‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good life’

Re:‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good ... by renewiltord on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:18PM (#35412807)

Dude, we know. Everything has a long tail. If everyone in the tail for everything came and posted about stuff we'd be sitting here primarily reading comments that go:

- $500k? I make $5 million and that doesn't even seem enough

- 2 children? I have 5 children and that barely feels like a family

- 3 vim plugins? I have 1E80 and even that is barely enough to write Hello World in Java

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Re:‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good ... by baxtr on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:37PM (#35413034)

Long tail makes for good stories though.

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Re:‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good ... by turtleyacht on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:28PM (#35414176)

Do you have more details on Java with vim?

There's a person working on vi who has tracked three decades of patches from OpenBSD starting from Keith Bostic.

There's someone working on an obscure roleplaying game that's pre-Diablo.

There's the ones who sail on a boat and craft bespoke C-reations on their own virtual machine.

The X11 maintainers, always and ever.

So many more. And not for some reward at the end of a mortal journey, but in some sense for its own sake.

Even with LLMs and the flex of planet-scale computation, in the midst of wild, speculative financial schemes, there is a comfort in a familiar domain, patches therein, and being a kind of owner of this, essentially intangible, work of code.

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