Yeah I suspect what’s happening is that plenty of boomers were actually just bad at tech but they got to use the excuse that they didn’t grow up with it. Any gen z people that are bad at tech don’t have that excuse so it seems like they’re stupid, when in reality there have always been stupid people or people who just aren’t interested.
Well, at a low level they are still basically the same. x86 still starts in 16-bit real mode. Mice still use USB 1 from the 90s.
Mostly it’s just a lot faster and covered with more layers of abstraction.
Pdfsam. At least that was the best way when I last needed to rotate a PDF about 500 years ago.
Here are the actual details. Seems like they used to support Git and Mercurial, which is of course ridiculous in 2025.
Moving to pure Git & Github is a great move that will lower the barrier to contribution significantly. Well… it would have anyway except
- We will continue to use Bugzilla, moz-phab, Phabricator, and Lando
- Although we’ll be hosting the repository on GitHub, our contribution workflow will remain unchanged and we will not be accepting Pull Requests at this time
Shame. I guess it is a ton more work to migrate those, and Github’s offerings are a fair bit more basic than e.g. Phabricator and presumably Lando (e.g. I found out Github’s merge queue forces you to pick between squashing and merging all PRs in the same way). Bugzilla is trash though.
Your example doesn’t quite fit the crime. A better example would be. “I ran and catch upped to him.” Or “These clothes are available to be try onned.”
To be fair I once asked an Italian what was the hardest part of English and they said compound verbs, so maybe they’re just not native English.
That’s my charitable explanation anyway. If not I’m joining the hunt!
No Pyright is just a type checker. The IDE features are part of Pylance which is closed source.
Only if you are desperate or masochistic.
Terrible use of 😄
TL;DR, big-O ignores the constant factor. If you already know what that means you don’t need to read this…
Not an issue. Install Clangd and CodeLLDB. They are much better anyway (see my other comment).
The real golden jewel that Microsoft keeps to itself is the Remote SSH extension. There’s no open source alternative as far as I know.
There’s also Pylance but that only matters if you’re using Python.
Not the case. There are binary components.
It doesn’t matter though because the Clangd & CodeLLDB extensions completely replace it and are actually waaaaaaay better.
With Microsoft’s C++ extension it always rinsed the CPU - there were files I had to avoid opening because then it would analyse them and I’d have to kill it. The code intelligence also seemed very “heuristic” and was quite slow.
Clangd fixes all of that. It’s fast, doesn’t choke on huge files, and if you have compile_commands.json it’s actually the first properly fast and robust C++ IDE I’ve ever used. You know if you’ve used a Java IDE the code intelligence just works and is fast and reliable. It’s like that.
Pretty good for a week and a half! I would recommend setting up a project using uv and also adding type hints and check them with Pyright (NOT Mypy).
Instead you should just use an autoformatter. Black is good. Ruff is probably good too but I don’t have a lot of experience with it. YAPF is not good; don’t use it.
Why? They did it right…
Can we please get proper stacked PR support? Why do no forges support this obvious workflow?
But Wine could handle the case insensitivity though? NTFS is case sensitive.
I was looking into this recently and I didn’t know this but NTFS is actually designed by competent people and is fully case sensitive.
For backwards of course Microsoft had to make the file APIs case insensitive, but the actual filesystem is case sensitive.
Also, presumably because this is a real turn-off for developers there is actually an option in Windows to sort of make specific directories case sensitive. Wild right?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivity
Damn straight. I thought bcachefs was a modern filesystem? Why is it case insensitive? Huge red flag.
I dunno how old you guys are but just in case… Schools never had good computing classes. When I was in school in the UK in the 90s we had MS Office lessons and that was about it.
Actually the UK took steps a few years ago to fixing that. Apparently they have actually computing classes now, but I don’t have kids of the appropriate age in school yet so I don’t know if it’s really as good as we’d hope.