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I'm extremely interested in pushing along these fronts even in a performative way, because I don't want to get bogged down in "switch away from Emacs" conversations with coworkers.…

Since the jargon we've invented in technology has derived from natural language, it's often repurposing common terms as terms of art. In my opinion this leads to ambiguity and I so…

Can you say more about which prior art you think overlaps here? We have a similar use case to Figma and are implementing a similar solution. I'm not particularly concerned whether …

I think you're agreeing with GP, not disagreeing.

I'm assuming "crash"--it's a mild malapropism based on some varieties of English phonetics that I've seen before.

I get what you're saying, but what's interesting to me is that this case is a mild signal that a subsequent developer could take the same erroneous implication. "Id" does in fact i…

Accusations are often confessions.

The shallow analogy is like "why worry about not being able to do arithmetic without a calculator"? Like... the dev of the future just won't need it. I feel like programming has be…

I've done okay with copilot as a very smart autocomplete on: a) very typical codebase, with b) lots of boilerplate, where c) I'm not terribly familiar with the languages and framew…

A non-forking prompt command is an absolute requirement for me and always has been, so I did this in pure shell. It's not a lot of code but it's a little tricksy. If I still used b…

My earliest background as a shell user was as as system administrator (back in "the day", let's say), and forks are always potentially expensive, and often the reason you're openin…

It strikes me as very much a current aesthetic in younger companies or smaller startups, maybe highly influenced by Notion. No one makes a list or page or calendar invite in my cur…

I suppose (strictly speaking it's easier to C-x o into the terminal frame or Alt-tab to the terminal window; but it's negligble either way), but the "cost" is not really about invo…

I'm also an emacs user in the habit of using the shell for file management, and I just deal with this mismatch. It hasn't been annoying enough for me to solve by switching to somet…

It sounds right, and this is the kind of thing I'd expect if developers are baking configuration into their app distribution. Like, you'd want usage rules or tracking plugins to be…

We have already been through some generations of this rediscovery an I've worked at places where graphql type importing, protobuf stub generation etc. all worked in just the same w…

My Boox is pretty crap. My use case is Libby for library books and the display refreshing and other things make it almost unusable. Feels super cheap, unsupported.

The rulebooks (or videos) as well, do often omit this. But even when the overall goal is either obvious or explicitly stated, it's very common for none of the described options or …

Because it's attempting mythisimilitude, not verisimilitude.

How does this replicate Postgres data? I glanced at the code and saw that it exports to a CSV file then writes out an Iceberg table for an initial snapshot--does it use Postgres lo…

And not just restricted to English; it's a very common experience in the U.S. for native speakers of, e.g. Spanish, to end up in Spanish-language courses with non-native Spanish te…

Yeah, it's hard to do a direct comparison, because bash needs a bunch of other utilities to be useful and they also take up space. In theory you can pick and choose but woe be to y…

Oh, it's not dismissive at all. It's not just a real consideration, it's an overriding one. I switched my "daily driver" shell to powershell but I still write CI/CD scripts in bash…

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I can see a lot of similar cases especially for sysadmin things (systemctl, ifconfig, etc.). One thing that was nice about my adopting Powershell…

I agree, this is a place where the desired features are in tension. I will say that it took me a while to find it, and I don't find it limiting now that I understand it, but it was…