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letwhile··on Skip is now free and open source
Please provide a helpful comment instead of "rtfm".
letwhile··on Skip is now free and open source
Can you please stop assuming that everyone knows your randomly named niche software and use a more descriptive title for your posts? Much appreciated.
letwhile··on JetBrains cancels Fleet
You only noticed that intellij is bloated and slow in "recent times"? I call bs
letwhile··on Wayland Nvidia
The monthly wayland news, that we would be there already. Reminds me of fusion energy.
letwhile··on Let's Unify Linux Desktops
We have 23 different vim clones tho
letwhile··on Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact
Just like humans
letwhile··on I kissed comment culture goodbye
yeah me too. never commented since. life is awesome
letwhile··on Why Are ADHD Rates So Much Higher in the U.S.?
Over 10% of children? That sounds like a flawed testing method or toxic environment, not a disease.
letwhile··on Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update
No, this is obviously an illegal scam.
letwhile··on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees
But... they support "your" platform? It is running stunningly well on Linux. What are you talking about?
letwhile··on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees
Good management. But you can buy stickers and stuff
letwhile··on Most states start school too early in the morning
There is no teen-gene that sets your sleep schedule in stone tho afaik. Maybe some psychological problems?
letwhile··on Most states start school too early in the morning
Probably they go to bed too late?
letwhile··on Porsche Design System v3
The linked documentation page has an objectively bad design. Not bad bad, but really confusing.
letwhile··on Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark
This project exists since more than 4 years. No need to bump without any news or comment.
letwhile··on Humans can feel empathic embarrassment towards robots, finds VR study
Let us make a study for everything trivial thing.
letwhile··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
Because they can't control it not talking extremist stuff, and that would be used by media and normies for months
letwhile··on Deluge – sequencer, synthesizer and sampler – goes open source
nice to see it here. while everyone is pouring out throw away shit, synthstrom is transforming their hardware product by software updates since many years, and they still invest in it, instead of abondoning it and selling "new" versions. Sounds like a hot take, but it puts a lot of other companies to shame. Making their firmware opensource is a smart move.
letwhile··on From Pythonista to Rustacean
not op, but i often see people trying to push their old mindset on a language they are learning, which is a bad approach. maybe i miss sth, but i don't see how any knowledge from python is applicable to rust. so it may be beneficial to clear your mind and go from zero.
letwhile··on Selecting a programming language can be a form of premature optimization
While I see a point in this article, I personally run into performance problems with python at a very early stage nearly every time. The overhead of starting to use some ffi is huge. Suddenly you have two projects, with two different build systems etc. Way faster to just use a performant language. Besides this, dynamic typing gets frustrating quickly, as the loc rise, and distribution is not very fun. I love the language, but won't use it anymore for any "serious" project.
letwhile··on Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences?
I don't see the point of this. As an engineer you get a task and then pick a solution from a bag you have, that is not optimal, but fulfills the constraints you got. Time and money, features, accuracy, speed, waste, etc.

Where is the difference with software? You get the same kind of constraints and need to build something from libraries and custom code, that fits all of them.

There may be more constraints for a skyscraper than a small garage, and there are more constraints for airplane software than a website. You can't write flight controllers in javascript, the same way you cannot build your airplane out of toilet paper. There are also more constraints for airplane software than for your backyard garage. It only depends on the regulations in the field. Most of the times software doesn't have the potential to harm people, like houses and bridges have. So you have less regulations.

If you want to build a bicycle, there is no right solution either. You could benchmark it by weight, like you could benchmark software by memory usage.

Most engineering products only rely on best practice and the way the company does it since years, from experience. There is no "right" solution, neither in civil-, nor in software-, nor in engineering in general.

letwhile··on Thoughts on Clojure UI framework
If your estimation of "time to window" is correct, clojure seems like a very bad choice for this undertaking.