You’re moving in the wrong direction. Brave already has shown signs of enshittification.

Also Mozilla is right to make a stink here. Perhaps you are not familiar with what happened to Netscape?

I didn’t say I think it’s art. I don’t know if it is, and I don’t really care if it is or not. I also don’t care if it’s called art. I’m just saying the mental gymnastics of trying to convince someone that something like programming as art is cringe.

I certainly don’t disagree with the points made in the video. It in fact points out something related to what I’m saying. He states he notices that people that claim something is not art are often gatekeeping something from becoming “elevated.” I’m extending the converse argument: many people trying to claim something is art are trying to elevate it to a new status.

My problem with calling programming art is not that I don’t think programming is art, but rather that I think that label is not useful in this context. Programming is something that is very much valued without that label. Thus adding the label is just an attempt to tack on unneeded elevation to the craft. In some ways the video supports my viewpoint. The debate over what is art is a bit tired. It’s worth having, but personally I don’t think it is needed in this case.

I honestly think trying to define programming as art is just an attempt to unnecessarily elevate it. Programming is utilitarian. It is meant for a specific practical purpose. It does not reveal a shared human experience the way a movie, book, or game does. I have no need to convince myself, a professional software engineer of this because I am perfectly happy accepting that what I do is useful and do not need to try to put myself in a category with artists.

All the author is saying is that people enjoy programming. I also enjoy eating. Is that an art? I even have my own “eating style” in that I like to eat food in specific order, combine two items into one bite, the way I build a bite, etc. But I’d never try to elevate it because I’m a normal person who doesn’t waste brainpower trying to make myself feel special.

It’s very popular in scientific computing

Or you coukd just use Arch without installing an AUR helper?

When I saw the trailer for Obsession before Hokum (which is a great movie btw), I honestly thought it looked kind of generic. I’m surprised to see so much praise for it. I guess I will have to check it out.

In vim you can make some changes to a file, close vim, and then reopen the files, and then undo your changes, i.e. your undo history persists across sessions.

I use helix part-time but am forced to go back to neovim a majority of the time for a few reasons:

1. no persistent undo
2. no ctags and cscope (some C/C++ projects don’t work well with clangd)
3. niche plugins (e.g. I just found a neovim plugin that gives me a way to run ipynb files in-editor)

If 1 and 2 got fixed, I’d be a full time helix user

Those actors either aren’t desperate enough to do a movie as pointless as a Rambo presequel or don’t carry the name recognition. It may surprise you to learn that a huge amount of consumers are completely unaware of Franco’s controversy.

Depends on the nature of the project. Is it a pure software project or is it a physical device + platform? Is anything implemented yet?