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Specially if using the 200mph car when you need it is just a /model away.

You see JavaFX everywhere in finance software. I learned it from working on finance.

But that "worse way" makes AI labs and investors a lot of money... If the perception that "worse" is accompanied with needing less human intervention, i.e. less labor, worse is better from a business perspective...

Uff, doing all of that plus developing your software sounds really hard!

I package software for void Linux... I don't think there's an expectation from devs to know all the intricacies and particulars of each distro and contribution guidelines in order to package software for it... A tar or GitHub repo and clear instructions is all we need to package it.

It becomes a pain when the software has hard dependencies on either bleeding edge unreleased software (I'm thinking hyprland) or very old versions of libs that are no longer shipped with the distro.

Another pain point is when the software makes assumptions about Linux like all linunx use glibc or have systemd. In cases like that packaging software might entail patching it, or just giving up (void doesn't use systemd for example)

Hope this gives you a bit of insight into what packages might be looking for

> Just doing something human in a dehumanizing world is enough.

Yes! it's been years since I read the fun, cool, nerdy post I used to read here... so whatever, I'll write them myself! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks! writing the next post ATM :-)

For the longest time I was completely at a lost for how I was able to complete stuff for my employers but when I decided to do something I could never finish it...

Now I think that a big part of it is that my employers couldn't care less about "how the sausage is made" and were solely focused on results, at least that has been the case with some fantastic project managers I've had.

> do the thing first and improve the workflow later

I like this!

Fair enough... I think it really depends about what dependencies we talking about.

NPM decencies is a bit of dumpster fire, supply chain attacks galore! A well known python (think numpy) certainly is less discomforting, and a "industry standard" C library like GSL or SDL3, I just use it and move on

This resonates with me. The concept of cig it I've debt was something I've been experiencing but didn't have a name for it.

I think it is worth noting that not all code is equal... One could argue that adding a library is in some ways similar to copy/pasting code in as much as, one doesn't know what the code is doing, and yet that doesn't leave me with a sense of unease!

So it might be that as I'm working with an LLM there are parts (boring, as the author calls them) that are not worth "knowing" how they work, something uninteresting or that a correct output is all that us needed, I'm totally fine having the agent write that code, but the sections I need to know how they work, I think it might make sense to write those by hand!

OpenAI: "Oops, AI hacked somebody accidentally..."

US Military: "Great, let's give it missiles!"

Idk for UX but I’ve found Claude helpful at creating ideas and mockups for gui apps I need. Don’t ask it to generate any images or vectors, it’s horrible at that, but you ask it to make a mock for an app so and so that does such and such and has three columns with a blah blah blah and it has made some impressive results in html/css for me

Totally unrelated but “chat jippity” made my day!

Thanks for the explanation!

Would there be a difference in contributing to OpenJDK vs to, say, Temurin or Zulu Java? How separated are those Java JDKs really from OpenJDK?

Since employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to, this post and emacs users in general, must be of such lesser value I guess? /s

A few years ago I switched to KDE and the experience has been so absolutedly seamless and good, and the upgrade to Plasma 6 took some time to propagate down to distros it was well worth the wait!

It seems to be that a project like KDE might be in a very good position to make a very competitive distro simply because they are starting from the point of the user experience, the UI if you will. Think M$ windows, it IS GUI, and fully focused on how the user would use it (I'm thinking the days of XP and Win 7).

A KDE distro might be less encumbered with "X11 vs Wayland" or "flatpak vs <insert package manager name here>" discussions and can fully focus on the user experience that KDE/Plasma desktop brings!

I'm looking forward to take this for a spin!

It seems that it was only about time… it just feels like the pace of enshittification with big tech being able to get away with anything is crazy!

I’m hoping that projects like Precursor can take off because we’ve buried ourselves in such mountain of complexity that seems like only a billion/trillion dollar big tech company can make an OS.

But then again, some body called BS on browsers and we might have a good option soon in Ladybug!

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

I particularly agree with you.

Sublime is not open source and it has a very devout paying client base.

To me the dirty thing is to make something “open source” because developers absolutely love that, to then take an arguably “not open source” path of $42 mil in VC funding.

There’s something dissonant there.

I’m curious how this will turn out. Reminds me of the node.js fork IO.js and how that shifted the way node was being developed.

If there’s a group of people painfully aware of telemetry and AI being pushed everywhere is devs…

Maybe hot take…

I can see the point of sameness in homeschooling, but compared to traditional education? I’m not sure how much flexibility one would have to teach oneself calculus by 11 or the equivalent of an undergrad in math by 14!

That flexibility must be found in something non-traditional!

I’m no prodigy at all whatsoever but school was mostly dull and filled with teenager drama! Nobody knew what Linux was, cared about music production or anything interesting! The talk was which boy/girl whatever

> …the company's AI coding agent deleted a code base and lied about its data.

Well, lying about it certainly human-like behavior, human-like AGI must be just around the corner!

/s

But really, full access to a production database? How many good engineer’s advice you need to ignore to do that? Who was consulted before running the experiment?

Or was it just a “if you say so boss…” kind of thing?

> If your life has been as unfair to you as it has been to some of us, and forced you to work on SPAs as the result…

Hehe

I think there’s an element of fear in the self-taught engineer? I am self taught and even after over a decade of experience impostor syndrome is still going strong!

At the same time I’ve been surprised by graduates when they come across something and say “I didn’t see that in school”, like, what!? I thought the job was mostly learning on the go!

How is this different than other ip or dns ad blockers?

I see that it all comes down to a blacklist of urls. Wouldn’t eBPF just make things more complicated?

I’ve been finding this tool so useful to transfer files between devices in my local network. Linux to iOS, macOS to Windows, all with no friction. Love it!

This is such an interesting experiment! Somebody else already mentioned Borges, but yeah!

Not exactly the same but reminds me of one time I did an experiment with rational number attempting to see which patterns emerged… 111? 112? 113? etc.

Nice! Thanks for sharing :-)

Another book added to my To-Read list