Readit NewsYes, that certainly was surprising.
Why does every commercial editor seem to desperately believe we all want this?
Why would I, as an actual developer, want "pair programming but now there's lag"?
I didn't even like the pairing fad in the first place, I found it awkward, anxiety-inducing, and slow. Adding an additional software dependency just seems worse.
There's no reason to own a television with a shitty computer built-in, when I can just buy a screen and plug it into my actually good computer.
Right now I have a 27" ThinkVision display and a pair of studio monitors, with both laptop and Switch connected to it. Media comes over the computer (who even buys cable in 2021 anyway?), audio patches into the display over USB-C/HDMI and out to the speakers.
I'm moving soon and I'll probably spring for a 30+" 4K for the living room at some point, and look into a receiver and theatre speakers but honestly I don't see the point.
You do pay a bit more for the display-per-inch, but the reason those "4K smart TVs" are so cheap is all the adware money, so they're only "cheap" in the way that Facebook is "free".
In the past I had trouble with client projects or dev tools only working in chrome, but I decided that the only way things get freer is to make myself fix those pain points when I come across them.
Oh, how the times change. I remember when "lightweight Linux" meant it came on a single 1.4MB floppy disk and could run on 4MB of RAM. Yes, including desktop, though that may have required a second floppy and 8MB.
But this is 2021. You need to do some serious pruning just to get GCC in under 1gb. 50 mb is a fucking miracle.
What's amazing honestly is that 4chan started in '02 or '03, before most of the modern media-heavy Internet and is still around.
It took a few years of those few dedicated weirdos bouncing off each other (and their Japanese equivalent boards) to fully metastasise into the face of modern neofascism.
This is not true. Finnish public health insurance is residency based: Every resident has it [1]. What you are probably thinking of, is the extra occupational private health insurance, that most Finnish employers provide for their employees (so that during work days, the employees don't need to wait in line in the public health services, but can get back to work sooner after seeing a private doctor).
[1] https://www.kela.fi/ulkomailta-suomeen-sairaanhoito-suomessa
It's possible to buy private insurance of course, a common solution for tech freelancers here is to make your own business and then hire yourself as an employee, so at least you can get an occupational health care plan.
But private health insurance here is a joke anyway, they don't cover a ton of things because they assume they can just refer you to the public care for any of the complicated stuff. Mine wouldn't even cover a CPAP machine, I had to get on a public waiting list and borrow one from the state, and it took months.
This is not to rant on Rust, but betting on it having a brighter future than any of the other languages that came and went during the past two decades is probably a risky bet. Of course we’re lucky enough to be in a line of work where you can probably work with Rust for the next 50 years if you want to, but to “hype” it as the future language is just too silly and too vague for the front page of HN in my opinion.
I mean, Ruby was future, then Go was the future, now Rust is the future (add any other hyped languages you want, and here we are programming in JavaScript, Python, C++, JAVA, COBOL, PHP, C# and other “boring” languages that are probably older than some of the people who read HN, and that just isn’t likely to change much is it?
This is pretty much what killed me on it, and I think the leadership and community really don't understand that commodity development is important to language growth.
I like Rust and it opens up some interesting domains I don't get to play with much, but it's a considerable effort to learn it when I know there are zero real opportunities to use it professionally. I keep hearing hype about how this or that big giant company is using it, but none of them are hiring for it: it seems quite a few are just shifting internal C/C++ teams to Rust. The rare public openings are either a) demand extremely senior C/C++ level dev experience, or b) vague crypto/blockchain startups that reek of fly-by-night scams.
Far from the hope of "democratizing" systems programming, it seems like the industry has instead closed ranks around it and used it as a further gatekeeping tool to keep out entry or even journeyman level experience, and certainly anyone not already bathed in the old C languages.
I thought Rust was supposed to free us from C?