FizzyOrange

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[–] FizzyOrange 5 points 6 hours ago

Yeah so far it seems to be stronger than steel in the same way that glass is. Where can I buy some graphene wire?

[–] FizzyOrange 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

I have yet to read an "as strong as / stronger than steel" that wasn't bullshit in some way.

You know what's stronger than steel? Glass. Ordinary glass. Yeah that's how they trick you.

[–] FizzyOrange 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Simplicity is definitely something to be valued, but for some reason Linux people equate "just a few shell scripts" with simplicity.

Sure there might not be much there, and maybe if you read all of those scripts you can understand them. But I don't want to have to read and manually maintain the shell scripts of my init system. That isn't simple for normal users. Simple is when the OS actually works reliably, and shell scripts are the antithesis of reliability.

[–] FizzyOrange 3 points 13 hours ago

Definitely Teams.

[–] FizzyOrange 4 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I don't understand. Why would I tape ctrl down?

[–] FizzyOrange 5 points 14 hours ago

It can definitely handle some routine low-risk tasks. I've used it for that.

But I also haven't ever worked anywhere where graduates are only given routine low-risk tasks. Does that really happen? In places I've worked they are given non-routine tasks that are probably slightly less complex - in particular not requiring architecting a new system - but not like "reformat this file" or "write a script to clean up my git branches" or whatever.

I would guess this is really unrelated to AI. In fact the graph kind of shows that.

[–] FizzyOrange 11 points 14 hours ago (16 children)

I've always heard Teams is crap but I've never used it. My company is switching to it though. What crap things do I have to look forward to?

[–] FizzyOrange 2 points 19 hours ago

I agree. I think it's driven by fear. I get it. I'm slightly afraid I won't have a job in 10 years (or at least a much worse paying one)...

I'm still a much better programmer than AI today. But I don't cope with the fear by deluding myself into thinking that AI is useless and will stay useless.

The feels a lot like portrait painters saying that photography will never amount to anything because it's blurry and black and white.

[–] FizzyOrange 9 points 20 hours ago
  • Free CI
  • Everyone else also uses GitHub

Wake me up when there's a competitor that can match that.

[–] FizzyOrange 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Presumably because Forgejo didn't have CI support until extremely recently. And because Jenkins is trash.

[–] FizzyOrange 8 points 2 days ago

Depends what it's for. I think a simple CLI text editor like this probably shouldn't have any smarts. Obviously an IDE like VSCode or IntelliJ should.

[–] FizzyOrange 3 points 2 days ago

It's not quite that bad. They say

This means that we cannot accept any changes based on the GNU source code.

You are totally allowed to look at it. For example if there was some weird behaviour that you couldn't work out, you could look at the GNU code to understand it.

What you can't do is closely base your code on the GNU code. I.e. you can't just translate it from C into Rust.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by FizzyOrange to c/linux
 

Edit: rootless in this context means the remote windows appear like local windows; not in a big "desktop" window. It's nothing to do with the root account. Sorry, I didn't come up with that confusing term. If anyone can think of a better term let's use that!

This should be a simple task. I ssh to a remote server. I run a GUI command. It appears on my screen (and isn't laggy as hell).

Yet I've never found a solution that really works well in Linux. Here are some that I've tried over the years:

  • Remote X: this is just unusably slow, except maybe over a local network.
  • VNC: almost as slow as remote X and not rootless.
  • NX: IIRC this did perform well but I remember it being a pain to set up and it's proprietary.
  • Waypipe: I haven't actually tried this but based on the description it has the right UX. Unfortunately it only works with Wayland native apps and I'm not sure about the performance. Since it's just forwarding Wayland messages, similar to X forwarding, and not e.g. using a video codec I assume it will have similar performance issues (though maybe not as bad?).

I recently discovered wprs which sounds interesting but I haven't tried it.

Does anyone know if there is a good solution to this decades-old apparently unsolved problem?

I literally just want to ssh <server> xeyes and have xeyes (or whatever) appear on my screen, rootless, without lag, without complicated setup. Is that too much to ask?

 

Does anyone know of a website that will show you a graph of open/closed issues and PRs for a GitHub repo? This seems like such an obvious basic feature but GitHub only has a useless "insights" page which doesn't really show you anything.

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Dart Macros (youtu.be)
submitted 1 year ago by FizzyOrange to c/rust
 

Very impressive IDE integration for Dart macros. Something to aspire to.

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