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Specially if using the 200mph car when you need it is just a /model away.

You see JavaFX everywhere in finance software. I learned it from working on finance.

But that "worse way" makes AI labs and investors a lot of money... If the perception that "worse" is accompanied with needing less human intervention, i.e. less labor, worse is better from a business perspective...

Uff, doing all of that plus developing your software sounds really hard!

I package software for void Linux... I don't think there's an expectation from devs to know all the intricacies and particulars of each distro and contribution guidelines in order to package software for it... A tar or GitHub repo and clear instructions is all we need to package it.

It becomes a pain when the software has hard dependencies on either bleeding edge unreleased software (I'm thinking hyprland) or very old versions of libs that are no longer shipped with the distro.

Another pain point is when the software makes assumptions about Linux like all linunx use glibc or have systemd. In cases like that packaging software might entail patching it, or just giving up (void doesn't use systemd for example)

Hope this gives you a bit of insight into what packages might be looking for

> Just doing something human in a dehumanizing world is enough.

Yes! it's been years since I read the fun, cool, nerdy post I used to read here... so whatever, I'll write them myself! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks! writing the next post ATM :-)

For the longest time I was completely at a lost for how I was able to complete stuff for my employers but when I decided to do something I could never finish it...

Now I think that a big part of it is that my employers couldn't care less about "how the sausage is made" and were solely focused on results, at least that has been the case with some fantastic project managers I've had.

> do the thing first and improve the workflow later

I like this!

Fair enough... I think it really depends about what dependencies we talking about.

NPM decencies is a bit of dumpster fire, supply chain attacks galore! A well known python (think numpy) certainly is less discomforting, and a "industry standard" C library like GSL or SDL3, I just use it and move on

This resonates with me. The concept of cig it I've debt was something I've been experiencing but didn't have a name for it.

I think it is worth noting that not all code is equal... One could argue that adding a library is in some ways similar to copy/pasting code in as much as, one doesn't know what the code is doing, and yet that doesn't leave me with a sense of unease!

So it might be that as I'm working with an LLM there are parts (boring, as the author calls them) that are not worth "knowing" how they work, something uninteresting or that a correct output is all that us needed, I'm totally fine having the agent write that code, but the sections I need to know how they work, I think it might make sense to write those by hand!

OpenAI: "Oops, AI hacked somebody accidentally..."

US Military: "Great, let's give it missiles!"

Idk for UX but I’ve found Claude helpful at creating ideas and mockups for gui apps I need. Don’t ask it to generate any images or vectors, it’s horrible at that, but you ask it to make a mock for an app so and so that does such and such and has three columns with a blah blah blah and it has made some impressive results in html/css for me

Totally unrelated but “chat jippity” made my day!

Thanks for the explanation!

Would there be a difference in contributing to OpenJDK vs to, say, Temurin or Zulu Java? How separated are those Java JDKs really from OpenJDK?

Since employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to, this post and emacs users in general, must be of such lesser value I guess? /s