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jasonm23··on You Need to Ditch VS Code
Some of the older heads here are 100% with you, the notes and comments in this thread should be clear enough indication of that.

But you're right, tools that make short work of ridiculous incantations, 100% good.

We don't sit around trying to re-write arithmetic, but apparently not knowing how to do git pull --rebase is a crime to these smart folks, who don't seem to realize they know very little about getting sh!t done.

jasonm23··on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
United Gangsters of America it seems ... since the people have no say, just a moron with too much luck, too much power, not enough consequences.

They'll come? and the fact that's a question shows American Justice has been absent for quite some time.

jasonm23··on Go away Python
use uv ... convince everyone to use uv, convince all docs in projects you use, to use uv.

Reject EVERYTHING ELSE for running / building py pip, poetry, conda ... etc.

jasonm23··on Self-hosting is being enshittified
If you self host and also write some of your own services, the same requirements are as they always were.

minimal ~ < $100 hardware (Dell, Acer etc mini or ssf pc)

install your linux distro, use your preferred containers, or just run as services on the os.

There's no ads, no ai, no layer of shite, it can't be "enshittified" unless you're doing the shittifying.

jasonm23··on Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
more than we already are?!
jasonm23··on Sam Altman's pants are on fire
Well, you know, unless you're a better class of person, then every single thing you post is a backhanded personal attack on the reader.
jasonm23··on 'No idea who he is', says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon
Stop worrying about the use of words, none of this ridiculous exchange will change who does what.
jasonm23··on 'No idea who he is', says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon
No one says it's Normal... they say it works.

Nothing is Normal when it comes down to it, reality is what you can get away with.

If that makes you uncomfortable, then buckle up because reality is what THEY can get away with.

jasonm23··on Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?
I made ocomacs for this purpose, it's designed as a minimal config layer which is more of a pattern to follow than a "does everything for you" framework.

https://github.com/ocodo/ocomacs

jasonm23··on Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
There's a threshold, of both user ability and scale of 'problem'

I mostly agree with you dfabulich - the repeated efforts to create node/pipeline tools "visual programming languages" are not built for us, and feel redundant.

But I took issue with "where you don't need it" as this is very much dependent on who "you" is.

jasonm23··on Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
"Need" is a bad word ... and ymmv
jasonm23··on Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations
Thank you for making this and open sourcing it, the ecosystem for interactive editing of mermaid / diagrams is all the better thanks to your efforts.
jasonm23··on Magit Is Amazing
It's runable as a standalone https://github.com/maio/smagit

there's a faithful conversion as edamagit for vs-code.

It's way more casual than having to know Emacs.

jasonm23··on Magit Is Amazing
edamagit for vs-code is a faithful rendition of Magit as a .vsix
jasonm23··on You are the scariest monster in the woods
I thought anyone with awareness of what the AI landscape is at the moment, sees those two statements as the same.
jasonm23··on Thoughts on Omarchy
Or a brainfart.
jasonm23··on Vectrex Mini
The cult of Tempest says some people are obsessed with that aesthetic.
jasonm23··on Vectrex Mini
With the actuators... never seen one, and I saw many many of the sit down or the stand up cabinets.

First game I saw with merely lean based controls was hang on or space harrier, several years later.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say you found a highly custom cabinet, and I'm jealous.

jasonm23··on Vectrex Mini
They also make Grid Ranger ... which gives me Gridrunner + Tempest + Star Wars vibes.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2964400/Grid_Ranger/

jasonm23··on The weaponization of travel blacklists
as if they weren't always a weapon.
jasonm23··on Social anxiety isn't about being liked
Some men view this as "psychological warfare among friends" ... and it's tiring.
jasonm23··on US to retire its only icebreaker, stranding polar research
By having a population who reads a clickbait headline, doesn't read the article, doesn't do any further study, and then propagates the falsehood and moves on to the next one.

In that way.

jasonm23··on The Other Linux Logo
Slackware used J.R. "Bob" Dobbs / Dobbshead from the Church Of The Subgenius as an "unofficial" mascot/logo until the S became it's defacto logo. The Dobbshead still shows up.
jasonm23··on The Other Linux Logo
FYI using FF Nightly, no issues.
jasonm23··on Libghostty is coming
WezTerm seems to be missing from the list, and is a superset of those listed.
jasonm23··on Should we revisit Extreme Programming in the age of AI?
If you're not trolling, you're doing a great impression.
jasonm23··on Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
Love the idea... loathe the interactive design implementation.
jasonm23··on 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind
Demand / Use are the key metrics, not availability.

If you have those numbers, then you have a point.

jasonm23··on Gaybreaking
Because it's funnier that way... Bestie!
jasonm23··on Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections
as outsiders we are all wondering where their balls went.
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