I messed around with common lisp for a while a few months ago, and I remember the packaging/dependency situation was by far the most difficult and confusing part. So thanks for writing this article, bookmarked it for the next time I write some CL :)
Readit Newsbrooke2k commented on Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained cdegroot.com/programming/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
The idea is interesting but unfortunately the actual articles are riddled with spelling errors, typos, missing words, sentences that cut off before
And so on. Is this a work-in-progress thing not meant for public consumption yet?
brooke2k commented on Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto dineshpandiyan.com/blog/s... · Posted by u/flexdinesh
Every time I see one of these nifty git tricks or workarounds I find myself wondering, “why not just use jj?”
You get a nicer, significantly simpler interface. You don’t need any tricks. You don’t have to google how to work yourself out of a bad state, ever. And you get near-perfect git compatibility (ie you can use jj on a shared git repo, doing all the same things, and your teammates won’t know the difference).
I’ve wondered if there is a psychological thing here: someone who spent time memorizing all the git nonsense may have some pride in that (which is earned, certainly), that introduces some mental friction in walking away???
I don't think it's pride, more that I don't see the problem that it solves for me. I don't find that git gets in my way at all, and I don't find it confusing. It's a pretty transparent tool that I use every day and hardly notice.
I don't mind other people using jj, but I simply don't feel a need to try it. There's nothing prideful about that, it's just pragmatism.
brooke2k commented on Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago? · Posted by u/ferguess_k
I got a Dell XPS for work a couple years ago on someone's recommendation... one of my worst-ever decisions.
The touchpad sucks and routinely breaks requiring restarts, constantly having driver issues (and you have to deal with the capital-N Nightmare that is SupportAssist for drivers), graphics card is busted and makes the display driver crash once a month.
Power states are completely broken. Laptop will randomly turn on when it's in my bag and rev up to ten thousand degrees. Laptop will randomly, when on full battery and closed, decide to hard-shutoff leading to a windows recovery boot.
Decides to do BIOS updates when it's at 3% battery in the middle of the night, then when I wake up for work the next morning it has to go through a ten-minute recovery sequence.
Battery is swelling after only a couple years of use, which sometimes causes keys on the keyboard to stop working. In the middle of a slack convo I've had to type "Sorrymyspacebarstoppedworkinggottarestartmycomputer".
BSODs, hard drive corruption, you name it. Never buy Dell. Not that there's many good options out there unless you're willing to drop two week's pay on a Framework - but anything is better than Dell.
EDIT: Another I thought of - sound card is busted and sounds like it has a low pass filter on it. I know it's not a speaker issue because on occasion it magically fixes itself until the next restart.
brooke2k commented on It’s been a very hard year bell.bz/its-been-a-very-h... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
> Saying "well you have to follow the market" is such a cravenly amoral perspective.
You only have to follow the market if you want to continue to stay relevant.
Taking a stand and refusing to follow the market is always an option, but it might mean going out of business for ideological reasons.
So practically speaking, the options are follow the market or find a different line of work if you don’t like the way the market is going.
> it might mean going out of business for ideological reasons
taking a moral stance isn't inherently ideological
These older games don't run fine with Xwayland?
Nope. Off the top of my head, I've had serious issues (crashing, visual glitching, extreme lag, etc) running OpenMW and Minecraft on XWayland, both of which were resolved entirely by switching to X11. There have been many others too, those are just at the front of my mind because they were the most recent.
Oh, also Godot has a lot of issues on Wayland at the moment, specifically the Godot editor. I spent a long time trying to figure those out, because if I'm developing I would really rather be in a Wayland session where my DPI stuff works much better, but ultimately I resigned to just running the Godot editor only under an X11 session.
That's extremely disappointing. Wayland has gotten a lot better but there are still many, many instances where I have to switch into an X11 session in order to play certain games (especially older ones). I am a huge fan of KDE but this may actually force me to switch to something else :(
> a system designed not for human flourishing but pure profit
But please, don't be coy: tell us about that other system that is designed for "human flourishing" - we're dying to learn about it.
Because I grew up under communism and I lived its miserable failures: the non-profit system didn't even manage to feed, cloth or warm/cool us.
> new human-focused modes of living and organizing society
Oh, these sounds sooo promising. Please do tell us: would you by any chance be willing to use force to "convince" the laggards of the benefits of switching? What if some refuse to believe your gospel? Will you turn to draconic laws and regulations?
It's depressing how in the modern day you can't criticize capitalism without immediately being told that you must be a supporter of soviet-style authoritarian socialism
There are shades of grey here. Capitalism is a system with many inherent problems. Exploring alternatives is not the same thing as being a Stalinist
That's what freaks me out about these drugs. You-on-the-pill becomes you, and you can't ever stop.
well when the you-off-the-pill wants to kill yourself, becoming you-on-the-pill is a pretty rad thing
(I more or less do have the background to read these things, but it's super off-putting to start the article about a crazy new proof from a Fields medallist with an introduction to manifolds.)