Yes and they’ll try to use more LLM slop coding to fix it, except it’ll cause the codebase to balloon way beyond any possible ability to contain it within a context window, so LLMs will hallucinate more slop and the whole edifice will come crashing down.

Used to love plug-in-heavy, customizable tools. Then I realized I loved spending time customizing and installing all those plugins, and not a lot of time getting work done.

Now I just prefer good tools that can do everything I need but not necessarily optimally. As long as they feel really efficient for 95% of use cases and the other 5% are possible (but not optimal) I am good with that. I don’t need to reach for “the perfect tool” anymore.

Funny thing is, memory compression is now built into the Mac’s OS.

Yes, though at least with C you have the compiler to optimize the cruft out of your binary and end up with a nice, clean program.

With JavaScript this is going to incur some runtime cost everywhere this library is used, even if it only happens once when getting optimized out by the JIT compiler.

You are one cynical, miserable human being. I hope one day your life gets better than it is now. Wow!

If you’re comparing ads on Reddit, even for a fascist organization, to a boyfriend/husband who beats his partner bloody, I’m sorry but you’ve lost me. How many people do you think even see ads on Reddit? Most people block ads these days.

If you want to zoom out, zoom all the way out. Listen to Mark Carney’s speech. The so-called liberal rules-based international order was always built on hypocrisy. A willingness on the part of liberal democratic countries to tolerate and even participate in the violation of the rights of others, while decrying the overreach of totalitarians who in turn laugh and point out our hypocrisy.

The appeal to hypocrisy and cowardice won’t achieve any of your goals. If anything it’ll only encourage people to dig in their heels and resist migration. After all, why would they want to leave their community and come here when it’s clear they won’t be welcome?

It’s all about the small subreddits. Ones where a new post can stay on the page for several days in a row but there are plenty of new comments and posts to keep discussions going without everyone losing interest. These are communities where you get to know the regular posters and beginners are welcomed with friendly advice, rather than chastised for asking repeated questions (beginners always repeat frequently asked questions; that’s a universal rule).

I think it’s also pretty important that the inflow of new members is not too high or nonexistent for that matter. And that the outflow of people leaving is roughly balanced with the inflow, so the community doesn’t grow too fast and it doesn’t wither away either.

We’re not talking about a cult or an abusive situation, we’re talking about a community that is hosted on a platform which has problems that are growing over time (ownership that is gradually enshittifying it). But even if it were an abusive situation, people still find it hard to leave. Do you call women in abusive relationships hypocrites and/or cowards if they encourage others to leave their abusive relationships while struggling to leave their own?

Different people have different ties to a community as well. I think many people who left Reddit forever did not have very strong ties anyway, so they had less to lose by leaving. People with stronger ties are going to have a harder time leaving and they’re going to complain louder in the (possibly forlorn) hope they encourage everyone to leave along with them.

Totally missing the point. People not wanting to walk away from a community they belong to doesn’t make them cowards, it makes them human.

So I take it you’re living in a cabin in the woods, all by yourself, growing your own food and living off the land, completely alone? What are you doing on the internet then? You didn’t build that all by yourself!

I think they do want to leave. They just don’t want to be the first to leave among their group, because they’re afraid of going it alone. Complaining then serves as a way of trying to build a consensus around leaving as a group. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Why it works when it works will remain a mystery to me.

Nowadays I use a trackpad for almost everything. I do use a mouse at work but then I mostly use keyboard shortcuts for everything I can (Excel really flies when you know some keyboard shortcuts).

Ahhh. I use command-click to open in new tabs.

I haven’t played a game that uses the mouse in several years. I mostly play Roguelikes such as NetHack, DCSS, or Caves of Qud using keyboard controls only, or console games with a controller.

I have never used a CAD program though sometimes I’ve thought about it.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve ever wanted to click the middle mouse button. The experience of having done so once or twice was bad enough to get me to rebind the action to something else.

Middle mouse paste was great on true 3 button mice. It became a liability with the invention of the mouse wheel, which made it a total crapshoot to try to click that damn button without rolling the wheel at the same time. It’s a classic case of overloaded functionality.

Like imagine if cars put the accelerator into the steering wheel, so you had to press the steering wheel down to accelerate. Everyone would hate it and it would be a safety nightmare. We put up with things on computers that we never would in other areas of life.

It may be working in the short term but in the medium term MAGA may be imploding as real people get their faces eaten by leopards and become disillusioned with the movement.

Yeah that’s quite silly. Every single employee at my office is issued 2 monitors to go with their company laptop. People working from home get the monitors shipped to them. It’s the standard setup in tons of offices as well as for many home users.

Anyone else find that praying hands emoji very condescending when used like that? I would destroy the backend DB if they tried to send me that!

Git is not very efficient for handling a lot of binary files. Your best bet would be for hosting fanfic and erotic lit.

Or just ZZ for me since I’m rarely in insert mode (I just press esc quickly after making an edit out of habit).