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   [ZeroSum06] ⚠️ ☣️ ✨️ (zerosum06@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 09:50:20 JST [ZeroSum06] ⚠️ ☣️ ✨️

   Whitney Webb is top notch

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     IceCubeSoup (icecubesoup@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 10:05:40 JST IceCubeSoup

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     @ZeroSum06 that third one hits just right

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     of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 10:08:36 JST of nothing

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     >cognitive impairment and learned helplessness
     lmao that'll never happen
     
     unrelatedly there's an interview with the Odin programming language's interviewer, where his 'controversial' practice of using simple editors is touched on. The interviewer:
     >yeah I turn off my LSP sometimes, to get a feel for what writing code without it is like
     >and I noticed that I would start to type something simple like a for loop and then pause to wait for it to be completed for me
     >I was always pausing and waiting while coding
     >and this was for really easy stuff, like it's not even any effort to write a for loop
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 10:46:22 JST pistolero

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     > his 'controversial' practice of using simple editors
     
     I may be dragging this afield (the main topic is really good shit), but you see this with literally every top-tier coder, the people that create the stuff that other people spend years studying: really simple editor, really basic feature set. Not chugging fluoridated text editors is only controversial in feature-factories. Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan use sam, Arthur Whitney switched from notepad.exe to a basic editor he wrote himself, Chuck Moore used a simple screen-based editor he wrote for DOS, Dennis Ritchie used acme, Rob Pike uses acme, Linus Torvalds uses a personal fork of uemacs (minimal emacs with no Lisp runtime).
     
     > >I was always pausing and waiting while coding
     
     This is interesting.