kitty is nice, but it has a problem with garbled unicode sequences (e.g. if you accidentally cat a binary file to standard output). It sometimes hangs up for a minute or two on seeing invalid unicode sequence. At least that was the case for several years, and so I switched to alacritty because it doesn't have this problem.
No matter what PHP project I worked on, it was always a mess. Unreadable mess of HTML, PHP and SQL all of them intermixed in one file. Instead of templates, there's a line of PHP, line of HTML, line of PHP again. Instead of using SQL placeholders, there's usually string interpolation. Lots of copy paste, I've seen a commercial PHP project, that was sold for around ~200 EUR, that had almost no functions: every repeating part of functionality was copy pasted 3-10 times.
All the PHP projects I've seen, eventually failed and had to be rewritten in another language. It was impossible to add new features and fix bugs in such a code. For example, if the original code uses copy paste instead of functions (and it is very often the case for PHP code), you'd have to fix every bug 3-5 times (most of the time, you fix it in one place and only after deployment realize, that the bug still manifests itself in 2-4 other places).
Yeah, maybe PHP is very easy to write and deploy, but this simplicity somehow makes bad programmer out of the person writing in PHP. I know, it's very subjective, but I had such a negative experience that I gave myself a promise to avoid PHP related jobs at all costs.
Also, maybe it was slightly more difficult to use other languages for web development 20 years ago. You'd have to use CGI, or set up some mod_python with all of its quirks, but those times are long gone. It's almost as easy now to develop/deploy Web apps in any other language.
It is very simple and easy to use, has no external dependencies, and is sufficiently flexible to handle configurations for different machines and other nifty features.
I'm aware of Nix and other solutions, but you can start using rcm in 10 minutes (it's really that easy to use). If you choose Nix, for example, you'll need to spend at least several weeks of time (guessing on experience of others).
> If you choose Nix, for example, you'll need to spend at least several weeks of time (guessing on experience of others).
If you have no prior Nix experience, probably. Home Manager isn't really hard to work with, but its docs do assume basic Nixlang and Nix module system knowledge. If you try to cargo cult your way directly into a working flake with HM, you'll probably get a little lost.
But you also don't have to jump in all at once. I used a separate dotfile manager in conjunction with Nix for years, and it worked great. (I only bothered to switch to HM because the tool I was using became unmaintained! I was perfectly happy with it.) You can definitely ease into managing your dotfiles with Nix so it doesn't impose any downtime on you.
Using rcm for dotfiles plus Nix for the packages you regularly install is a pretty good idea imo. Then you can transition to using HM for dotfiles management later (or never!).
PostgreSQL supports more SQL features and data types out of the box. Also, it looks like MySQL development has stalled after purchasing by Oracle. PostgreSQL has exciting new features in every release, I forgot when anything significant happened in the MySQL world. It's frozen for like a decade now. There're some new releases, but you won't find anything exciting in the change log.
Market size of USSR was tiny compared to Chinese market size. Also, USSR was a socialist country with plan economy, China is capitalist economy. It's incorrect to compare China to USSR.
No, I definitely feel that Firefox is forgetting some of my bookmarks. And the search is indeed awful.
I switched to buku and rofi-buku, which is more robust, convenient and accessible solution. And not tied to a single browser (I use several, for example, different browsers for leisure and for work).
On AMD it helps to have pretty recent kernel and amd_pstate=active string in the kernel boot params. I haven't checked the temperatures but I think I've started to hear the fan noise less after enabling it. This option was finally implemented in kernel 6.1 or 6.2. I don't remember the exact version, it happened only 1-1.5 years ago.
In 2000-2010 not only I was a fullstack developer, but also had to write CSS and HTML code for the websites I worked on often.
I remember that as an extremely painful experience. I can't remember all the details, but I remember that until flexbox and grid were implemented, everything CSS related was a pain. I vaguely remember that until 2008-2009 (maybe I'm off by 1-2 years) something trivial as rounded corners also was a pain.
I also remember that about 80% of the CSS pain was caused by Microsoft Intenet Explorer 6.0. It was complete garbage when dealing with CSS and Javascript (I was working with huge JS codebases at the time). But nobody in the web world could ignore it because it had a huge market share. I hate that browser and Microsoft with passion till this day. So many hours, days, weeks wasted to make everything work in a browser that wasn't updated by MS (why spend money when everybody is using it - they even fired the team that worked on it) and had a very "specific" implementation of Web standards.
You’re 100% correct in your recollections and the frustration of using CSS in those days contributed to me not wanting to keep working on the front end at all. And yes, F MSIE all the way to hell How many thousands of human lifetimes were spent trying to make that piece of crap work.
I still don’t know flexbox because I had given up by then. Thankfully I can have ChatGPT help me these days if it comes up, but thankfully FE is not really a part of my normal job.
> everyone is siloed into their own information bubbles, and can't agree on a common reality
It has already happened. I was born in USSR and live in Russia, and when I hear or read anything about USSR or Russia in Western media, it makes my hair stand on end.
But if I try to explain what it was really like or what it is like now, I only get insults in response: "Putin bot", "Kremlin shill", "as dumb as Trump's followers", etc. So I gave up and stop trying.
But it's clear that there're several "versions" of the reality, some of them are very far from "real" reality. And the divide will become only deeper. I also notice that comments on social networks and youtube became so weaponized that I simply cannot read them and stopped trying. I actively avoid reading any comments on any website with only 3 or 4 exceptions (like HN).
When it comes to hair standing on end, you are contributing to the problem.
Looking at your history, I found your claim from three months ago, that the Baltic States, cite:
Since becoming "independent" they're only degrading with ever-increasing speed.
First, they are really independent countries. No need for scare quotes. Of course that small countries in general can't act with the same sort of impunity like big countries, but compared to their previous subordinated status as parts of the USSR, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are now independent countries with their own power structure and laws.
Seconds, the "degradation" claim is bullshit. I have visited all those countries several times since the 1990s and the general improvement of living standards from the depressing Soviet shabbiness to where they are today is nothing short of miraculous. The Baltics, together with Poland, belong to a set of countries that took to modern social market economy like ducklings to water.
The only thing that doesn't go up in the Baltics is demography, but, literally, all the nearby regions of Russia (Kaliningrad, Pskov, StPetersburg, Karelia) are much worse off when it comes to fertility. Doctor, heal thyself.
I no longer see the point. It is difficult to explain. After many internet and real life discussions I made a single conclusion: intensive propaganda creates an impenetrable partition in minds. And we live in times of the most intensive propaganda ever. You can't hide from it anywhere. If you open video about cats on YouTube, open comments section, you'll read something like: "Cute cats, but did you know that every morning Putin eats kitten for breakfast?" (I exaggerate, but only a little). Even when I read contemporary science fiction, there's always some piece of current propaganda like if it is obligatory in order to be published.
It is difficult to gather and analyze facts and present them in easy to understand fashion. Some things are really difficult to explain, especially historical and cultural things. You waste lots of time and energy to research and to present facts in support of your point of view. But time is not limitless, I have work to do and life to live. Also, amount of facts is limitless. You can always fight one set of facts against another, with carefully constructed set of arguments you can prove almost anything. It's not math, where it's kind of possible to prove or debunk any theory without a doubt. Real life if more complex, and real life is not entirely rational or logical.
Also, it's like fighting with windmills in Don Quixote. I know, we all know, that all governments finance paid commenters. E.g. several months ago there was a leak that Washington finance troll factories managed by Russian "opposition". First they tried to deny it, but then had to admit that it is true.
And it was only one leak about one trolls factory. So here I am trying to write a few comments for free in my precious free time, while there're powerful organizations employing hundreds of paid commenters with salaries and KPI and clear guidelines on what to write. How can I fight alone against huge and well paid apparatus of propaganda and commenters employing millions of people to put everywhere version of truth contradicting to mine and to put me and my country in extremely bad light? It's a futile battle, and I give up on it.
Scroll through this account's history. It is clearly posting Russian propaganda interspersed with just enough "curious conversation" to pass dang's surface-level scans.
Once again, proof that you can post literally anything you like on HN as long as it appears to fit the zeitgeist. HN is all about performative adherence to the image that HN staff want to cultivate.
> I actively avoid reading any comments on any website with only 3 or 4 exceptions (like HN).
Son if you don't think HN isn't full of shill-bots then I've got a bridge to sell you. Hell, that's half the point: y-combinator isn't paying for this because they love discussion.
The problem with posts like the one above is that these exact "i'm exhausted" posts are known to bots, too, and could be manufactured with reasonably good verisimilitude; easily done pre-GPT-3. So are you just exhausted by the spam, or is this just another facet of the Russian Propaganda Firehose?
