Terry Davis.

Welp, here’s sincerely hoping this is not a bad omen.

Let’s skip all intermediate quotes and directly jump to the xkcd reference: I only program with butterflies. Of course, there is an Emacs command for that: good ol’ C-x M-c M-butterfly

You’re going to feel right at home with TempleOS.

The real level up is bare-metal Emacs.

Shame this OS does not come with a solid text editor.

Not if you are a 1337 H4x0r like the badass you’re answering to.

Good ol’ CS flashbang PTSD.

Oh I did not mean to appear combative or being a contrarian. I don’t even care about Zig or LLVM to be honest. I just thought that that clarification was sort of necessary seeing as the GitHub thing is a reaction to MS bullshit, whereas the LLVM thing at least seemed to me like it wasn’t (initially) from some drama or a secret or anything.

Still, this is assuming I’m not just hallucinating what I am claiming.

IIRC, the difference here is that Zig’s plan had always been to make their own compiler, but had to use LLVM to get started and, more cynically, to try and get some LLVM contributors interested in the project so they could essentially poach them.

I am pretty sure I have seen a video interview of Andrew Kelley transparently saying that ages ago but I’ll try and find it to link it here.

I wish nobody used terrible services when the only thing they offer is convenience yet here we are.

Tinfoil hat moment: Altman panicked with all the money hemorrhaging and is trying new inventive ways to get money from the paid subscribers whilst drastically reducing operation costs. He pulled the plug for a bit.

Damn, I’m sorry to hear. I have seen a couple of your posts around, and yeah, let’s say I know this struggle.

It can get better, I hope it does for you.

Sure, but that is more of a Christian church problem over a US one. There are plenty of cases where I’m from too, and also a few recent scandals with private Catholic school, so I’d tend to shit on the Vatican rather than the US on that particular one.

I just can’t imagine thinking my children could get shot every time they go to school.

That will protect the children, for sure.

If I lived in the US, I’d be far more concerned about sending my kids to school but whatever.

Whenever this gets posted, someone (rightly) remarks how short-sighted this is regarding the fact that if there are now juniors now, there won’t be any seniors in a few years.

And while that is true, I do envy the lack of cynicism of these people. To me it seems quite clear that the hope from the owning and ruling class is that the AI tools become “good enough” to do away with the entire ladder.

I truly believe this is one example where this is not necessarily (only) stupidity or incompetence, but also malice.

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

That’s from Edward Snowden. Evidently no one is going to force you to jump through hoops to use encryption if you don’t think you stand to benefit from it. That being said, the “nothing to hide” argument can be a bit of a slippery slope.

Also reminds me of someone I knew, who was doing pure maths research (so, read about as much as your fanfic) and was storing their papers on Dropbox. When informed that that was a private US entity, would enable other entities to access that data, they said “but I want people to read my paper”. They are now furious about LLMs. Go figure.

Fucking apatheid emerald mine inheritor ruining perfectly good words from the nerd culture…

Best? Depending on what you do, probably not. That being said I have a friend with whom I code from time to time, and he uses the desktop mode for that. He uses nix packages to setup his development environments and seems happy with it.

This is more work than I’d personally like (I am lazy) but it does not sound so bad.

Yup, migrating the docs from on-prem confluence to the cloud one has just been an utter disaster in my company.

I don’t even want to know how much we pay for this shit.