> The industry is being redefined as we speak and everyone doing the push-back are pushing against themselves really.
No, they’re pushing back against a world full of even more mass surveillance, corporate oligarchy, mass unemployment, wanton spam, and global warming. It is absolutely in your personal best interest to hate AI.
Somewhat off topic, but I can’t believe someone got paid to write that article, what a load of crap. It’s like saying that fallacies don’t exist because sometimes people incorrectly claim the other side is arguing fallaciously.
If you go by the literal definition in the article, it’s very clear what OP meant when he said the AI policy is virtue-signaling, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the culture war.
It's not a useful phrase because a "we accept AI-generated contributions" is also virtue signalling.
You have no doubt heard claims that AI "democratizes" software development. This is an argument that AI use for that case is virtuous.
You have no doubt heard claims that AI "decreases cognition ability." This is an argument that not using AI for software development is virtuous.
Which is correct depends strongly on your cultural views. If both are correct then the term has little or no weight.
From what I've seen, the term "virtue signalling" is almost always used by someone in camp A to disparage the public views of someone in camp B as being dishonest and ulterior to the actual hidden reason, which is to improve in-group social standing.
I therefore regard it as conspiracy theory couched as a sociological observation, unless strong evidence is given to the contrary. As a strawman exaggeration meant only to clarify my point, "all right-thinking people use AI to write code, so these are really just gatekeepers fighting to see who has the longest neckbeard."
Further, I agree with the observation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling that "The concept of virtue signalling is most often used by those on the political right to denigrate the behaviour of those on the political left". I see that term as part of "culture war" framing, which makes it hard to use that term in other frames without careful clarification.
Calling something "performative", like "virtue signalling" or the older "politically correct", is also a claim that the other party is making the argument under false pretenses.
In all cases, the implication is that it's worthless to discuss the stated issue (in this case, the rejection of LLM-generated contributions) because the real issue is something else.
I've seen LLM-generated software contain code which was clearly derived from an MIT-licensed code base, and where the generated code did include proper attribution.
The USL v. BSDi lawsuit teaches us that operating system developers must be cautious about copyright attribution.
I see no need to conjecture the existence of some hidden reason, as you seemingly have. In addition, the performative game can go both ways. Eg, "Your comment is performative cover for the slap in the face you feel as a coder who uses a lot of LLM support." But that would be malicious conjecture. IMO, any claim of "performative" without support is just bog-boring flaming.
This has got to be one of the stupidest conspiracy theories out there. I swear nobody on HN has ever browsed 4chan for more than 30 seconds. 80-90% of it is porn and the rest is extremely lonely and socially maladjusted people talking to each other about literal nonsense.
You might be correct, but to be fair, people generally didn't believe in a secret island resort full of child abusing billionaires... and we know how that turned out.
Line wrapping is one of those things I’ve just decided to give up on and let myself be at the mercy of the machine. I just resize the window to be a comfortable width for reading text while I’m typing it and turn on soft wrapping. If you really need hard wrapping your editor or viewer should handle that formatting for you
I was thinking about this the other day - I watched a video about the acme editor and it was showing off text editing in a shell buffer, much like M-x shell. I realized I haven’t yet found a terminal emulator that will let you select text with a mouse while you’re editing in the shell. It’s such a simple thing that would be so useful, especially on a Mac where CUA bindings don’t conflict with terminal escape codes. iTerm lets you Option+click to position the cursor but you can’t select a word with the mouse and press ‘delete’. Why? It seems like such a simple thing to do.
Windows Terminal allows this, afaik. It might be a feature of clink, but I feel like I've seen it in powershell and cmd both. Not sure if it's available in traditional console window, I rarely use those much these days though (sudo on windows is nice, the only reason to use an elevated window is for multiple commands, like browsing system directories you don't have access to; I just wish it had a different 'official' name)
> even though his characters are quite robotic and video-gamey
This is what made early Sanderson so great for me though. I’m constantly inundated by media through which the author demands a soapbox. This can be anything from politics to just the author’s personal preferences.
Mistborn 1-3 was a fairly simple and satisfying plot with likeable (if somewhat predictable) characters and fun world building. Perfect set of books to just pick up and enjoy. Not Shakespeare, but it didn’t have to be.
By the time I got through all the Stormlight books I felt like I had been locked in a room and forced to listen to Sanderson drone on and on in a self-serving tone about his personal power fantasies. The story was more complex, but it also had 100+ pages of fluff nobody except Sanderson cared about. I truly believe that once he got really famous his editors stopped saying “no” to anything, no matter how small.
His short stories are the same way. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is good because it’s short and sweet. It sticks to a classic formula and focuses on imaginative settings, which is what Sanderson is good at. Tress was boring because it tried to be smart and kind of flopped.
> Every single time I reboot, if I have to unplug my external monitor, and keyboard, login, then plug them back in. Otherwise it refuses to talk to them.
HOLY SHIT, my work Mac does this all the time and my personal Mac does not, I cannot for the life of me figure out why, nobody I have talked to understands it, it drives me absolutely insane.
Everything else in your post is either a personal preference and/or not a problem for my workflow
You can run nix on macOS now. You can also drag windows into corners or edges to tile them, it is almost exactly like Windows 7 or 10. You can even have tiling window managers on macOS that emulate i3.
Your complaints with the dock seem like a personal choice... I like the dock behavior but if you don't, probably not a lot that will fix that, it will always suck.
Sad to report that external monitor support is still terrible.
2024. Dragging windows to the corners isnt how I would do it in windows or linux, I just use a super key and an arrow key and it moves it as needed along the tile. Having to drag a window around is terrible design.
Going all the way back to Windows 7 I preferred dragging to arrow keys, I legitimately don’t understand how that’s “terrible design” and not just a personal preference.
I would suspect a sizable portion of Windows users didn’t even realize that snapping with the arrow keys was possible, since keyboard shortcuts are (generally) harder to discover than mouse actions.
No, they’re pushing back against a world full of even more mass surveillance, corporate oligarchy, mass unemployment, wanton spam, and global warming. It is absolutely in your personal best interest to hate AI.