I tried helix and it’s nice but it’s still not ready to be an IDE. Too many features missing. And I’m not learning completely new tool just to edit text. Vim is still great for that. Let’s hope it grows and gets all the features eventually.

Yeah, but think of the value they will create for the shareholders!

Vim is great for editing in general and coding simple things but I kind of gave up on using it as an IDE. Too many plugins to configure, to many breaking changes, too many bugs. My current issue is that after couple hours or days code formatting simply breaks and starts mangling my code. Only full restart fixes the problem. It’s impossible to figure out were the issue is as there are so many plugins and external tools involved. I still think it’s amazing you can setup vim to work as a full IDE with code completion, refactoring, formatting and all but it’s just not stable enough. I reluctantly switched to Zed with vim mode. I miss smooth scrolling but other then that it’s really nice.

This is fucked up on so many levels I lost count.

Is that a Detroiters reference?

Banishment to Windows.

A friend of mine was working on decommissioning Oracle at his company for the past year or two. The company bought some software that was using Oracle years ago. Turns out it was relying heavily on DB procedures and to ditch Oracle they had to move all this logic out of it first. They tried to do it couple of times before but failed. The software works so this work had low priority and would be scraped eventually to focus on more important things. On like a 3rd try they finally managed to do it and are now Oracle free.

It already did. Many times.

Exactly this. And to know what code is easy to maintain you have to see how couple of projects evolve over time. Your perspective on this changes as you gain experience.

I’m kidding but since we’re just playing I would say:

Let’s imagine you want to know who will win the next election. You create detailed simulation of the entire population and run it until the voting day to see how they will vote. If the simulated population realized they are in a simulation the will obviously start behaving in a different way then the real population thus making your simulation useless.

So I would say unless the goal of the simulation is to see how fast will it realize it’s just a simulation you would try to avoid them finding out.

Then again, checking if people will realize they are in a simulation is a valid reason to simulate them so it’s possible we’re in a simulation that is supposed to find out it’s a simulation…

I will prove that we’re not in a simulation:

If we’re in a simulation then whoever is operating it would not want us to know if we’re in a simulation or not.

Anyone trying to check if we’re in a simulation or not would be stopped by the operator.

I wasn’t stopped by an operator hence there is no operator and we’re not in a simulation.

Q.E.D.

If it has local storage then it doesn’t get uploaded anywhere.

It also has BT so the offline mode could be simply “record to SD card and view videos using some app via Bluetooth”.

Online mode with notifications and two-way talking has to require internet access so I definitely wouldn’t trust it, with or without subscription.

Dustin?

If it’s some new tool I want to learn I will read the docs.

If I have to implement/fix something I just search when necessary.

We want to make changes but can’t find time.

Truck carrying aggressive monkeys infected with hepatitis, herpes, and COVID crashes

A long as no one fucks the herpes monkey we should be fine.

in Mississippi

Shit.

Ignorant of how smart vacuums work and how all connected devices are used to gather personal information that can be sold for profit.

Yeah, I read about iRobot gathering and selling info about apartments like 10 years ago. People still alarmed by this are simply ignorant.

Works great with Calibre so can stay 100% offline. Even if you want to buy an ebook online it will typically come with Adobe’s DRM which both Calibre and Pocketbook support. But it requires Adobe account and the reader will have connect to their services…

I always go with Pockebooks which are the cheapest e-readers I could find that also have good software. But I just put books on it and read them, never tried to hack it or anything.