Which is a fairly shocking thing to say really. I thought promised to be less of a dick a while ago. Guess he couldn't keep it up.

So why can't Linux just do whatever the Windows update does?

Yeah there are pros and cons. Desktop apps are not sandboxed. Mobile apps are often missing features and are annoying to install. Websites often have poor performance or janky UX on mobile, and you need to be online, and you don't have control of their availability.

I think the best option depends on what the thing is - ordering food from a random pub? Web site. Video editing? App.

Also note the drop in Chrome OS mirrors the rise in Linux so I wouldn't rule out this just being user agent changes.

FreeCAD 1.0 is actually pretty good now. Definitely usable if you're only doing basic things.

SolveSpace is also nice but it has some deal-breaker limitations like not supporting chamfers/bevels.

Eh they had their chance to fix the moderation issues. It's been a good run but I think this is the beginning of the end.

Hopefully whatever replaces them won't make the same mistakes.

At the time it made way more sense because the "traditional" smart watches were way worse. Not even one day battery life. I would say Pebble still wins on size though - actually normal watch sized.

As for why they didn't catch on.. Probably a little bit ahead of their time, and also less shiny.

Totally depends what you end up working on as a programmer. If it's web apps, you'll be totally fine. All you need is basic arithmetic. Writing a game engine? You'll need to know some basic to moderate matrix maths...

If you're doing formal verification using unbounded model checking... good fucking luck.

On average I would say most programming tasks need very little maths. If you can add and multiply you'll be fine. Definitely sounds like you'll be ok.

The secret is just to do it anyway. I have yet to work in a job where anyone actively stopped me fixing technical debt, even if they never asked me to do it.

valid criticism of his own defense

To be clear that post makes a valid point (don't defend people just because they seem nice or dedicated or whatever), but it isn't a valid criticism of Chris's post because he didn't do that.

He did say Tim is nice and dedicated etc. etc. but he also went through the specific crimes that Tim was supposed to have committed and refuted them.

I read a load of Tim's comments and this was definitely a case of the CoC people getting annoyed with someone who disagreed with them and wouldn't give up. There wasn't anything remotely ban-worthy.

Yeah IIRC it deletes them, which is as mad as you would expect. Maybe they've fixed that since I used it last which was some years ago.

Are there any videos of this sort of editing, because honestly every single person I've watched use Vim has just been like "oh wait that's the wrong thing.. hold on." constantly. You're going to say "they aren't competent" but that's kind of the point - approximately nobody is competent in Vim because it isn't worth learning.

Even so, I'd be interested if there are any videos of pros doing real editing (not "look what I can do") on YouTube. Anyone know of any?