kolme

A probabilistic system that cannot reliably reproduce probabilities - somewhat ironic, but absolutely not its purpose.

Vim does have mouse support.

What? I don't even know what you're talking about, and I've written mountains of vanilla CSS code in big projects.

> Of course, to be completely fair about my toolkit, standard Scheme can sometimes lack the heavyweight, “batteries-included” ecosystem required for massive enterprise production compared to the JVM.

I was thinking the whole time, "this person would _love_ Clojure".

I used to use it, like over 20 years ago! Mozilla Suite was too slow for my taste and I only reached for it if Dillo couldn't render a page :)

IIRC I stopped using it when Firefox ("Phoenix" at the time) was released.

AFAIK Dillo is GTK-based, at least the UI part, so I don't think so.

You don't have any stored passwords? Any private keys in your `.ssh/`? DB credentials in some config files? And the list goes on and on.

I've also worked with CSV (barely) and SVN (more extensively) and I was blown away by Git.

You can have real branches! Many of them! You don't have to manually merge them! It's decentralized, you can have multiple origins, it lets you work offline! The list goes on and on.

There were many compelling reasons to switch to Git. But for all the articles about jj out there, I've never read any compelling reason to switch to jj. "It easier", "the commands are somewhat more ergonomic"... that's all?

I think it looks nice, but:

- Scrolling is unbearable on Firefox/Android.

- The icons are way too "noisy" I would remove them. Also, posts without icon look "misplaced".

Other than that looks pretty nice. The dark mode is awesome. Don't let the angry mob bring you down ;)

I had to laugh out loud when I read that sentence.

Really? I write code to pay my bills and sometimes just for fun.

Trying to do everything "the most optimal way possible" is going to get in the way of actually getting stuff done.

"Why do we code? To prematurely optimize all the things".

Yes, I was wrong on several levels.

First and foremost I was wrong thinking that I was smarter than others — that's not even how intelligence works.

Second I was wrong being so stubbornly pro-tabs / anti-spaces (for example). It doesn't make that much of a difference, so there's no point in being so passionate about it.

And third I was wasting everyone's time (and my persuasion powers) by not choosing my battles more wisely.

My suggestion would be nowadays: let's choose a popular style guide, set up a linter and be done with it.

I did that when I was young and naive. I'll tell you why I did it.

I thought I was very smart. Like, really really smart, maybe the smartest programmer in the team.

And as such my opinion was very important. Maybe the most important opinion in the team. Everyone had to listen to it!

That is all. Also, I was wrong.

Yes, you are technically correct and yet absolutely irrelevant to the conversation, just adding meaningless noise.

Also, there are many linters that also do formatting, blurring the "line" you're pointing at.

> I’d say it’s more spreading knowledge around

How is it spreading knowledge around? A lot of times it gives half backed answers and a lot of beginners are using it while learning. That's not a good mix in my opinion.

I've been helping someone who's learning programming and I've had a look at their code. All of it is vibe coded. And the vibes are nightmarish, I don't think the AI is helping at all.

The only thing it's useful for is sparing expert programmers some tedious work, that's my perception as a programmer.