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  • Clojure is pretty decent.

  • What is a game or games that you think are an absolute must-buy?
  • factorio

    the dedication of the dev is perceptible, almost unlimited replay value and the will release a major extension in 9 days that looks wonderful.

  • What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages?
  • purescript if you count “compile to js” as compiled.

    Otherwise Haskell

  • question, When were programmers supposed to be obsolete?
    • can AI replace the job of a real programmer, or a team of software engineers? Probably not for a long time.
    • can manager abuse the fantasy that they could get rid of those pesky engineers that dare telling them something is impossible? Yes totally. If they believe adding an AI tool to a team justifies a 200% increase in productivity. Some managers will fire people against all metrics and evidence. Calling that move a success. Same occurred when they try to outsource code to cheaper teams.
  • Culture shock
  • In France the « bio » label (https://www.bioagricert.org/en/certification/organic-production/ab-france.html) does bot only take into account ecological properties of the product but also many metrics relative to the social quality of the company and well being of its employees.

  • Please stop making Alien movies
  • saw it, and I went put with the idea that it was an Alien movie whose target audience was young people that didn’t see the first alien movie.

    I still prefer the original first alien movie. Like a lot, but this one is pretty decent. It was like a “netflix remake” with lots of copy/paste from the original movie. Some sentences are exactly copied, some scenes greatly copied and modernized for 2024 eyes.

    The main differences that make the first Alien movie superior (to me at least). In this latest movie there is no “mother sound” in the original Alien the spaceship appear to breathe and live with a constant sound that really put you into the “Alien mood”.

    Sigourney Weaver. Both her role and her acting were incredible. That is just decent in this new movie.

    Critic about megacorps is visible in this new movie, but felt even more terrible in the older one IMHO.

    Still, there are a few things not present in the original movie in this one that are a bit nice. The relation with the androids, some great action scenes. But that’s about it. If you love the alien universe it is a pretty decent Alien. If the first Alien is a 9/10 movie I would give this one a 7/10.

  • If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
  • I work for s company that suddenly asked to rename a lot of stuff. This had consequences. It cost time, money, and created a disconnect between internal to the dev vocabulary that couldn’t be changed easily and user facing vocabulary. Also we were lucky but this could gave broken some long used API that we are proud not to version because the policy we have internally is “we will NEVER break the API”. And for 8 years we didn’t.

  • CSS finally adds vertical centering in 2024
  • The first pass of elm ecosystem solved it. Before elm, it was also solved by other frameworks. But people wanted to be able to reuse their components and not rebuild new ones. React provided the ability to reuse css, and dirty js code in the middle of your application. You already had an way bigger ecosystem because you didn’t have to learn and built a complete new system again.

    Personally if I had the choice I believe a new start should start at the browser level. Stop supporting HTML/CSS/JS. Create a new app-centric DSL and not a document centric one like html/css/js.

    Ideally something inspired from cocoa layout. And I am dreaming but not accept generic code on the client side and only support a small controlled API. It would solve so many security issues. Sure, the creativity in such an ecosystem will be severely reduced. But we will have a so much improved UX.

  • What's a good habit you developed you'd like to share?
  • I use org-mode to maintain a todo list. A very important detail. All todo must have a schedule or deadline.

    Every time I open my editor it shows the agenda view that present me the list of tasks to do today and the ones I haven’t completed in the past.

    Mainly, if you can have a similar habit it will work as a meta habit that will improve and grow other time.

    Plus org-mode can do so much more, this becomes really useful. Like help with creating new habits, write dynamic documents, etc… I wrote an article about my workflow here https://yannesposito.com/posts/0015-how-i-use-org-mode/index.html

  • Best Privacy DDOS Blocking?
  • If you don’t want to go full Cloudflare you can mitigate DDOS using these kind of technique locally.

    https://blog.nginx.org/blog/mitigating-ddos-attacks-with-nginx-and-nginx-plus

    Cloudflare will be a lot more effective in case of attack. But I don’t think most people need more than a few mitigation rules. If DDOS really come, there are very few things you could do to mitigate anyway.

  • Zuckerberg bets on personalized AI models for all • The Register
  • I think unlike Google, there are still many pure engineers that need to contribute to open source to be motivated and are still have some power.

    I feel, but I am not sure, that for Google, thing have switched more and faster to the side of Big soulless corps.

    Generally speaking my experience is that even in these big soulless corps there are positive and passionate people. But quite often they do not have enough decision power to have a positive impact.

  • TV nerds: what should I watch
  • From (https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/124364-from)

    Season 3 should be done by end of September.

    Other suggestions in this thread are pretty good.

    And one of my preferred show; Utopia (the UK version) warning it is unfinished, only two seasons but this is just a great show. Take care of not watching the cropped version. Also it is so cool this TV show aired before COVID19.

    https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/46511-utopia

  • Performance Review [Mr. Lovenstein]
  • unlimited is a scam, people tend to take fewer days when you tell them it is unlimited comparatively as when they have a fixed number of days. I know, I did the same. Now I take care of consuming my allowed PTO entirely and I take a lot more days off than before.

  • Isn't "MAGA" an admission that currently, America is NOT great?
  • 1984 world is about a totalitarian socialist country inspired by nazi practice of propaganda. So I would not say just fascism. But fascism is clearly part of the book, the novel also show that this could occurs also in a socialist state.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

  • Choose your fighter!
  • Say you only listen to Wing as the greatest magnificent singer of all time. You are particularly in love with her interpretation of Beat It where she clearly outperforms the miserable attempt of Michael Jackson.

    I guess with such an argument the discussion about your musical taste will not take long to switch to another subject.

    And also, I really, love Wing because she sing without any other goal than to make other people feel good. No attempt to be a genius or taking herself too seriously.

  • What's the best messaging platform?
  • matrix with element as client.

    If you really care about privacy you can hist a matrix server without much resources needed.

  • Should we block zerobytes.monster?

    First happy new year everyone! Thanks a lot for all the work provided by admins and everyone involved in this lemmy instance.

    Recently I am blocking all communities from zerobytes.monster instance personally. It just appears to be a ripoff some subreddits.

    As there is no way to block all communities from some instance as a programming.dev user and as I feel these communities are mostly spam. I wonder if other people share the same feeling and if programming.dev should block them?

    I hope I am asking via the correct channel. I don’t think this should be reported as I might also be in the minority and other people prefer to keeps these communities copied from reddit.

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