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  • Why I Prefer CLI and TUI over GUI - alavi.me

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  • Well, I didn't exist in 1980s. So this is how I feel as a 2000s kid and current software engineer.

    I think good ideas are worth updating for new generations.

  • We Need Apocalypse-Proof Software - alavi.me

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  • Thank you! Haha yes that's an interestig title too. Although, I don't see much real developement in the world, but that's a talk for another day.

  • Are there any examples of 'perfect' software?

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  • I would say git, tex, sqlite, Clojure, Steel banks common lisp are some of the candidates.

    Perfect doesn't meen "not any bugs fixes or features needed" to me. I can't really define what it means to me...

  • Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More - 9to5Linux

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  • I exclusively use neovim, both on personal computers and on servers.

    Just the fact that I can customize it with Lua, and therefore, languages that can compile to Lua, like fennel and guile, makes it 100 times better if you have lots of configurations. Also, the docs are better.

    But in the end, vim is tge OG and I love both, but prefer neovim for my usage.

    And the split isn't awkward at all. They have healthy competition and the fact that they both exist means we get better editors. Same goes for zillion linux distros out there and otger stuff.

  • We Need Apocalypse-Proof Software

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  • Yes, I mentioned collapseOS in the post. I think it's very interesting.

    For when there is no electricity, I think we're past the point of "software" at that point. I'm not exactly aiming for a guide to a "full-on everything is gone" situation. More like, "very bad situation which there is still some levels of civilization". I mainly used the word apocalypse because saying " we need software for when things are very bad, like revolutions and wars and partial supply chain collapse" didn't really sound interesting.

    Thanks for reading!

  • What would be needed for a new video hosting service to overtake YouTube?

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    • My dad is famous on the internet
    • cool where can I find him?
    • pornhub... He's a math teacher...
    • what?

  • That's a bit far-fetched

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  • Holy shit dude this made me lol. Right meme right time

  • GUIs

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  • You disgust me

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  • The language thay you are already using! You need to understand FP, not a new language. Definitely read "Grokking simplicity" by Eric Normand.

    But if you want to learn a new language more suited for FP, I would hardly recommend either guile scheme, racket, or clojure (all are lisps and you can use and build real word things with them forever). Haskell is also great but it's much harder than lisps.

    You can do oop or fp with lisps, there is basically no syntax, you can get started and actually focusing on doing FP in a month. (Som say you can learn the language itself in a week, which you can but if you are really dedicating time to it).

  • Lua Tables - The Swiss Army Knife of Data Structures

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  • Good HTML is coherent by itself. Depends on if the html is good or not.

  • Russia is restricting access to Telegram, one of its most popular social media apps.

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  • Oh that's just the delusion of freedom. USA is great at selling that. We will still fight but accepting the truth is always the sane approach compared to hopeful optimism .

    Russia and china and easterns are more straight forward. "We don't want you to have privacy and control" Western countries wrap it around a populistic shiny wrapper. "This is the land of freedom, you are encouraged to have privacy and controll, unless you actually try to do so" they also let people play in the dirt unless they are doing something serious and pose some threat. But eastern governments are much less tolerant. You will be punished even for minor inconvenience.

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  • People calling functional programming weird hurts me. It's just unfamiliar not weird.

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  • I am having the time of my life with Clojure. Lisps in general. They really change how you view software. I was showing how clojure works to my Java coworker and showing her the REPL and powers of Clojure, and we both almost teared up :)) It's tgat good.

  • Russia is restricting access to Telegram, one of its most popular social media apps.

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  • The whole world is going that direction. Russia, north korea and china are leading the way, wester countries are more sly and subtle in how to do things, but america and UK are going the same direction.

  • Man stands guard over his starving family, shielding them from the unthinkable: cannibals, driven to desperation by famine and neglect. - Madras famine of 1877

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  • Damn this is one of the darkest images I've seen.

  • Alternatives to Mattermost

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  • Zulip still has cuck licensing (permissive license). Same thing that happened to mattermost will happen to all permissively licensed projects.

  • Happy 40s day!

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  • Damn that's cool. But I'm imagining putting this mental model on top of vim and window manager and tmux will really fry my brain! More power to you

  • Happy 40s day!

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  • This looks super cool but what is the usecase? Isn't it too limited?

  • An Intuition for Lisp Syntax

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  • wow such a great post! I loved how simply and like he said, intuitively he explained this. This really highlights how goo S-expressions and lisp syntax is.