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  • I keep wanting to give zed a serious go (even just to try it out because it looks interesting) but there's some design decisions that are raisedeyebrow.gif and feel like a very telling thing about the mindset of the devs

    fresh install:

    • at start, it immediately attempts to start making connections to github copilot and a couple of other network sources. no user prompt, no indication that it's going to be doing this, no indication that it is doing it
    • figuring out how to turn said undesired features off was not documented and just by the by semi answered elsewhere (also: I applied those settings and it still did a bunch of shit, so I had to pull the repo and scratch through it myself...)

    while I'm certainly from the older guard of crotchety, I still think it's fucking reasonable to ask the user before your software goes off and does shit. you don't even have to overload them with requests, you can make it granular with a customize button. this shit has been solved in fucking windows application installers since the goddamn 00s

    christ I'm gonna stay angry at the last decade for a long time

  • some years ago I wanted to build a bot that tracks all these loons, but the twitter API reqs are onerous as fuck so I never bothered

    feel like there's probably still a need for something like that. perhaps even more so than before, given how mask-off the snakepit is getting

  • You’re communication style will be replaced. Your place in the world is not valued. No one is viewing your response and gaining anything. Congratulations on being a perpetuation on the dead internet theory.

    wow, unintentional sunday morning art exhibit. foaming-at-the-mouth rabid and unhinged art, but art nonetheless!

  • probably some whacky shit with how it emits the AP Post object

    it's been a while since I looked into that code but I remember it being a bit weirdly trampolined for how it pulls fields together for the final emitted object/blob

  • the for x in y statement takes iterable y and assigns a value from it to x per iteration (loop), so what happens is that it's reassigning chosen_char each loop to the next item from the sentence

    (sum([x for x in sentence if x == chosen_char]) would be a quick one-liner, presuming one has downcased the sentence and other input/safety checks)

    (e: this post was in response to your 2-liner comment in the code)