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Lung

@ lung @lemmy.world

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Expert developer, Buddhist

  • Is Windows FOSS now?

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  • It's just unsettled law, and the link is basically an opinion piece. But guess who wins major legal battles like this - yep, the big corps. There's only one way this is going to go for AI generated code

  • What am I missing with Matrix?

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  • I evaluated matrix a few years ago to try to add chat to my video game. I also evaluated everything else. Sendbird (proprietary, what reddit uses) is crazy expensive. Matrix is complicated and didn't have a good simple web frontend. XMPP is still pretty good. In the end, I ended up going with IRC v3 which fixes many of the legacy problems of IRC, and that was the best option. I am still scratching my head as to how that's the state of the art for sending little bits of text back and forth. Don't get me started on WebRTC, I spent a whole year trying to make a stable video chat app for another project

  • HOW?!

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  • That's great! Not that you asked for advice, but the other pieces of enlightenment are (1) work on really broad awareness at the edges of your senses - distant sounds, the weight of your clothes, edges of your vision (2) a joyful gratitude for everything you see / experience. Try doing all of that at once, while on a walk or whatever

  • Linux 7.0 Kernel Confirmed by Linus Torvalds, Expected in Mid-April 2026

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  • Love that the entire justification is that Linus doesn't know how to count higher than 20. Lucky for us that he'll probably retire before we get to version 20.20 because otherwise he'd probably have to just shut the whole project down

  • HOW?!

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  • Is it all the way silent or are there a different layer of kinda quieter meta-thoughts about how you're not thinking thoughts rn?

  • HOW?!

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  • Pretty sure they are all your own thoughts, or none of them are. I'm unclear where thoughts come from. Either way, a big part of meditation is focus training, and while people differ in this ability, everyone can improve - like exercise

  • HOW?!

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  • I think this generally takes practice, i.e. meditation. The Buddhist lore from the ages is that people can only do this for a few seconds naturally, slowly extending the amount of time, unless they are in a flow state of an activity - like driving a racecar or dancing. But yes it is a superpower, being able to control your mind and emotions, and shut them off

  • Not sketchy at all

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  • Yeah the electrons are happy. It's grounded, by which I mean it's not allowed to go out with its friends

  • Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users

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  • There won't be that many of them in a few years when consolidation happens. The theory is this is a turning point in all of society, so high investment is seen as warranted. Meanwhile, the price of inference and infrastructure is going to continue to reduce, while corporate adoption will rise

  • Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users

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  • Weird take. Typical playbook in SV is to push a free product to gain market dominance for a few years. Also 2% is a common paying user percentage for almost every freemium biz model, and 3%+ is actually considered pretty good

  • Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer (Currently on Kickstarter)

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  • So friggin cool, I'm immediately in

  • healthcare costs are a potent force for radicalization

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  • Yeah I agree & don't have a solution. I've also lived under fully socialized healthcare, and that's quite problematic as well for various reasons including wait times & quality of care / options

  • my 100% legit distro tier list

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  • What?! You can run whole Linux apps on Windows

  • Integrating WebView with Nature Programming Language

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  • Weird language, it seems to be almost exactly Go, GC, even has the "go" keyword for async, and tries for the same usecases of server backends

  • healthcare costs are a potent force for radicalization

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  • Arguably the prices of healthcare are what they are because of the legal institution of insurance and the system of middlemen involved, so it's not really an example of free markets, but I'll show myself and my logic outta here ok peace

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    ReactOS For "Open-Source Windows" Achieves Massive Networking Performance Boost

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  • I still think these guys are lunatics, who loves windows coding so much as to do this? Hahaha very impressive

  • LLMS Are Not Fun

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  • I think this is true to some degree, but not exclusively true; new grads still get jobs. However, I think it'll take some time for universities to catch up with the changes they need to make to refocus on architecture, systems design & skilled use of LLMs

    My opinion is that the demand for software is still dramatically higher than what can be achieved by hiring every single senior dev + LLM. I.e. there will need to be more people doing it in the future regardless of efficiency gains

  • LLMS Are Not Fun

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  • Argument doesn't check out. You can still manage people, and they can use whatever tools make them productive. Good understanding of the code & ability to pass PR reviews isn't going anywhere, nor is programmer skill

  • CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?

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  • I wouldn't go that far

  • CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them?

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  • Hard to say. I mean, the easy answer is only 10x a soldier in America. But they also get free housing, food, varied benefits & bonuses -- and retired generals often make millions via their influence and power. But yeah they have salary caps and somehow the whole system still works pretty well

  • Linux @lemmy.world
    Lung @lemmy.world

    Linux: the only OS that uses less disk space after an update?

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    Showing off my new alien spaceship themed tabby.nvim setup :D (feat. neovide, fzf, airline, markview)

    streamable.com /vwxo2i
  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    compiler.nvim: language aware compile menu

  • Neovim @programming.dev
    Lung @lemmy.world

    hypersonic.nvim: overlay window helps you write regexes

  • Neovim @programming.dev
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    Applying to be a mod

    reddit.com /u/hugelung