Do they have any evidence that F-droid serves more malware than Play Store?

This does sound very interesting. I should have said the debuggers I’m familiar with don’t do it. Or if they do, I have no idea how.

Certainly setting breakpoints on certain conditions instead of just a line, would help a lot. Being able to step backwards through the execution even more so.

I can also see the variables change by logging them.

Debuggers are great if you want to see in detail what’s going on in a specific loop or something, but across a big application with a framework that handles lots of things in unreadable code, multiple components modifying your state, async code, etc.; debuggers are a terrible way to track what’s going on.

And often when I’ve found where it goes wrong, I want to check what was happening in a previous bit of code, a previous iteration or call. Debuggers don’t go back; you have to restart and run through the whole thing, again finding exactly where it went wrong, but now just a bit before that, which is often impossible.

With logging, you just log everything, print a big warning where the thing has gone wrong, and scroll back a bit.

Debuggers are a fantastic bit of technology, but in practice, simple logging has helped me far more often. That said, there are issues where debuggers do beat logging, but they’re a small minority in my experience. Still useful to know both tools.

Nothing wrong with console.log.

What it needs most of all, is a fairly complete intuitive model of how the world works. LLMs only have book knowledge. They have no body, perception or experience. I think that’s incredibly limiting.

We need to get the right to privacy and control over our own devices enshrined as fundamental rights, like so many other rights the EU protects.

Yeah, super annoying. In Linux you can rename or move it and the app using it doesn’t care.

Although having the option of listing the app using a file so I can kill the app would also be really nice to have. I’m sure Linux has something for that too, but I don’t know what it is.

The main thing that AI has shown, is how much bullshit we subconsciously filter through every day without much effort. (Although clearly some people struggle a lot more with distinguishing between bullshit and fact, considering how much politicized nonsense has taken hold.)

I can live with that.

No MUDs? That’s what I used telnet for.

What web? Gopher and FTP.

Unacceptable. I want to be able to telnet.

Landlines, you mean? I sometimes forget they still exist.

I’ve found it’s pretty good at refactoring existing code to use a different but well-supported and well documented library. It’s absolutely terrible for a new and poorly documented library.

I recently tried using Copilot with Claude to implement something in a fairly young library, and did get the basics working, including a long repetitive string of “that doesn’t work, I’m getting error msg [error]”. Seven times of that, and suddenly it worked! I was quite amazed, though it failed me in many other ways with that library (imagining functions and options that don’t exist). But then redoing the same thing in the older, better supported library, it got it right on the first try.

But maybe the biggest advantage of AI coding is that it allows me to code when my brain isn’t fully engaged. Of course the risk there is that my brain might not fully engage because of the AI.

If you know what you want, its automatic code completion can save you some typing in those cases where it gets it right (for repetitive or trivial code that doesn’t require much thought). It’s useful if you use it sparingly and can see through its bullshit.

For junior coders, though, it could be absolute poison.

Sounds like vibecoders will have to relearn the lessons of the past 40 years of software engineering.

There was that plane Russia shot down, and a serious breakdown of relationships between Russia and Azerbaijan. I akso thought the peace deal had some serious cooperation between Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, but I can’t find any details, so it’s possible I imagined that.

No, a couple of weeks ago there was a report about some form of cooperation between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, with a corridor between the three countries, and an intent to make them independent from Moscow and I really thought some mutual protection.

At least, that’s what I remembered, but I can’t find anything anymore, so maybe I read more into it than it was. Ir maybe it didn’t last. I don’t know.

He doesn’t share a land border with Moldova. The most likely option is Azerbaijan. Not NATO, lots of recent disagreements, starting an alliance with Armenia and Turkey.

No man, Woz has a completely different beard.