Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "ThePrimeTime" channel.

Five seconds explaining what WP Engine was about would have provided some much-needed context.
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@GerinoMorn The most logical way is if the job you're supposed to be doing is getting done. Though it seems in big tech companies, people are just hired to fill seats and/or build empires.
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Some of us get fed up of "flavor of the month" languages which are going to solve all ills. Java, Ruby, Python and so many others and all pushed by people with eyes glowing with evangelical zeal. Now a base-level Linux install comes with more a dozen languages ready to go, often needed for some trivial operation that could be done with something more core. Talk about bloat. Microsoft should be jealous. And there'll be another 'perfect' language around the corner next year.
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I heard one about picking out camouflaged tanks that was triggering on whether the sky was sunny or not because the training data was garbage.
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@SuperNyz A little more would be nice for a video with legal content like this. It's not essential but it's good form for a quality video to help viewers get up to speed. My comment currently has 376 upvotes so it seems others agree. For what it's worth, I'm technically informed but don't follow Wordpress stuff.
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@wetter4293 C sucks. But it's powerful and flexible and accessible and streamlined and gets close to the hardware and many people know it.
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You can write code that happily ignores potential errors. Exceptions forces you to at least acknowledge they exist, even if you then ignore them.
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If it's not the Haitians, it's Bezos...
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@thesenamesaretaken Nope. Remote work is definitely the superior option for many jobs. I was spearheading remote work options at the company I worked at before the lockdowns. There are multiple factors at play here.
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I thought that was a cool thing in powershell. It has its own weirdnesses though. Some of that is just paradigm differences but some are definitely head-scratchers.
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I always thought it a shame that attempts to combine CLI and GUI were so rare. Both have their strengths so why not use both? Software like Eagle, Inkscape and GIMP use it well to extend power and allow scripting. Imagine a version of explorer (for example) where you could click individual files to select them or enter a regex like \*jun\*.txt
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@khatdubell That's the point. It can only return an integer (or die horribly) and there is no integer representation of an empty string (unless it is designated so in context).
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@khatdubell Never mind. I think we got derailed.
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That's a terminal thing, not CLI. GUI terminals have their own methods. The real terminal on Linux, you'd use gpm or maybe there's something newer?
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@awesomedavid2012 Don't get too hung up on the semantics. These are just abstract representations of actions occurring on the computer. Get too literal and you're going down a dark and winding path. A more accurate name might be along the lines of "out of band".
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@CottidaeSEA I always have the problem that returning error values when you're not explicitly returning error values is overloading functionality. For example, say you're returning the index of a character in a string. Well, if the character is not there, you can return a -1. Well, firstly, that's not the location of a character so your function name is lying (which, if nothing else, requires documentation). Not only that but you're having to use a signed value for something which realistically only demands unsigned which leads to its own issues (typically not major but still...). I agree with you on Java. It's where I had my introduction to exceptions and in my opinion, they did them pretty well.
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@user-uf4lf2bp8t Yes but when there's a new flavor-of-the-month runtime every year, there's the bloat. I won't be drawn away from my point which is not to advocate for any particular language. The Linux Kernel is C and that's fine. If it should be something else, that's also fine but it should be completely switched over all at once. Having the kernel written in a dozen flavor-of-the-month languages is a recipe for disaster and irrelevance (and yes, there will be something else better and cooler than Rust along anytime)...
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Dark blue on black is a fantastic default...
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@NostraDavid2 Text loses so much metadata though. Passing around objects makes so much sense for the computer. When you need to make it human readable, just make it human readable (which many of the objects can do already). A lot of the time, text-only already encapsulates objects in text with JSON or XML etc. I'm still more *nix than Win but this is very powerful tech and I'd like to see something along those lines .
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That's a novel legal theory there.
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@TehKarmalizer Yes, Many stories of people unable to give away a free couch but put a price on it and suddenly people are trying to get a good deal.
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vi will be on pretty much any Unix box anywhere. (Even vim is not a given). It's worth being familiar with the basics of text operations with it for that reason alone.
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tmux is pretty nice for automating stuff on minecraft servers.
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@DeviRuto Before python, we had python but 2 not 3 and somehow I have to have both installed or something?
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@Myvoetisseer Right? Who wouldn't want to run an OS in a browser?
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@monsterhunter445 Nothing wrong with being casual.
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@dansanger5340 They need to start putting them in cars then because every AT car I've driven has been a less compelling experience.
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@justgame5508 Fair enough. I was thinking of Java which requires you to either catch exceptions or declare that you throw them. I would consider not requiring that a substandard implementation of the idea. (at least for higher level languages. Low level languages are a free-for-all)
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If you want to roll your own date code, you're a masochist.
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@j-p-d-e-v No love for VBScript?
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@CottidaeSEA Yes. As soon as I encountered exceptions, I saw they were a superior option (from a coding standpoint) to handling weird error return values. I can still use either when needed but exceptions allow dealing with things in a more logical way and discourage making assumptions (at least a little).
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So now "AI" has been co-opted by stuff that is not AI and we stared using "gen AI", is "gen AI" about to be co-opted for stuff that is not 'gen AI' and we'll have to have yet another term?
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@cornheadahh The top tier employees are busy getting shit done. It's largely the shirkers complaining.
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@user-uf4lf2bp8t That doesn't contradict my point. Java was going to be the solution to everything (but aren't they all?) but eventually settled to being something more reasonably useful in some applications. Scripting languages (which Java straddles) are especially pernicious in their multiplicity as applications, even simple ones, require large installations of infrastructure to operate. Spitting out binaries is fine, typically. Argue what you want but the bloat is undeniable.
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@user-uf4lf2bp8t And I was never that fond of C. Check your assumptions.
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@FluffyBucketSnake Yes. It's a Herculean undertaking and shouldn't be done lightly. Piecemeal is even more of a risk though as we're already seeing.
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@user-uf4lf2bp8t Maybe there's your answer, C++ being basically a superset of C for many intents and purposes. Personally, I don't have much of a dog in the hunt, not being a kernel dev but I can see why they might be averse to muddying the waters and increasing their work at the demands of others.
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@MrGamelover23 Maybe. Or maybe we're seeing why not allowing them was prudent.
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Hence scripting and command-line-recall. Also command line substitution: (^*.txt^*.jpg). I use CLI because it's less work. (Though GUI certainly is superior in some contexts). Once you've got your scripting right, you hand it off to a cron job then let the computer take care of it forever.
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Both are valid. Learn both.
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@natheyshiro4119 You're advocating for AIs that only amplify bubbled echo chambers and only solidify and ossify any errors represented within them.
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@dennisestenson7820 I remember using 123 when they came out with an extension that let you use a graphics mode.
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