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  • houseofleft@slrpnk.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyzfuck this
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    6 days ago

    I’m not American so nobody got my vote, but seems to me like the issue is with the swathes of people choosing facism rather than progressives who chose not to vote.

    Choosing how to act in a world like ours is tricky, anyone following a sense of right and wrong (even if I disagree with their judgement) instead of fear, hate, greed or whatever gets a gold star in my book.



  • I use Cosmic and really like it- have used i3, Awesome and Gnome in the past for a while too, I really likes them.

    The most time I spent with a set up was Awesome + rofi, which I really enjoyed. I customised literally everything and spent hours tweaking stuff.

    That was super fun, but in all honesty my workflow is more or less:

    1. Open up a terminal (alacritty, tmux + fish shell + helix editor)
    2. Open up a browser (Firefox, have played with others but there’s always some quirk where I give up)
    3. That’s it.

    Honestly, all the tweaking is fun for me, but with my workflow I have like 0 requirements for anything fancy. Daily driving cosmic is going nicely for now, and seems to mostly get out of my way.


  • Sounds like it’s working great for you- I wish it would for me too! I’m not OP but some of my main gripes are:

    • Most calls have, for at least one caller, a wierd lag time where the call doesn’t start for 10 seconds or so

    • Quite frequently (I’d guess 5 calls a month) a call will be disrupted by teams failing completely for someone on the call (camera not working, not being able to join etc)

    • It uses a lot of RAM even when idling

    • It has hundreds of features, like “together mode” that bloat the software without adding to its core functionality

    • The UI is a confused mess, and the conceptual split between teams, channels and chats is messyat best.

    On top of that, I don’t find teams makes me more productive, if feels like a constant distraction that modern corporate culture requires me to have, even though its a net drop in productivity. This last point is more on instant messengers as a whole, but it doesn’t place me in a very charitable or forgiving mindset for interpretting Team’ multitude of flaws.



  • I find this whole “it’s not milk if it’s not dairy” argument really hard to take in good faith.

    I’m not an expert at all, but when I’ve heard people talk about these kind of decisions, it sounds like it’s normally meant to come down to consumer benefits.

    Who’s gaining here (aside from dairy lobbies)? I don’t think there’s any reasonable argument that UK citizens are confused by the term “oat milk”, and buying it because they were tricked into thinking it was a dairy product.







  • Yes, for sure!! I hope my call for policitcal action didn’t come across as “don’t do anything and wait for politicians to sort it out!”.

    I was trying to get at the need for collective discussion and action, over the idea of a climate change fix that’s based on people’s feeling superior for their individual actions, especially because without political change, a lot of even the individual changes we need to make (more heatpumps, EVs over ICEs, etc) are only accessible to those with sufficient wealth.




  • I have advice that you didn’t ask for at all!

    SQL’s declarative ordering annoys me too. In most languages you order things based on when you want them to happen, SQL doesn’t work like that- you need to order query dyntax based on where that bit goes according to the rules of SQL. It’s meant to aid readability, some people like it a lot,but for me it’s just a bunch of extra rules to remember.

    Anyway, for nested expressions, I think CTEs make stuff a lot easier, and SQL query optimisers mean you probably shouldn’t have to worry about performance.

    I.e. instead of:

    SELECT
      one.col_a,
      two.col_b
    FROM one
    LEFT JOIN
        (SELECT * FROM somewhere WHERE something) as two
        ON one.x = two.x
    

    you can do this:

    WITH two as (
         SELECT * FROM somewhere
         WHERE something
    )
    
    SELECT
      one.col_a,
      two.col_b
    FROM one
    LEFT JOIN two
    ON one.x = two.x
    

    Especially when things are a little gnarly with lots of nested CTEs, this style makes stuff a tonne easier to reason with.



  • Short answer is no, I think because what tools you need for programming change so much based on the development you’re doing. C++ developers need compiler toolchain stuff that Javascript developers would never need to look at and vice versa.

    Curveball answer is that modern extensible IDEs with the power of language servers and plugins have kind of become this. I’d massively recommend properly getting into one of the following and learning how to configure new languages and plugins:

    • VScode
    • Neovim
    • Emacs
    • Helix

    (Sure I’ve probably missed some great options, feel free to flame me on why notepad++ should be OPs first choice)