What would be amazing is if there was some way to have a fully declarative system that was integrated with a system update UI.

You would upload the config somewhere, your family’s streaming box would see a new update is available and either prompt them to install it or install it for them overnight.

Only a couple?

It’s the same reason cheaters suspect their partners of cheating: projection. They have no moral objection to paying people to voice an option they want signal boosted, and therefore can’t imagine opinions being voiced against them is for any different of a reason.

Call me a luddite, but if I don’t want to give my purchase history to a bank, I drive to the store and pay with cash. I can see how that might not be an option for online-only retailers, however.

I never understood the reason for gift cards.

“Let me give this store a fixed amount of my money so that my niece can either use a portion of it and while the company keeps the remaining balance, or spend some of her own money on top so it doesn’t go to waste.”

Unless the recipient needs to go shopping at the store for basic life necessities anyway, the only winner here is the company.

It sounds like your boss needs to stop being anyone’s boss. That kind of view is going to lead to piles of tech debt and everything that comes with it.

The protocols designed for Kitty are great, but I when I last gave Kitty itself a try, I felt it was extremely opinionated in a very off-putting way.

It was advertised as being highly extensible and scriptable, but despite that, I found it to be less flexible than my old setup which wired up tmux with Python scripts. For instance, I was able to track which pane was previously active when creating a new split, allowing me to have the newly-created pane’s bashrc read the old pane’s bash /proc/ entry to copy the environment variables. That wasn’t possible in Kitty. And although Kitty’s splits layout were functional, resizing the splits themselves was an unconfigurable pain in the ass because the sizing is based on width/height rather than bounding boxes.

I would normally chalk that up to growing pains of a new project, but reading through the GitHub issues and documentation didn’t leave me with the impression that the author cared about how something could be done in Kitty, but only that it could be done in the most basic sense. If the user’s workflow would benefit from having a partial overlay or popup, tough shit—they can either use a full overlay or create a layout for it.

It didn’t sit well with me, and moving to Kitty full time would have been a downgrade in productivity for practically no real benefit.

I would prefer Kitty.

Is there any particular reason why you prefer that one specifically? Out of all the newer terminal emulators I have tried, the only one I disliked more than kitty was warp.

Meanwhile: private prisons at home…

Trend chasing with FOMO whipped cream.

We all know the answer to C. In a couple of years it will be a good time to open a “tech debt reduction” consulting company.

How capable are LLMs at replacing software jobs above an entry-level grade? I imagine giving a gaggle of fresh grads the entirety of human knowledge and asking them to create software would create something, but I don’t imagine the outcome would be high enough quality to have a net positive in productivity after someone has to spend the next 5 years adding to or changing it.

Sounds familiar. Hype first, promise “next year” availability, deliver on promises never.

I haven’t hit one of these myself yet so I can’t say for sure, but as far as what I have read, it looks like it.

No. It presents the captcha on your PC, then you need to scan the QR code from your phone.

Not just media companies. Media companies where he has a say over the approval of their mergers and acquisitions.

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by profiteering opportunism.

Does this already have a name? If not, can we call it “Riccitiello’s Law”?

Calling it now:

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Cargo distributes libraries as sources, not precompiled objects.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck anyone calling it a duck is antisemitic.

— The Israeli government