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xedrac commented on France's homegrown open source online office suite github.com/suitenumerique... · Posted by u/nar001

admissionsguy · 5 days ago

> solutions written in dynamic programming languages like PHP and Python are always woefully slow

True as it may be that they are slow, I doubt it's caused by the use of dynamic programming languages.

> The money should be secured immediately that cannot be touched by the upcoming governments. It should increase taxes. Independence has a price. We as Europeans should be ready to pay it.

You do you, but increasing taxes to build products to replace products built by private enterprise sounds like a 180 degree opposite of what Europe needs to prosper.

xedrac · 5 days ago

> I doubt it's caused by the use of dynamic programming languages.

Depends which ones. Python? Definitely a source of slowness.

xedrac commented on CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story wsj.com/lifestyle/workpla... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

avidiax · 20 days ago

I would say that AI has not saved me any time as a developer. What is has done is allowed me to increase scope by doing tasks like documentation and prototyping/experimentation that I would not have found time for otherwise.

Saying that the AI saves time is like saying that a printer saves paper.

xedrac · 20 days ago

You say it hasn't saved you any time because you're doing more work now - e.g. documentation. I would say that's being pedantic, but I guess the expectations shift with it, so in practice, you can't just maintain your old output level and reclaim the saved time.

xedrac commented on California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/thnaks

apitman · 22 days ago

Bone dry here in Utah. Just as local government has been lowering their guard on the Great Salt Lake issue due to a couple strong snowpack years. Really hope we're proactive in response to the lack of snow.

xedrac · 22 days ago

Yeah, I want another 950" of snow at Alta Ski Resort again. That year - 2023 I think, was unreal!

xedrac commented on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? · Posted by u/publicdebates

xedrac · a month ago

Having a family solves this issue nicely. I have a wife and five kids, and none of us are lonely because we have each other. It's one of the choices I made in life that I am most grateful for.

xedrac commented on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too notebookcheck.net/I-dumpe... · Posted by u/smurda

pelagicAustral · a month ago

I have...

I switched to Bluefin, which is a branch of Universal Blue, which is flavour of Fedora. Sounds complicated, but in fact is the best thing to ever happen to Linux. I get all the ease of use of something like macOS but pre-built with tools for development like distrobox, and then I can just build my dev environments and get shit done in no time, without having to worry about breaking updates or nuking the whole file system because my bash sucks.

Its Linux for babies, and it makes me happy.

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Further ass-kissing:

Also I forgot to mention I tried gaming on it via Steam and it works like a charm... Not so sure about bleeding edge AAA games since I don't play any of that, but at least for all my oldies it works just fine.

Oh!, and the one thing I miss is Affinity Designer.

xedrac · a month ago

> The current Linux desktop didn't get us there, but we believe that what was made, can be unmade.

This is a strange thing for them to say when they are pretty much a clone of Fedora Silverblue, with a few minor tweaks.

If Bluefin works for you, great. But I find their marketing rather pretentious.

xedrac commented on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too notebookcheck.net/I-dumpe... · Posted by u/smurda

voxleone · a month ago

It’s worth acknowledging the real challenges raised in this thread: desktop Linux still has rough edges for some use cases, hardware support isn’t always perfect, and niche professional software may lack native support or require workarounds. But these obstacles are not intrinsic technical limitations so much as ecosystem and investment gaps, areas where community projects, standards efforts, and wider adoption could drive improvement without sacrificing freedom.

Viewed through the lens of digital autonomy and citizenship, the question isn’t simply “Is Linux perfect?” but rather: Do we want our fundamental computing environment to be ultimately under our control, or controlled by private interests with their own incentives?

xedrac · a month ago

I would argue that hardware support in Linux is superior to any other operating system on the planet.

xedrac commented on Eat Real Food realfood.gov... · Posted by u/atestu

CurrentB · a month ago

There is no scientific evidence for this

xedrac · a month ago

There certainly is: https://www.researchwiki.org/read?id=2

xedrac commented on Eat Real Food realfood.gov... · Posted by u/atestu

xedrac · a month ago

One thing I would add to this site is to avoid seed oils like the plague. PUFA is in almost everything that is processed, and it absolutely wrecks havoc on your metabolism.

xedrac commented on Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy kyo.iroiro.party/en/posts... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

vindarel · a month ago

Recently added in Lem: tree-sitter for JSON, YAML, Nix, Markdown, WAT; new language modes: Clojure, Perl, Kotlin, Zig (with LSP); git-gutter mode.

Lem has a (quite simple still) Git/hg/fossil interactive mode (interactive rebase is there but no reword for instance) and org-mode support is coming (https://github.com/mahmoodsh36/organ-mode).

Lem now is ncurses + webview (+ the non-longer maintained SDL2 backend) and it has daily multi-platform binaries. Try it out!

https://lem-project.github.io/

xedrac · a month ago

I tried the latest nightly release AppImage on Fedora 43 and got a nice undefined symbol error:

    /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so: undefined symbol: g_assertion_message_cmpint
    Failed to load module: /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so
    /usr/lib64/gvfs/libgvfscommon.so: undefined symbol: g_task_set_static_name
    Failed to load module: /usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so

So I tried out the container version with podman and that worked. I am familiar with Emacs, so some things were natural to me. I like Lem quite a bit. But to really drive with it, I need:

    - Solid LSP support
    - Project scoped buffer switching/searching
    - Great vim keybinding support (this seems to have improved since last I tried lem years ago)
    - Tree-sitter support for the languages I care about.

According to the website, LSP support is still a WIP. I didn't want to go through the hassle of testing it out in the docker container. From what I can tell, there is no project scoping for buffers, but I might be wrong.

All in all, a big improvement from a few years ago when I last tried it!

xedrac commented on Toll roads are spreading in America economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/smurda

array_key_first · a month ago

Are you actually growing your own food though? Or is your yard a grass monoculture that serves more of a vanity project than anything useful?

And maybe you are, which, good on you! But I don't think most Americans are.

xedrac · a month ago

Yes! I love growing my own food. I have 1/4 acre with 10 fruit trees, 12 grape vines, and a 20×60' vegetable patch.