beefsack

joined 1 year ago
[–] beefsack 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Rust, like the majority of modern languages, has an official formatter which everyone should be using. Formatters are good enough nowadays that everyone should be using them.

[–] beefsack 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

One day, Valve will be under different ownership, and we will regret the time we fought for their monopoly.

[–] beefsack 76 points 11 months ago (4 children)

People aren't going to throw the PCs out. They are going to continue using Windows 10 for years without security updates.

I still saw XP installs a decade after support had ended.

[–] beefsack 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In some cities they are, and it's a beautiful thing. An example is Canberra, Australia.

[–] beefsack 2 points 1 year ago

It's such a cool editor, but after decades of Vim motor memory I just can't seem to wrap my head around the cursor / selection changes. I really wish there was an option to just make selection work like Vim.

[–] beefsack 18 points 1 year ago

That title is as clickbaity as a YouTube thumbnail.

[–] beefsack 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Better than an ORM is to use a query builder. You get the expressiveness of SQL with the safety and convenience of an ORM.

Most developers that use ORMs create poorly performing monstrosities, and most developers who write raw SQL create brittle, unsafe and unmaintainable software. There is a happy medium here.

[–] beefsack 9 points 1 year ago

Swift only treats Apple OSes as first class citizens - even though technically you can use it on other platforms it's a painful and limited experience.

[–] beefsack 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add tmux to the mix and you've just described my perfect setup.

[–] beefsack 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is only in the US I assume? The article isn't very up front about it.

[–] beefsack 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Target the seasonal challenges, they give heaps of XP.

[–] beefsack 2 points 1 year ago

Considering that the main fix for stuttering has been to turn down texture quality, this makes me hopeful that performance will improve a bit.

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