You are literally the kind of ignorant people I’m talking about.

It’s like telling a guy who makes wooden jewelry that “dude if u not faster with chainsaw I dunno what to say”, or to someone trying to take down a wall between two rooms that a bulldozer would be faster.

I still cannot comprehend that some people would be “smart” enough to understand basic programming, but then be absurdly lacking understanding of the matter to end with the conclusion that coding “skill” is about speed.

I just don’t know how to even make an example that explains how absurd that is. It’s like having a random naked dude in an archery competition screaming that he won because he shot his arrows faster than all the other contestant, even though most of them landed in the crowd.

I am really at a loss for words for how absurdly stupid that kind of vision of programming and technology is.

How many more years are going to be wasted with this crap?

Everyone knows that both in theory and practice, AIs are shit are producing code; the only ones who don’t are the ones who are themselves unable to produce decent code and refuse to see the problem.

But yes, let’s keep on pushing more and more until everything is drowned in worthless crap, as if we didn’t already have enough issues with humans producing crap like web technologies, now they’ll be riddled by even more crap.

Messy code by humans generally isn’t logical because it went through multiple modifications/deletions that are not visible anymore.

I’m not sure that bad devs are much better than AIs, and they’re the ones using them to code now. I think the problem stems from not giving a shit about code making sense, and AIs just increase the problem.

I mean, I saw code that was essentially saying things like “if True == False” and when asking about what the purpose of the block was to the original dev (who wasn’t even such a bad dev), they just had no idea. Humans are chaotic and nonsensical and messy code comes from that, not from a weird logic, and you can’t comprehend it most of the times because it’s a mix of confusion, lack of planning, mistakes and laziness.

It wouldn’t be good at it, it would at most be a little patch for non audited code.

In the end it would just be an AI-powered antivirus.

I don’t remember exactly, they were trying to package some dependencies they needed with guix and it was just a big headache.

I’ve seen good devs, helped by the team of guix themselves, fail for weeks and weeks at making it work as intended. That’s not a working software.

Guix is far from being practical for most uses though.

Well from what you’re saying I’d go for something like EndeavourOS.

Based on arch, usable out of the box but without much preinstalled so that you can do your own mix. Manjaro is a bit similar but with more preinstalled (and maybe more bugs from what I read).

Most performance optimisation can be done through improving algorithms and data structures, and knowing well the language you’re using.

I don’t think I’ve encountered any performance issue that wasn’t either:

• Unavoidable because of what I’m doing
• Coming from an inefficient data structure or algorithm
• Coming from a bad use or pitfall of the language.

Of course there are specific cases such as low-power environments and such, but that’s not what most people talk about when they talk about performance.

I also would like to point out my confusion with the obsession towards performance when it’s not needed (such as “is languageA 10% faster than languageB?”) but then everyone putting web technologies everywhere, from games to desktop software. It’s starting to feel like performance is more of a cult than a pragmatic question at this point.

This quote is full of shit though.

France supports pedos and rapists openly so not the brightest example.

Containers are fine but docker is a pain in the ass that lazy people use when they don’t want to provide clean installation/packaging.

How many times have I seen an equivalent of “we use a custom fork of an obsolete version of an unmaintained package, so if you want to compile it yourself good luck because we forgot how we even did it. Alternatively, you can install the docker version”…

“I refused treatment for my cancer based on a YouTube video and I survived!”

Bot or actually stupid spammer?

The guy is a nazi trying to pull off some utterly stupid rethoric of “oh noes the evil trans people are coming to discriminate against us and replace us”.

I’ve never seen something so absurd and would advise the writer to go seek help.

What I’m seeing is a guy who panics because he’s a transphobic piece of shit and is seeing that the world is changing and he won’t be allowed to be discriminatory as much as before. And he’s using the typical crap of “why not sit and talk” that nazis love to use. “Why do you censor my nazi opinions instead of talking about why we should kill black people or not?” would be a similar line.

helloWorld : '{IO, Exception} () 
helloWorld _ = printLine "Hello World"

I wouldn’t call it friendly.

I just use pamac. Almost never have to use pacman directly, except if somehow something broke with pamac, which is rare.

The con of one of then being “is a rootkit”

=> Big corps are the problem

Let’s forget wine and praise valve then I guess.