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[–] pkill@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

lol it's just a program that tries to do everything with any data you throw at it (whatever happened to UNIX philosophy...) but using insane amounts of computing power. General purpose models will always, ALWAYS eventually run into the wall of the second law of thermodynamics.
LLM extensions... yeah we had a tool for that. It's called an OS and programs.
Until we don't overcome the limitations of current computers, replacing code with training data and hoping it will be as good and efficient is a naive pipe dream.

[–] pkill@programming.dev -2 points 3 months ago

Yes, fix the shit by kicking out the triumvirate of policians, corporations and military altogether, not by voting for lesser evil and dealing with shame after legitizming brazen, out of touch geriatric fucks; hoping that just one more legal act will prevent business from torching the planet, manipulating prices, avoiding taxation, eliminating competition, trampling down consumer rights and exploiting workers; or that there might ever be a good war and a bad peace and gaslighting yourself that it's for a just cause and not spheres of influence and profits off the backs of countries treated like the disputed territories of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

American bourgeois democracy is not only a sham; it is rotten to its core. All that is missing is a force strong enough to kick it and watch it come collapsing down.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

implying any court will do enough to send a major political party to it's right place at the dumpster of history

[–] pkill@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Yes even for technical writing it's absolute shit. I once stumbled upon a book about postgresql with repetitive summaries and generally a very algorithmic, article-like pattern on literally every page.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

why even install multiple copies of chromium in the first place if all this electron proprietary garbage comes with virtually no extra features compared to the web version, in the first place?

[–] pkill@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

on chromium screen sharing works flawlessly though.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yeah sysctl > regedit

'tis a meme... ;)

[–] pkill@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

the real question is whether you use git variants. Which is another way of not making arch (and Gentoo) certainly not free as in free beer, especially if you live in Europe and need to deal with those outrageous energy prices. btw imo one should be suspicious of projects with long tagged release cadence since it's usually a sign of technical debt and the need to look for alternatives.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
Ken Thompson

I see Wayland's flaws but X is such a bloated piece of hardly maintainable spaghetti code that it is sadly beyond saving or prospects for anything in terms of significant improvement

[–] pkill@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

well in this particular case it's initramfs' fault for not designing for all-or-nothing atomicity (a operation either completes fully or not at all). which you can work around with a terminal multiplexer where a session can be re-attached later in such cases btw.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

well in my experience it was opensuse tumbleweed or Manjaro that were significantly less stable, but perhaps my perception is a little bit skewed since I use artix and it's certainly not too rarely just the bloated, tightly coupled nature of shitstemd that causes some of arch's issues.

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