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by coffeeindex 14d ago
Casey Muratori has an interesting talk about how that narrative (“premature optimization is the root of all evil”) came to the mainstream narrative https://youtu.be/hpj6r6CjJf8
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by coffeeindex 14d ago
From what I’ve read/heard, a lot of the power of Pi is its extensibility but it’s a hard sell for me to try it out just because I can extend it. How is it out of the box?
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by coffeeindex 15d ago
1 more data point - it's very slow on my desktop which has relatively high performance as well. Using Brave if that matters.
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by coffeeindex 2mo ago
Agreed. The important thing is to find something that works perfectly for you. Oftentimes I think people find their own perfect system and conflate it with being the perfect system.
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by coffeeindex 2mo ago
They were clearly just having some fun with the site..
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by coffeeindex 2mo ago
Didn’t know Roc was still being worked on. I think it’s an interesting concept for a language that I personally haven’t seen elsewhere
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by coffeeindex 2mo ago
Just commenting to say I've had the same experience. Been using Ghostty since (I was aware of) its release and it has been buttery smooth ever since. I occasionally see people talking about crashing or other issues they've had wit
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by coffeeindex 3mo ago
Anecdote: I was trying out a new editor at some point that had just had a huge update. I installed it on NixOS and noticed the new update had not been pushed onto NixPkgs. I went through their contribution guide and found how to update the
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by coffeeindex 3mo ago
devenv is essentially a convenience wrapper around nix shell with some nice tooling
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by coffeeindex 3mo ago
You can accomplish this with web without much issue.
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by coffeeindex 4mo ago
Also went from a Glove80 to a Dygma Defy and not looking back. It’s a really cozy keyboard
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by coffeeindex 4mo ago
Doesn’t help that prices are skyrocketing because of circular investing and spending between companies trying to amass as many data centers as possible to cash in on AI hype. These same companies keep pushing this idea that everything you k
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by coffeeindex 4mo ago
> no sane person would have been able to write such complex piece of software in the pre-AI era. Insane take
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by coffeeindex 5mo ago
What’s special about Odin when it comes to Raylib? (Genuinely curious)
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by coffeeindex 5mo ago
(Did not read the article, can’t speak to the exact argument the OP made) I like this argument in the sense that JavaScript & HTML were/are awesome because you can learn from websites that you like the look of. You can just pop o
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by coffeeindex 5mo ago
I’m going to need a source on that
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by coffeeindex 1y ago
> you can’t say certain things So he sees it as another form of censorship
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by coffeeindex 1y ago
Seems like a lot of changes to be a .1 release, no? Really excited for I/O as an interface!
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by coffeeindex 1y ago
Seems a bit strange to posit fault tolerance as an alternative to a type system. Personally, I view type systems as a bonus to DX more than something strictly designed to prevent errors
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by coffeeindex 1y ago
If you narrow it down to that minority that fundamentally changes how you interact with text, then I think the answer is a pretty easy "Yes".
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by coffeeindex 1y ago
> do you also not use any plugins just because they aren't available on another machine? The vast majority of plugins don't fundamentally change how you interact with text.
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by coffeeindex 1y ago
Or you could use Wasm
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by coffeeindex 1y ago
I recall seeing some discussion about the UI density Japanese websites (specifically Japanese news sites). For example: https://www.asahi.com/ Now that I think about it, news sites in general have fairly high density UIs,
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by coffeeindex 1y ago
Sounds like you're required to be online during 1PM - 6PM, probably for communication purposes. It's really not that bad at all.
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by coffeeindex 2y ago
> Seems like most people really overvalue pressure and long hours I think it’s likely just a difference in personality for people. Some people thrive in that environment and thus believe that it’s the “best way”. Others thrive in a more
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by coffeeindex 2y ago
If you’re using WSL, why use Cygwin?
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by coffeeindex 2y ago
Is the “foo.fish” name required? Could I have “bar.fish” with “function foo…” inside and still autoload function foo?
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by coffeeindex 2y ago
Worth taking into account that a lot of Gen Z responding here are probably not very far in their career. It would be interesting to see how the other generations would have answered if they were at similar points in their life
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by coffeeindex 2y ago
Obviously?
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by coffeeindex 2y ago
Meanwhile my M1 is still a racehorse for 90% of my use cases

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