kalekold

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by kalekold 18d ago
Dwarf Fortress is awesome to come into today, give it a try. I started playing it a year ago and I love it.
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by kalekold 2y ago
The Nvidia Shield is the best thing I've ever bought. I love it. I hope Nvidia make a new one, because i'd buy it immediately.
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by kalekold 2y ago
> Go looks nice to work with but actually is a hidden monster full of footguns. Really? Me and my team been using it for years with no problems whatsoever.
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by kalekold 2y ago
Torvalds is ambivalent to rust he just wanted to see if it worked out. If we're appealing to authority here's his response a few weeks after the mail you posted: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/
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by kalekold 2y ago
> I'm pretty sure Torvalds is the one who decided to add Rust to the Linux kernel. No it really wasn't. He just said let's see how it goes when the rust devs proposed it.
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by kalekold 2y ago
> This is NOT because I hate Rust. While not my favourite language it's definitively one of the best new ones and I encourage people to use it for new projects where it fits. I do not want it anywhere near a huge C code base that I
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by kalekold 2y ago
> If you use ctx.Value in my (non-existent) company, you’re fired This is such a bad take. ctx.Value is incredibly useful for passing around context of api calls. We use it a lot, especially for logging such context values as locales, id
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by kalekold 2y ago
I'm not particularly impressed by Odin but maybe i'm not the audience. If you like strictly procedural languages (or a die hard C fan) it's probably fine but it feels like a 'My First Language™' kind of project. Wha
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by kalekold 2y ago
lol
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by kalekold 2y ago
The 'end of the world' scenario isn't perhaps something that we expect. We always think the end of the world will be disease or natural cataclysm. Also, humanities curiosity can't help itself. * Imagine AI giving a terro
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by kalekold 2y ago
Use D's -betterC flag? https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
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by kalekold 3y ago
Node is single threaded. No more needs to be said after that.
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by kalekold 3y ago
> I still have bets on this all being a massive game of life. You might be right! https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
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by kalekold 3y ago
This article is just a stealth extension of the so called 'open source sustainability crisis' argument. Basically, it's just a bunch of people wanting to work on open source software and demanding to be paid for it. Like lite
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by kalekold 3y ago
I use Ubuntu and i'm sick of having snaps forced on me. When I next install, i'm either completely ridding the system of snap or i use another distro. I'm fed up with it. The kicker is sometimes when you use apt to install a
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by kalekold 3y ago
Four top lawyers in the UK have asked the regulatory authority to investigate. > In a letter to Ofcom, Lord Wolfson KC, Lord Pannick KC, Lord Grabiner KC and Jeremy Brier KC urged the regulator to investigate the corporation. > The au
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by kalekold 3y ago
How does this make code easier to read and maintain? It all looks like gibberish to me.
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by kalekold 3y ago
Rob Pike was right: "features were being added by taking them from one language and adding it to another" "...and I realised all of these languages are turning into the same language." "we don't want one tool,
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by kalekold 3y ago
Packages are wheels? lolwut? > Wheels are the new standard of Python distribution and are intended to replace eggs. Ahhh... ???
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by kalekold 3y ago
Raylib is awesome! It reminds me of the old school days of using BlitzBASIC to get things drawn on screen because it's easy and so much fun. This is how programming used to be, no fuss, just easy to use libraries. I currently use Rayli
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Node 20 allows you to compile your app into a single executable(twitter.com)
4 points by kalekold 3y ago|1 comments
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by kalekold 3y ago
> Node 20 allows you to compile your app into a single executable along with the entire Node.js core so you can run your apps on systems where node isn't installed, or your don't trust the system version. 85.8Mb for a hello wor
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by kalekold 4y ago
Please stop mentioning neovim as if it's a defacto replacement for vim. The original vim is very much alive and much more popular than neovim. Neovim is a cash grab by developers who forked the repo and demanded patreon payments etc. w
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by kalekold 4y ago
I had a tour around this cathedral a few months ago which was really interesting. The cathedral is built very similar to a castle. There are window slits for archers to defend, murder holes at the doors and also two big quarters for soldier
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by kalekold 4y ago
If OOP is over-complicating your code, you're using it wrong. OOP is a tool to manage complexity. Functional programming, in my experience, created much more complicated code because it seems like the authors like to be a clever as pos
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by kalekold 4y ago
I've just left a startup company who's entire backend was written in a functional style using Typescript by an agency. The only reason I can fathom why is 'why not, functional programming is cool right!'. A new dev team
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by kalekold 4y ago
I wish we could all go back to phpBB forums. Small, dedicated, online communities were great. I can't remember massive problems like this back then.
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by kalekold 4y ago
There had to be a rust ad in here somewhere.
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by kalekold 4y ago
Linus Torvalds disagrees. And the reality is that there are no absolute guarantees. Ever. The "Rust is safe" is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety. Never has been. Anybody who believes that should probably re-t
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by kalekold 4y ago
Here's Linus' take: You need to realize that (a) reality trumps fantasy (b) kernel needs trump any Rust needs And the reality is that there are no absolute guarantees. Ever. The "Rust is safe" is

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