There are dozens of us. And we are used to reading manuals, since we first installed our system.

They did it before the Internet was even a thing, my friend.

I remember using man pages when I was contributing to a C open source project back in the day.

It is extremely easy to use the internet without using google.

I'm literally designing some code now and realized that I used DuckDuckGo to find man pages for system calls... from my Arch laptop. 😑

But he went out of his way to install man pages on arch? Probably a narc.

Someone cropped the last line? What a sociopatl

(For any nerd wondering, the name of the language is Nahuatl but I guess Aztec language is more recognizable for the sake of the joke lol)

Type of dinosaur I believe

It cut off the h.

Psychopatl

You saw that but not devloper? Buncha amateurs.

Ngl didn't even notice it was covered until I read your comment

Could also just be a non native English speaker.

Oh god no, ideapads. My dad has one and the metal parts hardly fit together after a year, the key travel is 1mm and the touchpad is practically useless.

I decided to try Cursor today (first time using any coding assistant) to refactor my sloppy NixOS config, and I'm really impressed to far. My config is so much cleaner and very well documented. It even has automated backups, a README.md, and CHANGELOG.md now!

The cost has been ~$20 so far (I'm still tinkering with it).

ETA: I also use Arch NixOS btw

Edit 2: I asked it "how might I streamline my deployments a little?" It wrote some nicely polished scripts that use deploy-rs, and wrote some nice documentation for it.

The script didn't work on first run, so I added the console output to the context and asked "what went wrong here?" It debugged and fixed the script, and updated the docs.

I think this has been the most frictionless NixOS experience I've had so far

Definitely. I am calling the vibe police right now 🚓

You sound more like a Rage Tuned File Monster, or rtfm for short

I would not say that. I use a very old 13" Dell XPS laptop. I use Code-Server and duckduckgo. I have be known to program on my 7 year old android tablet with a bluetooth keyboard. For the most part I look at docs for JS modules as I write mostly in Python with Flask and use JS for responsiveness. Before anyone suggests something else I have to interface with a VERY old database that I wrote a webservice into through C#. I do realize there are other ways but python is my comfort point and the amount of backend processing makes it easier to use a "real" language. For my purposes it is plenty fast.

The joys of distributed algorithms. You can now get more errors, more quickly than before!

I remember writing a chat system in assembler, for DOS, using, IIRC, IPX networking. When it went wrong, one or more machines would just freeze, with the string "NETWORK ABEND" in the middle of the screen.

vi crew represent

I use Arch by the way.

He told him

Well yeah, Perl is write-only. Larry Wall asked the monkey's paw for a language that works on the first try. What's onscreen are your raw brain patterns.

Thank god it runs like crap. Optimized C isn't pretty, but any project that compiles proves someone looked at it more than once.

and never in public

Lol

Like an animal.

25 years ago I was writing code in a paper notebook, sometimes while riding the bus. The only computer access was at college and it was easier to work through the code on paper and then quickly transcribe it once I got on campus.

Yeah, things are a bit more complicated now, but in other ways they are sooooo much easier. The fact that people are using chatGPT to 'program' is just crazy from my perspective.

I just read the headers

I'd just write C and get annoyed by the #includes having different names.

I can’t live without vim.

Sometimes I wander into vscode but it’s less productive for me.

Plus vscode has weird name inconsistencies (the app is called visual studio code, it’s branded as vscode, and the menu bar says Code), which is probably normal for Microsoft but unusual elsewhere.

Helix crew 🖐️

I should fork vim and call it 'death', so I can shout "give me vim or give me death!" any time someone suggests a different editor.

nah, neovim

It's vi... but improved!

That tracks. The AI push is extraordinarily premature. It makes sense that capitalist idiots see mass layoffs as improvement, but rational people do not.

I tried reading the gadget bridge instructions for my watch. Could not get a straight answer on getting the authorization key (I'm a noob), wasted 2 hr. o3 gave me perfect instructions that got it done in 20 minutes. Ya win some ya lose some.