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DiabloD3 commented on The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)   utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/ingve
willtemperley · a day ago
Do people really still program in vi when most IDEs have excellent Vim support?
DiabloD3 · 21 hours ago
IDEs do not have "excellent Vim support".

They are not meant to be modal, they do not implement Vim meaningfully, they just map a few keybinds. Extremely few have ever tackled trying to implement Ex.

Trying to map vim onto an IDE misses the point, as you'd want to remove most of the IDE getting in the way of actually sitting down and programming and getting shit done.

DiabloD3 commented on I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0   blog.silennai.com/claude-... · Posted by u/SilenN
abletonlive · 22 days ago
Like I said, it's embarrassing to hold onto a model of a world that does not match reality for this long but if it helps you cope...
DiabloD3 · 21 days ago
Cope with what?

Please stop inundating us with bad code. At least make sure your diffs compile before attaching them to the PR.

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DiabloD3 commented on Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?    · Posted by u/nuky
DiabloD3 · a month ago
You know there are other kinds of diffs, right?

Its common to change git's diff to things like difftastic, so formatting slop doesn't trigger false diff lines.

You're probably better off, FWIW, just avoiding LLMs. LLMs cannot produce working code, and they're the wrong tool for this. They're just predicting tokens around other tokens, they do not ascribe meaning to them, just statistical likelihood.

LLM weights themselves would be far more useful if we used them to indicate statistical likelihood (ie, perplexity) of the code that has been written; ie, strange looking code is likely to be buggy, but nobody has written this tool yet.

DiabloD3 commented on Find a pub that needs you   ismypubfucked.com/... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
xhevahir · a month ago
What's especially American about this remark isn't the experience of consuming alcohol in public. What is characteristically American, I think, is the assumption that we can pronounce a thing good or bad merely on the basis of its effect on the individual, with no regard for one's relationships with other people. Drinking in a pub is a social activity, and the alcohol is a lubricant for that activity. Yes, doing too much of it can cause great harm; doing any amount of it could cause some harm; it does not follow that the thing is a net detriment to society, and that it should be banned.
DiabloD3 · a month ago
Maybe it is that way for people in the UK, or maybe people of a certain age group.

However, I am, as I said, an American, but also a Millennial. For many Millennials, drinking isn't a social activity, it is a form of quiet shame. We saw our parents and aunts and uncles and grandparents destroy their lives because of alcoholism, we lost friends and family because of being victims of drunk drivers, we saw people die of complications of a lifetime of drinking.

A lot of us simply chose not to repeat those mistakes as those mistakes effect the people around us in grave ways.

If anything, drinking is an anti-social activity, even if you do it entirely socially.

I just don't see the point in keeping it around.

DiabloD3 commented on Find a pub that needs you   ismypubfucked.com/... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
danielfoster · a month ago
With all due respect this opinion verges on neo prohibitionist alarmism. The social benefits of alcohol have been widely acknowledged and at a time when we are all spending too much time at home on our phones (arguably worse for health than a pint), communities need more social spaces. That place may not necessarily be a bar and it’s perfectly fine if you don’t wish to drink, but it’s a bit much to refer to a cultural product as a criminal enterprise.
DiabloD3 · a month ago
Many people have written what you have written, trying to justify their life choices to strangers on the internet.

None of them have ever explained why alcohol, or any drug use, needs to be part of third spaces.

Society is losing third spaces, largely due to unchecked capitalism eroding the society it serves... but 'pubs' are just another form of rent-seeking by landlords. It has been proven without a doubt that third spaces as a commercial venture is ultimately non-functional, yet that is what pubs and bars have always been, and now they are dying out.

DiabloD3 commented on Find a pub that needs you   ismypubfucked.com/... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
DiabloD3 · a month ago
Man, it's weird being an American sometimes.

I do not drink. I am half Irish and half German.

Drinking is a _very_ weird cultural artifact from our past. It doesn't improve your life, it has been scientifically proven to not 'help you relax', and there may in fact be no safe amount of alcohol to drink; all the pop-sci headlines that say 'one glass of wine a week may improve your health' are really about studies that put the safe max at one glass per week.

From what I can tell, the UK is no longer subsidizing what is effectively a criminal enterprise that is centuries old.

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DiabloD3 commented on There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape   blog.jgc.org/2026/01/ther... · Posted by u/abnercoimbre
DiabloD3 · a month ago
We really need to ban these things.

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