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And now I find myself staring at Zig and Java as my preferred languages. Zig is very C-like, so I feel like I'm back to the 90s - except a bit less miserable in some ways, more mis…

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It’s more than one thing but the surfactants are pretty bad.

Actually the aesthetic preferences of people I regularly work with are important to me.

In my own experience it works pretty well. In fact better than the autoformatters. It was essentially not an issue. Sometimes I’d grumble about someone, but it would never get in m…

Gods forbid I talk to people I work with, learn their preferences, and figure out the way we can accommodate each other. Sounds like such a waste of energy. It’s so much better if …

Don’t forget to light some candles and invoke the name of the Omnissiah while you’re at it.

Yeah, that too. Like, being old enough to get my start largely in internet cafes means I actually _had_ in-person interactions with the type of person we're talking about - and the…

> As a parent now (but oldest is only 5), it's stories like this which make me determined remain aware of the kind of stuff my kids get up to and continually explain that actions h…

Yep, that. Sorry, growing up in Poland I know the amount of horrors the EU _prevented_. Europe without EU isn’t democracy, it’s a bunch of fiefdoms.

I will keep using POST and not some weird thing that isn’t supported by a proxy living in the basement of a shoe store in Wageningen or whatever.

Frontends and relays are far closer to “quacking like an instance.” That’s where your sysop’s power lives. The PDS itself isn’t very powerful - can’t meaningfully limit who you can…

By 2031 the best employer in Europe will be the water gangs.

Other paper books. Or the same books but electronic or reprinted when the demand is higher. Just not the exact same pieces of highly fetishized dead wood.

Some people truly love paper books more than having people read books. It’s one of the more seemingly paradoxical ways anti-intellectualism manifests.

No we don’t. And the greatest hazard is the soul crushing disappointment that is a Dutch tomato.

It's so funny reading about how the problem with Wayland is that you have many, often incomplete, implementations while being old enough to remember the time when X11 was actually …

If you’re a software engineer then yes, I can and do expect you to understand all that.

I mean normal people shun LLM users so it’s no wonder it’s true for you.

I don't think we're Ukraine's "teachers," and our treatment of Ukraine was historically just as rough at times.

We were. And “hard workers” is code for “easily exploited.” Anyway the trick to explosive growth as a country is who you trade with and how you count things. We now sell things to …

Swimming. Lakes generally don't come with a securely closed box, and even if I come with company, they usually want to swim at the same time. Of course I don't have to actually _us…

I'm an AI skeptic, but I do think that _he_ will be out-coded by AI, no problem.

Thing is, it's not how incompetent they are, but the opportunism itself. The property I mentioned pulls in opportunists regardless of their competence. So eventually if you work in…

For at least the last 3 decades programming was a field that rewarded utter mediocrity with (relatively to other fields) massive remuneration. It has been filled with opportunists …