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You could've changed the setting that puts the button back on the lower left corner and saved your relative the trouble.

The new default is truly terrible, though, and this was the first setting I had to change when I was forced to use a windows laptop by the company I work in.

Wtf did I just read?

The fact you started the text with is true: there aren't vibecoded complex apps, because vibecoding doesn't work.

The rest of the text is an incoherent rambling that looks like two people arguing and doesn't make any sense.

You should probably stop using gen AI and seek therapy.

The purpose of not wasting memory is so we have free memory to use productively.

What's the point of having 64-128GB of RAM if we're using apps that eat 10GB to do the same things we were doing 20 years ago using a few MB?

The fact someone who works on Bun is willing to create and even push a branch generated by a stochastic parrot is very telling of the direction the project is going.

Doesn't matter if it's "experimental", it's a dumb experiment that shouldn't exist.

The problem with floating point comparison is not that it's nondeterministic, it's that what should be the same number may have different representations, often with different rounding behavior as well, so depending on the exact operations you use to arrive at it, it may not compare as equal, hence the need for the epsilon trick.

If all you're comparing is the result from the same operations, you _may_ be fine using equality, but you should really know that you're never getting a number from an uncontrolled source.

Curious on what languages have a hard time saying Libre.

Every latin-derived language (which are most of the western languages) can pronounce it naturally, and even English speakers can approximate it well enough to be understood (even though they're incapable of pronouncing the non-retroflex `r`).

Airbnb, Uber and Amazon were already making everything worse. We're past the "bleak threshold" for over 10 years now.

Airbnb is inflating the real-estate bubble everywhere. Apartment building now are mass produced, tiny, and expensive, targeting investors who are only interested in Airbnb.

Uber/ifood and other transport/delivery apps are just working around labor laws, undoing centuries of progress towards worker rights and approaching slavery-like situations.

Amazon is just another monopoly, not sure why you put it beside the others, but it's one of the companies lobbying to make the world a worse place.

Then came crypto"currency", which started the "age of anything goes", where tons of money are thrown in the trashbin for the next speculative pseudo-tech bubble.

AI is just the bubble that came after crypto, little practical utility with lots of hype from billionaires who threw money at it.

After it bursts, there'll probably be another.

I'm pretty good at C++.

By using a very simple technique, I've managed to write 0 bugs in it in the past 15 years.

I wish I lived in the same world as you.

There's basically 0 rust jobs available that aren't scam startups.

That's the main problem with vibe coding.

The whole point is having the LLM figure out what you want from vague hand-wavy descriptions instead of precise specification.

You don't need an LLM to parse a precise specification, you have a compiler for that.

This is almost describing the ASUS Zenfone 9 (except for some reason they wanted only 8GB RAM, while the zen 9 has 16).

The small size and clean stock Android were the main reasons I bought this, and it's still a great phone.