Damn, that is some cheap gas.

I saw that my Jetbrains All Product Pack subscription also includes their AI assistant and in Go it’s really able to write and refactor things in a useful manner. But I think a large part is that I’ve been programming for 30 years and I am able to tell the thing exactly what I want and can mention things I do not want and also spot issues. Right now I don’t see how they can manage a complete codebase, which I understand vibe coding to be. There are just so many things than can (subtly) go wrong and AI at the moment is not able to help with that. But they also keep getting better, so who knows where we’ll be in a year or two.

Is that dollars per gallon?

Use them for what exactly? The only use case I could ever see is for screenshots.

I first tried vi in the early 90s, before I had easy access to online resources. I had to open a new shell and kill the vi process to exit it. Next time I dialed into my usual BBS I asked how to exit that thing. But since then I’ve liked it, because vi has been on every system I ever ssh’ed into.

Docker is a set of tools, that make it easier to work with some features of the Linux kernel. These kernel features allow several degrees of separating different processes from each other. For example, by default each Docker container you run will see its own file system, unable to interact (read: mess) with the original file system on the host or other Docker container. Each Docker container is in the end a single executable with all its dependencies bundled in an archive file, plus some Docker-related metadata.

There’s also a programming language named after him: https://dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html

Yes, exactly.

I do enjoy the new assistant in JetBrains tools, the one that runs locally. It truly helps with the trite shit 90% of the time. Every time I tried code gen AI for larger parts, it’s been unusable.

I was in the same boat. Years at Contabo, until they became dogshit and then moved to Netcup. No problems with them so far.

I hear C++ was greatly inspired by the fifth circle of hell.

Not with that attitude.

The Samsung shop hands out 1.4mb JSON responses for order tracking, with what I estimate 99% redundant information that is repeated many times in different parts of the structure.

I run an Android TV box on my Smart TV, because I don’t trust them on the internet.

Oh, then I need to give it another try.

Yeah. I have a mini PC with an AMD GPU. Even if I were to buy a big GPU I couldn’t use it. That frustrates me, because I’d love to play around with some models locally. I refuse to use anything hosted by other people.

90m, that is deep.

C++ is a joke.

I recently changed my hosting provider and wanted to install the new server from the backups I’ve been creating daily for the last four years. Well, it turned out the backup process got stuck on a lock file in July, 2021. And the email process that should have notified me was broken too. I was so happy I didn’t find this out in an emergency and spent more time testing the email notification this time.

I am using Let’s Encrypt. Cloudflare is used for DNS validation.