Hey, to offset the person in the other comment, I want to say this: thanks for making home-manager and firefox-addons, my digital life is so much better with those <3

Suspiciously you’re the one who’s trying to be included into every Nix{,OS} conversation with alternative facts easily disproved with a 5 second ddg search. Also, you’re writing this to friggin rycee 1 2 3, which is just a cherry on top. Sincerely, someone who’s mastered time travel because apparently running NixOS 15.09 on a desktop was not possible in this timeline. Oh wait whoops people have been running NixOS on desktop since 2007.

(honestly, you must be trolling, I just don’t see any other reason to do this shit.)

It’s quite obviously := a.k.a ≔. Already used by Go and others.

For off-road and hiking: (properly customized) OsmAnd is the best app in existence, hands down. My setup shows me all the information there is: surface type, road quality, required road clearance for tracks; surface, incline, difficulty, obstacles for trails; surface, vegetation, elevation, steepness for completely off-road/off-path sections; all the amenities that are there (water sources, picnic tables, random gas stations in the middle of nowhere); easily switchable and overlayed layers to look at aerial imagery if something is unclear on the vector map; and there is a 3D map to help visualize the terrain, which works both with vector maps from OSM, aerial imagery, and the combination of both (which has saved my ass on a couple occasions). All of this can be fully offline (including pre-downloading aerial imagery) which is indispensable when you’re in the middle of nowhere.

I avoid driving in cities at all costs (out of principle, shout out https://lemmy.ml/c/fuck_cars, but also practicality). When I really have to, I use OsmAnd. It’s perhaps not ideal (way too much information density even if you disable most things) but I’m using it when I get there anyway so why switch.

For walking in cities: OsmAnd is ok. I have a profile which disables most details and makes the map readable.

For cycling: OsmAnd is ok, but for some reason routing always takes ages, and I’ve never figured out why. If I need to take a longer trip I just use CoMaps - it gives slightly worse directions but finds the way nearly instantly.

For city transit: I mostly know the routes in my city already, but when I’m in an unfamiliar part of town I use the city’s transit app. It’s OSM-based, doesn’t require google play services or anything like that, provides great routing and instructions and live position updates. Sadly OsmAnd is not a good fit for this purpose: it takes forever to load the routes, and the coverage on OSM is not good enough to be 100% reliable.

For inter-city transit: sadly it’s not too good here, and it’s very badly mapped; I tend to give up and resort to rome2rio. I can usually find a phone number of the bus driver to call and figure out the current schedule.

For finding businesses I would not expect much… there seems to be no good answer that isn’t Yelp or Google Maps, and of course that kinda goes by the nature of crowd sourced reviews and information.

This is where you can actually contribute yourself. Adding businesses to OSM is trivial with something like StreetComplete or EveryDoor. The OSM community is strong where I live so I can find almost any business I would want to visit.

… cause it’s true

Maybe go for a license / ??? that allows for free use but requests payment for paid use

Actually, that would make it non-free (a.k.a source-available) software by FSF’s definition. You can do something like Qt (copyleft license for free, permissive license for a fee), but this doesn’t really work for a lot of software.

This is clearly not “a russian wondering what’s wrong”, this is “a russian living in russia who doesn’t want to die in prison”. This would be a fair criticism if there wasn’t a law criminalizing pacifism together with many laws making it easy to deanonymize internet users.

Silence does not fix things.

Neither does grandstanding on Lemmy. It especially wouldn’t fix anything if a person in Russia trying to build international relations would go to prison for it.

This is about as useful as suggesting to an average USian/brit/german that they violently overthrow their oppressive governments and install socialism. The punishment for trying (at least in UK/germany) is about the same as it would be for a russian wearing an anti-war T-shirt, the benefits for the humanity would be greater than they would be for overthrowing Putin’s dictatorship, and yet I don’t see people yapping about it any time someone from those countries posts an open-source project.

There’s almost no civil society of any kind left in Russia, so it’s impossible to say if a nation overall supports or opposes the warfare. People with an active pro-war or anti-war stance are minorities, somewhere in the 10-20% range, and neither are allowed to speak up (interestingly, quite a lot of pro-war social media influencers are in prison right now for daring to speak up against corruption in the army or similar). The vast majority of people are just going about their days. Does that technically help with the war? Yes, I guess, it drives the economy, people pay taxes etc, but then the same can be said about an average american, brit or german right now - I don’t see them blowing up munitions factories (that directly supply the ongoing genocide).

There is a complex sociopolitical history as to why it’s likely Russians aren’t as vocal about these sorts of things

There’s also a very simple reason: Russian Criminal Code article 280.3, which criminalizes pacifism with up to 7 years’ imprisonment.

I don’t think there’s a law in the US that criminalizes pacifism [yet] (with actual prison time as punishment)

It’s easy to blame russians for not resisting the war when you don’t have the prospect of spending 7 years in a russian prison

The basis of trust has been breached by whole nation, so it has to be earned by every single member of that nation.

1. WTF is this collective punishment nonsense? Replace “nationality” with “race” (keeping in mind that a person typically doesn’t choose either and it’s decided by who their parents were) and you should be able to see the issue here
2. I hope you rather quickly uninstall almost all popular FOSS software from your devices, because almost all of it contains sizeable contributions from russian citizens and I don’t think you’ve individually verified their intentions

Nah, actually, in a typical company the lower down the ranks you are the less likely you are to be fired, statistically speaking (to a point, of course you’re more likely to be fired while on probation or something).

Yes, it’s not linear. The progress of GenAI in the past 2 years is logarithmic at best, if you compare it with the boom that was 2019-2023 (from GPT2 to GPT4 in text, DALL-E 1 to 3 in images). The big companies trained their networks on all of the internet and ran out of training data, if you compare GPT4 to GPT5 it’s pretty obvious. Unless there’s a significant algorithmic breakthrough (which is looking less and less likely), at least text-based AI is not going to have another order-of-magniture improvement for a long time. Sure, it can already replace like 10% of devs who are doing boring JS stuff, but replacing at least half of the dev workforce is a pipe dream of the C-suite for now.

It’s categorically the same as printing out a PNG onto a sheet of paper. I can see how you might call that “storing”, even if it’s a lossy process.

Honestly, yes. I have days when I want to code something new and experiment, and days when I just want to drudge through existing code and carefully refactor/clean up so that it still works (or even works better in some cases).

It’s easy to write, easy to build, produces lightweight and fast executables, and the type system is great. Why not rust?

This is precisely the problem that deploy-rs solves!

Ok, sure, for low-level C/C++ code with memory management and such it takes a lot longer than 2h per 1000 lines. For business logic in higher-level programming languages it’s usually fine.

Also, assuming this kid gets weekends off, he would be writing 12k lines of code each day. I don’t think the average programmer could even review that number of lines in a day

I usually estimate that it takes 1-2 hours of highly focused work to review 1k lines of code well (this is not even considering that this is AI-generated mess that probably requires a lot more attention). A typical developer is capable of ~6 hours of focused work per day (8-10 with a lot of caffeine). So no, according to my estimates at least there’s no way in hell this gets any review at all.