It certainly doesn’t devalue real art by real people, but it clearly is doing serious harm to humanity as a whole. Even for those of us that refuse to use it, it’s becoming harder and harder to navigate the world. The internet is absolutely overflowing with slop to the point at which you have no idea what’s real or not anymore. Open source maintainers are being overrun with slop “contributions”, leading to tons of churn and burnout. We are, at this very moment, existing in the shattered remains of the internet. And people that do use these things are experiencing marked detrimental effects, from delusional behavior to cognitive and neurological impacts.

The intersection of this technology and human psychology is something insidious and devasting. We are like a people exposed to a brand new virus for the first time, with no natural defense against the infection.

Just because code is open source doesn’t mean shit code can’t be called out. Shit code is shit code.

Because people want to be free from being bombarded by AI slop.

What are you talking about? What citations?

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I certainly wouldn’t call that “well-traveled” and bragging is kinda dumb in general, but it is worth pointing out that the US does have a huge diversity of different cultures, demographics, and environs in different states (so much so that they can often feel like different countries), so it’s perhaps not as quaint as it sounds. It’s not like traveling within a European country. Much closer to traveling within the EU.

Still would never call that being “well-traveled”, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type

Some reading material for you. Sum types allow for proper, compiler-enforced error handling and optionality rather than the unprincipled free for all that is exceptions and nullability.

Tony Hoare, the person that originally introduced nulls to the programming world, is oft-quoted as calling nulls the “billion dollar mistake”. Here’s the talk: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare/.

Setting aside the fact that that is not even remotely true, do you think Linux = Red Hat? What about almost every other distro being run by volunteeers?

I’ve only ever seen redhat used by government and some corporations. As far as the broader community goes (especially the foss community), they are a pretty minor player.

It’s honestly insane that you can sit there and shill for Microsoft these days. They’ve always been pretty evil, but now they’ve gone so far off the deep end they’re even driving away people who have been all-in on Microsoft their whole lives. Even non-tech people are getting simply fed up with all of the spying and intrusive, AI-infested bullshit. Linux marketshare has been steadily increasing over the last couple of years, and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon. And all of it is, ultimately, because Windows is forcing people away.

cat file.txt | grep foo is unnecessary and a bit less efficient, because you can do grep foo file.txt instead. More generally, using cat into a pipe is less efficient than redirecting the file into stdin with <, like grep foo < file.txt.

I mean, among people that use terminals, it’s very normal. Commonplace, even.

Because that’s a perfectly normal and reasonable thing to do?

Parents aren’t doing this. It’s purely a move by the elite to tighten the grip of the surveillance state, using the guise of “protecting the children” to absolve themselves of any scrutiny.

Admittedly I’m not sure if it works for Japanese, but English has online tools you can use to print out a sheet to write out every character and scan to turn into a font file. Would be surprising if it didn’t exist for Japanese.

So ultimately you probably just need someone with neat handwriting.

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Sure sounds like an LLM.

It’s not exactly like vim, and there are plenty of vim plugins that don’t work with it (anything vim8 onward). There has never been a 1-to-1 correspondence, the gulf widens as both develop different features with different philosophies.

The most egregious offense on Neovim’s part that I can’t get past is the removal of access to the shell in which you run vim (via :!, :w !, etc.). Vim is so much more capable of being closely intertwined with the shell, whereas neovim requires everything to be done through terminal buffers (speaking of which, vim’s terminal buffers are a lot better than Neovim’s).

Also, Lua is really overrated and worse for vim scripting than vim9script (which is both more native to vim and faster).

Most of vim is not emulated. It’s very surface-level and limited. The closest is evil mode for emacs, which is decent, but still lacks a fair bit. The emulators in Intellij and VsCode are paltry in comparison to what vim can do.

The OP is on feddit.uk, so most likely not an American.

The question is also just that, a question. Not an expectation.

That’s why vim is so great: it has a ton of power built right into it without customizations, and it’s already installed on basically any unix-like system. Unlike, say, vscode, it can do a ton of stuff out of the box without any plugins at all.

It’s a tool with a medium-high skill floor and incredibly high skill ceiling. It rewards investment and is something that is able to accommodate one’s growth in skills rather than holding them back with limitations like typical editors do. Its built-in scripting is a big part of that and is something that really sets it apart from editors like vscode. And it’s much, much faster and lighter weight/less memory-intensive than other editors.