beginnings

i would love to give them $200 a month, but unfortunately I have no money

AI is just another case of the rich getting richer, people who dont really need AI with practically unlimited access, and people who need to it to try and change their lives being priced out

its a wealth inequality accelerator at the worst time in history for wealth inequality

i would take 50% less usage just to be able to use it in my own time, the plus plan without 5 hour limit gives me 1 days work a week, so 4 days of usage per month, and I was happy with that

now thats been taken away i get 15 minutes of usage then 5 hours later ive lost interest in the work, i now sit with 70% usage knowing 5 hours ago that a reset was coming and I couldnt even be bothered using it

its completely killed the product for me, im now paying 20 a month for something that is no use to me

something incredible just happened, I was moving in my bed and somehow pressed the hotkey combination for reader mode on my keyboard, which centered everything nicely for me

had no that feature existed in firefox

is there anything more pretentious than not centring text in an article? oh, youre such a maverick

do you realise how much of a pain that is for people on large screens, forcing me to edit css to read an article

grow up

obama deported way more if I recall recolec, its all about narratives tho

its also trading one problem for another. when manually coding you understand with little mental effort what you want to achieve, the nuances and constraints, how something interacts with other moving parts, and your problem is implementing the solution

when generating a solution, you need to explain in excruciating detail the things that you just know effortlessly. its a different kind of work, but its still work, and its more annoying and less rewarding than just implementing the solution yourself

anything nontrivial is still long term, nothing has changed

for anyone with children, dont waste their time with traditional school, that path is stone dead and is leading nowhere but the abyss of the permanent underclass

apologise for inflicting this era on them and teach them to be entrepreneurial, teach them how to build, teach them rust on the backend, teach them postgres, teach them about assets maintaining value while money loses its

tell them to never under any circumstances take on a mortgage, especially not the 50 year variety. tell them to stay at home for as long as possible and save as much as possible and put it into assets: gold, silver, bitcoin, monero

they must escape the permanent underclass, nothing else matters

this is the end game of capitalism, where the greed driven pursuit of profit wins over social maintenance and development. we see it very clearly with the incredibly socially damaging mass immigration to replenish the slave class and maintain the mythical GDP growth, which is only "necessary" because the native slave classes have been squeezed out of breeding

new grads will be fed to the meat grinder with no regards, its a closed shop unless you know someone

that sort of mentality is typical in researchers, but the powers that be will be thinking about profit and control, mass layoffs and AI governance in conjunction with digital id, carbon credits etc

every technological advancement that made people more productive and should have led to them having to do less work, only led to people needing to do more work to survive. i just dont see AI being any different

it signals high status and nonconformity. the reader intuits that a sigma male is speaking and he doesnt play by the rules. hes not bound by the constraints and regulations of classical reality. hes dangerous

but seriously, its just more comfortable to type. apostrophes and capitals are generally superfluous, we'll and well the only edge case, theyve, theyll, wont, dont etc its just not necessary. theres no ambiguity

i only recently started using full stops for breaks. for years, I was only using commas, but full stops are trending among the right people. but only for breaks, not for closing

i tried to watch it but like AI in general, it was extraordinarily boring. neural nets are really cool technically, but the whole AI thing is just getting old and I couldnt care less where its going

we can guarantee that whether its the birth of superintelligence or just a very powerful but fundamentally limited algorithm, it will not be used for the betterment of mankind, it will be exploited by the few at the top at the expense of the masses

because thats apparently who we are as a species

zig is not cool at all, its ugly as sin, and has zero use case other than mingling with legacy c code, and who in their right mind wants to be doing that

its a hipster language, absolute insanity to use it when rust exists unless you have that very specific c related slave work to do

but I need my public static void main arg arg arg

give us one free miracle and we'll explain the rest

all the big frameworks bar react are switching to the solid model of signals and fine-grained reactivity

people would be better off just using the real thing, Solid

you only need to roll your own auth once and you can drop it in anywhere

I didnt think Ryans article came across as angry at all, and hes forgot more about web development than 99.9% of people will ever know. His lead with solid has been followed by practically every major framework, hes usually ahead of the curve and right.

Humans would be absolutely nowhere as a species without the gambling trait, we would never have left the trees, never mind the caves, we need a certain percentage of the population to be turned on by risk and uncertainty, because the majority are terrified of it.

If we are hell-bent on forcing people to play this artificial money game against their will, with no opt in or out, they're just born and told they now have to work all their life for this piece of paper that some apes printed, then they should at least have total control over that money, anything less and the entire game is unjustifiably immoral.

Not everyone has their cushy little tech salary like you, the majority of people hate their lives and gambling provides an escape just like drugs, and the slim hope of winning big - something that was taken away from real life. The masses have been drained of any hope of improving their situations the old-fashioned way.

If you want to reduce self-destructive behaviour, make a fairer game, make it a game worth playing, offer decent rewards, make it a level playing field instead of the 1% owning 90% of the game. The average shelter in America costs $500k and the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, and you wonder why people are gambling? Fuck me.

As an aside, a lot of smart, high quality people are drawn to the puzzle of sports betting, and are skilled enough to get out of slavery with it, why should those people lose their out? Their intelligence and self-control to beat the game was their birthright, just as an expensive education was likely yours.

Fundamentally, it's an issue of freedom, the right to self-destruct, the right to throw your life away, as an act of protest or otherwise. I wouldn't want to live in a world where I'm not allowed to put everything I have on the line against someone else who's willing to take it on. The government has no business infringing on that basic freedom of exchange between individuals.

And you know gambling will only be the start, eventually they will come for something you like because when it comes to removing freedoms and rights, one thing always leads to another. Outlawing gambling does nothing to change the circumstances that are churning out self-destructive humans, it doesn't fix the root cause, our society is generating broken people and their needs for escape will always be met in any remotely free world.

did somebody pop its balloon?

nasa running low on helium?

my grandparents who are still printing things like its the 90s might be at risk, if they have installed CUPS that is

has the president been briefed yet?

cups isnt installed by default in arch or ubuntu server

ive never even heard of it before now

this is like Geohotz setting up his "hack" for the documentary

Richard Lewis coined 'the blank from hell'

I have my Neovim setup the way I like it, the problem is every so often something breaks, and I have to dig back into the config and ive completely forgot how everything works. Theres just a complexity with neovim config that id rather not deal with, its a bad DX in this day and age.

Rust Rover is terrible, they made it free and I still dont use it, Zed is great for Rust.

They probably should have the option to change the tab size on an open file, but my point is, why wouldn't you have autoformatting on for YAML and JSON? You have a preference for indent size, and you want the same for every file, barring an edge case.

"languages": { "JSON": { "tab_size": 4 }, "JSONC": { "tab_size": 4 }, "YAML": { "tab_size": 4 } }

Edit: Yeah I see your point when you are not in control of the project and have to stick to someone elses style, I guess that only seems like an edge case to me, but could be normal for other people. In that case you would want a convenient way to override your formatting settings, like an auto detect indent button that only applies to the current open file.

On indentation, most files are going to be autoformatted by the LSP, and there are tab_size settings in the languages section, needing specific file settings seems like an edge case.

As for collaboration and AI features, I have no use for them personally, but I think that's their avenue for future monetization, so I can't really complain that they are focussing on that when I get an amazing piece of software for free.

I started using Zed in the last month and I had a feeling it would end up taking a lot of Neovim users. Neovim gets a lot of users who need better performance than VSCode, like me, but the config is such a pain and there was a gap in the market for a blazingly fast GUI editor which Zed looks like filling.

Supermaven still has some issues on Zed, but apart from that its been rock solid and ive fully switched from Neovim.

its written in javascript, I dont want javascript apps on my system

its an accurate take, windows is a mess

didnt red hat have a massive DEI/anti white man scandal? I wouldnt trust their products

the smartest people use and maintain Arch, ergo everything should run on Arch for maximum stability

ive been coding for about 8 years and never applied for a job, was always working towards building my own thing, the thought of going through the application process is depressing, and my profile is practically unemployable in any case

over the last few years it was annoying seeing noobs getting 6 figures for easy work while I never got a penny for my near decade of effort, but looking at how it has flipped recently, im glad that I invested that time in myself rather than becoming employable

was never really a decision tbh, i was on this path before I realised i was on it, and id rather be dead than working for a random corporate company, having to take part in the team and culture, having to do things and be places on someone elses timetable

im sure there are a very small number of software "jobs" I would like, that use bleeding edge tech, where devs run the show, but I suspect theyd be a needle in the haystack of soul destruction, id rather be welding in a workshop for peanuts than working on legacy code for a boomer boss