting. It just surprises me, that you write you had massive successes with "java, js/TS, html css, go, rust, python, bitbucket p…

Yes, I have the same feeling about the wall/hype cycle. Most of my time is understanding code and formulating a plan to change code w/o breaking anything... even if LLMs would gene…

Most comments here surprise me: I am using Githubs Copilot / ChatGPT 4.0 at work with a code base which is mostly implements a basic CRUD service... and outside of small/trivial ex…