I think that linux has a couple of things that might help it grow outside its traditional niche that it hasn’t in the past. Proton has been a major step forward in to the gaming scene. A lot of people are very unhappy about windows 11. The EU in particular is also investing in ways to get out from under American techs thumb due to the geopolitical landscape.
I don’t have too high expectations personally but who knows.
One thought I’ve had about AI and programing is that you’ll run in to a similar problem. Code is a bit special because it’s a language that’s understandable by both humans and computers, and when you’re programing you’re essentially writing for both audiences at once.
Voice is maybe not as important when writing code (although you still want to keep the coding style consistent) but even so I think that writing code by hand has the advantage of you being able to express your thoughts in a more coherent way than the output of a handful prompts will. The problem isn’t just with however powerful the AI model is, but that prompting is a kind of vague and indirect way of interacting with the system and it necessarily introduces another layer between the author and whoever ends up reading it.
I try to write comments whenever what the code isn’t obvious on its own. A “never write comments” proponent might argue that you should never write code that isn’t obvious on its own, but that doesn’t always work in practice
What are the odds that you’re actually going to get a bounty out of it? Seems unlikely that an AI would hallucinate an actually correct bug.
Maybe the people doing this are much more optimistic about how useful LLMs are for this than I am but it’s possible that there’s some more malicious idea behind it.
They are open to drop some features apparently, but maybe not “90%”
The developers are taking a “less is more” approach. This means that some features of the original sudo may not be reimplemented if they serve only niche, or more recently considered “outdated” practices.
I use wezterm. It’s more configurable than the windows terminal and also works on linux. It has an appropriately linux-y feel imo.
tldr is great, sometimes you can’t remember the exact syntax for a certain command and just need a quick reminder as well.
Can I mod games as freely and as easily as I do on Windows?
It depends a lot on the game, but in my experience not always. Running games straight from steam works really well with a small number of exceptions, but a lot of the sometimes weird tools for patching exe:s and so on that some games use can sometimes be a pain to get running. Not necessarily impossible but yeah this is a reason for why I still keep around my windows installation for dual booting.
It’s another c/c++ competitor along with rust and zig. https://odin-lang.org/
Don’t think it has anything to do with electron. VSCode is just the largest editor that people install extensions for, so it’s what makes the most sense to write malware for. If vim was more popular, I’m sure there would be more crypto mining extensions for that (I wonder how many there are? Surely more than zero?)
If you want to test windows programs on linux, you’re probably going to want to do that in a virtual machine, or even a spare computer just for testing on windows. Depending on how much you need to use excel, a virtual machine could be a good option for that as well, but if using Microsoft Excel™ is a big part of your job, maybe it makes more sense to just stay on Windows for work at least
fd is a lot faster than find. This might not matter if you’re searching through small directories but if you’re working in a very large project it does make things a lot nicer.
RFK is a C-nile
The US government recommending memory safe languages has really given people worms in their heads
Always squashing is a bit much for my taste, sometimes the individual commits have interesting information! Text from the MR in the merge commit is great though, maybe I should see if we can set that up with gitlab and propose that we start doing that at work.
Putting the message in git puts the information closer to the code, since the pr isn’t in git itself but instead the git forge. You can for example search the text of git messages from the git cli, or come across the explanation when doing git blame. I sometimes write verbose commit messages and then use them as the basis for the text in the pr, that way the reviewer can see it easily, but it’s also available to anyone who might come across it when doing git archeology
Who the fuck types out “snigger” haha
Teleports behind you
I mean if you think that it’s bad for linux culture because you’re teaching newbies the wrong lessons, fair enough.
My point is that most people can parse that they’re essentially asking you to run some commands at a url, and if you have even a fairly basic grasp of linux it’s easy to do that in whatever way you want. I don’t know if I personally would be any happier if people took the time to lecture me on safety habits, because I can interpret the command for myself. curl https://some-url/ | sh is terse and to the point, and I know not to take it completely literally.
You have the option of piping it into a file instead, inspecting that file for yourself and then running it, or running it in some sandboxed environment. Ultimately though, if you are downloading software over the internet you have to place a certain amount of trust in the person your downloading the software from. Even if you’re absolutely sure that the download script doesn’t wipe your home directory, you’re going to have to run the program at some point and it could just as easily wipe your home directory at that point instead.
Got some total war cravings and bough total Warhammer III on a sale. It has a very strong “just one more turn” factor and it’s been eating up a good chunk of my free time the past week, but I’ve finally got it out of my system. Warhammer II still has the best factions, but the mechanical improvements in particular how allies work are really nice. If you own all three games you can play the “immortal empires” campaign including the whole old Warhammer fantasy world and all races. This is an absolutely massive game world, at the start of the game there are 280 factions, although this count decreases quickly