Even programming jobs are like excel sheets with extra steps.

Well, there’s Dredd.

Ballmer’s microsoft atleast had some pride not to pester their users this way…

There used to be a post socialist era mindset that people from my country used to have back in the 90s. It’s simply that if you have to advertise for your product, it’s probably bad. And overprized because you were spending money on ads. I remember the older generation specifically bought unadvertised products recommended by people they knew.

Wen Bie by Jackie Cheung

If you haven’t done any Clojure, may be Elixir?

One of the iffey feelings I have reading three-body series, even though it’s a pretty dark series that also highlight the dark side of humanity, is that the world superpowers were somewhat effecticely cooperative. May be if Liu Cixin wrote the book around Covid, it might be quite different.

Another aspect to consider is the term " invention is the mother of necessity" coined by Jared Diamon, in contrast to " neccessity is the mother of invension". A lot of technology either get discarded or used for something that the technology wasn’t originally intended. Hence the idea that inventions come first and the necessity for them follows later. Targetes technological innovation tenda to be very expensive and involves a lot of trial/error.

I believe this phenomenum doesn’t just apply to big innovations and inventions. It also applies to day to day problem solving and in your case, choosing the right technology for your work. Without prior experience and established norm, a technology that might completely makes sense to you for a certain kind of work, might not pan out in actual use.

A lot of “smart” devices are better off dumb.

We’re like oompa loompas to their willy wonka complex.

I just checked the name. It’s nwg-shell. Last time I tried was around 8-10 months ago, I think and it was still rough around the edges. Seems to have matured quite a bit.

I also wish for a complete desktop environment with workspace semantics of tiling wms. Someone’s actually building one out of sway, I remember. Don’t remember the name though.

I don’t get it. Wouldn’t mocking short people be the opposite of woke?

Turning my web app for Burmese song lyrics with guitar chords into an open source PWA songbook app. I’ll try to turn it into some kind of offline available song book that you can host on github pages.

I’ve seen too many guys, even those in “respectable” positions like executives or club captains, just leave their porn tabs open before asking me for some help with their phones.

When I asked them to open up their browser they would straight up open it up to a previously opened porn tab and start to panic. And somehow, the porn site that opened is always XNXX, lol. Pornhubs’ banned here and I guess XNXX just become popular instead.

This is the reason I have a lot of respect for people who are not in IT or Tech field, career wise, but still managed to deep dive into linux.

Even will all the ease of access that the current linux ecosystem offer, linux still is a tinkerer’s OS. You have to deep dive into the basics for some problem. That’s hard, even for someone with tech background.

I just wanna be No-health-problem man

Will give it a try

Tried a lot of neovim GUIs. The only one that sort of works is Onivim2. It just has some spacing issues. It really looks promising. Super fast compared to VSCode variants.

I tried it a few years back but gave up because I couldn’t get it to work the way my vim setup used to. May be I should give it a try again sometime.