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We need better alternatives

We’d need a quantum leap in storage and bandwidth first - orders of magnitude better, if we want competing to be financially sane 😮‍💨

Maybe when Google is (hopefully eventually) shattered into a million pieces by some US judge, YouTube could be splintered into several smaller companies, each with some portion of the infrastructure and channels/videos - thus forcing competition. Vaguely similar to the Bell divestiture.

Oof. Looks like this affected some other languages as well - somebody at Microsoft needs to up their documentation game, methinks.

I’m not well versed in the machinations of the Chinese government, but if a relatively “normie” VPN like Nord works in China… it’s probably controlled opposition (i.e. they’re logging everything to a government server.)

set timers

This broke for me a few months ago. It just randomly… won’t start, despite saying otherwise.

I liked GalaxQL.

Can’t beat Iosevka in my opinion. I use the Term variant for my shell as well.

Too late, already moved to Garmin after my third dead Charge 5 in ~1.5 years.

Good, I would like to avoid interacting with the hallucination machine.

Well, that’s to be expected - the implementation of map expects a function that takes ownership of its inputs, so you get a type mismatch.

If you really want to golf things, you can tack your own map_ref (and friends) onto the Iterator trait. It’s not very useful - the output can’t reference the input - but it’s possible!

I imagine you could possibly extend this to a combinator that returns a tuple of (Input, ref_map'd output) to get around that limitation, although I can’t think of any cases where that would actually be useful.

It wouldn’t be as relevant, since passing a function or method instead of a closure is much easier in Rust - you can just name it, while Ruby requires you to use the method method.

So instead of .map(|res| res.unwrap()) you can do .map(Result::unwrap) and it’ll Just Work™.

The GNOME text editor or Nano.

I appreciate Vim, but when I just need to inspect something or change a single line, the former are easier.

As for Neovim and Emacs… I don’t have eight hours to set aside monthly to keep them configured and working.

Wow, I can talk to the hallucination machine! What an innovation!

… God, imagine if this all this effort went towards fusion power or space infrastructure. What a waste.

Yeah, no thanks. My third Charge 5 in 1.5 years “randomly” died a few days ago - I’m not that gullible.

Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. The Remote* extensions rely on the (proprietary) VSCode server, and nobody has managed to hack it to work with e.g. Codium.

Mostly just Visual Studio Code, alongside the usual constellation of Git + assorted language toolchains.

It’s plug and play at every level - no need to waste hours fucking around with an Emacs or (Neo)Vim configuration just to get a decent development environment set up.

(And yes, I would use Codium, but the remote containers extension is simply too good.)

And for what it’s worth, no I did not RTFA

I thought you had up to this point. I guess that just goes to show how shallow and predictable this AI boosterism is.

After all, the discipline has always been about more than just learning the ropes of Python and C++. Identifying patterns and piecing them together is its essence.

Ironic, considering LLMs can’t fucking do that. All they do is hallucinate the statistically likely answer to your prompt, with some noise thrown in. That works… okay at small scales (but even then, I’ve seen it produce some hideously unsound C functions) and completely falls apart once you increase the scope.

Short of true AGI, automatically generating huge chunks of your code will never end well. (See this video for a non-AI example. I give it two years tops before we see it happen with GPT.)

Also… not hating on English majors, but the author has no idea what they’re talking about and is just regurgitating AI boosterism claims.

If I had a penny for every time I saw something along the lines of:

noSqlQuery().filter(...)

I would be disturbingly rich.

Yeah, all of Amos’s content is gold. I highly recommend his executable packer series if you get into systems work - very interesting stuff.