Readit Newsrsecora commented on Pyscripter – Open-source Python IDE written in Delphi github.com/pyscripter/pys... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman
And with LLM Support: OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and local LLM models using Ollama.
Back in the day, when business computing emerged (COBOL, Mainframes...), it appear the distinction between systems analysts and programmers. Analyst understand business needs, programmers implemented those specs in code.
Years later, the industry evolved to integrate both roles, and new methodologies and new roles appear.
Now humans write specs, and AI agents write code. Role separation is a principle of labor division since Plato.
rsecora commented on Giving people money helped less than I thought it would theargumentmag.com/p/givi... · Posted by u/tekla
Contrary to the author's assertion, the Denver Basic Income study, which gave $1000/mo, found a significant improvement in housing for the test group vs the controls. She misread the results, failing to note the initial housing rates for control vs test.
Results for Group A (1000$/m) closely resemble results for control Group C(50$/m). Metrics like % of Unsheltered participants, change in full-time employment, % of participans in a house they rent or own... have a diference of 1 or 2 points.
Thats the point of the author, those are minimal variances, and insuficient to claim inpact due to basic income.
Personal opinion. The study itself exert a nontrivial influence on participants. The act of being engaged, regular check-ins... affect positively. Their lives improve independent of the financial component because they are part of the study, not because of the amount of money in the procedure.
rsecora commented on Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... · Posted by u/susam
I’m personally fond of Motif, even going so far as to hold XEphem as the epitome of timeless user interface design; I wish I had an entire OS following those blocky UI conventions. While normally using emwm, CDE would be productive and welcome on any of the BSDs and illumos distributions, IMHO.
Now if only OpenLook/XView could be made to lose its 32-bit cruft and become more portable. What a wonderful pair of desktop environments CDE and OpenLook would be to choose from—and perhaps add more functionality to—in 2025.
I was surprised when the 64bit fork appears in github.
The OpenLook 64bit fork is available at [1], it has 64bit & X11R7 patches. It has a miriad of changes related to ids sizes, %ul, function casts, and a migration from X11R4 to X11R7.
Sadly, if a legacy applications is old enough to be linked to OpenLook, it surelly require adaptation. They need their own migration to transition to 64 bits and X11R7. This openlook fork is the start of the journey to resurect them.
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