On the other hand, it’s not always something we actively do. If I lose focus on something I was doing with someone or on a conversation, I didn’t do it on purpose, and I literally couldn’t help it. I have definitely been called an asshole for it before, but calling me out on it doesn’t do anything but make me feel like shit cause it happened again, and as I know it always will, I now know you’ll always think I’m being one
Yes, but it’s IMHO not as clear cut. Some of the things we do because of our executive function disorder can be interpreted as us being assholes by those we interact with. One can act like an asshole at times and not intrinsically be one. Some things are perceived as assholeish by some people but not others.
Really bigger updates obviously require a major version bump to signify to users that there is potential stability or breakage issues expected.
If your software is following semver, not necessarily. It only requires a major version bump if a change is breaking backwards compatibility. You can have very big minor releases and tiny major releases.
there was more time for people to run pre-release versions if they are adventurous and thus there is better testing
Again, by experience, this is assuming a lot.
From experience shipping releases, “bigger updates” and “more tested” are more or less antithetical. The testing surface area tends to grow exponentially with the amount of features you ship with a given release, to the point I tend to see small, regular releases, as a better sign of stability.
I’d love to share your optimism, especially regarding that last sentence. As long as Google controls the most popular web browser out there, I don’t see the arms race ever stopping, they’ll just come up with something else. It wouldn’t be the first time they push towards something nobody asked for that only benefits themselves.
Your first hint that this is a naive take is that you’re brushing off a societal issue to a single, external factor.
I do connect to VMs and containers all the time, I just don’t see a reason not to speed myself up on my own machines because of it. To me, the downside of typing an alias on a machine that doesn’t have it once in a while, is much less than having to type everything out or searching my shell history for longer commands every single time. My shell configs are in a dotfiles repo I can clone to new personal/work machines easily, and I have an alias to rsync some key parts to VMs if needed. Containers, I just always assume I don’t have access to anything but builtins. I guess if you don’t do the majority of your work on a local shell, it may indeed not be worth it.
I’d rather optimize for the 99% case, which is me getting shit done on my machine, than refuse to use convenient stuff for the sake of maybe not forgetting a command I can perfectly just look up if I do legitimately happen to forget about it. If I’m on a remote, I already don’t have access to all my usual software anyway, what’s a couple more aliases? To me this sounds like purposefully deciding to slow yourself down cutting paper with a knife all the time cause you may not have access to scissors when you happen to sit at someone else’s desk.
Ah, you too! Furthest I got in BG3 is the goblin camp lol
Funny, I just started it again a week ago. For the third time. I’m enjoying it a lot, like the last two times, but I have a lingering feeling this won’t last lol
I recently realized that many of the things I end up sticking with are those I didn’t pick up on a whim, but that I planned to take a look at for a while and pushed back on. For example, I’ve owned Elite Dangerous for more than a year, I was barely touching it for the first six months, and played extremely occasionally otherwise. This lasted until last November, when something just… clicked, to the point my wife got together with my mother to buy me a HOTAS this Christmas.
Rest assured that your experience does sound extremely familiar. It’s very difficult to stick to something. The dopamine rush I get from the very act of figuring out something new just doesn’t last past the novelty phase.
That’s not “self hosting” related tho lol
Now, the downside: I actually started to miss those whispers. They were my voice, after all, and they were not only distractions, but also my emotions, my creativity, my wit, my charm. It’s not that those things are all gone, but they are certainly subdued, muted.
YMMV on this. I absolutely do not miss the brain chatter whenever it starts again. I do not consider it to be “my voice”, but the thing that’s making it quieter than I’d like.
It desperately needs interface types if we ever hope to make it a serious contender for general purpose web development. The IO overhead of having to interface with JS to use any web API is itself pretty slow, and is limiting a lot of usecases.
The stuff like Flash, Java applets and Silverlight it eventually replaced were arguably even worse. There’s a legitimate need to run client-side code at times, IMHO the mistake was making it so permissive by default. Blaming the language for the bad browser security model is kind of throwing away the baby with the bathwater.
Considering how little we actually know, how much we are still figuring out today, how wrong we once were, and most definitely still are on many things, about said nature, the naturalistic argument is IMHO rather weak. The argument silently assumes too many things, at least with our current knowledge - that human beings do actually have an inherent nature, that said nature is uniform enough across the whole species to make that generalization, that said nature is inevitable and can’t be evolved past or rationalized against, that it always was the case and will always be, etc.
He specifically said “unit tests” though, which aren’t black box tests by definition
Tramp is more featured, but if all one cares about is being able to edit remote files using a local editor, vim can edit remote files with scp too: scp://user@server[:port]//remote/file.txt
I tried tramp-mode at some point, but I seem to remember some gotchas with LSP and pretty bleh latency, which didn’t make it all that useful to me… But I admittedly didn’t spend much time in emacs land.