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New comment by sirwitti in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

sirwitti — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:33:38 +0000

Man, I just realized it's been 20 years for me. I vaguely remember sometime in 2006 that Windows Vista was inevitable and decided to switch to linux.

I don't care about fussing around and just need a useful machine for work and fun. Linux is far from perfect for me but the amount of crap windows or macos throw at me when I have to use them is almost comical.

New comment by sirwitti in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

sirwitti — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:54:10 +0000

Thank you! That's exactly what I wanted to hear :)

New comment by sirwitti in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

sirwitti — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:22:05 +0000

Has anyone real-life experience with these tools?

New comment by sirwitti in "Patching my guitar amp's firmware"

sirwitti — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:37:28 +0000

Posts like this are the reason why the internet and software development felt magic to me as teenager.

This stuff still is magic to me. Wonderful work!

New comment by sirwitti in "Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC"

sirwitti — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:47:05 +0000

Not trying to be rude, but in a technology you're not familiar with you might not be able to know what good code is, and even less so if it's maintainable.

Finding and fixing that subtle, hard to reproduce bug that could kill your business after 3 years.

New comment by sirwitti in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

sirwitti — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:05:25 +0000

You're missing Signal which has gained a lot of traction in the last years.

Apart from that it's hard to take statements from such an ignorant US centristic point of view about what europe is/has/has not seriously.

Let's see how things will play out for europe and how our souvereignty efforts will impact the US economy.

New comment by sirwitti in "Automatic Programming"

sirwitti — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:14:44 +0000

Owning the issue is one thing, but being able to fix issues with a reasonable amount of resources is another.

To me code created like this smells like technical debt. When bugs appear after 6 months in production - as they do, if you didn't fully understand the code when developing it, how much time, energy and money will it cost to fix the problem later on?

More often than I like I had to deal with code where it felt like the developer did'nt actually understand what they were writing. Sometimes I was this developer and it always creates issues.

New comment by sirwitti in "Native Linux VST plugin directory"

sirwitti — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:02:23 +0000

I absolutely love the progress that was made in the several last years! The number of VST/audio plugins available on linux has grown from being quite a problem to having an actual ecosystem!

New comment by sirwitti in "Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)"

sirwitti — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:17:03 +0000

The jetbrains IDEs hav some very useful features falling into this category, these come to my mind immediately:

- Making variables, functions,... grey if they're not used - Temporarily coloring variables + their usages when the cursor is on one - Showing wiggled red underlines for syntax errors

Especially the unused code feature is wonderful.

New comment by sirwitti in "Funding Open Source like public infrastructure"

sirwitti — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:16:42 +0000

Why once successful?

But more importantly, tell me more about the scandals, I love good gossip :)

New comment by sirwitti in "Funding Open Source like public infrastructure"

sirwitti — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:10:28 +0000

Just in case people don't realize, the author is Dries Buytaert who created drupal.

New comment by sirwitti in "Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs"

sirwitti — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:57:34 +0000

Just as we aren't far from actually usable and safe self driving cars since 10+ years.

This is not a valid argument.

New comment by sirwitti in "Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden"

sirwitti — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:02:27 +0000

In your opinion, what's the problem with the port concept of the frame.work?

New comment by sirwitti in "Dual antibacterial properties of copper-coated nanotextured stainless steel"

sirwitti — Tue, 21 May 2024 11:51:37 +0000

Which unfortunately is not a solution since harsher punishments have shown to not prevent crime.

New comment by sirwitti in "PHP Doesn't Suck Anymore"

sirwitti — Sat, 04 May 2024 12:00:39 +0000

> Such as call-by-reference only working 2 recursions deep.

Which smells like an anti-pattern to me. Blaming bad code on the language is one way to deal with it.

> Arbitrary decisions and namings on stdlib.

This is absolutely true and even more annoying I find that the ordering of stdlib arguments is inconsistent. Backwards-compatibility is one of the reasons this has not changed, I guess.

What I don't understand is, why people don't apply that same legitimate criticism to python. I recently had to do a project in python and was astounded by the amount of arbitrary namings and design choices.

I also agree that many php codebases, especially if not written in a good framework, are a hot mess.

That being said, the ecosystem if using decent frameworks with php 8+ versions very productive in terms of time vs results and a joy to work with.

New comment by sirwitti in "Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility"

sirwitti — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:57:27 +0000

I recently discovered shdotenv and I like it a lot!

New comment by sirwitti in "Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles"

sirwitti — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:57:01 +0000

How so? All over Europe the same infrastructure is being used for both.

New comment by sirwitti in "The Linux Command Line"

sirwitti — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:17:34 +0000

Didn't know about cheat.sh. Thank you for that, I love it!

New comment by sirwitti in "Linux Crisis Tools"

sirwitti — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 07:18:41 +0000

Related to that, I recently learned about safe-rm which lets you configure files and directories that can't be deleted.

This probably would have prevented a stressful incident 3 weeks ago.

New comment by sirwitti in "Google's advanced music generation model and two new AI experiments"

sirwitti — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:40:12 +0000

Quality never was the only or even the most important aspect of popularity in music and probably art in general.

So I'm not sure your projection is valid.