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How you started completely disqualified whatever the author of the article argues next: "...The recent fiasco involving Linus Torvalds running Linux like the privileged man that he…

I leaped to Linux a few years back. One of the best moves in my life. The speed, the reaction time, the lack of bloat. I side-car'ed a Mac for some apps that could not go through (…

The post is aggressive. I was about to dislike it, then I realized: the author's aggression comes off as... human. I don't know if the aggression itself is an intentional mockery o…

I really don't get having a ton of MD files lying around. And the possibility of having to edit a thousand MD files when the metadata frontmatter changes. A single SQLite database …

> AI music appears to be reasonable music, but it carries no human emotion, it has no intent to exist and stand up on its own. The 'lack' of human emotion does not make anything le…

> LLMs are terrible at accurately summarizing anything. They very randomly latch on to certain keywords and construct a narrative from them, with the result being something that is…

One other thing - latency. The newest Macbooks have insanely powerful hardware (I have an M4 Macbook Max). Yet they do not feel as speedy or instant on my machines with i3. There's…

The one interesting thing (as a heavy user of both OSes) is that since the past decade there now are plenty of high-quality games (if those count for apps) on the Linux, that still…

I use CopyQ. Love it because it's so cross-platform, and consistently works across my Mac and Linux machines with minimal fuss; it handles images really well too.

I have some doubts about your statements. If you can't get a job at FAANG or the major startups, sure - that makes absolute sense. Competition is crazy. If you can't get a job at a…

While I love this insightful analogue, your statement seems exactly like the kind of text you copy-pasted from some LLM, which you then regurgitated to Hacker news with some modifi…

I'm not sure why allowances are made for Zig's verbosity, but not Go's. What's good for the goose should be good for the gander.

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What "ugly things" exactly did he say?

I find it ridiculous how "writing scripts to keep things working the way I want" can be a source of frustration. To me, that's a source of pleasure. I've never expected Windows or …

Swift's become so feature-heavy, and complex, whilst the documentation is all over the place. That's not even counting things like SwiftUI, or its rather arcane CLI tooling. Out of…

I'm willing to bet there's a dragon in that egg.

What exactly do you write, where your Python+C is faster than Nim which compiles to optimized C?

> "...I am a psychologist of software environments and that is something of an anomaly." Right. Translation: "I'm actually incompetent. I have no technical abilities, and I'm lazy …

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I really wish there was more of a discussion on Nim.

I've always thought the word 'bricked' as more akin to 'turning the phone into a useless brick'.

Somehow an anti-DEI push is "ridiculous", but the prior pro-DEI push isn't? There are those who were successful without merit, achieved renown/success only because they were DEI to…

Lack of passion and enjoyment for an art form generally correlates with a mentality of doing 'just-enough', rather than a keen desire for craftsmanship. I think those who enjoy pay…

I really don't get how this can't be emulated with the F5 key, or something like Sublime Text's InsertDate package, or a text expansion software. What does this note taking provide…