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louthy commented on Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux mark.stosberg.com/univers... · Posted by u/uncircle

meitham · 10 days ago

I like how Apple introduced the CMD key, with copy/paste linked to it in the terminal, leaving CTRL to work as intended. Even outside the terminal basic emacs key binding work as intended, such as c-k c-u etc

louthy · 10 days ago

> I like how Apple introduced the CMD key, with copy/paste linked to it in

As someone who switches between macOS and Linux every day, the change of control-key from CTRL to CMD is hella annoying. I am always pressing the wrong combo on macOS.

louthy commented on How Silicon Valley can prove it is pro-family thenewatlantis.com/public... · Posted by u/jger15

9rx · 12 days ago

> and higher retention.

Jurisdictions vary, but around here that isn't a desirable quality. There is much more legal exposure if you have employees who have been around for a long time.

louthy · 12 days ago

I considered it a benefit. It meant I could hire fewer people. I had good, motivated people, with institutional knowledge. When you’re a small/medium sized business with limited funds this is much more desirable. It costs less to keep fewer people employed and you can be much more agile.

Firing people who needed firing was never a problem and it didn’t tend to be people who’d been there for a long time that I wanted to fire.

High turnover of staff has outsized costs: loss of institutional knowledge, loss of momentum on key projects, time taken onboarding/training, recruitment fees, etc. it’s to be avoided imho.

louthy commented on How Silicon Valley can prove it is pro-family thenewatlantis.com/public... · Posted by u/jger15

scotty79 · 12 days ago

> you need to encourage going home and not thinking about work at all

Why would any company encourage that? The only use that business had with people having family was that having family put workers at a disadvantage, pressed them against the wall, forced them to suffer through even more exploitation than they would if they were childless. Make them existentially fear even trying to look for other opportunities. And give them a place to escape the burden of care of their children.

louthy · 12 days ago

> Why would any company encourage that?

I used to tell my employees to go home / not work late, because working longer hours doesn’t produce more output. You may get an initial uptick in output, but then it falls away as people get burned out/sick of work. Long hours also equals higher turnover of staff, which is expensive in many ways.

There’s nothing good over the long term that comes from long hours. It’s bad for morale and it’s bad for the business.

Respect your employees, consider their needs and you’ll have a more committed workforce with higher retention and higher quality output.

louthy commented on "This question has been retired" learn.microsoft.com/en-us... · Posted by u/1970-01-01

ectospheno · 19 days ago

The most frustrating aspect of learn.microsoft.com is putting a -learn.microsoft.com at the end of every search engine query.

louthy · 19 days ago

Sign up to Kagi and add learn.microsoft.com to your blocked-domains list. Solved :)

louthy commented on Why is it worth spending time on type theory? (2013) math.stackexchange.com/qu... · Posted by u/mindcrime

lovich · 19 days ago

Where does one even start learning type theory or category theory? I’ve had a passing interest from listening in on conversation between Rust friends, but never found a place to do a like type theory 101 for software engineers

louthy · 19 days ago

Bartosz Milewski’s Category Theory for Programmers lectures [1] are good. Especially paired with his book [2].

I actually find that category theory is remarkably simple. At least at the level where it applies to day-to-day programming concepts. The one major benefit I got from it, was that it helped me reason about high level/abstract structure better (which helps my architectural designs/thinking).

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI7FMa...

[2] https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf

louthy commented on SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core github.com/stratdev3/Simp... · Posted by u/prodbro

andix · 20 days ago

But why?

ASP.NET Core is one of the best web frameworks, extremely modular and flexible. It's low level components (http server, routing) can be used as a foundation for new web frameworks.

louthy · 20 days ago

> ASP.NET Core is one of the best web frameworks

In your opinion. Not everyone is of the same mind when it comes to software design. Sometimes the motivations are different.

As a community we should encourage those looking to find their own path. We become myopic otherwise.

louthy commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber

doctor_radium · 21 days ago

Shrug. I thought most HR people already are bots, and it's been this way for roughly the last 20 years.

louthy · 21 days ago

My first thought too. If anything, taking HR out is a win for all mankind.

louthy commented on Tokens are getting more expensive ethanding.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/admp

double051 · 22 days ago

If you pay for the all products subscription, their AI features are now bundled in. I believe that may be a relatively recent change, and I would not have known about it if I hadn't been curious and checked.

louthy · 22 days ago

I’ve just checked. I have the ‘dotUltimate’ bundle, which now appears to include ‘AI Pro’.

They didn’t cancel my existing ‘AI Pro’ subscription though, and have just let it keep running with no refunds.

Thanks, Jetbrains. You get worse every day.

louthy commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale

ifwinterco · 22 days ago

In theory but in London everyone is driving in a state of incandescent rage due to the non stop traffic lights and restrictions and people sometimes end up doing insane things because they've basically lost their head.

There are limits to the "deliberately piss everyone off" strategy

louthy · 22 days ago

They’re driving at 20mph because the whole of London is a 20mph zone now. So incandescence or not, accidents are still relatively low for a major metropolis.