nebeker

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[–] nebeker@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago

Let’s all just wait for the new versions of languages, frameworks and operating systems. LLMs won’t have been trained on those and won’t have answers, people not asking each other online will generate no answers to train on.

Let’s read and train on docs, right? Yeah, right.

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

I’ve seen some very excited sponsor spots for them on YouTube. CDNs often make ads load faster than videos, so who knows what kind of innovations they could be financing. All of them perfectly privacy preserving, of course…

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thanks, I was confused about why the helix editor might need screen sharing. Haha.

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

I’m using Helix at home, but I need to be able to collaborate with people with different priorities at work without starting with “it’s similar to Vim, but it’s built in Rust.” It’s important to me to be able to recommend extensions and everything.

 

Occasionally I’ll find my computer slowing down dramatically only to realize a VS Code MCP server is using enough RAM to put me 50GB deep into Swap usage.

The thing is VS Code isn’t even my main IDE, I just use it to browse projects and as a text editor. I don’t need or want it to run an MCP server and I don’t know why it’s doing it.

I’m limited in my ability to provide more details, because I just killed the process last time, to move on with work, and didn’t take notes on what it was exactly. I’ll do that next time.

Has anybody else experienced something like this? It’s a very hard problem to search for - everybody wants to run MCP servers, not stop them.

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Sure, it’s:

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[–] nebeker@programming.dev 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I love how the documentation is in the actual .h file and the read me is a mere formality.

I’m disappointed I didn’t get this as a floppy in the mail.

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Isn’t that the point of languages like Snap?

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A good reminder that composition is a useful concept.

 

I got to this from an email with the pretentiously more informative subject line “The data sharing model for your non-commercial license is changing.”

TL;DR:

  • they will collect basically all IDE actions and code snippets
  • opt-out for free licenses
  • opt-in at admin level for organizations
[–] nebeker@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago

I mean, if you want your prints to be asynchronous you’re looking for trouble to begin with.

The previous statement is a joke.

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, yes: weaponizing cybersecurity requirements to trick - I mean “motivate” - higher management to do things “right.”

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 8 points 8 months ago

My thought as well, but those stones were shaped to match each other, reducing the amount of grout needed. It just goes to show the old ways still work, but you have to commit.

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This is a dangerous metaphor. Remove the old wall and it turns out the new beautiful wall was leaning against and supported by it.

I get what you mean, it’s just that the metaphor could support both perspectives.

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