“The Java Trap”

(link for the lazy: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html )

WARNING: This is NOT “Free Software” or “Open Source”.

AI app: Great picture! That a “fls Brown cup”; it is delicious and fatal!

I thought that was just the Cybertruck, which yes, I wouldn’t drive even if someone gave me one. I’d flip it and buy something else.

I think both the sedan and roadster are okay electric cars, and I think they have enough range I could use them to reduce the amount of gas I burn in my Volt for longer trips.

But, I haven’t really been paying attention to Tesla recently, and Elmu has certainly been looking horrible to me.

it was inherent to the terminal that you can’t position the cursor and select text using the mouse, and also inherent that there are not right-click menus

There may be terminals for which that is a limitation, but with neovim in konsole, I can (left) click to move the cursor or select text and right-click to get a contextual menu.

Separately, the TUI libary we use for RESTMan is Brick and does support mouse events. IIRC we only support mouse-wheel scrolling, but there’s a lot more that is possible.

So, I think it might worth your time to try some TUI alternatives to your GUI environment.

Your larger point that TUI can’t fully replace GUI stands, at least IMO. Even for plain text formats (e.g. dotty) that I want to edit with a fixed-width font, an image (pre)view can be essential to some tasks. I don’t usually find that’s true for coding tasks, but design docs often benefit from charts.

You might in the future. Both vim and neovim are accepting genAI code contributions. There’s a vim-classic fork around, but it is “rolled back” to pre-vimscript9.

The writers of “reality” are a bunch of plagiarists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs /s

Once companies started suing people trying to practice “responsible disclosure”, I stopped attacking people that choose maximum disclosure.

Responsible disclosure has always been a bit of a hedge. It’s rare to be able to show you are actually the first person/organization to discover a vulnerability.

we are going to need to develop a different model of learning, using, and processing information that considers the provenance of where the information came from and how it got there

They used to teach this in schools under “critical thinking skills”. Following the chain of sources to the primary sources was a task I had to to (at least in part) more than once in secondary school.

Authoritarians don’t like that tho.

Useful when opposing creatures have deninwalk.

Next time, try it without the “Appeal to Nature” / Naturalistic Fallacy.

You might try loops instead of TikTok.

You can use non-free softwares and still be a FOSS advocate. You just can’t impose non-free software on others, including “soft” impositions like only publishing your content in proprietary formats or only accepting messages via proprietary protocols.

Yeah, but the LLM will eventually realize there’s no fixing it and delete everything. /s

Under capitalism there’s no lowest quality level at which workers can refuse to exchange their labor for pay.

I didn’t know Jacob Drawfee posted here. BONUS

I smoke a special brand of invisible, pink cigarettes. They have a unicorn pattern on the wrappers.

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

I’m fine with people with dependents getting higher priority. If you have one pill, one sick person, and one healthy person, you don’t give each of them half a pill for equality sake. https://welleatyouupweloveyouso.com/2023/08/14/what-does-equity-and-equality-have-to-do-with-being-spoiled/

But, also, society in general and employers in specific should strive to provide a level of flexibility to all employees where all of them find joy in their lives.

You don’t get to blame me for your reactions, only my (in)actions.

When no words accomplishes the task just as well, it’s not selfish to avoid small talk. The fact that you find it rude or impolite is your problem, not mine.

More people around bitching that they can’t farm karma with their tired opinions.

That is the disconnect Im referring to…the fact that people are taking jobs thinking that they get to dictate what the job entails, even after being told what the job entails, even after signing documentation saying they agree to what the job entails. Where does that come from?

I don’t know, but I saw something similar in my father (RIP). He would agree to something, then get some benefits, then later attempt to “renegotiate”. That sort of behavior isn’t something “GenZ”. Some people just want to squeeze water our of rocks, even if it is deleterious to their relationships.

Similarly, I’ve certainly had employers that, despite my job duties clearly not covering the task would ask and expect me to perform other tasks “for the good of the company”. It’s fairly common these days for job offers to include “and other duties as assigned” because employers want to have all the power, and I’m fine with workers (of any generation) just refusing to comply.

It does sound like the employee was being unreasonable and maybe should be dismissed, but that doesn’t get the task done either, so maybe the “do it, you have no say” approach isn’t any better. And, I have no idea how I’d handle it. I kinda don’t like delegating stuff anyway, so if I thought the task was important I’d do it myself unless someone happily volunteered. But, I know that might not “scale” the way it needs to make the business work.

Laziness is my choice and a virtue in my profession and my preferred operational method.