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I doubt it's going to go the same way as search. You can't run Google on consumer hardware, but you can run LLMs locally. At worse, newer models will get worse and you can just sti…

I feel like I gamed this somehow. Instead of looking for serial killers, I looked for anyone who didn't look like a programming language inventor and got 10/10.

I think you're missing what they're trying to say. You can still select what you actually need in a different order, but changing the order gives more immediate feedback from autoc…

Umm because medicine is supposed to be about helping other people? Why would people spend billions of dollars trying to help others work through a natural disaster? To me that's on…

Yes I do, and I also know that it's been banging on the door for a long time. My point was that it's slow moving, not that it hasn't affected us yet.

> I'm not him, but the older I get the worse I see interactions with social media getting, so I don't think anyone is going to outgrow it. *her (i wonder if that changes your perce…

As a youngish adult (27) this is some of what I feel: - Climate change is slowly creeping up on us and corporations keep on trucking along with an endless growth mindset, not carin…

I kind of feel like you're missing out then. I was pretty young when RSS was "popular" and didn't really get into it back then. I started using it in the past couple of years, and …

> I have a lot of faith in Elon based on past results. He already solved the problem of people who don't believe in climate change - he got them to buy electric cars because they a…

Only if you limit yourself to current CPU architectures. Even GPUs right now are significantly more declarative than CPUs, and it definitely seems like some point in the future we …

Probably because they find it fun? That's almost always the case when something seems "impractical". I kind of feel like there's a disconnect here between people who write software…

Hasn't this already already happened though? There's literally nothing else that can compete with ripgrep. A project using Rust isn't a good enough selling point to me if the tool …

For me it was: Windows -> Xandros (1 year) -> Ubuntu (6 years) -> Arch (4 years) -> NixOS (4 years) Except I never actually installed Xandros myself, my dad just brought it home fr…

I thought the exact same thing until I switched to NixOS. I love Arch, but I'd never go back.

Another funny thing is that good ole vacuum tube computers could automate computation before transistors became widespread.

I'm not saying the UNIX philosophy is the "best" way, I'm just stating why it's valuable. Of course most people don't care about those things, but as a developer, the main issue I …

I get where you're coming from, but I think the biggest pro for the "UNIX way" is that text on a filesystem extremely accessible. You don't need a specialized tool to read & modify…

FreeBSD includes a kernel, drivers, and userland utilities under one project. If your complaint is that systemd is "bloated", it doesn't make any sense why you would want to switch…

It looks like it won't be so simple for Steam. I just found out a couple of days ago that Steam only uses CEF to render the main content, and it actually looks like it's using GTK2…

I'm not sure what the slashpackage hierarchy is, but Nix & NixOS started in 2003.

Maybe the Nix package manager / NixOS is what you're looking for? I think it takes the best features from both worlds. Every package installed with Nix is isolated into content-add…

> However, the crux of my argument is that it’s easy enough to emulate this construction in other languages. It's also easy enough to emulate all control flow statements with goto.…

Wayland has a proper protocol for fractional per-output scaling: https://wayland-book.com/surfaces-in-depth/hidpi.html . While there are many reasons why I prefer Wayland over X, t…

It could, depending on your use case, but normally all packages from nixpkgs share the same libcurl, so when libcurl is updated, all packages that depend on it will also be updated…

The Visitor pattern is great if you want to process a data structure as "stream" without actually instantiating it, in the same way you can read a file line-by-line instead of load…