The “claude says” is the part this pisses me off about LLM use now. If I wanted a Claude answer I’d ask Claude. If I ask a human I want a human response not a “here’s what Claude said”.
I’ve always used vim/neovim but fell in love with some of the features of emacs (org, magit, lisp). My problem was spending the time to configure it though.
Even with spaceman’s/doom and the amazing documentation it was always still so much work to configure emacs as a newer user. LLMS have made this nearly instant.
This is a bit of a ramble but it’s so amazing having emacs and an LLM now, I don’t even touch vscode anymore and only find myself touching things like IntelliJ when I really need to dig into something with a debugger.
Public trackers like the piratebay face a lot of issues with retention. If it’s not mainstream or recent people often don’t seed or maintain it. If you join a private tracker there’s ones dedicated to keeping older sources like that a live!
For really obscure content, internet archive, your library, usenet or even eBay are the go to!
Generally a lot of them you can get an invite from someone on Reddit or discord. A lot also open up for a week or so allowing people to register every year or whenever a major tracker goes down so the refuges can join. you can check places like Reddit /r/opensignups.
A lot of mainstream stuff is ripped already, the “ratio” on some is more if you download a torrent, they want you to seed it for x amount of time or seed it back x amount to the community. I don’t know of any that expect you to be ripping and uploading that way, it’s recommended but a lot have groups for mainstream content.
There are a few “elitist” private trackers that require “interviews” and stuff, but don’t let that scare you off 99% of them are all just grab and invite or sign up and seed back to community for the week or so minimum (preferably longer) and your good to go!
I honestly wouldn’t bother with public trackers. They work great for debrid services with something like kodi or stremio but if you want to “own” or build your collection you have much better options
1. Private trackers - people seed, they have rules on uploads and actually moderate
2. Usenet is still alive and thriving for this.
3. Libraries still exist and you can rent and rip media there
4.Internet Archive is a great resource for old stuff
5. Just buy physical copies and rip em. Can check eBay etc.
It’s sort of crazy how much changed in the past few years. The only things that don’t run well under wine/proton now I feel like are online games with kernel anticheat and products like Autodesk or Adobe.
If you’re trying to customize windows, there’s really nothing that “just works” there either. I’ve found default Ubuntu installs to “just work” better than default windows 11 as well.
I don’t think they should ban anything that not actually illegal in the first place. But ya if they’re going to “try to protect the kids” at least go for the obvious issues. Then again they don’t actually care about the kids haha.
I don’t understand the vision bet. As a consumer, I want self driving with expectations of it being reliable and affordable. Again as a consumer I couldn’t care any less how it “works”. If someone is able to produce a car using more than just vision that works first, they will be the winner.
Microsoft seems to have most fooled with vscode.. The only other IDE’s worth touching imo are Jetbrains and they have most likely been hit by the fact vscode costs $0 and is “good enough”.
Microsoft has already made it difficulty to compete with their “free” by giving away enough and locking down parts that would allow competition to easily fork it (Python LSP, Extensions marketplace).
Vim and Emacs seem to be thriving but I wouldn’t call them drop in replacements.
Is there actually any point in using it? My initial thought was they would allow a more “atom” approach while still keeping all the vscode functionality.
But it looks like it’s aimed more for “building your own IDE” without having to start from scratch, feels just like the old eclipse.
Maybe I’m missing something but why would anyone bother using this?
Does siri/homepod not just directly connect to your iPhones calander/notes/reminders?
I honestly ask this because I never tried though… I use my homepod as a glorified timer, alarm clock, and speaker. I’m just sitting here in the apple ecosystem hoping one day things will actually feel connected.
I never understood the all-in approach either. Different tools handle things better.
I personally am using a mix of tools with my editors being vim for editing files quickly on cli, emacs for magit (honestly I just use it as a git tool and it works amazing, the startup and leaving it running 24/7 is no issue on a modern computer), intellij for java (it just works), and vscode for python, terraform, javascript/node.
I see absolutely no issue with this setup, I’m not sure I would recommend it to everyone but if you use a tool, that you feel works better for even a specific case why not use it for that. If new tools popup in the future I’m always willing to try them, if they work better I’ll add them to my workflow.
I come from a vim background and have used vscode and intellij as well. But picked up emacs solely due to magit. A coworker showed me it and I have to say it’s really amazing. Nothing really compares to it, the closest I’ve seen are the cli tools “tig” and “lazygit” but magit really outshines them feature wise.
There’s nothing “similar” to it but vscode does have git tools, it just feels really clunky to use imo. Same goes for intellij’s UI. I guess it works for some people but they sort of just hurt my head to look at.
While QA and testing is important, I’m not sure you can convince the people only concerned about profits… I think the “release it fast and patch it later” concept here to stay due to the internet being so accessible. Why bother spending tons of money and time when the users will just report the bugs and you can release updates over the internet they can download. Ever since physical copies of video games and software were replaced mainly by downloads, it seems like patching is cheaper. Of course this leads to horrendous security issues, bad user experience, etc. but who cares as long as the guy on top is maximizing profits.
I can’t answer from rust perspective, but just my opinion. GUI frameworks in general seem like an atrocity, you have QT and that seems like it besides proper native development and targeting 1 platform.
Java still seems like the only language with cross platform GUI and swing/awt are on the way out with javaFX being “abandoned”? (Probably not the right term but it never was made main stream). You got to Python, etc and it’s an absolute mess. C/c++ have a few but cross platform still seems tough.
Don’t even get me started on the mess of electron.
You need to pass a road test which they are pretty picky with along with a written test. The written test had a lot of random crap you would never use imo. Honestly not too difficult but I imagine it might be for someone in and out of prison life.
I don’t know much about prison/jail but I do agree it should focus on re-habilitation they should have systems to help you study and get a drivers license while in there for example.