1984

1984 , 2 months ago

I thought they let you use the version you used when you started subscribing, not then you ended the subscription? This was something a lot of people were upset about. That if you subscribe for a year and stop, you end up with a year old version.

1984 , 2 months ago

Thank you, good explanation. I can see why people get confused since the outcome depends on the subscription length then.

1984 , 2 months ago

Because they give them nice titles, and young devs want the status of the title. :)

I tried being a manager but I hated everything about it. The dishonesty, the politics, the useless meetings.

I’m back in a development role now and I’m super happy and excited to start the day. Almost no meetings!

1984 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Problem is that companies are using them for all scenarios. It’s often their entire tech stack now, with kubernetes.

It’s similar to the object oriented hype that came before it, where developers had to write all their programs in a way so they could be extended and prepared for any future changes.

Everything became complex and difficult to work with. And almost none of those programs were ever extended in any significant way where object oriented design made it easier. On the contrary, it made it far more difficult to understand the program since you had to know which method was called in which object due to polymorphism when you looked at the code. You had to jump around like crazy to see what code was actually running.

Now with kubernetes, it’s all about making the programs easier to scale and easier to develop for the developers, but it shifts the complexity to the infrastructure needed to support the networking requirements.

All these programs now need to talk over the network instead of simply communicating in the same process. And with that you have to think about failure scenarios, out of order communication, missing messages, separate databases and data storage for different services etc.

1984 , 2 months ago

I don’t think people have a choice. If you join a company where they use kubernetes, you have to use that technology for everything. You can’t escape the complexity even if you just want to make a simple program. It still needs to run in kubernetes.

1984 , 2 months ago

Yes but in practice, companies don’t want to replace their entire tech stacks, and specially if it’s a large company. It costs an enormous amount of money (because of the time and effort it takes) and means the entire company has to relearn how to work with that stack instead.

It’s not impossible and it can happen, but in my experience from working at probably 20 companies now, there is almost always a strong resistence to change.

People don’t even change their default search engine or browser most of the time.

1984 , 2 months ago

Yeah I agree. With experience you know where to use it and where it really shines, and when not to use it because it will just make everything harder to reason about.

But a lot of devs are not that experienced when they make these decisions. All of us learn from mistakes, and those mistakes stay in the code base. :)

1984 , 2 months ago

It’s absolutely slower. There is no way to make a network request faster than a function call. It’s slower by probably thousands of times.

1984 , 2 months ago

Yeah it’s insane. But of course if scaling different parts of the application, I guess micro services are the way to do it. But otherwise one could scale the entire app by just putting more of the entire app on servers. No need for micro services. It just needs to be written to be able to listen to message queues and you can have any number of app instances.

1984 , 2 months ago

Yeah I’ve seen it before. It’s a very good reminder for everyone to keep in mind isn’t it. :)

1984 , 2 months ago

This is me right now, constantly thinking about how to implement a thing I’m working on. Even in bed I wake up and think about it. Lols.

1984 , 2 months ago

My head hair falls off. It sure is different, just not in a good way. :)

1984 , 2 months ago

Is he black? Because then the American police just shoot him and say he was resisting arrest.

1984 , 2 months ago

Haven’t used reddit since before Lemmy now. I think it’s soon almost a year without them. :)

Ok sometimes I visit their site if a search engine links to some response. But then I’m out of there right away.

1984 , 2 months ago

Barely. :)

1984 , 2 months ago

That’s cool but I only use a few on the mobile. Adblock origin and Bitwarden. Guess I should check out what else is out there.

1984 , 2 months ago

This week in gnome : Send Money :)

1984 , 2 months ago

I don’t know about the game but the airport is really spooky.

1984 , 2 months ago

That one was really good. I’m impressed by the level of insight here. Feels like we were a smarter species back in 2000.

1984 , 2 months ago

businessinsider.com/denver-international-airport-…

mtnweekly.com/travel/denver-airport-paintings-2/

There is a lot of weird things about that airport, but the murals and the statues are probably the most interesting.

1984 , 2 months ago

Yep, stay away from it, could be dangerous for you. :)

1984 , 2 months ago

US is scared now of someone making better and cheaper cars. :)

1984 , 2 months ago

Also it’s super plastic and feels cheap. I was disappointed in it and went for xc40 instead with higher quality feeling.

They saved too much on it. Even volvo itself said that they make almost 20% profit on it which is much higher than their other cars.

1984 , 2 months ago

I worked in places like this and I’m not going back unless consulting prices go back up again… The pain is real.

1984 , 2 months ago

Royale wirh cheese.

1984 , 2 months ago

Even worse when you have a bug and you cant stop trying to find it and fix it. I often have the feeling that if I stop now, I lose the entire context of what I’m doing and it’s just so hard to get started again the next day.

I prefer to dig in until I find it, even when tired and hungry.

1984 , 2 months ago

This sounds like written by an Ai or some marketing person…

Ordinary people don’t use phrases like “box maker System 76” or “highly anticipated by the Linux community”…:)

1984 , 2 months ago

I’m still on a computer that is seen as old I guess but I’ve upgraded the graphics card and the memory over the years. It still feels as fast as it always has. Of course I’m on Linux, not Windows with its eternal slowness.

I want to upgrade the cpu too but there is no point really. Everything is fast already.

1984 , 2 months ago

First thing I thought was that he is alive. There is no evidence of his death even.

1984 , 2 months ago

Yup can confirm. Leased a new car six month ago. Wanted to get an electric, but the downsides of electric cars just didn’t make sense. Much more expensive, and worse in winter. Cheaper to charge, but not at all enough to make up the huge extra cost.

When the Chinese make a cheap ev that is better than fuel cars, it’s going to become more profitable than Tesla.

1984 , 2 months ago

I can’t believe it’s still at 170+. People must really not realize that the first mover advantage is over, and Tesla has had their moment already. They are not going to lead this change to evs. Most manufacturers have good or better electric cars now.

Also people can’t afford them. Current prices are ridiculous. The company that brings low price evs that are good enough will dominate the market the next 5 years. It won’t be Tesla.

1984 , 2 months ago

All of this is the opposite of being real. People who are actually real have no attraction to publishing what they are doing to their friends at random times.

1984 , 2 months ago

Wait until they start with the “Chinese cars spy on you”. It was the entire argument why Huawei phones couldn’t even be sold in the US. Despite no evidence at all.

America has the largest spy network on the planet, and all electric cars spy on where we drive, how fast we drive, what we listen to etc. Some even film us while driving for “safety”. But appearently that’s OK, as long as the Chinese are not doing it. :)

1984 , 2 months ago

Is there any country that is not seen as hostile to the US?

news.cgtn.com/news/2023-06-03/…/index.html

1984 , 2 months ago

Very happy im alive before AI turns all life into algorithms for profits.

1984 , 2 months ago

Totally agree. Arch is actually a really good, simple system. That’s why so many people pick it as their main distro. Once you have installed it a few times, it’s just very simple how it works. There is no magic.

1984 , 2 months ago

True, I have not installed it. I ran Fedora for a while long time ago and selinux was causing tons of headaches. So I never wanted to have it on my system after that.

1984 , 2 months ago

Wouldn’t get so many YouTube views right…

1984 , 2 months ago

Lols. Tesla logic.

1984 , 2 months ago

Truly a shit post.

1984 , 2 months ago

I agree with that. He started the entire thing and that’s great, but now he should move on.

1984 , 2 months ago

You are right, he didn’t even start it.

1984 , 2 months ago

Some dumb influencer is doing it and everyone now think that looks cool.

1984 , 2 months ago

It really doesn’t. :)

1984 , 2 months ago

If only Helix would have vim mappings and a plugin system, it would kill neovim over night…

In it’s current state, it’s only suitable for people who don’t need any plugins. So if you want a plugin for picking a virtual environment in python for example, you just can’t do it in Helix.

I don’t know, to me it’s really limited without any form of plugins. I truly wish it had a plugin system because tons of people would write high quality rust plugins.

1984 , 2 months ago

I did it, learned a lot. But it’s not really a system that can be maintained very easily. You don’t even have a package manager. :)

1984 , 2 months ago

We are living it… You don’t predict what is happening already… :)

1984 , 2 months ago

I don’t see the US on that list even. They probably wants to build their own lunar base, with robots, and weapons.