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I dunno man, if you don’t want to get driven away by a stranger, maybe don’t get into the car of a stranger.

These auto-completions are dependent on having the corresponding completions information installed and enabled. Which it is with most modern distros, but more bare-bones setups won’t have it.

That is worth it for more complicated things like, “I want all commands that started with git and contained ‘foo’”

Using jargon for “this has moved up” or “this thing is bad” is not specific to science in any way.

Well yeah, but that’s business bullshit speak, nothing to do with science!

The meme is about technical science jobs. There are absolutely technical science jobs where you cannot communicate key ideas and concepts without a) the person you’re describing it to needing more than “a bit of undergrad math/science” and b) if you try to explain it without using specialist terminology, you’ll spend an unnecessary hour for every quarter hour of content recalling the specialist definition of things because, for some reason, you refuse to use the precise word that the scientific community have agreed means exactly that.

Reading The Expanse at the moment and there is an analogue (no pun intended) of this: communication through the Gates is affected by some kind of weird interference, which is audible as strange whistling/ringing in audio. But surely they’re using digital, encrypted signals for these connections (rather than broadcasts)! It should result in a degraded bandwidth or corruption, not whatever that is.

Though now I think about it, DAB radio does get a kind of watery noise when there’s poor signal, so maybe it’s not completely unrealistic. If anyone knows enough about DAB to explain that, I’m interested.

Electron is the abomination, not VSCode, and JetBrains IDEs are developed by… JetBrains, not Oracle.

It’s not “horseshit” - I gave you a caveat precisely so that you can understand the limitations of my comparison, and so that you don’t need to be so antagonistic.

lightweight

I launched VSCode fresh this morning. Just now, 4 hours later, I closed it and watched my system memory usage: 1.3GB. I am doing remote development, so there’s a whole server process as well which is chomping a few GB. My old laptop repeatedly ground to a halt until the OOM killer woke up/I rebooted as its measly 32GB of RAM couldn’t cope with two VSCode sessions (plus other normal apps) after a while.

It’s kind of an abomination when VsCode, supposed to be a lighter IDE, runs like dogshit compared to JetBrains, a fuckin’ Java based IDE. Since when was Java light on RAM?

(Caveat: I haven’t directly compared their memory usage, my experience is in very difference codebases for each)

It’s a little weird but not that weird.

You have to understand a) what Putin cares about and b) what the Russian people care about. Putin and Russia essentially believe that Ukraine, or at least the Donbas and Crimea, are and always were part of Russia. They think that the break-up of the Soviet Union was a national shame and in particular that the assignment of the Donbas and Crimea to Ukraine (because they were part of the Ukrainian SSR) in that break-up was wrong. Putin believes this fervently and has made several speeches about it. The Russian people likely feel similarly but less strongly about it.

So placing Western troops in Ukraine or fighting Russia with them is seen in that light - imagine if the US had a civil war again, Texas seceded, and then Russia put troops in Texas.

But this is not the same when a Russian submarine gets depth-charged off the coast of some European country. Putin, and Russia in general, don’t have historical, deeply-held revanchist claims about Sweden or the UK or Belgium or wherever.

From the public opinion point of view, this means that Putin can’t ignore it as easily if the West supports Ukraine directly by putting troops there. And for Putin himself, that direct intervention is a much more serious challenge to his designs on Ukraine than taking pot-shots at military assets that “accidentally” find themselves violating the borders in sea or air (or on land…) of other sovereign states.

Well I want this to be true

Yeah, it couldn’t be the UN-confirmed genocide, nor the IDF-sanctioned videos of complete devastation, nor the steady wash of articles from journalists with decades of experience confirming utterly inhumane practices around aid distribution, rules of engagement and civilian deaths. Couldn’t be.

Yeah, it’s so weird to sympathise with people who are being starved 🙄

In KDE I type in “tor” and “factorio” appears above “tor browser”

I believe you can disable the dumb search providers.

That is most trading by volume, but it’s not using LLMs.

Newspeak via three dictionary

I wonder if the Orwell tactics work in practice, then

Presumably every so often there’s a dispute because 0 + (0.3 + 0.3 + 0.3) - 0.3 - 0.3 - 0.3 is not equal to 0 (in floating point arithmetic).