Tomis02

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by Tomis02 24d ago
It's worth messaging EU MPs or talking to them directly.
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by Tomis02 1mo ago
It's insane that jobs involving cancer research pay half of what a regular VC-funded web company pays.
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by Tomis02 2mo ago
Pretty sure this is vibecoded so don't feel too bad.
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by Tomis02 2mo ago
That's horrible.
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by Tomis02 2mo ago
> humans do this too Here, look at this amazing pathfinding algorithm you should use. It takes you to the wrong place 30% of the time but humans do it too so that's ok.
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by Tomis02 5mo ago
What's the choice here? Start saying "Russia will attack" and then see 20% of your population flee, while Putin sits and waits until your economy runs into the ground, and THEN attacks? There's no good choices here.
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by Tomis02 6mo ago
> Not sure if it’s possible to treat enemies better than that. If you can't imagine how, that says a lot about you.
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by Tomis02 6mo ago
You could have lived 200 years. But instead, people decided they'd rather invest in crypto or LLMs instead. Maybe humans will still be here in a century. But you won't be. It didn't have to be this way.
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by Tomis02 6mo ago
All code is deleted alone
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by Tomis02 6mo ago
Reskin isn't quite right. Vivaldi offers a ton of amazing features that Chrome would never dream of having. For example, tab tiling is excellent and criminally underused.
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by Tomis02 6mo ago
I literally can't function on the web without Vivaldi, for me it's the only usable desktop browser. What problems have you encountered?
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by Tomis02 6mo ago
> fundamentally inferior to Linux The UX/UI of Windows 98 is far, far ahead of whatever Linux DWM we have today. It's nowhere near close. My KDE is usable but everything feels off, from icon shapes and sizes to mouse cursor ico
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by Tomis02 6mo ago
> How many hours has Zoom put into making the client stable on Windows and Mac? Users don't really care, do they?
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by Tomis02 11mo ago
git is not "the fundamentals". It's a tool that's very difficult to learn but we are forced to use because "it won" at some point. Git's difficulty is NOT intrinsic; it could be a much better tool if Torva
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by Tomis02 1y ago
> Kicking kids out to play There's cars everywhere, cities are optimised for them. There's nowhere to kick the kids out to play without the risk of them being run over by a car.
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by Tomis02 1y ago
You could share the road with others, you know? You weren't born behind the wheel.
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by Tomis02 1y ago
> Because Github was better than Bitbucket? Github was more popular than Bitbucke, so git unfortunately won.
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by Tomis02 2y ago
> IMHO this is what drove American superiority in software engineering for several decades. The people who self selected into software engineering really loved the field. IMO it was funding that made the difference. People outside of USA
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by Tomis02 2y ago
> People hearing about it for the first time are usually shocked
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by Tomis02 2y ago
> feeling good about yourself is a human requirement Sure. I feel good about being kind to other people, whereas the author's specifically chasing some sort of highs. I don't know where this expectation could have come from, co
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by Tomis02 2y ago
> Might also be it's lonely at the top. Yeah, poor poor lonely managers. They hold a lot of power over other people ("responsibility") and yet we're supposed to be sorry for them. Their burden is so great that they cr
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by Tomis02 2y ago
> Where’s the high? Where’s that immediate endorphin rush? Where’s the event that makes you realise “hey, maybe I’m really fucking good at this”? As a person who's had only bad managers (with one exception), this is a signal that I
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by Tomis02 2y ago
> And I don't mean the driver was an asshole Well...
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by Tomis02 2y ago
Boring and slow.
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by Tomis02 2y ago
We probably don't need programmers either, the compiler should be smart enough to know what the stakeholders mean.
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by Tomis02 2y ago
> But the idea of encapsulation in an object is there in the most popular modern languages. Encapsulation is not specific to OOP at all. C is not OOP and yet it has encapsulation just fine. > If the concept of calling `my_list.is_emp
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by Tomis02 2y ago
What do you think the bad parts of OOP are? Or do you think it's a silver bullet?
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by Tomis02 2y ago
Thank you, it makes sense. I guess these points would resonate with me if I had the problems you describe. Fortunately, I usually don't. The less I fiddle with packages, dot files, shell scripts, the better my life is.
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by Tomis02 2y ago
That's cool but Brew seems to work just fine for my needs (and most developers on a Mac, apparently). Which is why I think the question still stands; unclear why people should care when the status quo is good enough.
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by Tomis02 2y ago
> Nix only exists to be the language for Nix, the package manager. While people have occasionally used it for other use-cases, it is explicitly not a general-purpose language. The next question is why is the Nix package manager needed a

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