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...didn't have the vocabulary... That is exactly the key or the sign there. Even with a couple of decades of engineering expertise, when I try to do / research something that I don…

They have been on a path to nuclear weapons in two weeks... for 30 years. What's new? Jokes aside, nukes are not that much of a deterrence these days. The moment you use them you g…

A nuclear Iran would eventually lead to a nuclear middle east, including all the ISIS and Al Qaeda types, which would be extremely dangerous for the whole world. Better not to have…

Interesting... ...and what does the very same prophecy say about the kind of people who accelerate the arrival of the muslims' messiah? Does it say, I don't know... they are good p…

Thankfully this is no longer strictly true. So, I think the quote needs a slight adjustment, "Type systems and $THING are just ...", but $THING is not very well defined yet. Betwee…

AI does change the equation. It frees a solo developer to focus more on the big picture. BUT... with the current generation of AI agents, I think you are still right. You still nee…

If you still wonder why there are sudden attacks on Mullvad, I "heard" there are Chinese (in addition to the others; dual- / triple- vendoring is key) LLM-based tools to check for …

Agreed, mostly. To me the effectiveness of window managers is a bellwether of the control aspect. So, IMO, if you compare them on control or on the quality of window managers, you'…

Honestly, at fundamental level, it is less of that need being dependent on third parties, and more of not having at least ONE set of consistent libraries (or one big library). To m…

The C++ std lib is no longer terrible. It is really at a usable level these days. Not fun, but totally bearable. The motivation for C++ has never been the quality of the language o…

C++ (the language) and its extreme complexities (each perhaps added for a good reason at the time, and then held together with backward compatibility as glue) reduced itself to gcc…

I believe by a wide margin the most significant long term problem with rust is lack of a good and comprehensive standard library, or a FEW set of crates that provides a really good…

Cloudtop to run builds, g4 commands, etc., and srcfs / srcfsn to actually write code. (caveat: I have never used neovim, so I don't know if that is different).

When using AI, I often find myself preferring either plain text (no markup whatsoever; just manual / text editor formatting of text blocks) or simple html to markdown, depending on…

I do get pleasure from typing out the code in some languages (and not in others; hello javascript, java!). Similarly, I love writing text with a calligraphy or fountain pen. Howeve…

Of course it can be used. But it is very buggy (as in missing or not well-though-out behaviors), which is unlike the typical polish Apple human interaction folks deliver. For examp…

This might have been the case a couple of years ago, but it is certainly not true any more, if you use AI [even occasionally] to manage some of your default.nix and flake.nix files…

Why would you use that feature? MacOS doesn't REALLY have multiple desktops (Spaces). That is merely a pre-release feature (for 10 years or so, I think). As evidenced by the many c…

Nix is not the same as nixos, and in this case the distinction matters. It has to step carefully around Apple's updates. This further highlights the fact Apple lacks the same quali…

The current market share shows how far you can go with just being a better Java. If (or when? I haven't checked recently) a decent and well-thought-out LLVM backend emerges for it,…

"I Want to Wash My Car. The Car Wash Is 50 Meters Away. Should I Walk or Drive?" I found it curious to ask the model to provide its reasoning in that turn, without changing the ver…

That won't change until top-notch, simple (i.e., without 100 transient dependencies) org parsing and formatting libraries for a few key languages (go, javascript / typescript, and …

I went to school in a poor country, and live in the US. The education budget was very low when / where I grew up, and it is pretty hefty where my kids go to school. I occasionally …

Power conversion efficiency is at best the 3rd or 4th important factor here. The first factor would be the hodgepodge of wall dongles one needs to own and maintain (plus the cost o…

I keep checking Amethyst every couple of years. Still not remotely comparable to i3 or other linux window managers. For one, it's extremely slow. I think it is about two orders of …