neilsimp1

Deus Ex or Half-Life, probably. The first Halo, too.

Why does the world need this?

I agree with you, and I don't want anything related to the current AI craze in my life, at all.

But when I come on HN and see people posting about AI IDEs and vibe coding and everything, I'm led to believe that there are developers that like this sort of thing.

I cannot explain this.

Buy yachts

This might be a less popular opinion on a site like HN, but I'm of the opinion that CEO's don't do a whole lot.

Maybe at small startups they are more involved, but the larger the company, the less I think that CEOs or other C-Suite types actually do.

While I also think ChatGPT is over-hyped and largeley incorrect in what it says, I would answer your question with a "yes". ChatGPT is perfectly capable of writing/delivering speeches at MS Build or whatever.

I can't answer OP as I only write Python for personal use, not for a "big company".

That said, Neovim + basedpyright + pipenv works well for me.

A lot of people here are using uv and pyenv. Can anyone hint at why I might want to switch?

While I somewhat agree, I can't help but read the replies here as accounts created by OP to respond to themselves.

Thank you, I did miss this.

This is better than most phones on the market, but I can't help but be turned off when I scroll down and start seeing the Google Play logo and mentions about AI and Google Gemini.

Kind of defeats the purpose, no?

I've never worked in a place where this sort of thing would have been tolerated. In high school, sure. But not the workplace.

Sorry past me - I'm boring now.

Where is your source for 80-90% using X11?

My assumption would be that by now, it would be 80+% on Wayland.

Still using my Librem 5 (2 years in).

Still works.

Still like it.

Yes, DDG for 95% of issues. Using an AI to search seems really, really, really dumb to me.

Absolutely not. I enjoy my craft, why let something do it for me, and do it worse?

It's on me.

If I get a car with an advanced computer, I expect to be able to install and run whatever software I want on it. Just like any other computer. If I can't, then I don't own the device.

You could maybe argue that it's a spiritual successor, but tech-stack wise, Firefox and Netscape are in their own family, and Brave is in the Chromium-based browser family.

Wow I disagree so much.

Use XDG dirs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#User_dir...

> because everybody is using VSCode now

Are they though? I don't have numbers right now to back this up but last I remember, people were leaving VS Code, not moving to it.

If I spend a couple hours or more doing "deep work" writing code, I often find I need an hour or two of cool-down time before I can really have much in the way of emotions again.

These are truly sad days.

For work? Maybe 1 hour, maybe 2, if I am really lucky.

For pleasure? If I can do it, 2-3 hours in the evening. This is semi-rare too though.

Odd, the fact that I couldn't have separate "panels" in Windows seemed like the bug/missing feature to me :).

> on the other hand Librem5 is $1000+

$800 now:

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

But yes the "nice" one aka Liberty Phone is still $2000, unfortunately.

Google Chrome is malware.

Can I ask why developers would prefer a laptop over a desktop? I know it's off topic, but I see this question on HN an awful lot and I scratch my head each time.

Desktop PCs are:

- Cheaper

- More repairable and upgradable

- More options for hardware

- Better thermals

- A full monitor(s), keyboard, and mouse, instead of a rinky-dink keyboard and trackpad

Seriously, why do people stream music?

Just put mp3's on a hard drive somewhere and you're done.

NeoVim, if only because lua > vimscript.

No.

If I ran a car wash and had some signs on the road stating the name of my business and accurate prices, I don't think that is deceptive.

I'm more inclined to agree that all advertising might be unethical or immoral, though.

The entire software stack is non-free and closed-source. This means you'd be taking Apple at their word on "privacy". Do you trust Apple? I wouldn't, given their track record.