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by pseudony 8d ago
I think US fiscal policy and adventurism will manage this on its own. :)
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by pseudony 19d ago
And I could say the opposite. Anecdata, it isn’t really helpful. Fact is still that wayland does some things better, and a bunch og other things worse.
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by pseudony 22d ago
I and presumably quite a few others with AMD AI or Apple Mac platforms are very impacted by this. :) It is very relevant and for a certain group of us, far more impactful to our work the next month(s) than any blog post could be.
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by pseudony 23d ago
Telling. Downvotes but actually no arguments. Fitting, because there are none. Referring to a baseless prediction by Sam Altman that AI will become like electricity without any push-back? Who really thinks Sam is working toward that future?
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by pseudony 23d ago
He also wanted to do a non-profit. He even raised money on that premise. He is a pathological liar, so is Dario. Don’t rely on the benevolence or truthfulness of these people. They will say whatever is beneficial to say in the moment.
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by pseudony 27d ago
You can never please everyone , and some stdlibs can age like milk (see ocaml). Having libraries allow the community to explore rather than saddling it with a bad default. See the number of http server frameworks etc. The real solution here
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by pseudony 28d ago
Anyone have a larger collection of stories/anecdotes from the older days of computing? Stories like this, and the Quake cd posted recently, are hugely interesting to me.
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by pseudony 1mo ago
Another fata point for all those who sided with OpenAI and Anthrophics claims that they are somehow more responsible and careful and that others, especially those pursuing pesky open weights models are a danger.
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by pseudony 1mo ago
Good thing my police doesn't look like this. They look like hoodlums who walked through a prepper bazaar.
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by pseudony 1mo ago
You mean Clojure, and he did. He is very enthusiastic about it, vastly preferring it to Java. Fyi.
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by pseudony 2mo ago
That math leaves out externalities when pricing gas, oil and coal. You may have heard of a few fires going on in Europe in addition to nuclear plants shutting down? Beyond that, those resources are also the lifeline for a dictatorship in th
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by pseudony 2mo ago
There are tools to generate bindings. They probably meant it as a marker of quality. And in languages like zig or odin which are quite similar to C in many ways, writing bindings to C code really isn’t bad. It is so easy that I decided to w
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by pseudony 2mo ago
I don’t know about that. I think Libreoffice is easier to navigate than ribbon-era Office. I think especially Gnome, but also Kde has better settings than Windows, which is spread across a new and a classical view (or more?). I also think M
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by pseudony 2mo ago
Honestly no need to read this drivel. They have raised billions of dollars and are hoping to justify that by being a monopoly or oligopoly and their worst enemy- the pareto principle, is biting them in the ass. So now they’ll turn to policy
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by pseudony 2mo ago
It is not universal. But imagine you enjoying a programming language (zig, odin, c, c++, …) and half the time some post/article about it comes up, 15% or so of the comments are “kindly” missionaries who just want to let you know how ba
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by pseudony 2mo ago
Yes. But what this discussion so often misses is.. So is the US. The US needs military bases, it needs general market access, it wants to sell military equipment and so on and so on. The US is already being reckless with the relationship an
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by pseudony 2mo ago
They have had many "good" ideas about one-sided deals of late - usually served with a "or else..." and then the "or else" happens anyway. One wonders how many times that trick can be used. In fact, no need to w
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by pseudony 2mo ago
> run by genuinely insane people who think type and memory safety are paramount societal issues So. Rust evangelists ? :) But yes, it is wild that people can honestly quote such drivel as evidence of the language and its philosophy being
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by pseudony 2mo ago
Sure thing :) Just my opinion. It really depends. For systems- kind of software (low-level, DBs, file systems (also user-space)) no, I wouldn’t - if you manage memory with arenas and/or can plug in an allocator to tell you if you leake
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by pseudony 2mo ago
- types rarely catch the interesting errors - any GC'ed language can manage memory for you if you want - My first rust project (a gui app in GTK) managed to segfault just fine in spite of Rust (no unsafe blocks on my part, not delibera
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by pseudony 2mo ago
I program C for my day-job. I see Rust encroaching in proposed transitions. It may even happen. That said, it is a poor match for it compared to something like Zig (or Odin). It's hard to make the new Rust code use existing allocator a
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by pseudony 2mo ago
Look up a few comments, I do systems programming. I am aware, you are barking up the wrong tree, friend. That said. You asked about C, which I use for my job. Most every large C code base end up abandoning the stdlib (such as it is) and in
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by pseudony 2mo ago
Games ? Many have talked about it, but many also make their games work inside of Unity and so on, so, depends on the project. My angle is systems programming, and there, it absolutely matter. If you are performance sensitive, then you try t
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by pseudony 2mo ago
Having fun with this. Never bought into rust (have studied, have a (mostly AI-generated app in rust). Wrote some Zig but Odin is even less overhead for me. I first loved Zigs built-in build system but having tried to wrap/use C librari
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by pseudony 2mo ago
Similarly, why should I be bothered reading this kind of comment in each and every discussion thread? What does it contribute? I can read and discern this for myself, I can then stop reading or decide I don’t care. Seriously, at some point
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by pseudony 3mo ago
Someone or thing to help with chores would be great. But abject exploitation? Sex slave, even? I should hope we can find a little decency within ourselves..
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by pseudony 3mo ago
Well India has a diverse set of languages spread across its regions. As I understand it, the degree to which English thrives there is largely because choosing any other administrative language would be seen as oppressive to the other langu
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by pseudony 3mo ago
“ a race condition that occurred only under specific conditions — in the hyper library”
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by pseudony 3mo ago
So “fearless concurrency” still only happens when one just decides to not be afraid… :)
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by pseudony 3mo ago
So the pennies on the dollar that Ireland gets by being the taxhole of the Eu will subsidize the arts.? :)

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