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I was a programmer at a small company that had their programmers field tech support calls and there is a good reason they do this... most of the people calling in are dumb as rocks when it comes to whatever they needed help with... some called while driving for help that required you to be in front of a computer.

to put this to numbers... the exports are just about 0.5% of california's GDP. so yeah pretty much a rounding error.

they just agreed to move forward on the protocol to do that thing.

yeah... it's good stuff and if python breaks something after a package update reinstalling toshy is quick and easy and the config is safe if you only write your modifications inside the areas where they tell you to. (though backup of the folder is a good idea when doing that)

i don't find the luddite comparison accurate. they were against looms and anti-ai people or ai skeptical people are against the wholesale strip mining of intellectual property as it exists... both public domain and non-public domain. it's used to enrich the capital class at the expense of the workers. sure it's similar but it certainly didn't have the copyright and wholesale theft of all of the human ideas behind it. it just feels quite different.

using a linux with toshy to get the best of both worlds wrt keybindings. linux and kde is amazing nowadays... I don't miss macos but would be hating linux without mac style keybindings.

my non-command line gui version of doom emacs with a bunch of packages enabled loads up fully for me in 0.45s which is hardly slow. sure it's slower than neovim but also not slow in the absolute sense and i don't have the emacs daemon running which would make that even faster.

I don't know what I've done to have a small right click menu but mine is only a handful of options and I even tried selecting an image and a link and some text to get all the options.

there is a middle ground where you could do something like about:mouse (about:keyboard for keyboard shortcuts already exists) for the power users. doesn't need to be fancy but it would be easy enough to do.

I'm rocking cachyos(arch based though) wayland+kde and https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy. it's great to keep the keyboard shortcuts that I'm so used to from the mac almost seamlessly. kde lets you configure pretty much everything how a mac was if you want it though it did take a month or two to get everything the way I like it. I've found that it is nice to have an operating system that is mine and not the whims of some company trying to make money off me. I don't think I'll go back unless I'm forced to for a job.

there has been a few adopters of rust... linux formally choosing it for some of their systems being the most notable recently(maybe a few months ago).

halt and catch fire is so good. one of the best things i've watched as a tv series.

basically the patriot act was a big piece of temporary safety that never produced any.

i assume heat since most energy in an ICE engine is wasted to heat (~60% wasted iirc)

I think the special feature is that it tracks on a per line basis in a blended commit what AI is doing vs. whole commits. not sure the utility of it.

microsoft also uses react native for the start menu and also bricked that during a recent upgrade apparently... along with breaking other stuff.

yeah i tried it the other day because spectacle feels lacking and it completely failed on my multimonitor kde wayland setup.

you see the reason h1b is so popular with the c-suite in a lot of cases is that you get absolute loyalty to a company that holds all the power of your being allowed to stay in the us. you lose the h1b job and you have limited time to find a new valid employer to sponsor you or else you go back to your country. it's one of the reasons musk loves it for twitter.

> I'm curious what would stop you from opening it in restricted mode? Is it because it says browse and not edit under the button?

loss of syntax highlighting and to a lesser extent the neovim plugin. maybe having some kind of more granular permission system or a whitelist is the answer here.

opening a folder in vscode shouldn't be dangerous.

yeah me as well. at least have the untrusted code allow certain plugins or certain features of plugins to run that you whitelist. not having vim keybindings or syntax highlighting is too barebones.

though use linux is in a great state. tahoe and windows are really bad right now and i don't regret moving to linux even a little bit.

Erick Schat's Bakkery in bishop is a counterpoint... great sandwiches from what i remember and a great bakery. though they operate kinda separate.

chile based on the email address in profile

I think that if affinity chooses to make it work well on linux that would be a game changer for a lot of people. daVinci resolve works on linux for video so having a proper photo editor/illustrator tool that is not gimp would open up the option for most people to daily drive it. that's really the missing piece.

cachyos is a good os that is also performant. arch though so there are quirks around the rolling update model but you always have the newestish packages and if you update regularly there seems to be less headache.

I wonder how well this will work without other the states not being in on it and what other unintended consequences this may bring. sounds like a good start though.

the author of these libraries is a very experienced ruby coder... I'm sure there's a reason for that code:

to_s normalizes code down to a string that can be compared when the object could be arbitrary and might not implement ==

init is one of the three core framework methods for the elm pattern.

another early days project but pretty well thought out in that space: https://github.com/yippee-fun/empirical/blob/main/literally_...

pretty sure i heard that they were stepping down from doing discrete graphics in the next year or two

manjaro is arch under the hood and arch is supposed to be updated fairly frequently.