That "Tea" app seems like a real GDPR nightmare anyway.
Readit Newsodiroot commented on You can now disable all AI features in Zed zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-f... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Zed seems really nice, and the usability has come a really long way in the last couple of months. That being said, I have one issue, and I hesitate to even bring it up because it seems so shallow: I hate all the themes! They all look so ugly and amateur. I know this is a really trivial thing, it's like complaining I don't like Python because it uses whitespace for indent or something, but I just can't get over it. VSCode/Cursor is beautiful in comparison.
I recently found Github Dark Default, which is probably the okay-est of the 10-15 I tried, but there is so much that still looks bad. The autocomplete popover looks far worse than VSCode, the file tree looks much worse, tabs look ugly, etc.
Does anyone have any suggestions here?
Wish I could just import my ST4 settings and theme into Zed. That'd help a lot. For now I consider it too much hassle and ST4 with LSP is good enough.
odiroot commented on Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting maalvika.substack.com/p/c... · Posted by u/kjhughes
It's a little weird that, on the one hand, nobody much wants to read anything long, and on the other, hours long podcasts, Netflix documentaries, and one-person YouTube videos on esoteric subjects are all quite popular. There's no lack of demand for longform content, but it's mostly not writing.
> Once a week, someone breathlessly tells me, "Oh my god, I read this article that said..." But what they mean is they watched a 30-second TikTok or skimmed a headline while scrolling through their feed. They think they've "read" something when they've consumed the intellectual equivalent of cotton candy: all sugar, no substance, dissolving the moment it hits their tongue.
Okay, but here's the thing: the article itself probably was already, as it were, pre-digested. A popular science article is already somewhat meant to be read as entertainment. Sure, reading the article is better than skimming the headline, but maybe less than you'd think. It's meant for a popular audience, it's written by a journalist who probably isn't an expert in the subject, and it's subject to the same commercial demands as anything else. A lot of popular science is like this, and it's not bad per se, but it's still a kind of product, even when it's in a Very Serious Newspaper. I read this stuff and enjoy it; it isn't non-informative. But it's also designed to be pretty easy to digest.
> It's a little weird that, on the one hand, nobody much wants to read anything long, and on the other, hours long podcasts
No, thank you, I'd rather read a long book.
Podcasts are like torture to me, especially in this recent concept of an interview, as popularised by US creators.
Most Netflix content is also of questionable quality.
odiroot commented on The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/rmason
*Maria Skłodowska-Curie, as she herself insisted on being called. BBC should know better.
odiroot commented on Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law techradar.com/vpn/vpn-pri... · Posted by u/taubek
odiroot commented on The Awful German Language (1880) faculty.georgetown.edu/jo... · Posted by u/nalinidash
I am a native speaker. And I find German to be a very ugly language. Pronounciation wise. Compared to French or English. It sounds like someone is constantly having a quarrel with you.
There's this fun video from Easy German, where native speakers (Austrians in this case) express their feeling of uneasiness when flirting in German. As in, the German language not being the sexiest.
odiroot commented on The first year of free-threaded Python labs.quansight.org/blog/f... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Am I the only one who sort of fears the day when Python loses the GIL? I don't think Python developers know what they’re asking for. I don't really trust complex multithreaded code in any language. Python, with its dynamic nature, I trust least of all.
It's called job security. We'll be rewriting decades of code that's broken by that transition.
odiroot commented on Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war insideevs.com/features/75... · Posted by u/rntn
Embedded-systems programming is not taught, and no one is willing to pay for training. The result is that development is outsourced to entities that claim, falsely, to have the knowledge. Eventually the consequences of the fact that they do not have the knowledge surface in an undeniable manner, and the only way to cover is to make a great show of a fresh start. (This affects all industries, not just automotive, but right now that is where the spotlight shines.)
I've been taught 8051 programming at my university. But I'm an older Gen Y, this could be going away for all I know.
They actually don't. Everything from dating and fitness to manufacturing and politics is in decline in activities, and more so in effect and understanding. You can't convince (enough) people anymore that it is even important as many don't have capacity to do it. And it isn't even something new at this point.
And here I am regularly having to wait for a free squat rack ;)