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Cry harder

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.

That sounds like more effort than just… writing the code.

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.

$0.26/hour is pretty good!

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.

I don’t know about dangerous, but case-insensitive Unicode comparison is annoying, expensive and probably prone to footguns compared to a simple byte-for-byte equality check.

Obviously, it can be done, but I guess Linux devs don’t consider it worthwhile.

(And yes, all modern filesystems support Unicode. Linux stores them as arbitrary bytes, Apple’s HFS uses… some special bullshit, and Windows uses UTF-16.)

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.)

Care to clue me in? I spend my time far, far away from the web dev sphere :p