nocman

7 ms·

1.
by nocman 4d ago
Nope. I work with virtualization on Linux every day, and have done so for many years (and many varieties of virtualization). I didn't recognize it by the name, and I don't remember hearing about it before.
2.
by nocman 1mo ago
That video should totally have this as the soundtrack beneath it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3qRXDGApNU
3.
by nocman 1mo ago
Licensing is not a substitute for hiring competent people that actually care about the quality of their work, and then giving them the time, resources, and support they actually need to do it. Government involvement almost always just makes
4.
by nocman 1mo ago
> an expensive interview process where the candidate has to be onsite I'm sorry, but if I'm doing the hiring, the person who isn't willing to come on site to do an interview will be one of the first people off the list to
5.
by nocman 1mo ago
> The truth is like the sun. The light from the sun touches everything, it's bright and it's obvious... yet no one can stare directly at it. bad analogy. It can be very painful to accept the truth, but doing so is always a goo
6.
by nocman 1mo ago
You're absolutely right! Would you like me to generate that piece of load-bearing now? <Accept> [Decline]
7.
by nocman 2mo ago
> purposeless dumb challenges and difficulty While I agree that for some people games with a time limit are not fun, I don't think the challenges and difficulty should be classified as "purposeless" and "dumb".
8.
by nocman 2mo ago
it most certainly is NOT available at a reasonable cost in many places.
9.
by nocman 3mo ago
Yeah, DEC Alpha was the first thing to come to my mind. I guess some might argue it wasn't a "PC" - if you don't include what used to be called "workstations". This is largely because PC meant "personal c
10.
by nocman 4mo ago
It's been mostly dead all morning.
11.
by nocman 4mo ago
> I don't think it is overreach since its fairly simple to implement and non obtrusive Those two things have absolutely nothing to do with one another. Something being easy to implement is completely unrelated to whether forcing it
12.
by nocman 4mo ago
> It's weird to see people in tech taking this stance. They've been riding the same wave of exploiting the average person through economies of scale for the last 20+ years, but now that it affects them, it's suddenly catas
13.
by nocman 4mo ago
Yeah, because someone who is trying to sell you something would NEVER try to convince you that you can't possibly hope to compete without buying their product. /s
14.
by nocman 4mo ago
"old days of PHP and Apache" ... Apache still runs about 23-28% of websites (with some measurements suggesting it is pretty close to equal with nginx). PHP is still in use by 70-80% of websites (numbers vary depending on where yo
15.
by nocman 4mo ago
> Got an idea that you'd need assembly language for - now you can do it instead of..... never doing it because it would have been impossible for you in any practical way If you are having an LLM generate the assembly language for yo
16.
by nocman 4mo ago
> I mourn the death of a human artform. The artform only dies if you let it. Even if your employer is so idiotically myopic as to forbid you to ever write your own code, you can still continue the art on your own time. I for one don&#x
17.
by nocman 5mo ago
Yeah :-( Here I was hoping that somehow IBM had decided to open source it. That would have been fun. But I don't think that will ever happen.
18.
by nocman 5mo ago
nothing awkward about it. IMHO, It's a better time than ever to develop a new IDE. Just make one that cares deeply about performance (i.e loads instantly, and always has a snappy response). Make features easy to control. Allow me to
19.
by nocman 5mo ago
I don't think the likelyhood of "electricity and Internet, running water grocery stores" being pulled out from underneath you (either by long term failure or prohibitive cost changes) is anywhere near as high as it is for sub
20.
by nocman 5mo ago
I think you are making far too wide-sweeping statements. I think most people here probably agree that if Anthropic drops Claude Code from the Pro plan after people have paid with the understanding that it is part of the package, that would
21.
by nocman 6mo ago
> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is. absolutely false. > The general public does not care about anything other than the capabilities and limitations of your product. also false. People may not
22.
by nocman 6mo ago
I came here to say something similar. I somehow doubt there's a team at Google dedicated to roleplaying the nightmares of all living people :-D When I saw your user name, I was like "I wonder if that's the C++ s11n guy",
23.
by nocman 6mo ago
Yeah, I've never really been at all offended by the "eating your own dogfood" phrase, because I always saw that as being the point also. I must admit, however, that the title of this article was too crass for me. I came very
24.
by nocman 6mo ago
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the word picture that was used. I'd advise against assuming the worst possible interpretation of someone else's words (especially online). Most of us probably do that at least sometimes
25.
by nocman 7mo ago
> they bother to have a Klingon language consultant on staff I realize there's a fair bit of money to be made, and also that many people are super invested in their favorite science fiction series, but the fact that "a Klingo
26.
by nocman 7mo ago
I think it is worth noting that Richard P. Gabriel wrote the forward to the book in question, and he quotes Guy L. Steele in that forward -- from the paper that you are suggesting the author might like.
27.
by nocman 7mo ago
> - Every day that passes, the gulf between Lisp's tooling and what a typical user expects grows wider. It needs to escape Emacs and SLIME to something that feels complete and polished. Can you give specific examples of "what a
28.
by nocman 7mo ago
> Who are making these claims? script kiddies? sr devs? Altman? AI agents, perhaps? :-D
29.
by nocman 8mo ago
sounds similar to rdiff-backup ( https://rdiff-backup.net ). I know some folks that have been using that for a very long time as well.
30.
by nocman 8mo ago
Good one - made me and a coworker both LOL (in the literal sense) :D

More ›