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New comment by traderj0e in "No More JetBrains Products for Me"

traderj0e — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:39:09 +0000

Idk what has changed, but I used PyCharm like 10 years ago and it was fine. Way faster than other IDEs in fact. I only stopped cause I switched to vim.

New comment by traderj0e in "No More JetBrains Products for Me"

traderj0e — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:28:21 +0000

Eh, haven't needed it. Especially now that there are AI coding agents, but even before that. If I really wanted to run some static analysis in IntelliJ, always had the option to do it separately from my real editor.

New comment by traderj0e in "No More JetBrains Products for Me"

traderj0e — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:16:10 +0000

JVM settings are always wrong no matter what, it's impressive

New comment by traderj0e in "No more JetBrains products for me"

traderj0e — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:15:39 +0000

Haven't used an IDE ever since I got used to vim and installed some basic plugins like YCM. Everything else feels too slow.

New comment by traderj0e in "California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down"

traderj0e — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:36:44 +0000

Oh I didn't mean open source, it can be a binary (if applicable), but same problem, they'd need to provide a way to run the online servers locally. The third option is a refund, which isn't feasible.

New comment by traderj0e in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

traderj0e — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:08:07 +0000

Sucks, but it's the cost of having different standards. Same thing happens trying to import random cars to the US.

New comment by traderj0e in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:44:24 +0000

Idk if this makes it better or worse, but I won't fight to the death over open source/hardware, I've got Apple stuff. It's also not the same thing because computers don't pollute like cars.

New comment by traderj0e in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:39:42 +0000

Yeah the desire makes sense. The Macs are very nice hardware. You can get a mobo/case that's not much larger than the GPU itself, but it's still clunky. It's just, unfortunately eGPUs are unlikely to become more than a curiosity.

New comment by traderj0e in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:37:45 +0000

Mac lets you run any software you want, but I understand the principle of not wanting to support them.

New comment by traderj0e in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:29:34 +0000

Thunderbolt still doesn't provide the full PCIe bandwidth, but even if it did, I'd want PCIe itself. I don't trust the encapsulated version over Thunderbolt to work the same.

Virtualized Linux would be ok though. That's what datacenters already do with their GPUs, albeit on x86 not ARM. Doesn't need to be Asahi, cause that's unlikely to completely work.

New comment by traderj0e in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:14:20 +0000

New Zealand sounds unreasonable. It's reasonable in like California. They don't mandate yearly checkups, just smog testing which is every 2 years for cars older than 8 years.

New comment by traderj0e in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:12:23 +0000

Was going to say, you only hear stories from the relatively few people who have issues, not the people who go in and out as usual.

New comment by traderj0e in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:48:21 +0000

It would basically mandate subscription model for online games. Also wonder if it'd introduce legal risk for online mode in a game that also has local play, say Call of Duty or the newer Super Smash Bros, or if "ordinary use" is clearly not that.

New comment by traderj0e in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:38:43 +0000

It would be fair in general to disallow charging a one-time fee for something that's shut down soon later. I don't expect perpetual support, but there should be some target based on the price that any well-intended software maker will exceed.

Also if you advertise "lifetime license," that should mean lifetime.

New comment by traderj0e in "California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:26:56 +0000

Upfront purchase for something that depends on online services to work raises some questions. The problem with the bill is they want either literally infinite support or an open source server in the end. It'd make sense if there were some time limit based on the price of the game, just to guard against scams like asking $50 for a game that's shut down a year later.

New comment by traderj0e in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:54:57 +0000

Maybe they don't, but I get it. Optimizing for lower emission doesn't mean highest reliability, or even necessarily highest fuel economy. Emissions parts can fail and be expensive to replace. That doesn't mean people should be allowed to delete emissions. Last time I had my cats fail, the cheapest option was to saw them off, I didn't do that.

New comment by traderj0e in "California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:53:41 +0000

The answer is I wouldn't buy a TV that depends on online services. Just like I already wouldn't buy a video game like that, unless maybe it's very cheap. Some people do it anyway because it's still way less bad than the TV example.

New comment by traderj0e in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:46:09 +0000

Modern trucks, even with emissions controls, are more powerful than anything older. Engines are more reliable if anything, though there are plenty of pesky non-engine electronics ruining the useful lifespans of modern cars.

If you're talking about black smoke out of the exhaust, no it doesn't help reliability. If you just mean tuning to optimize not for emissions, yeah it can help if you know exactly what you're doing or screw it up if you don't, either way you'll only find out later. Doesn't seem to matter because most professionals already make their living without messing with their trucks.

idk who downvoted you, that's not appropriate, so +1'd you to avoid comment death

New comment by traderj0e in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:34:53 +0000

I don't really care how it affects car modders or people with sports cars. I have a sports car, and yeah the California smog test has been super annoying cause of electrical problems with that are unrelated to its actual emissions, but I knew what I was getting into when I bought something known for unreliability. Fixed it myself. There's a dude across the street with a modded car who always complains he has to bribe the smog guy $500, as if he was forced into driving a track car on the street. I just want regular cars to be drivable without undue burdens, and the enthusiasts can deal with it.

California gasoline tax pisses me off more because it's higher than anywhere else and the money seemingly goes nowhere.

New comment by traderj0e in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

traderj0e — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:29:44 +0000

These drivers aren't in critical situations, and their mods aren't designed for that