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I don't think helix will ever catch up to a lot of vims lesser know features of which there are a lot. I think that's by design as well, I think that helix wants to have a smaller surface area than vim and for a lot of people that will be the right choice. I personaly use ex-commands for example, or the quickfixlist fairly often so for me I have a hard time imagining helix not feeling like a step down power-wise (as nice as multiple cursors are).

Download a popular movie and keep your computer on for a while 🤷‍♂️

Although, seeding stuff that isn't popular is also important. I don't know what you're seeding but if no one is leeching maybe there aren't a whole lot of other people seeding either. When someone does leech, they might be very happy that you're there keeping that one torrent alive.

I can recommend fd to everyone frustrated with find, it has a much more intuitive interface imo, and it's also significantly faster.

Pair coding with vim is a skill in itself (for the vim user). You can make things a bit easier to follow by making liberal use of visual mode for example. I have a CoworkerMode command that turns on smooth scrolling via vim-smoothie and cursorline, and I've also added some stuff to the neovim right-click menu so that I can explicitly right click go to definition for example. It can be worth switching editor sometimes, but it's not always worth it if you're in the middle of something.

You can have qBittorrent running in mixed mode, which doesn't give you the privacy of i2p but does give you even more leachers than just using normal ip and helps grow the i2p network. Everyone should get i2p and use mixed mode or i2p only imo.

Dark UX is more like features that are intentionally misleading, enchitification is making your product worse in order to be able to make money of it.

UltiSnips is fantastic

One problem that's particular to node is that you can't unpublish packages if another package depends on them. As it says in the article, that means that no one can unpublish their packages, including the everyone package since someone apparently depends on that.

For work gitlab is fine, I'm sure your company can get the accounts verified for example. At least it's not microsoft

Bluesky has the most twitter like user base of all the twitter clones that I've tried, and it's up to you if that's a good or bad thing. It's not all segments of twitter though, there isn't really any of right wing twitter or crypto twitter for example (a lot of furries on the other hand) which is quite nice actually. It isn't really active or important enough to get a lot of the big drama or main character moments and there aren't really any celebs, journalists and politicians posting there. So it's a bit like twitter without many of the lows but also many of the highs.

Dorsey got bullied off bluesky by its userbase so there's that at least

I don't think I would use this actually, because I don't see how an AI could capture the performance. I'm a sub over dub guy anyway, but at least someone making a dub has a sporting chance to make an interesting performance.

Peak dishwasher is a great concept and I think it highlights something important in the way we think of technology. There's often this underlying assumption of technological progress, but if we look at a particular area (e.g. dishwashers) we can see that after a burst of initial innovation the progress has basically halted. Many things are like this and I would in fact wager that a large portion of technologies that we use haven't actually meaningfully developed since the 80s. Computers are obviously a massive exception to this - and there are several more - but I think that we tend to overstate the inevitability of technological progress. One day we might even exhaust the well of smaller and faster computers each year and I wonder how we will continue to view technological progress after that.

Algebraic datatypes is a huge part of typed functional programming for me, you should read up on that!

qBittorrent can do this for example

Use the terminal mostly anyway, but navigating deeply nested folders when you have to double click is slightly annoying so I can see the appeal.

Personally, the language that's taught me the most to learn has been Haskell. It has a lot of very interesting ideas and a learning curve that plateaus after most other languages. There are several ideas that have trickled down from Haskell to other parts of the programming world and learning about them in the context Haskell is in my opinion better because you'll learn about them in a context where they fit in with the rest of the language very well instead of being late additions that offer an alternate way of doing things.

Coming from Java and JS, Haskell has a very different approach to a lot of things so you'll have to re-learn a lot before you get productive in it. This can be frustrating for some but you'll learn more if you get over that hump on the other hand.

Haskell doesn't see very much industry use and arguably isn't very well suited for industrial application (I haven't used it professionally so I don't know personally) so it might not directly help you land any new jobs but it is in my opinion it's a very good way to develop as a programmer.

The article mentions AI. 16gigs feels far too little to run a LLM of respectable size so I wonder what exactly this means? Feels like no one is gonna be happy about a 16gig LLM (high RAM usage and bad AI features)

I agree, but you don't need nixos if that's all you want since you can get nix-shell on most linux distros

You probably don't have to worry about the compatability of #pragma once so just use that. The only reasons to not use it is if it's important to only use standard compliant c for whatever reason or if you need to support some arcane compiler that doesn't support #pragma once. Realistically, neither of these are situations that you'll ever be put in and if you are you probably have much larger things that you need to worry about.