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  • What’s really baffling to me is how completely irrelevant most ads are to me.

    And I’m not saying “ads don’t work for me”, I get ads for products that I will never buy. I’m a man and YouTube recommends me tampons, lipstick and perfume. I also won’t buy a car anytime soon, yet I get tons of ads for cars.

    Even in the mindset of an ad person, that can’t make sense. Sure, there is the off chance that I’ll buy lipstick for my girlfriend, but how likely is that and how much revenue will materialize from bombarding thousands of men with ads? That cannot be economically viable.

    The actually infuriating part is, that we’re still paying for it. And the vendors as well. Only Google profits. If a company spends more on ads than necessary, their products will get more expensive, and those who buy their products will have to pay for it. So essentially I’m paying money for being advertised to, so Google can rake in billions.


  • The long-term goal is for Rust to overtake C in the kernel (from what I understand

    Your understanding wrong. Rust is limited to some very specific niches within the kernel and will likely not spread out anytime soon.

    critical code gets left untouched (a lot of the time) because no one wants to be the one that breaks shit

    The entire kernel is “critical”. The entire kernel runs - kind of by definition - in kernel space. Every bug there has the potential for privilege escalation or faults - theoretically even hardware damage. So following your advice, nobody should every touch the kernel at all.






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    14 days ago

    It’s absolutely not inherently wrong or implausible to assume that the constant and rather direct exposure over decades causes cancer.

    Old timey radio operators definitely died earlier. They had much higher cancer rates. Granted, completely different levels of radiation, but radiation damage is stochastic. If there is an effect at all, it will cause thousands of new cases even low doses simply because we have like 7 billion phone users.

    Doing proper studies on that is hard, but absolutely necessary.





  • No, I’d argue you simply didn’t want to invest in the other tools.

    Think about it, you probably spent hours on customizing and automating vim, and then say you’re faster in that. Well, that’s called a habit.

    IDE are objectively more powerful and since you can actually see options and navigate quickly, you don’t need to memorize every obscure feature.

    All the terminal editor enthusiasts are actively holding us back, because they insist everything outside vim is garbage for enterprise and kiddies.

    If your tool of choice is actively hostile to new users for no reason other than “that’s how it’s always been, and thus it’s better”, well then you’re digging a moat to automate your gatekeeping.


  • I understand it very well. And that’s exactly why I’m writing this.

    Ok, I can see you have no idea what you’re talking about.

    Then say, grandmaster delusion, what purpose does vim serve, where it is actually the best tool? Writing code? Hardly, it’s way too limited and requires a ton of upfront investment and headspace. Writing config files? Hardly, because if you write these by hand, you’re living in the 90s, that’s what Ansible, Terraform etc are for.

    You just don’t want to admit, that vim is nothing more than a habit. Muscle memory.


  • You’re using the terminal, because you’re used to it. It is not the better tool, it’s simply what you happen to know already.

    People who argue with productivity because of some key bindings live in the world of the 80s. You don’t just sit there and type code 12h a day, that’s not how modern software development works.

    And all those blockheads down voting me are caught up in their weird superiority complex. They are the powerful superhackers, and don’t understand that we are just highly qualified plumbers.




  • And that’s especially true for Linux and other big projects.

    I’m not a kernel or C developer by any stretch, but a few years ago fixed a small bug that caused my knockoff PS2 controllers to act super weird. Nothing serious, something like one constant and maybe 5 lines of code. Would have gladly pushed that upstream, but fuck me sideways is that a complicated process. Patches via email??? And the argument is always “but it works for us”, yeah burning witches and slavery also work for some people, doesn’t mean it’s something to continue doing.

    If there isn’t a serious revamp, Linux will die a slow death or become just a corporate graveyard product like Cobol.