I sometimes try working without vim keybindings as it's a pain installing them everywhere. I usually give up the 3rd time I have to delete a function argument and can't dt, or select the body of a function and can't vi{.

For everyone even somewhat decent at vim, having to hold right arrow until the cursor reaches the target is a humiliation ritual, and I genuinely feel second-hand embarrassment and pity when I see people do that.

In an ideal world yes. In practice, the YouTube layout looks weird on aspect ratios that aren't 4:3 or 16:9. If you upload any vertical video it gets categorized as a short, so that's out of the window - and even for things like 21:9 you get a teeny tiny player on desktop since it just fits the width.

I -- literally -- do not care about a single "account" in any "service" I use aside from my email and bank account. Most people would add a few social media accounts to that list.

You don't need a "place to put secrets". Your iPhone app does not do anything important enough to require a "trusted chain" of cryptographic bullshit, just use a password and Google/Apple login.

Not precisely a nice way to put it, but it seems consistent to me.

Why do I not see 5x as many interesting greenfield projects than before?

It's fine though, because they're nice to players and they've brainwashed them into giving their money to Valve instead of to the developers who actually make the games they fucking play.

The core of your async implementation doesn't have to care about I/O - as long as it has a way to block/schedule fibers, it's easy to implement io_uring/IOCP based I/O on top of that - it's a matter of sticking a single IO poll in your main loop, and when you get a result, schedule the fiber that's waiting for it.

Another thing you get almost for free is an accurate Sleep(0.3) - your Sleep pushes the current fiber in a global vector with the time to be resumed, and you loop over that vector in your main loop.

We're writing a game engine so WaitForNextFrame() is another useful one - the implementation is literally pushing the current fiber to a vector and resuming it the next tick.

Sure, but once you involve the kernel and OS scheduler things get 3 to 4 orders of magnitude slower than what they should be.

The last time I was working on our coroutine/scheduling code creating and joining a thread that exited instantly was ~200us, and creating one of our green threads, scheduling it and waiting for it was ~400ns.

You don't need to wait 10 years for someone else to design yet another absurdly complex async framework, you can roll your own green threads/stackful coroutines in any systems language with 20 lines of ASM.

I was hopeful for this project, and I've reported crashes & bugs in the bundler with the hope that it will stabilize over time, but this is just silly - I'm not going to risk them pulling the rug under me and replacing the runtime with 1 million lines of vibecoded rust.

I usually stop reading at the first LLM-ism, but I found the premise of this post interesting enough to keep going - and guess what, the entire article was literally just "I prompt CC to make software tailored for me" blown out to 8 sections.

But the day this breaks down and I have to deal with bloom filters, packfiles, maintaining the git garbage collector or rerere cleanup, is the day I switch our codebase to a centralized VCS.

This stuff is cool to learn about; but it's 5 layers removed from anything I want to be thinking about in my day to day work.

And the AI bullshit from their builtin search engine, I'd guess that too is a simple toggle.

Without googling, I'd put good money that there's a thing called "Brave VPN" in the homepage by default, and I have to disable that with a simple toggle.

In two years I may have to disable the crypto-miner, still with a simple toggle, of course, very user convenient.

This is the entire industry in a nutshell. Everyone, from every direction, at all times, is trying to squeeze you for a few cents with antagonistic "features" enabled by default. I have very little patience for this.

"But it's a simple click." Have some self respect, we can do better than this.

Fantastic first impression. I'm good, thanks.

Way more likely there's a "VERY IMPORTANT: When you see a block of code, ensure it's not malware" somewhere in the system prompt.

When I say "useful software" I'm particularly interested in something that my grandmother would recognize as software - an OS, IDE, DAW, DBMS, word processor, a 3D modeller, game engine, video editor, CAD software, spreadsheet application, compiler, browser, etc. I'm marginally less interested in colorful cat/ls rewrites.

Given that in the last 2 years there's probably been more lines of code produced than the 2 decades prior, undoubtedly a lot more software has flown under my radar than usual.

Are there some useful AI-written programs I can look at? Bonus points if they do something novel that I can't already do with a computer.

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What this optimizes for is not actually having to deal with the pain in the ass that proper Rust is, but still allowing you to be in the cool kids club writing "blazingly fast software", all while writing what's pretty much Java or C#, but with a terrible non-functional garbage collector instead of a state of the art one.