That's a great callout – appreciate it.
Also some comments have "you're absolutely right" in them
Readit Newsaldanor commented on Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator news.ysimulator.run/news... · Posted by u/johnsillings
aldanor commented on Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction daymare.net/blogs/everbod... · Posted by u/pansa2
The author answered himself:
> Want to do something slightly off-script? That’ll be three trait bounds, one custom derive, and a spiritual journey through src/internal/utils/mod.rs
An alternative is: you want something off-script, go fork the repo with the crate and patch it to accept your use case.
aldanor commented on Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS github.com/acsandmann/rif... · Posted by u/atticus_
I don't get it. Why anyone would need to use tile manager in macOS?
How often do you need to have apps side by side?
In most cases, just making the app full screen and switch between windows with 4 finger swipes does the job beautifully.
Enlighten me please
All the time. 49'' screen is built for that.
The usual setup = terminal is the central half with nvim being one half of that, sometimes also split into two side by sides, sometimes not; two terminal tabs in the right pane (zellij). Browser = left quarter. Right quarter is whatever, slack, gmeet etc.
Still primitive. But I'd love to drop lazy for this once they implement a differed load.
I love lazy.nvim. It's great no doubt. But recently I felt like the author is taking an aggressive user retention behavior by re-imprementing every useful open-source community plugins out there (like snack.nvim, mini.nvim). That's a kill-zone/copycat strategy. I don't get it.
And then ditching those packages unmaintained (like snacks).
// mini.nvim is a completely different author though and doesn't have to do much with lazy
aldanor commented on Show HN: Typed-arrow – compile‑time Arrow schemas for Rust github.com/tonbo-io/typed... · Posted by u/ethegwo
How is this different from https://github.com/Swoorup/arrow-convert?
aldanor commented on I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace instavm.io/blog/building-... · Posted by u/mkagenius
Even the M4 Max is not "bleeding edge". Apple is doing impressive stuff with energy efficient compute, but you can't get top of the line raw compute for any amount of financial of energy budget from them.
I'm genuinely interested in what kind of work are you doing if bringing m4 max is not enough? And what kind of bleeding edge laptops are we even talking about (link?) and for what purpose?
aldanor commented on I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace instavm.io/blog/building-... · Posted by u/mkagenius
You'll end up with a portable desktop with bad thermals, impacting performance, battery life, and actually-on-the-lap comfort. Bleeding-edge performance laptops can really only manage an hour, max, on battery, making the form factor much more about moving between different pre-planned, desk-oriented work locations.
I take my laptop back and forth from home to work. At work, I ban them from in-person meetings because I want people to actually pay attention to the meeting. In both locations where I use the computer, I have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse I'm plugging in via a dock. That makes the built-in battery and I/O redundant. I think I would rather have a lower-powered, high-battery, ultra portable laptop remoting into the desktop for the few times I bring my computer to in-person meetings for demos.
I wish the memory bandwidth for eGPUs was better.
Huh? Bleeding edge laptops can last a lot more on battery. M3 16'' mbp lasts definitely enough for a full office day of coding. Twice that if just browsing and not doing cpu intensive stuff.
I wouldn’t worry about job safety when we have such utopian vision as the elimination of all human labor in our sight.
Not only will AI run the company, it will run the world. Remember: a product/service only costs money because somewhere down the assembly line or in some office, there are human workers who need to feed their family. If AI can help gradually reduce human involvement to 0, with good market competition (AI can help with this too - if AI can be capable CEOs, starting your business will be insanely easy,) and we’ll get near absolute abundance. Then humanity will be basically printing any product & service on demand at 0 cost like how we print money today.
I wouldn’t even worry about unequal distribution of wealth, because with absolute abundance, any piece of the pie is an infinitely large pie. Still think the world isn’t perfect in that future? Just one prompt, and the robot army will do whatever it takes to fix it for you.
... and eventually the humankind goes extinct due to mass obesity
Used to be an immortal (admin/main dev) in Solace MUD based on dragonlance. It's actually running now apparently, revived after some years offline.
It was funny how myself and my friend became imms there - we offered a patch to fix a real bug to then-admin who couldn't code a thing because he inherited the project, injecting a security hole so we could stream source code through the mud itself, lol. Lots of stuff learned, lots of hacks, tons of dirty C code. Test it all in production, on real people.
I don't understand either. My theory is that working all the time in the terminal makes some devs feel like true hackers.
Working in the terminal gets you to make the best use of a single most efficient input source, the keyboard. Which, coincidentally, is what you need for coding. In visual ides (pretty much all of them), some actions can only be performed by using a mouse (because, well, it exists). In editors like nvim that's not the case and everything is accessible via keyboard, usually in some pretty logical and structured way, so that eventually you get used to longer key chords etc for doing various things.
That, plus the terminal (itself) is at your disposal because, uh, you're in it.
That, plus vim emulation in all major ides be it vscode or jetbrains is pretty wonky and not comparable to the real thing.
Not much to do with 'true hackers', it's sad there's people who actually think that.
(all of the above being purely subjective ofc; this can be an infinite argument)