@dabeaz
> What I'm saying is that learning probably should be separate from "production" whatever that might mean in the context of work.
This is a whole lot more defensible, because "changes in production code" are / should be only a part of what counts as "at work".
I believe many of us are pointing out that "at work" (can and should be paid and constrained like other "at work" time) should include the bad-code tinkering to learn while on the job.
And I think a lot of the pushback you're getting @dabeaz
may be due to a recent shift in software jobs where they're under threat of "casualisation" to the point that the employer wants to pay for none of the worker's time learning anything.
And far too many employers are getting away with that worsening of jobs.
“The good people at the Pew Research Center have just released a careful, quantitative study of linkrot that confirms – and exceeds – my worst suspicions about the decay of the web[…]
“The headline finding from "When Online Content Disappears" is that 38% of the web of 2013 is gone today. Wikipedia references are especially hard-hit, with 23% of news links missing and 21% of government websites gone. […]”
Spent way too much time today trying to figure out why consult-imenu will not work for me in #emacs and made zero progress.
Last night I had to tear down my configs for tree sitter because typing / in a js buffer would crash emacs. At least I got that fixed and can work on react code tonight.
The main sticking point, for my attempts, seems to be to get a NodeJS set up which Emacs can talk with properly. Really? These LSPs depend on NodeJS? Seems flaky as all hell.
"This message couldn't be sent right now. Click for more details."
'More details', Outlook, should mean more details of why the message couldn't be sent. It doesn't mean 'show me the same error message but this time with the full text of the email'. I just finished typing the email. I already know what it says. Tell me what went wrong!
Like every other response generated by an LLM, when it is truthful it (a) has no comprehension of honesty or dishonesty, and (b) did so completely accidentally.
I find Nautilus (the file manager default in Gnome) to be fine for this purpose.
But I don't know what needs you have that it lacks.
Often, IME, the lacking features are less about the specific file manager program, and more about what interactions are supported: content type conversions, connections to remote protocols, etc. Those tend to live or die depending on what supporting services are installed, not the file manager program itself.
The youth exodus from #TikTok is already underway. Gen Z is abandoning it in droves, leaving their parents (Millennials) the largest demographic remaining.
As usual, children seek to hang out in places their parent's generation are not. TikTok lost that a while ago.
And it frees up time and energy, to put into #FreeSoftware systems like the #Fediverse. Not everyone needs to do it, but the more people who do, the more options expand for everyone.
More effort before a payoff, sure. But far less wasted effort when yet another platform submits to #enshittification.
I have a theory as to why there aren't many end-user programs ("apps"), whether TUI or GUI, written in Common Lisp: it's because nearly all Common Lisp programmers are also Emacs Lisp programmers and so naturally we think "this could just be a major mode", thus ensuring the cycle of: +1 Emacs Package, -1 Common Lisp app.
Do you know a thing or two about #redis internals? #KeyDB from #SnapChat is looking for contributors to help them rebase to the last BSD release of redis 7. If you want a multi-threaded #opensource drop-in replacement to be a reality for redis v7 users, please report for duty over on their git repo:
Redis changed to dual license. I'm migrating to Dragonfly! Even if I'm not personally hit by this, it's not longer truly open-source, so I exit Redis. Moreover, Dragonfly is also much more performant.
I wish I had a home office I could retreat to. Our home is modest. Our “office” is the middle room and a thoroughfare. It’s not ideal. But also it’s not quiet.
There’s lots of stuff I would do if I had a decent space.
Perhaps I don’t actually need one though? Am I overthinking? Procrastinating?
@ross Because my home is too small and occupied to be useful as a workspace
I instead spend additional rent on a single-occupancy office in the nearby suburb.
Never regretted it, the ability to focus and think is profoundly better.
But my employer now has increasingly petulant demands for people to return to central, distracting, car-travel-required, industrial-park, open-plan office.
And the people renting me my office have recently ended the lease. They want to add more staff 😞