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> I just told you that those who really helped to build the nazi war machine, were you (the american and other capitalists), and not the Soviet Union.

Oh, this is not a point of blaming and finger pointing, looking for excuses why the communists are not to blame(are they ever?). It is to illustrate the very simple fact that the soviet union was an imperialist, expansive and warmongering state and one of the direct initiators of WWII - contrary to the usual soviet-russian victim narrative. Not that we would not know it in the retrospective looking at the soviet occupation of half of europe.

The USA had their share of nazi-related business (IBM, e.g.), but no amount of whataboutism will save you from the simple fact that soviets entered the war as active allies of nazi germany.

Yes, yes, the "defense" where you occupy parts of Poland, attack Finland. And of course, providing resources and training facilities to the dear ally in Berlin. There is a reason why soviets always talked about "BoB" and never about WWII - they've entered the latter as allies of Hitler, which does not fit to the soviet victim narrative.

> was due to the war started by the nazis

Soviet ally, nonetheless! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...

> People like Bezos would just sit around running a local bakery or something instead.

And we may be better off as a society? The problem with greed is that it can be very destructive and has high costs for the society and environment. Thus, how much greed is constrained is in the end kind of a social contract.

Since slavery is forbidden, morons are the next best thing, I guess.

Well, if your boss doesn’t say what they think, you shouldn’t either. And why would even consider posting something to linkedin, in the first place?

There is nothing unethical about: you are doing the only sane thing in this system and economics. Morons, who work themselves to death believing bosses shit-talk about “our mission” and “we are in this together” will learn it the hard way.

I am practicing GTD since ~15 years already, but while I stick to some practices (review, inbox and so on), I have a simpler setup for projects and files, sufficient for my needs. One of the lessons is that GTD and productivity systems are not about tools - I am equally productive (or unproductive) in emacs, omnifocus, reminders. The advantage of OF and reminders is that I don't have to look after sync, workflow-wise I quickly learn to navigate around idiosyncrasies of each of them and settle on the same workflow, helping myself with scripts and glue code where I need it.

This said, I still keep my long-term notes in denote, because it works and I don't trust Apple Notes for long-term stuff (missing built-in export).

I try it regularly and I was running an org-mode based task management for a year and some months in between, but man, I do not have time and patience for sync conflicts in 2025. It can work but I have to be very cautious, and iCloud sync being a bit mysterious does not help. But I've also recognized that I don't have very complex projects, that GTD tools do not matter since their contents are transient by nature and that Apple Reminders is basically good enough. As a bonus it allows me to share Lists/Projects with my wife.

ID.7 owner here. Car is good, software is good. Window buttons are questionable.

Same here, PragmataPro stopped me from switching fonts. Maybe because it was so expensive ;) It just has a lot of attention to detail and polish. I was using IBM Plex Mono and Iosevka before.

It is quite ironic that this article is littered with ads for temu…

This damn U2 album still appears in my smart playlists in Apple Music from time to time - it is insane that I can’t delete it completely so many years later.

The interesting question is: is it really that bad at Rust, or does Rust's strict compiler just catch more errors which remain hidden in, let us say, Go? The usual hand-waving response is that developers should write more tests instead - as if a boring and tedious task such as writing tests will not be passed to LLM.

No need to convert me there, I am already in the church.

For programming purposes emacs is not that different from any modern editor - there are some built-in capabilities, the rest you get from ELPA/MELPA/Git. It has no proper plugin arhitecture, which is a gift and a curse at the same time, but mostly works out. Where emacs shines compared to vscode/neovim/etc is that it has a very solid support for prose, org-mode, denote and prots color schemes which are that good. It is why I continue to use it, even though I am not interested in lisp per se these days and could easily replace it for programming with any other advanced editor.

> Apparently many people need the stories, given how much they boost Go about things that are prior art.

No one but you here cares about prior art. And not even you, most likely, otherwise you would write your in some kind of lisp which was first on most of the things.

> Emacs could be an IDE, if it came with the whole Lisp Machine for the ride, sadly it is only a subset of the whole experience.

Lisp is just an implementation detail in (GNU) Emacs, even though it is what makes it a delight to configure. The rest is done, as everywhere, with plugins and built-in package management.

> VSCode has zero lines of Atom code into it, it started from Azure as Monaco project.

VSCode has everything from Atom in it, since it is basically a rewrite of Atom, using Electron, which was written for Atom.

> Does neovim distribution handle graphical development plugins, without spawing external windows?

What should it be, UML-plugins? Coroner has called, he wants his dead things back. But most stuff is handled with overlays these days with Telescope.

> You mean tooling as it was already kind of available on Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS?

Spare me your stories of the TurboPascal, I am not a youngster, not easily impressed by name-dropping $some_old_thing and do not care about old men yelling at clouds. You may program in TurboPascal, if you like it.

> When people discuss Go tooling feels like Renaissance folks resdicovering Roman city enginnering.

People talk about Go tooling because it is good, lightweight, editor-agnostic, helpful and provided with the language. There are multiple language which fulfil some of the criteria, but not many fulfilling all of them.

> VSCode is certainly an Integrated Development Editor

If VSCode is an IDE, then also emacs and neovim and your lamenting has no meaning. And of course, the one behind VSCode is Atom which was heavily influenced by Sublime text.

> Biggest difference is that one hardly needs to code extensions, or manually configure them most of the time, a simple install button press is only that is needed to get any extension going, many of which graphical, taking all advantage of the Web platform.

So, basically a neovim distribution? Got it!

I don’t care about opinions on Go the language, but the tooling around is excellent without being bound to an IDE. And no matter what you use: Goland, VSCode or dape in Emacs, your debugger will plug in the same delve.

> the large majority is on VSCode

Here, fixed it for ya. But since when is VSCode an IDE? It is just an extensible editor, not very far from Emacs or neovim. We’ll see how it plays out, but I assume that IDE is a dead concept. No one develops new IDEs anymore, besides the usual money-milking with “Idea + plugin=>new ${name}ide” from Jetbrains.

Modern stacks (as in go and rust) are largely editor agnostic - it is Gosling who lives in the past, thinking that an IDE is still required(and a very weak one, in case of abandoned Netbeans). One of the reasons, btw, why I would take Go over Java in a heartbeat.

I think it was this blog: https://renato.athaydes.com/all-posts They also tested common lisp!

Yes, I wish an equivalent of “Lingua latina per se illustrata” would exist in every language.

It is how Beorg does it - they have a subscription covering everything, but users can also buy singe features. However, I imagine that at some point the coding will get quite complex - developer has to build a couple of feature toggles and ensure that they work well in every imaginable combination.

Nice, congrats! I am still thinking about how to implement encryption, maybe by storing in a cryptomator volume? But happy to deal with org!

To this day, 9 years later, I don't like to be referred by "Dr. so-and-so", not because I am ashamed of my thesis, but because I did hate every second of it. Screw the academia grinding mill, compared to it big business is almost human.

Modus themes are so rad - they look bleak at first, but after a while they grow on you. Then you try some other theme and notice how terrible it is to look at due to lack of contrast. I am convinced now that most theme makers have not the slightest idea what they are doing. Modus and PragmataPro font are two things which spoiled themes and fonts for me.

But, Prot also has other incredible packages - I am a user of denote, his notetaking package. Then there are ef-themes, for those who like themes with more color. There are gems there, but really, one should try modus for a while first.

I've had some bags of liberica recently and it is very interesting. A lot of vanilla, overshadowing all other flavors. I prefer arabica, but I am also 100% for ending the arabica/robusta monocrop in favor of more coffee species. It certainly enriches coffee culture!

I could easily give up my iPhone or Mac, even though I do use them exclusively for ~10Y. The issue with Linux is not that it impossible to use (I did it for several years) but that there is no incentive to support hardware and corner case software given Win/Mac prevalence. The moment they disappear the problem will solve itself within a year or two and we would be certainly better off afterwards, given the current course of corporate technology - not even including politics.

It is also worth mentioning, that the imposed tarifs are different for different chinese manufacturers - based on received subsidies. BYD is among the least affected. In the end, nothing stops chinese manufacturers to produce cars in EU - it is what they forced european manufacturers to do in china, so fair game.

I live in Germany, and have heard the same story for years - only with Tesla instead of "Chinese cars". And look, who is dying now? Meanwhile, my ID.7 is just an excellent car. Totgesagte leben länger, and such. The problems for German car makers were never that they could not deliver BEV, but that people would not buy them in numbers which would justify complete transition. Manufacturers like BMW, who were driving a more cautious, dual BEV/Hybrid approach for the same model did much better, and it is not like an BMW i4 is not a very good BEV.