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  • It's extremely bad if you come from a country like mine, Iran, where we have to use VPNs religiously in order to circumvent censorship and it has become painful to Google anything especially when you're not logged into your Google account.

  • Viable Alternative for ZSH as the interactive shell?

    So I'm currently using zsh + oh my zsh, and have been using it for some years now. It's good, it has amazing features (via plugins) and overall I'm happy with it. But lately it has become laggy for me (probably because of plugins) and I want to see if there's any other shell with features like ZSH but faster and lighter?

    I've tried Fish, and usually install it on my servers, but it's not POSIX compliant so learning what commands actually do what in Fish seems like a hassle.

    I've heard of Oilshell, Yash, Nushell but haven't tried any of them.

    What is your setup for your interactive shell?

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  • In Persian we don't have genders for anything. No words, no pronouns, nothing. So having gendered pronouns for me is not gender neutral. I would rather call everyone equally "they" than get into this game of what are you identifying yourself because it makes the language more complex for me.

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  • As a person who learned English as a 2nd language, I would like it if you could transform the language into gender neutral and end this insanity.

    I still get classic genders wrong, this whole LGBTQ movement is confusing me even more when I'm trying to type/speak.

  • When / why / how did "I hope you are well" become a standard email intro?
  • It means that may your soul rest in peace, has nothing to do with the actual body lol.

  • *I now know why you cry*
  • The first movie is hella better as it is a cyberhorror movie at its core. The second movie is not as good in any capacity.

  • unsure why we are surprised lol
  • Believe it or not, in the age those tankies lived, shit wasn't easy. Trying to sabotage every meaningful conversation by hur dur tanky stuff is rather more braindead than being a conservative. Political change is messy, violent and fucked up in nature. Tankies committed atrocities and also provided some great shit to people who had nothing, like free healthcare and education, abortion rights and in 2 decades became an industrial nation.

    Did they did a lot of wrongs? Yeah. Should we learn from them, yeah, did they also delivered, well they delivered, although with great price.

    I'm typing this from a country so fucked up economically and politically, that you westerners won't understand. But trying to magnify and dilute the conversation with weird moral optics does not make lives of us 3rd worlders easier. You want to ride your moral high horse while every political inaction will stump hundreds in a minute.

  • unsure why we are surprised lol
  • This is just a very braindead take. Not all types of authoritarian mindset are reactionary. Red fascism is an absurd take which was originated by CIA propaganda in the 50s.

    Your critique of authoritarian states, does not make them equal. That is a centerist take that smells like a moral jerk off ritual.

  • unsure why we are surprised lol
  • I find your innocence thinking the western narrative is not managed by CIA bots and shills, a bit cute. Just look at any discourse regarding Israel and Palestine and see how braindead liberals become bloodthirsty af when they realize many in the world don't share their worldview.

  • Pulsar, the best code editor
  • Lapce is the most promising tool I've seen in the editor space for some time now.

  • Looking for interesting ideas to work on for side-projects as an aspiring backend developer

    Hi.

    I'm a dev with 3 YOE, mostly in ML and MLOps, and more and more I'm trying to pivot into traditional software engineering. As of now I'm trying to really learn the fundamentals of backend engineering (as opposed to the bootstrapping DIY learning attitude that I had during my ML roles towards backend engineering), and I'm learning Node.JS. I'm getting familiar with the the concepts and the syntax, and so far so good. But one thing that I really lack is the imagination of what a good side-project might be.

    So I ask experienced devs here, can you recommend me some good project ideas to work on, to make myself a better dev?

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