The bootup sound brought a flood of old memories.
Readit Newsmohamez commented on Windows XP Professional win32.run/... · Posted by u/pentagrama
I wonder what triggered the sudden change of mind.
They have been pretty firm on wanting keeping it closed for the purpose of giving an edge to the Jetbrain IDE's
One of the reasons might be that they realized that the absense of an official LSP for Kotlin will hinder its wide adoption by new developers who want to try Kotlin but don't want to move away from their favorite IDEs.
It's great jetbrains finally taking some babysteps to support an official language server for VSCode after some great resilience from them.
I know it's a difficult spot because such effort will also indirectly compete with their main product which is an IDE, so I'm not very optimistic it'll last.
>I know it's a difficult spot because such effort will also indirectly compete with their main product which is an IDE, so I'm not very optimistic it'll last.
I would say this if this step was taking early while Kotlin is still a new language in the market, but I think their late decision to develop an official LSP for Kotlin is because of reasons you just mentioned, but maybe they changed their minds because they saw other benifits including a wide adoption of Kotlin.
mohamez commented on VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles techcrunch.com/2025/01/09... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
There's an art to subtitling that goes beyond mere speech-to-text processing. Sometimes it's better to paraphrase dialog to reduce the amount of text that needs to be read. Sometimes you need to name a voice as unknown, to avoid spoilers. Sometimes the positioning on the screen matters. I hope the model can be made to understand all this.
This is horrible for people who learn languages using TV Shows and Movies. One of the most frustrating things I've encountered while learning German is the "paraphrase" thing, it makes practicing listening very hard, because my purpose wasn't to understand what was being said, but rather familiarizing my ear with spoken German.
So, knowing exactly the words being said is of utter importance.
mohamez commented on Show HN: Amine – Prevents you from switching 100s of Browser Tabs github.com/datavorous/ami... · Posted by u/sbcharjee
Why did you assume that we would all work with just one tab?!
In my case, I am currently learning Go at the moment. So, a learning session will contain at least one browser tab for the website I'm using, a window for VS Code, and a third browser tab in case I need to look something up.
mohamez commented on Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex github.com/typst/typst... · Posted by u/vogu66
The best thing about Typst is that it's intuitive.
This great except that the author starts with “our kids love math” and goes on to say how they wanted to figure out a way for their kids to do math everyday because they love it.
My kid loves Roblox. Math not so much. She’ll gladly play Roblox every day with no assistance or structure from me. Math? That’s about as easy to form a habit with as running 5 miles. How do I get her to love math (or other good things) in the first place?
The hard part isn’t getting by kids to do things they love, it’s getting them to do things they DON’T love.
I was able to get her hooked on reading actual paper books but only when she messed up in school and lost access to devices for 9 days. Boredom took over and books were the answer. Now she loves them, thank god.
Just like "habit stacking" worked for the author, maybe you should try what might be called "interests or hobby stacking". Let them do what they love after completing something that they don't love doing.
mohamez commented on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions twitter.com/ilyasut/statu... · Posted by u/Palmik
It's depressing how few people are able to not look at the internet and turn off their phone.
There's no obligation to read things about yourself.
If you did what you thought was right, stand by it and take the heat.
Disconnect. Go to work. Do the work. Read a book or watch some TV after work. Go to bed. Wait a few weeks. $&#@ the world.
(Also, log out of Twitter and get your friend to change your password)
>If you did what you thought was right, stand by it and take the heat.
What if it turned out to totally wrong? standing by it would just make thing even worse.
mohamez commented on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions twitter.com/ilyasut/statu... · Posted by u/Palmik
This whole situation turned out to be an episode from Silicon Valley HBO.