1984

1984 , 11 hours ago

Kind of hard to return this after 195 years if it fails.

1984 , 19 hours ago

I saw that there was a new learning site for Rust that got a lot of attention on hacker news:

https://rust-exercises.com/

I plan to give it a shot in a few week. It's similar to rustlings.

But I haven't worked on anything this week so slightly off topic. Just wanted to share.

1984 , 1 day ago

No comment....

1984 , 1 day ago

Sweden has very warm weather right now, 20+ degrees with strong sun. That used to be happening in mid July for a country that is so far north. Now it's in May, and it was the same last year. Very early summers that goes away earlier too.

Global warming or whatever but weather has changed significantly during my lifetime, that's very obvious.

1984 , 1 day ago

People get into relationships for sexual reasons, no?

And then they get tired of eachother. Ive realized that some people don't like the person they are with very much. It's just too much work to switch them out, and you lose other things you want (like children, the house, money etc) if you break up with them. And you have to find someone new, which is very difficult today for a lot of people.

I wonder if even most people are slightly unhappy with their partner and they don't feel emotionally connected.

So I don't think it's wrong to skip all that and focus on great friends. But friends often get into relationships and you lose out on the friendship when that happens.

1984 , 1 day ago

Yeah I know what you mean. There is a certain kind of girl that gives off that vibe. I've often wondered if it's intentional or not.

But if you are that kind, you have to put in extra effort to make friends. My girlfriend has "resting bitch face" as she calls it. When she looks serious, she looks a bit angry. It also turns people off until she starts to talk to them.

1984 , 1 day ago

Yeah it's still good. :)

1984 , 1 day ago

People like Elon Musk as exactly like the kid in the sandbox who wanted the entire sandbox for himself, and who would fight for all sandboxes in the yard despite not being able to use them.

That kind of personality will take all until nothing is left.

1984 , 1 day ago

You wouldn't steal a car...

1984 , 2 days ago

Sounds really dramatic in a news item though. Click bait. :)

But yeah, I recently moved away from these cloud services and have a Nas at home now. Only encrypted backups in cloud. Because fuck Google.

1984 , 2 days ago

I also dislike it because reddit used it... They managed to destroy a lot of good things.

1984 , 2 days ago

File stabber is a good name. :)

1984 , 2 days ago

Google is not showing the web anymore, it's showing it's own content now, stolen from the web.

People don't even leave their site now with Ai results, that Google controls and can modify how they want.

Not sure what to do about this. The general public will be completely lost in Google.

1984 , 2 days ago

Microsoft teams also stopped working on Firefox... Guess they don't like the tracking prevention stuff. :)

1984 , 6 days ago

Why do people still trust this guy?

1984 , 4 days ago

They shouldn't trust him because he is a liar and a manipulator, and a charming, effective one, like all sociopaths.

He literally goes out there and talks to the crowd thinking they are idiots, because he can just make them think whatever he wants.

And they are. That's why I'm wondering why they don't learn. There must be something inside them that makes them want to be betrayed. Kind of like a relationship where you know you will get hurt but you do it anyway because you think that's what you deserve. Maybe? I really don't understand it.

1984 , 6 days ago

Future robots will make a joke before they shoot you in the head for resisting arrest. What's not to like?

1984 , 6 days ago

"So you are saying there is a chance"

1984 , 6 days ago

I don't know. People in the west dont seem to understand they also listen to propaganda every single day. But they think it's just happening in Russia or China.

1984 , 6 days ago

People should be talking about void. Such bullshit. :p

1984 , 6 days ago

Why do Microsoft have to welcome people to their software? Is it because they otherwise wouldn't feel welcome using it? :P

1984 , 6 days ago

Yeah it's not like the western instances have any propaganda. Only Russians have that. :P

1984 , 6 days ago

Oh really? Let's calculate the power usage or billions of devices downloading and serving ads.

1984 , 6 days ago

Lots of programming actually. Rewrote a thing from scratch and now it's so much better. Feels good. :)

1984 , 6 days ago

This may surprise you, but in Lua!

I used to be a big user of neovim and heavily into plugins and messing with my configs, and lua is the language built into neovim for doing things like that.

One of my neovim plugins had annoying bugs due to evolving to support more and more features, and it was time for a rewrite to make it all clean again.

1984 , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Late thirties is aging? That's like peak life. You have money and family (at least a chance of that) and purpose in your life. You have confidence and you know who you are.

You are still a bit dumb, but less dumb than twenty somethings. I liked my late thirties.

1984 , 7 days ago

Yeah it just works now. Sometimes I miss the days where we had to troubleshoot sound drivers, because it made us learn so much. Even if we didn't manage to fix the problem, we learned about how sound works in Linux.

1984 , 8 days 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 , 8 days ago

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

1984 , 8 days 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 , 8 days ago (edited 8 days 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 , 8 days 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 , 8 days 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 , 8 days 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 , 8 days 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 , 8 days 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 , 8 days ago

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

1984 , 7 days ago

I agree with you, and that is a hellish environment to work in.

There must be a better middle ground for all of this.

1984 , 8 days 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 , 8 days ago

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

1984 , 8 days ago

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

1984 , 8 days 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 , 8 days ago

Barely. :)

1984 , 8 days 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 , 8 days ago

Many weird behaviors has been caused by this. A friend of mine couldnt see any new posts in a community anymore until he figured out this was the reason.

Took a long time to figure out too... It's not exactly intuitive.

1984 , 9 days ago

I wouldn't want to work making games. Very difficult to get a good game going and very much competition.

1984 , 9 days ago

This week in gnome : Send Money :)

1984 , 9 days 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.