I spent some more time thinking about this. Me and a group of friends spent way too many years playing a MUD game back in the 90s. Some would jot down maps of areas.

I didn’t find maps particularly helpful, but I guess I felt like the rooms had a direction and would navigate by that. I could probably still find my way around there. I’d describe it like a vector database.

People do seem to get upset when you remind them about all the Christian terrorists that set fire (or similar) to abortion clinics.

Yes. I have a good spatial thinking and memory. I know where I’ve seen my glasses last, I just can’t visualise it.

I delivered packages for the postal service one summer during studies. It took me two weeks to memorize all the streets of the town I had moved to two years prior.

I prefer to do my 3D modelling in OpenSCAD because 2D visualizations are harder to work with than math & code.

The touchpad on my late 2015 15" MBP stopped clicking because of a pillow that eventually bent the whole top chassis.

Any battery will pillow up if you run it hot and overcharged 24/7.

I 'member getting two sheets of dot-matrix-printed bad blocks with my 26MB harddrive. It took forever to fill those in the BIOS for the XT controller.

When the internet was new, hip and cool in 1997 it was the best way for a poor student to really get knees deep into networking and hosting. I just haven’t seen much reason to try anything else.

I did use OS X for work when doing iOS development a few years.

And in a perfect world I’d rather run a UNIX certified operating system. Linux support is just so good at the moment that I can’t really be bothered.

YTA

I can agree with most of the points in the thread. Especially the forced use of AI where it makes no sense.

I’m a software engineer going on my second decade in developing media streaming technologies.

LLMs are useful in my day-to-day work. They speed up development a lot, but I do realise that I am getting disassociated with my codebase. I know that the individual commits are on a level that I would’ve written myself, often even better. But I don’t know the codebase as intimately as if I actually wrote it myself. The cognitive load of reviewing two other people’s AI-assisted code is also very taxing.

But, we can hate it as much as we want. Pandora is out of her box, and it’s better to get ahead with it than be left behind.

You can use it all day and stay well below the quota. Small context, with the right model for the job. Surgical precision.

But… At some point you shut off your brain, use the most expensive model on the highest reasoning level with your whole codebase as context and just wait for tens of minutes while it burns all the tokens. To speed this up you then send six agents to tackle the same problem from all angles.

As I recall it’s pretty hi-tech, too.

Hardware permitting it’ll emulate every path your friend might take, and correct itself to the correct timeline when it gets friend’s input. Lag-free for everyone.

I’m surprised to see comments of people actually using it. I know it’s been topping distrowatch forever by inflation numbers.

Also hepatitis A.

There’s an infamous usenet-thread with Torvalds and Tanenbaum arguing over monolithic vs microkernel design. I microkernel is cleaner from a separation standpoint, but that also introduces hurdles and overhead.

Linux is popular because the hardware support is pretty great. There’s few laptop/BSD combinations that work well with sleep/suspend/wifi, while just about any laptop will have everything working with a recent Linux kernel.

I think it’s spot on. Even if you use power tools you need to know what kind of screw goes where. But it sure goes a whole lot faster to use power tools.

Sounds to me from the article that this is a seasoned engineer who just doesn’t want to use the tools she’s being handed.

Remember back in the day when you’d see these little badges on websites saying Best viewed with Internet Explorer? And some sites just wouldn’t work right on other browsers?

Soon you went be using any of those shitty sites, either

No, I’d hire the one using power tools and PEX pipes. Not the one stuck in the 19th century.

If I was hiring for my hypothetical construction company I’d have a real easy time picking between an employee who gets the job done and one who refuses to use power tools.

Linux has extended quite a few system calls. Not really a problem as they mostly support the POSIX ways.

But there are a few corner cases around threading and file locks that do break on mainline Linux.

Not too big to overcome, as there are exceptions like EulerOS that are both compliant and certified.

Pros:

• I have the source. I don’t have to wait for fixes or features. I just do it myself and send a patch or PR upstream.
• I can run it on just about anything, and well.
• Sane defaults and handling of user permissions - by design
• Modern filesystems that don’t silently rot your data
• Full control
• No forced updates
• No telemetry

Cons:

• Not a priority for pro applications
• Not fully POSIX compliant

I haven’t used windows in almost 30 years, but… I probably missed some games at first that DOSBox couldn’t run well (yet). Not a problem any more.

I got my first car 24 years ago. A hand-me-down that my grandpa bought with 87kkm on it, that my brother crashed. It took a lot of welding to get that car to pass inspection.

Four cars later I still have never owned a new car. I aim to buy 10yo without a loan. My current one no longer gets updated maps for its built-in infotainment system.

If I buy a 10yo EV it’ll definitely need a new battery pack. That changes the economy completely. I guess it’s cheaper to drive so I’d shell out for 10yo of driving in advance.