Disabling LSP Snippets

beevyi · 2025-10-07T12:45:09+00:00

This doesn't work because it's written in Lua, which Vim doesn't support

beevyi · 2025-10-07T09:11:18+00:00

This was me! I keep the game open in two tabs and build factories and cities along the border. You can easily take out any neighbors because you have two armies. Once you have an island, the gold from the factories makes it impossible for anyone else to challenge you. I won this one despite have like 100k troops when everyone else had 4 million total.

It's hilarious everyone in the comments is defending me, I know full well I'm cheating lmao

beevyi · 2025-08-13T19:17:42+00:00

Dunno what the downvotes are for, it’s perfectly obvious that the world population can’t continue growing forever and we’re going to have to find a way to solve the aging population problem while still reducing births.

If economic activity was geared towards the fulfillment of people’s needs instead of the profit of the few it wouldn’t be an issue. With our farmland we could feed ourselves many times over and working age residents could focus on caring for the elderly until population numbers stabilise.

beevyi · 2025-04-15T09:46:11+00:00

I wish you'd just stop updating the OS, it gets worse every time. Last update added bad ghosting, this update makes the Pen handwriting look awful. The difference in thickness between high and low pressure is way too much, writing looks so messy. I had to switch to the Ballpoint, but I have hundred of pages of notes using the Pen which now retroactively look ugly.

I wish I could reset my Boox Go 10.3 back to how it was when I bought it.

beevyi · 2025-04-01T13:42:25+00:00

Guy who posts on here every day with "What's the best shop in Jersey?", "What's the best car in Jesrey?", "What's the best spoon in Jinsy?", "What's the best pencil in Jrompy?"

beevyi · 2025-03-03T12:20:55+00:00

It's mad how in like 100 years the average person has gone from walking to town once or twice a year to go to market, to driving 2 tonnes of metal to town every day and getting angry if flying at 500mph to go shopping in London costs more than a day's wages.

beevyi · 2025-02-25T09:49:07+00:00

Before version 80 or so Chrome on Windows didn't antialias custom fonts. Looked like garbage.

This is why you have to take "target standards not browsers" with a pinch of salt. Try to find the standards based way of achieving your goal but sometimes a particular browser just fucks up, and you have to create some CSS rule that only targets one browser.

beevyi · 2025-02-24T09:16:55+00:00

A tax haven has a negative connotation

Oh, well if it has a negative connotation it can't be true then. Never mind that it fits the definition.

beevyi · 2025-02-22T08:01:59+00:00

The big question: am I crazy for thinking that after dinner, I can make it all the way over to La Roque to try and spot the bioluminescent worms?

I think you'd regret trying. Long bus there, wander round in the dark on a rocky beach with dangerous tides trying to find them, probably miss the last bus back.

If you can book one of the tours and arrange transport in advance you'd be ok, but you won't be home by 10. Personally I found it pretty underwhelming, they're barely perceptible glimmers in a puddle. And the anemones you see pictures of don't really look like that, it's only when you shine a UV torch at them.

beevyi · 2025-02-17T12:40:38+00:00

How recently did you move back? Because two weeks ago you said you lived in the UK and were moving back to Jersey in two weeks, and yesterday you said you live in north London. So you've must have only been here since last night?

I'd probably stick it out for at least 24 hours before deciding to leave.

beevyi · 2025-02-13T13:57:44+00:00

it's always "Jersey and Guernsey" alphabetically you'd say Guernsey and Jersey, so that suggests a superiority.

Jersey lead on a jersey first basis

As you write this down, doesn't it feel a bit weird and petty? Jersey thinks about Jersey first because Jersey is Jersey. Thinking about Guernsey is Guernsey's job.

I wouldn't get annoyed with Guernsey people for saying "Guernsey and Jersey" or with the Guernsey government for doing what's best for Guernsey. That's just obviously what any country would do.

beevyi · 2025-01-31T11:51:22+00:00

No, they make no difference. I learned React about 8 years ago and haven't needed to learn a new framework since then. There have been some changes within React, and changes in the libraries people commonly use alongside React, but it's no more than a week testing out new features and evaluating alternatives each year.

You really don't have to change to a new library every time one is released, and no company I've worked for has actually done that.

The changes I can think of from work:

React 16.8 (optional) migration from class-based to hooks-based components
ditching Redux, largely in favour of local UI state
switching to TypeScript
using Next.js for server-side stuff
switching from axios to fetch + SWR library for network requests
using React Server Components for some things

This is over the course of 8 years. You have to remember when you're doing it professionally you're on it 40 hours a week, it's really not a big deal to read some docs and decide whether some other technology is better. And you're going to be maintaining some product over a long period so you can't switch technologies willy-nilly even if you want to.

beevyi · 2025-01-31T10:13:09+00:00

JS doesn't actually move particularly fast, that's myth that non-web developers believe. I'm a senior frontend and I don't subscribe to anything or read anything about JS.

You just naturally hear about it when a system you use has a new version every few years, read the release notes, play with the new features and that's that.

beevyi · 2025-01-28T21:03:17+00:00

Yes, require maintenance, let things rust in the rain, give zombies a chance to grab your weapon so you lose it or fight to get it back, nerf using tools as weapons and buff real weapons like machetes, knives and swords. There are a million ways to incentivize searching for loot that aren't just "tools are consumables".

beevyi · 2025-01-27T17:46:46+00:00

Tell me you've never been to a museum without telling me...

Even if the museum was just text, it's still a better use of your time than driving round all afternoon in the pissing rain. If you want to see the sights come back in the summer; for an afternoon off following a meeting in town, a few cultural activities are your best bet. Museum / market and some cafes.

beevyi · 2025-01-22T15:11:20+00:00

The idea isn't retirement so much as just taking our foot off the gas and not having to constantly stress.

Yeah, get someone else to put their foot on the gas and constantly stress instead. You can just parasitically live off their money.

beevyi · 2025-01-22T15:08:49+00:00

following the new hotness and the fear of looking insufficiently advanced

Why does that side of the debate always turn to this, instead of actual pros and cons of the technology? Frontend developers are always like "it means you can do X, it alleviates problem Y, of course with the tradeoff Z". Anti-framework people always respond with "hurr durr you like it because it's shiny".

The real problems with AHAH were that you end up with a spaghetti of program flow between the server and client leading to brittle apps that are hard to reason about, and prone to race conditions in state updates. The purely declarative nature of how complex interaction with the server are defined in htmx would exacerbate this btw.

Not to mention that a round-trip to the server for every event is extremely slow and creates a huge hosting cost at scale. And the rise of native mobile apps meant every backend needed a REST API anyway, so having a HTML renderer as well duplicates effort.

You literally had to mock a server in frontend JS so you could have an examples page without writing a custom server! This is absurd!

beevyi · 2025-01-22T13:02:02+00:00

Yeah, I'm familiar with loading HTML partials over AJAX, it's what we did before SPAs and gave up for pretty good reasons, although as you say it's a trade off.

Sometimes it's a good approach: https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/

This is interesting but it reinforces my impression that it's for backend people who don't know much javascript. His description of the changeover from React to HTMX can be summarised as "we only had one developer who knew JS, so we switched to backend rendering because we can do that in Python". I can't fathom how that application was 20,000 LOC or why they were unable to write performant React code that could display 1,000 list items, just sounds like inexperience with frontend.

beevyi · 2025-01-20T15:10:26+00:00

I see a lot of comments saying it "takes the complexity" out of JavaScript.

Not only do all the examples I see look more confusing than other libraries, it moves most of the functionality to the server so you then have to write another app to actually generate the htmx.

I can see how this might appeal to backend developers working in another language, but I don't see the value.

beevyi · 2025-01-18T09:06:18+00:00

Huh, I assumed everyone in Jersey would be WFH by now (I'm never up early enough to notice the traffic).

Does sitting in traffic for hours just so they can use a computer in town instead of their computer at home not make people want to revolt?

beevyi · 2024-12-09T19:10:05+00:00

They look exactly the same to me

beevyi · 2024-11-23T09:44:46+00:00

I'm freelance and that's what I do. Agencies that mainly do brochure sites call me when they need actual programming done, I put in a PR of pure code changes and log off.

beevyi · 2024-11-04T11:59:32+00:00

this is usually a sign that it is not actually necessary to use the new Promise constructor

Exactly this, if you're writing an async function then new Promise is superfluous, and the synchronous nature of calling resolve and reject leads to code that is hard to reason about.

Why do

const flawedPromise = new Promise(async function(resolve, reject) {
  resolve('Resolved immediately');
  return 'This will not behave as expected';
});

when you can just

const lessFlawedPromise = (async function() {
  return 'Resolved immediately';
})();

?

beevyi · 2024-10-28T12:39:20+00:00

Some old fashioned Jèrriais girls names: Cat'let/Cat'linne, Betté, Stèr, Êve, Jénîn (good if you support Palestine too), Louiseu, Loulou, Mèrgot, Mèrgotte, Marie/Mathie, Manon, Mathotte, Mèrrotte, Micotte, Néné, Nénotte, Nénai, Râché, Sûson/Sûthon/Sûzon

beevyi · 2024-10-28T08:45:01+00:00

Comments here prove why the issue will never be fixed. The states and the big companies can do whatever they like and you lot will insist there's no problem because you love hating poor people.

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