bigpeopleareold (u/bigpeopleareold)

bigpeopleareold commented on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade emily.space/posts/251023-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

miki123211 · 2 months ago

I wish we had a language that had the syntax of Python (notably including operator overloading, which is absolutely critical for neural networks, ML, data science and numerical computations), the performance, compile times and concurrency support of Go, the type system flexibility of Typescript, and the native platform integration of C/C++.

bigpeopleareold · 2 months ago

Free Pascal with better tooling?

bigpeopleareold commented on Hacker News – The Good Parts smartmic.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/smartmic

bigpeopleareold · 2 months ago

I have read HN for years ... on my profile it says my account was made 11 years ago but I followed it much longer than that. It has been a continual resource of things that I would have never thought of looking into or spark interest in things that I haven't looked at in a long time. As an example, a post on a Lazarus/FP release triggered my multi-month long interest in Pascal again for me.

I do like there is a level of civility and this site is not juiced up with advertising and algorithmic personalization. Sometimes though, I feel like this site has some conversations similar to that I had in real life. I would say something and someone, would say 'but!' with a long explanation on why someone I'm wrong, rinse and repeat. It gets annoying to read, but I can at least not bother, because most issues are simple not hills to die on. I will leave it to others here to elucidate this point in other ways, which I dutifully upvoted.

bigpeopleareold commented on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework simonhartcher.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/deevus

bigpeopleareold · 3 months ago

"I still love my Framework, despite its flaws. I will just keep it plugged in so that it’s ready to go when I want to use it."

That sounds like a plan!

I suppose that if I was distant from an outlet for a long enough time, the battery life would be great, but I'm rarely if ever. It's nice not to be tethered to a wire, but it's not bad really overall.

bigpeopleareold commented on KDE is now my favorite desktop kokada.dev/blog/kde-is-no... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bigpeopleareold · 3 months ago

Used KDE for years now. It is stable and just works.

It's not important enough, but I wish there was a function like in macOS that switches between applications fully on Alt-Tab, where all windows would show (I have it half-way there, "show one icon per application" in System Settings). macOS's function I think reflects old Classic macOS functionality.

bigpeopleareold commented on Amazon RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document businessinsider.com/amazo... · Posted by u/healsdata

christhecaribou · 4 months ago

How does that boot taste?

bigpeopleareold · 4 months ago

A quite delicate taste of leather on my soft palette.

bigpeopleareold commented on Amazon RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document businessinsider.com/amazo... · Posted by u/healsdata

bigpeopleareold · 4 months ago

I started to think that these type of articles posted on Hacker News are a bit excessive. This and the AI stuff. This is one American company (high-profile, for sure) that might or might not be having retention issues. It's up to them to decide that, individual employees of the said company to decide if this arrangement is still right for them and shareholders if this will be a worthy investment in the next years. I think a lot of people are none of these. In the meantime, these "top tech talent" probably make way more than I can ever possibly can, and have the mental acuity to keep up with the demands that their employer requires from them while continuing to have a higher ceiling on the type of employment benefits than I could ever have.

I know I will have an argument over this which I won't both participating in, so please just downvote me.

You want to know about my own employer's policy, and employer you might have never heard of? It's not like Amazon. Amazon is not a bellweather for the wider industry as I see it.

bigpeopleareold commented on Operators, Not Users and Programmers jyn.dev/operators-not-use... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

jdp · 6 months ago

The divergence between users and programmers became more pronounced over time. When command line interfaces were dominant they naturally made programmers out of users, even if they didn't realize it. CLIs made “using the computer” and “programming the computer” effectively the same activity in a lot of cases. A command someone entered to run a program was itself a program. Entering the previous command again and modifying it, for instance to pipe the output of the first program into another program, was also a program. Once the desired result was achieved, that final command could be saved and used again later. Or shared with someone to be used as-is, or to be tweaked a little bit for their own use case.

Each interaction with a CLI results in a valid program that can be saved, studied, shared, and remixed. That's a powerful model for the same reasons the spreadsheet model is powerful: it's immediate, not modal, and successful interactions can be saved as an artifact and resumed later. Can we do the same things for GUIs? What is the GUI equivalent of pressing the up arrow key in a shell, where I can recall my previous interaction with the system and then modify it? Can I generate artifacts as byproducts from my interactions with a GUI system that I can save for later and share with others?

bigpeopleareold · 6 months ago

This is exactly what I have been thinking lately, starting with looking at Oberon. It seems to me that writing a simple GUI should be the same as writing a simple text-oriented script. GUIs have their own challenges, of course. However, doing the GUI equivalent of print() statements to show calculation output is a think a modern operating system should do, not have a distance between user and the graphic system. At the moment, it's a pretty ideal, but there are cases I wish their was less friction with it.

edit: I never tried, but isn't this where Smalltalk comes in?

bigpeopleareold commented on Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament arstechnica.com/apple/202... · Posted by u/CobaltFire

bombcar · 7 months ago

The key is that you used them. The retro community is for people who lusted after those machines, but we’re stuck with something much more affordable and much less powerful.

And now they’re well into middle age and they have money.

bigpeopleareold · 7 months ago

I have become slightly more interested in the software, that is, the GUI, the operations, etc. I miss some of the simplicity of classic mac, and the silly ideas I had trying to program it (which I sort of understand better now.) The hardware is physically demanding and costly (space in my apartment is precious).

bigpeopleareold commented on Lazarus Release 4.0 forum.lazarus.freepascal.... · Posted by u/proxysna

bigpeopleareold · 7 months ago

I only toyed with Lazarus/Free Pascal. There was some things I couldn't get used to. Maybe time to toy around again :) I feel like mentioning a few things that helped in the past: fpcdeluxe for installing a build of fpc and lazarus and a plugin called anchordockingdsgn to get all the floating windows in one window. It would be nice if 4.0 defaulted to that. The Castle Engine Pascal tutorial was actually pretty good also (which is mentioned in another thread here.) (edit: for the plugin, I see an option in fpcdeluxe to dock all windows - so it's possible to build that plugin in initially.)

bigpeopleareold commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike

bigpeopleareold · 8 months ago

They might as well load the rest of Windows at startup if that is the magic bullet of how many performance issues their OS and software has. It still shocks me that my cheap 8-year old laptop with Fedora on it feels all around snappier and a relief to work with than the computer handed to me at work. That computer would fly with a decent operating system.