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New comment by aiscoming in "The vi family"

aiscoming — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:43:13 +0000

allow me to quote the Ancients, the vi creator himself:

> What would you do differently?

> JOY: I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.

> ...

> JOY: The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands. In some sense, its backwards from the kind of thing you'd get from a mouse-oriented thing.

> Its like one of those pinatas - things that have candy inside but has layer after layer of paper mache on top. It doesn't really have a unified concept. I think if I were going to go back - I wouldn't go back, but start over again.

shots fired:

> JOY: I can just look at my screen, and when I print it off, it's the same as it looks on the screen. It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored. There have been many nights when I've fallen asleep at the keyboard trying to make a release. At least now I can fall asleep with a mouse in my hand. I use the Xerox optica mouse instead of the other one because it is color coordinated with my office. Did you notice? I prefer the white mouse to the black mouse. You've got to have some fun, right?

http://xahlee.info/comp/interview_with_bill_joy.html

New comment by aiscoming in "Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot"

aiscoming — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:34:06 +0000

this is how Microsoft wins the war against general computing

you must not join it, refuse to lockdown your computer

New comment by aiscoming in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

aiscoming — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:21:41 +0000

if typography is critical for you, nothing has better support for it than the web platform

New comment by aiscoming in "The vi family"

aiscoming — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:16:56 +0000

vi was never progressive, it was "the Ancients knew it better, the present sucks, these kids have terrible taste, return to the one true Past"

New comment by aiscoming in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

aiscoming — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:15:34 +0000

I love the redefinition of "native desktop app" - a web app which uses the system web-view instead of bundling Chrome.

New comment by aiscoming in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

aiscoming — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:48:23 +0000

steve yegee was saying this in december, that he had multiple people at companies with heavy AI usage telling him that git cant handle 1000+ commits per hour that these companies are producing now, that the agent can't push because between the push command initiation and its finish another push happened

New comment by aiscoming in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

aiscoming — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:27:29 +0000

you can't get infected through the package manager if your language doesn't have a package manager :) turns out C and C++ were playing 4D chess all along

New comment by aiscoming in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

aiscoming — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:14:15 +0000

tell us about your disk encryption setup. and do you use secureboot?

New comment by aiscoming in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

aiscoming — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:31:59 +0000

why would you edit them away? they are a signal that you are an "AI first" company

New comment by aiscoming in "Outlook on Windows silently scales your email by 1.5×"

aiscoming — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:27:20 +0000

> Your carefully laid-out 600px email

thats the first mistake right there - dont treat email like a PDF

> Apple Mail turns dates into calendar links. Write “Sale ends May 5” in your campaign and iOS Mail wraps “May 5” in a tappable suggestion that opens a create-event sheet. The override styling is bright blue with an underline, ignoring whatever colors you set.

the lack of self-awareness is quite something to behold

New comment by aiscoming in "Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers"

aiscoming — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:54:42 +0000

careful there, you are saying blasphemerous things around these lands, that an algorithmic feed of content you dont follow can be more useful than a reverse chronological feed

New comment by aiscoming in "Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers"

aiscoming — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:50:45 +0000

yeah, it's like seeing a Mastodon link instead of Twitter on a blog, you instantly know they hate everything AI

New comment by aiscoming in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

aiscoming — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:41:33 +0000

if they didnt use AI for their webpage people would say "why doesnt NVIDIA write its website and documentation with AI? don't they believe their own story about AI factories and employees managing thousands of agents doing the work for them?"

this is exactly on brand dog-fooding I would expect from an AI hyper