@dissolvedgirl Web devs should have no more than 8GB, an outdated quadcore, and a 2MBit/s connection. That would result in faster websites for everyone.

@lorentz I see programming as puzzle how to solve a problem. By contrast, a puzzle language puts riddles by its own, unrelated to the problem.

For example, when implementing a simple data structure like a double linked list requires advanced language skills, then the language qualifies as puzzle language because it gets in the way.

@lorentz And also, it's not a motivation issue. It's a penchant for overly complicated solutions, then losing motivation after the resulting mess got too entangled to actually fix it.

@lorentz If you call a puzzle language, such as Rust, "DX". I don't.

React in Rust? For blogs where the only reason why they don't fail at basic stuff like clicking on links and actually loading a page is that the project doesn't get finished at all? ^^

@netikras AMD has "Ryzen AI", and it's useless marketing shit with no software support. Given that AMD, at just 20% market share, can't even be assed to put that into ALL their laptop CPUs, further reducing incentives for SW support, it's a safe bet that they don't expect anything out of it.

Don't even get me started on Intel laptop CPUs. Unless you're a corp in need of reliable volume (which AMD always fails at), there's no reason to buy an Intel laptop.

@Lensflare I wouldn't call soldered flash "great". I also wouldn't call a laptop great that costs 1600€ and offers a measly 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD.

@Lensflare Only if you want to pay six times the market rate for SSD storage and then only get soldered crap, and also like a ridiculous markup for RAM.

LISP is not "too good". It's not like people couldn't handle the "power" of LISP. It's that LISP projects invariably suck.

First, what you normally do is making a DSL in LISP, then using that DSL to solve the problem. Effectively, every project has its own language, which makes for a maintenance hell.

Second, typical LISP programs consist of tuple soup. Unless you run it, you have no idea whether something even is data and not code. That comes from the first AI hype where people thought programs writing programs was the way to AI, but it turned out it was just the way to unmaintainable spaghetti code.

Yes, a lone hacker can get amazing shit done in LISP. It's just that this shit is write-only and has no future because nobody will maintain that afterwards, i.e. throw-away code.

Senior means - if you fucking annoy me with questions that you could easily have googled yourself, I will rip you a second asshole so that you won't do that again.

The chess engine case falls under the plugin rule, no GPL issue here. You simply use a UCI engine as separate binary, communicate via the UCI protocol on the engine's stdin/stdout, so no shared data structures, and the engine can even be changed easily for another UCI engine.

I found a good replacement with SSDs:

sudo fstrim -av

Doesn't make things faster if there is also a weekly automatic trim anyway, as in many Linux distros, but it allows to keep the habit.

A web app can and shall do things a website cannot. A website is about delivering content, a web app is about behaviour. Devrant is a website, Discord (the browser client) is not. A non-interactive version of Discord wouldn't even make any sense.

So the question is misformed, or maybe only meaningful in that there are nuts who shell out a web app to deliver what's actually a website.

The classic "load 5MB of JS trash just to show 1k of text" crap.

The point actually is that LLMs are parrots on steroids. They are hallucinating 100% of the time, not only when this becomes too obvious. This means you can't trust anything these models put out.

Any discussion that tries to conveniently ignore that fact, even if that isn't out of ignorance, and jump to applications is simply baseless and needs to be informed - and yes, repeatedly so.

Given the choice between a stair safety rail that can and will break off at any moment, or no rail at all, I prefer the latter because it at least makes the risk clearly visible.

@kiki Obviously, I don't fall for such scams. However, that still doesn't mean I couldn't bring the point up, especially because you completely failed to mention it in your laudation.

Apple with their proprietary shit hardware... as in, 256GB to 2TB is 920€. A Samsung 990 Pro 2TB is 175€, so Apple charges 6 times the market rate while only offering soldered-in shit that, if anything, should be quite cheaper than the market rate.

The MBA 15 is +460€ for going from 8GB to 24GB, i.e. 460€ for 16GB. 32GB is not even offered. Totally ridiculous.

Also, the audacity of even offering 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM in an MBA 15 base model at 1600€ in 2024 - only Apple victims think this is in any way normal.

@Lensflare Not for freelancers (Freiberufler). https://sevdesk.de/blog/... - Programmers are mentioned as example.

Obviously, you need to declare that additional income in your tax declaration.

@tosensei Ohhh!

@dontbeevil Apple sucks because of overpriced hardware deliberately designed to be component incompatible as to shut out market competition.

Like MBA, fucking 920€ for going from 256GB to 2TB SSD? Eh... can get a 990 Pro 2TB for under 200€. Ofc the MBA doesn't have an M.2 slot.

That's already the good kind of suck because Apple hardware also often sucks from being amateurishly misdesigned in the first place. But the marketing makes up for all of it.

Microsoft gets away with it because many Windows users bicker, but don't act. In that light, they got the Windows they deserve, and it's only going to get downclouds with the "cloud" company that can't even keep their master key secret.

The one big question that nobody asks: how is it that a system that can be compromised just by clicking on some link is used for anything serious?

My overused phrase is "not sure, but I think" - when I need to answer to something but don't want to actually commit.

ni hao! :)

As website, it's total trash, and I hate it - but as piece of art, it's really impressive, and I like it.

I'd like Bobby Fischer to be covered.

@Demolishun I actually did rewrite a jQuery based plugin to vanilla JS. Not only did it reduce the page load, I also changed the crappy jQuery animations for CSS ones triggered by JS. Much smoother especially on hi-res displays.

Devs claiming that jQuery today provides them with much value, apart ofc from just lacking the time to do such a rewrite or find an alternative solution for jQuery plugins that are already there, are devs who refuse to learn JS.

These are the ones that don't provide value to the company and hence should be fired because they are a liability, not an asset.

@fullstackcircus It has. You don't need it anymore on technical grounds. How about you read my posting above in its entirety and understand it?

@fullstackcircus What exactly about "Today, it's only when you have legacy jQuery plugins and you don't have the time" was unclear?

jQuery has long outlived its usefulness. Back in the old IE days, papering over all the browser incompatibilities, that was very useful.

Today, it's only when you have legacy jQuery plugins and you don't have the time to go via https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ and throw it out for good.

Any dev who willingly uses it for new development should simply be fired before wreaking even more havoc.

@Parzi If your laptop freezes so often that this is a use case, then the problem is not its silence, but its frequent freezes in the first place.

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