acomar · HackerTrans

قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

it's experimenting with a feature that was added to Haskell but just never caught on. it's theoretically very powerful but it's far enough from idiomatic Haskell that it sees basically zero usage in the wild as the cost for using it is that very few people can understand what you've done.

acomar

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

you've described wage slavery and class dynamics under capitalism. congratulations. your dystopia is already here.

acomar

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

what does unemployment have to do with it? if you're 22 and paying off loans and suddenly find yourself unable to work as much but a barista, continued employment isn't exactly a perk. meanwhile, the benefits of the increased productivity brought by new technology do accrue somewhere - it's just not with workers. the trends on that are also quite clear. productivity growth has been high over the past 40 years but real wages have at best been stagnant. and on the wheel turns, finding souls to grind beneath it's weight, anew.

acomar

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

here's the difference: the farmers are large industrial companies that lobby the government for subsidies, such that they can continue to produce food that can, by law, never be eaten.

programmers, on the other hand, are wage laborers, individually selling their labor to employers who profit by paying them less.

industry is sitting on the opposite side of the equation here. I wonder what will replace "learn to code". whatever it is, the irony will be almost as rich as the businesses that profit from all this.

acomar

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

> On editors in general: I’d like to have an editor as a library for which I could create modes/cli/behaviors myself.

this is what emacs is and what makes everything else feel so poor by contrast.

acomar

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

and in emacs you can just redirect the command output to a buffer. or honestly, 99% of the time, I don't even bother redirecting and muck with the output directly in the eshell buffer.

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