Readit NewsQuality sounded good compared to a lot of other small TTS models I've tried.
I use ZFS on Arch Linux and overall have had no problems with it so far. There's more customization and methods to optimize performance. My one suggestion is to do a lot of research and testing with ZFS. There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's been worth the switch for me.
I abandoned the language about a decade ago and I don't see myself looking back. My projects these days need long-term reliability more than anything and rust + cd/ci hits a sweet spot. That said, I do miss the thrill of designing and executing a program that runs in a certain way exactly as I intended and knowing that it was my expertise and insight that allowed this execution. Would I want to work with someone that was driven by that? Hell no! But it is personally a joy I won't forget.
Other inexcusable pain points: the build systems and package management is an absolute nightmare; the pre-processor feels like a sadistic joke; the syntax is horrible; there's so much cruft in the runtime you need years of experience to not machine-gun your foot off by using the most obvious tool at your disposal. But in a sense this just increases the joy of shipping a working executable with all your cleverness and blood and tears wrapped with a bow.
I did a couple years writing C/C++ professionally, and I hope to not go back to that. Too many hours debugging other people's code, suffering vague integration issues, and just trying to get the build system spaghetti to run.
Back then I barely understood binary, and pointers completely confused me. I remember most of the book feeling like a collection of magic tricks. Sometimes I pull it out to rekindle that sense of wonder.
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/your-first-webgpu-app
If you're working a lot with text, Vim macros are great. I'll regularly go into Vim as kind of a text workbench.
If you want to try an auto-updating Vim suite, check out LazyVim [0]. The defaults are great, and there's a lot of features with absolutely zero configuration.
I don't think I heard of a single such story in my life. Is it a thing?
And it doesn't even really touch on how Fandom, sometimes, refuses to delete the old wiki for traffic purposes, and leaves it up as a "zombie" wiki that smothers the new wiki due to SEO, or the more serious conflicts between some admins and contributors in some other specific fandoms.
The Runescape wikis left Fandom a few years ago. The improvement to quality and features has been massive. I'm not sure how much traffic the Minecraft wiki gets, but the Runescape wikis got over a billion page views in 2021 [1]. These are not insignificant losses for Fandom.
(Short, subjective but presented objectively).
Or is it just loved by those who agree with the premise in this case Perl die hard?
I spent too much time trying to guess at the author's reasons. Why are Python and JavaScript not extensible but R is?
Not quite the same. E.g. databases are a part of the system itself. It's actually pretty helpful for a SWE to understand them reasonably deeply, especially when they're so leaky as an abstraction (arguably, even the more nuanced characteristics of your database of choice will influence the design of your whole application). AI/LLMs are more like dev tooling. You don't really need to know how a text editor, compiler or IDE works.
Granted this is a pretty simple task and a low stakes scenario, but I don't think we should limit ourselves to assuming AI will always only be dev tooling.