> If you have a well secured LAN where trust is social SSH gets you nothing.
Unless you're doing automatic and mandatory SSH key rotation (which almost nobody ever does) then SSH is just "password on a sticker next to the monitor" with a long password.
Go wasn't around when D was released and Java has for the longest time been quite horrible (I first learnt it before diamond inference was a thing, but leaving that aside it's been overly verbose and awkward until relatively recently).
Depends if one considers writing compilers, linkers, JITs, database engines, and running bare metal on embedded real time systems "systems programming".
> (People who want that sort of stupidity already have Go and Java, they don't need D.)
Go wasn't around when D was created, and Java was an unbelievable memory hog, with execution speeds that could only be described as "glacial".
As an example, using my 2001 desktop, the `ls` program at the time was a few kb, needed about the same in runtime RAM and started up and completed execution in under 100ms.
The almost equivalent Java program I wrote in 2001 to list files (with `ls` options) took over 5s just to start up and chewed through about 16MB of RAM (around 1/4 of my system's RAM).
Java was a non-starter at the time D came out - the difference in execution speed between C++ systems programs and Java systems programs felt, to me (i.e. my perception), larger than the current difference in performance between C++/C/Rust programs and Bash shell scripts.
Yeah, it's not clear to me why my iPhone keyboard does that but I didn't correct it. Indeed, emacs is love, emacs is life. Emacs is all things. Emacs is nothing and everything.
How is that the point of AI. The point is that it can chug through things that would take humans hours in a matter of seconds. You still have to work with it. But it reduces huge tasks into very small ones
I’m finding fewer and fewer people that need convincing that there’s some value in coding agents and prompting skills at this point. To the point where my reply to this is quite simple;
You’ve been left behind and at this very late point in the game i feel no obligation to even try to convince you.
"Prompting" is not a skill. Put it another way: there's no reason for an employer to pay you a salary for "prompting", because "prompting" is something that literally everyone can do.
Unless you're doing automatic and mandatory SSH key rotation (which almost nobody ever does) then SSH is just "password on a sticker next to the monitor" with a long password.
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