Notices by brigrammer (brigrammer@poa.st), page 2

@dsm @Tony @nach @Humpleupagus @nyanide @feralphilosophernc do you even work in IT?

@Humpleupagus @nach @Tony @dsm @nyanide @feralphilosophernc there is a huge difference between IT work and Corporate IT work

you aren't having to log into servers to poke 12 year old IBM services and restart Tomcat or having to submit tickets to clean up out of capacity drives that have killed production servers because a rent-a-pajeet or boomer set the log levels to trace a month ago and somehow burned through several terrabytes of storage with timestamps

and also the extreme need for Excel and Word and obscur programs from long dead companies to keep the checks flowing and the invoices getting mailed out

@Humpleupagus @Tony @nyanide @WilhelmIII @kybermace if I need to edit 57 files, I am writing a little typescript and dumping it in bun (and saving the script to be reused)

@Humpleupagus @Tony @nyanide @WilhelmIII @kybermace cmd is terrible for text editting, much easier to just type "notepad" into it, make the file, save and close, and move on

and strangely enough in windows there is an entire visual file system consisting of windows to folders that make living out of a terminal unnecessary

@nyanide @Humpleupagus @Tony @kybermace I don't know the name of what I arguing I don't like (wouldn't say against, just that I am not learning it at this point)

I like the keyboard to, without modifiers, spit out text of the key pressed, and do extra stuff with the shift, control, and alt keys

@WilhelmIII @Tony @Humpleupagus @nyanide @kybermace I love vanilla notepad for when I will only be opening/writing a file for a few seconds and don't want the file to be "in my radar" in the other text editors I use and frequently spin it up to kick out a line or two batch file to dump in a folder to kick some stupid java thing off

@WilhelmIII @Tony @Humpleupagus @nyanide @kybermace best editor interface

@nyanide @Tony @Humpleupagus @kybermace when I type this comment, the letters go into the comment. to move I use arrows, to do other things I press control or shift. this is how every text entry, including DOS, I ever used works

but VI is somehow better because it was invented for use on punch cards and vacuum tubes - I just don't see the appeal of not just typing and using the abundant modifier keys and arrows to move about (and occasionally even the mouse)

still can't grasp the idea that programs should require compilation to work

but why? when I transpile an app in typescript, and send the gzip to a client, the browser just reads it

if I ship a module and import it into another project, it just works

even if I dump a small Java application, I just toss a batch file to start it in the folder with an icon and the name "start"

why is everything in Linux the way of pain?

@kybermace @Humpleupagus @Tony @nyanide I am used to the "a" key typing an "a" - hell, it seems like the key binding were made by the same angband folks who decided drink a potion would be "q" to "quaff"

@Humpleupagus @Tony @nyanide I started on windows 3.1 and had to learn DOS so I could launch games, and have spent over 30 years on it. Linux is great for deploying code to (especially having had to work on Windows Server for clients) - but kinda shit at being used, especially if you are used to Windows.

In fact, despite MS fucking up Windows with every other release, even its bad versions are easier to use than supposedly "easy" linux distros like Ubuntu.

And that is because linux users hate the idea of a user experience and still can't grasp the idea that programs should require compilation to work, or that there shouldn't be dozens of incompatible basic utils for everything. Linux is ruined by communist people who use Vim and release their code under copyleft.

@Tony @nyanide windows 11 sucks - and linux is only tolerable if you are interacting with it from a command line or script from some other computer

@dcc @WilhelmIII @cowanon it seems like it was aimed at pixel a4 phones whose batteries were already pretty fucked and should not affect people who have not degraded their batteries

a lot of people will let their phones discharge most if not all the way to zero over and over and refuse to listen to the tech person in their family tell them that every time they do that it massively decreases the health of the battery, no matter how many times I tell them

but non-retarded people should be fine (so, a lot of people are fucked)

@tyler @WilhelmIII rsync sounds like linux stuff, I work in corpo-world on Bill's operating system

@tyler I will try that after it copies over, it sounds faster

@tyler On my old remote dev tower, I dumped a backup, sent it to myself with teams because outlook wouldn't let me, then made a new db on the laptop, added the sole read/write system user for the db, then restored the database backup (dba folks have tended to freak out when they learn the app is designed around a single db user)

this is the most I will ever touch the db, it is purely for dev and thankfully/unfortunately, the vendor owns the cloud version of the software we work on so we cannot touch any of the databases

for my own local stuff, I never touch postgres - but I don't really have a choice for this because they have so screwed up their production code that it no longer starts with a clean database

once that works (or doesn't), and people stop hounding me for stuff, I will try the approach you described in hopes it is quicker - the databases occasionally get locked into a corrupted state so backups needs to be restored, but otherwise I don't touch it

this is all local only

@tyler I know almost nothing about postgres (other than standard sql knowledge) other than for local dev it seems ponderously slow and a giant pain in the ass

I am restoring my db from one machine, which people are bitching at me because they want to shut it down, to a laptop where it doesn't exist - and there is no documentation of anything, so I am doing a restore

I do not know what rsync and pg_upgradecluster do, but I miss hard deleting the sqlite folder, copying the backup folder, and repointing my local at the "new" db

You SURELY know what rsync is.

I am a programmer, not a DBA, I have zero idea what any of the settings on the database do and just follow the notes I made from watching somebody do the task once years ago

I write code and I sift through decompiled Java bytecode and typescript source maps, I don't got time to know what the database does (and nobody pays me to know that)

restoring a postgres db to new dev machine, it has been 30 minutes, still not done

why can't clients just sqlite?

@sickburnbro @TrevorGoodchild the whole value proposition for OpenAI was that

1. these AIs will captivate and control the people - companies declaring "We will make AI content instead of paying creators"
2. they wanted to be able to ensure all of the managerial thought control from the "better men" would keep the people from wrong thinking, and control them on the cheap
3. the important people would get access to the real/good AI which will do all kinds of useful things - the masses won't be allowed to do anything powerful
4. the cost of making the AI was meant to be a moat to ensure a monopoly of control

how cheap DeepSeek was to make is less important than that the Chinese just broke all of these