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On ziglang.org the very first thing we advertise is:

> Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge.

Clearly, you think the language fails at this criteria (your subjective opinion). Please be honest and say that, rather than implying that it's not explicitly one of the core design principles of the language (objectively false).
Are you legally required to carry a means of communication? If not, how can this possibly be enforced? It sounds like an end run to get to negligence charges.

For example, how fast can I drive to get to a telephone if I don't carry one or otherwise cannot use it?
Trump tariffs sow fears of trade wars, recession and a $2,300 iPhone
The issue is that UI/UX is in a terrible place. Your comments would be valid if this was 15 years ago.

UX is in the gutter with extra clicks and terrible workflows in almost every website. UI is a catastrophe of mobile first, but not really, but sort of kind of we want power users but we need regular users, and all our UI kits look like total ass that is incompatible with so many other things.

This website is a great example. The webpage doesn't load instantly and instead forces the user to wait for text to appear. Great UX engineering guys, make the user wait!
The comments from HNers in this case are interesting.

Usually if a teenage hacker builds something, the HNers would respond with enthusiasm, but then, this is a guy who builds *something* and *actually* makes a good business out of it, at the same time maintains his high school life, and all we have is skepticism and discouragement.
I think what you are remembering is just nostalgia, people tend to remember the good things and shut out the bad ones.

I still remember how Microsoft, under Gates, acted like a robber baron to the whole tech community. You had a nice product? It was instantly copied by Microsoft, and they pulled the rug under you because they could.

You wanted open standards? It was a war purely because Microsoft wanted it to be. It was either Microsoft's way or the highway.

I consider pre-2008 and pre-iPhone launch to be the peak of the Internet, but it's all downhill from that year onwards.
Most simply this all boils down to two entirely incompatible models of
a university. One institution produces thinkers who can innovate and
lead. The other is a training camp that produces docile workers for
the oligarchs. Regardless of allowing students free speech on campus
universities have been heading toward the latter for three decades.
It's a little late to be preaching courage thirty years after
selling-out the core tenets of pedagogy. There is so much more to this
than just "Trump". The fascists in power now are the result of 30
years of moral cowardice.
https://archive.is/0hnmI
Il not sure IP should be used as a life insurance, there’s already many public and private ideas tools for that.

Also it seems you assume inheritance is a good think. Most people do think the same on a personal level, however when we observes the effect on a society the outcome is concentration of wealth on a minority and barriers for wealth hand change === barriers for "American dream".
I think the cat is out of the bag when it comes to generative AI, the same way how various LLMs for programming have been trained even on codebases that they had no business using, yet nobody hasn’t and won’t stop them. It’s the same as what’s going to happen with deepfakes and such, as the technology inevitably gets better.

> Hayao Miyazaki’s Japanese animation company, Studio Ghibli, produces beautiful and famously labor intensive movies, with one 4 second sequence purportedly taking over a year to make.

It makes me wonder though - whether it’s more valuable to spend a year on a scene that most people won’t pay that much attention to (artists will understand and appreciate, maybe pause and rewind and replay and examine the details, the casual viewer just enjoy at a glance) or use tools in addition to your own skills to knock it out of the park in a month and make more great things.

A bit how digital art has clear advantages over paper, while many revere the traditional art a lot, despite it taking longer and being harder. The same way how someone who uses those AI assisted programming tools can improve their productivity by getting rid of some of the boilerplate or automate some refactoring and such.

AI will definitely cheapen the art of doing things the old way, but that’s the reality of it, no matter how much the artists dislike it. Some will probably adapt and employ new workflows, others stick to tradition.
My lack of attention for AI art
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Did an LLM help write Trump's trade plan?
Ok, another naive question: Not suggesting we just eat a bunch of bacteriophages, but why wouldn't studying phage mechanisms / proteins for killing bacteria be equally useful?
I'm using Kamal for a Ruby on Rails app on a dedicated server on Hetzner. Works like a charm! Did you find it difficult to deploy a .NET, because of the documentation oriented more towards Rails?
IME, it's better to just delete erroneous responses and fix prompts until it works.

They are much better at fractally subdividing and interpreting inputs like a believer of a religion, than at deconstructing and iteratively improving things like an engineert. It's waste of token count trying to have such discussions with an LLM.
"move" absolutely did move a lot of workforce, since farmers are much more productive, not as much help is needed.
I use the models daily and agree with Scott.
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> Paternalism - "users are idiots and need to be babysit at every step, or else they hurt themselves (or make us spend money on support)"; this one is pretty overt in UI/UX.

Reminds me of a quote I'm not too sure if it's authentic but it's way too believable: "There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."

Like, over half the population is barely literate [1]. That's why we're seeing so, so many interfaces being "dumbed down", with options for "power users" being hidden behind ever increasing hurdles, font sizes and margins/paddings increasing, and visuals being dulled down. It's all being ground down to be palatable to an ever increasing amount of utterly braindead people.

[1] https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-s...
It gets worse with age and size of the project. I’m getting the same vibes, but for code written by me last month.
Extremism on any side is bad, period. 'But they are worse' is sort of moot point and most people don't care about details, you simply lose normal audience and maybe gain some fringe.
Another use for tokio's mutexes is that they won't block a thread while waiting to acquire the lock (as awaiting a tokio mutex is itself a suspension point). For some use-cases this might not matter, though.
> Feels reasonable in the first few paragraphs, then quickly starts reading like science fiction.

That's kind of unavoidably what accelerating progress feels like.
that seems like a good thing. they only infect bacteria, not humans

phages are found in large quantities in mucus, where they seemingly contribute to the barrier function of mucus by preying on any bacteria that try go cross

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23690590/

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1508355112

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01984-19

this might be adaptable for therapeutics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48560-2

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-07269-0
Why would people take performance enhancing drugs, why would you drink coffee, why would people use AI to do coding assignments even when it's banned? It's all about getting ahead in a competitive environment. Games are just as 'real' as the real world to the people who play them.
My X60t has 2 RAM slots.
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"Remember when things were not insanely bloated and we all knew what we were collectively doing?" they all said, a wistful tear developing in each of their eyes, nobody daring to release theirs first.

Nah, Happy Anniversary, Microsoft. As much as we do not get along, you did do _some_ good in the world.
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The printout also contains dates 6-SEP-64 below it, any idea what those are?
This rhymes with still developing your own film.

I'm really eager to see how this pans out in a decade.
Similarly, Mistabishi's Printer Jam from 2009 sounds much like you might expect from the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNV4ZW33fA
That little scrolling infographic is rad.
straight to jail /s
For all of Windows' shortcomings, I think their service manager is quite good for something built two or three decades ago. They fell behind since, but it took a while for init.d to disappear in Linux and some distros still use it. I even think Microsoft had the right idea not to use 1970's main() and signalling code as service control, using dedicated callback APIs instead.

Together with Windows' Task Scheduler and PowerShell, you can configure Windows daemons quite well. They're limited by problems like "services can't take command line arguments", though, which is unfortunate.
> security of "secure boot" there is a joke because anyway all os have to be signed by Microsoft itself.

Is Apple a joke because they sign the root of trust for their devices? Someone has to be the root authority. Honestly I trust MS more than I do Google or VerisignDigicert. They are the least likely to intentionally break things.

The reason MS controls the root and not Red Hat etc. is because the Linux camp spent years arguing back and forth about exactly how much they hate secure boot - like an HOA arguing over paint colors - instead of presenting solutions.

> So anyone with they certificate key can do whatever they want.

this is literally how PKI works

Somehow I think MS put a little more thought into their PKI design than whatever you're trying to convey here. What were the other options? Store it on a Yubikey sewn into rms's beard?

People are quick to dismiss secure boot simply because they refuse to understand it.
The really big problem in open source intelligence has been for some time that data to support just about anything can be found. OSINT investigations start with a premise, look for data that supports the premise and rarely look for data that contradicts it.

Sometimes this is just sloppy methodology. Other times it is intentional.
They'll make it through if they bend the knee. Otherwise the regime will destroy them, and the conclusion will be that it's all because of these darned radical leftists.
Temptation does not require nondeterminism.
Yeah, I assume you mean California couldn't defend itself from the rest of the US under a California exit.
The use of private internet access for work is denied. Doing so, shifts all responsibility from the IT-department on the private citizen.
The WiFi is currently out of service.
Wanting to encounter new concepts feels like a basic requirement for intellectual curiosity.

I suppose there's a difference between wanting to encounter new concepts, and wanting to find them as a part of a programming language you've decided to learn and use, though.
Did you know that Wikipedia editors will aggressively remove Wiki entries about less known languages. There are already several wiki articles on Odin by various authors that have been removed over the years.

Talking about GitHub numbers, we can look at VLang, which had an astronomical trajectory initially due to overpromising and selling a language that would solve long standing issues such as no manual memory management but no GC needed etc.

Such viral popularity creates a different trajectory from organically growing word of mouth such as in the Odin case.

Vlang also has a Wikipedia page.

Is this then proof that it is a viable alternative to the general public? This is what you argue.
I would love if Valve developed a multiplayer server system for CS2 (and maybe generalisable beyond that) that only sent other players' locations when they were very close to being visible to the player, and sent audio and damage events in a way that only gave soft information away as well.

So if you snipe through a wall, instead of sending the location of the shot source and direction, the server has to do slightly more work - calculate who got hit and what noise everyone should hear, but then the client doesn't need to know the location of the firing player.

I know it's not the only way to cheat, but the fact that the client has all the information has to be a large factor.
Thanks for the list, on the commercial side there's also Regate Flyway which looks like a full multi-DB SSDT alternative.

I wasn't aware of sqldef I will need to take a look. Something nice about SSDT is that when we export a DB to a SQL project (files), each DB object is neatly organized is its own file, and the tooling solve ordering and dependency cycles on its own, I'm not sure any OS tool currently do it like that (skeema maybe? but no PG).
Routine use of antibiotics is already prohibited in EU and most developed countries.
Why would people take performance enhancing drugs, why would you drink coffee, why would people use AI even when it's banned? It's all about getting ahead in a competitive environment. Games are just as 'real' as the real world to the people who play them. Cheats can be on the continuum of a really fast PC and a quality mouse - taken too far. They are even the kind of thing that happens when two nations are at war - no holds barred. Famous Tour de France riders, I don't think cheated only for the money. It was also for the glory.
trial times were very brief for Covid vaccines because 1) there was no shortage of volunteers, capital, and political alignment at every level 2) the virus was everywhere and so it was really, really easy to verify if it was working. Compare this with a vaccination for a very rare but deadly disease: it's really hard to know if it's working because you can't just expose your test subjects to the deadly disease!
If your TC is 500k-1M and you don’t feel like job hopping anymore, you’d certainly not want to get hit by a random layoff due to insufficient organizational masculinity or whatever. Maintaining a complex blob of mission critical code is one way of increasing your survival chances, though of course nothing is guaranteed.
I question the notion that such tools are necessary or admissible in my daily life.

Mere observation of others has shown me the decadence that results from even allowing such "tools" into my life at all.

(who or what is the tool being used?)

I have seen zero positive effects from the cynical application of such tools in any aspect of life.
The narrative that we "all use them" is false.
Didn't even see we could scroll until I read this. Clicked on examples instead.
Part of being a 3rd world country is having the cool stuff you want to buy cost a lot more than "on the right places"
> Think more about what you're doing and experiment. Try different pre-prompts. Try different conversation styles.

Ask on a Wednesday. During a full moon. While in a shipping container. Standing up. Keep a black box on your desk as the sacred GenAI avatar and pray to it. Ask while hopping on one leg.
This will never stop as long as Ursula and extremists like her are in charge of EU Commission. How much did all of this work to take away your rights and privacy cost you in taxes? How much time has been and will be wasted on this?

Ursula is not fit to lead EU.
You can have the best of both worlds with something like weighted_selection( output, hash( output ) ) using the hash as the PRNG seed. (If you're paranoid about statistical issues due to identical outputs (extremely unlikely) then add a nonce to the hash.)
It's a decent approximation, if you remember it's an approximation for "the user is tired/stressed/not paying attention/doesn't actually want to deal with your app". I remember a talk which suggested "The user is drunk" as a better approximation, because it's more obviously not literally true.
I haven't watched the show, but your description just made me think about the "panacea". Virus-wise, I was obsessed with the idea of the DRACO antiviral concept for years.[0] It's really unclear why funding was pulled for it.

Then again, the idea behind "28 Days Later" was that everyone got a cancer vaccine and turned into zombies...

[0] https://riderinstitute.org/discovery/
The whole list sounded a bit strange to me - it looks more like a list he compiled after the fact to explain why he chose Rust, rather than some criteria he had decided on before evaluating several languages. Of course, I can sympathize with wanting to use a language that tries new concepts, but there's something to be said in favor of languages like Go that make a point of only using tried and tested concepts and making sure that they work well together too...
If that were true, Research and Development couldn't exist.
Aka, i have no problem being explicitly anti AI as a bad idea to begin with. This is what I think, that it is a foolish project from the get go.

Techne is the Greek word for HAND.
I think they just measure the scrolling and drive the animations with it. Maybe that's what you mean by hijacking.
I'm more annoyed by people who seem to think it's necessary to complain about Rust whenever there's a post about it.

Especially on this post, where the article is about as zeal-free as can be.
He had functioning backup instruments. It’s nerve wrecking of course, and I’m aware it’s a lot to ask, but if you want to fly a fighter jet I think that comes with an obligation to stay in the cockpit and try to avert a catastrophe even at significant risk to your own life. I would certainly be willing to take that risk myself.
The oil companies are saying their product is vital to the economy and they are not wrong. How else will we get food from the farms to the store ? Ambulances to the hospitals ? And many, many other things.

Taxes are the best way to change behaviour (smaller cars driving less. Less flying etc). So government and the people who vote for them is to blame.
They are optimising different things and the GDP for them is just a means to an end. They are trying to achieve objectives like: healthcare for all, certain minimum standards of living and safe neighbourhoods everywhere. It's natural that if you don't optimise for GDP then GDP will probably not be maximised.

What our objective function should be is of course a very deep and interesting question. We don't talk about it enough. Most people think about solution first like: socialism, liberalism, sharia law, biblical law etc...
Quite impressive, and the showcase of breaking changes on the git repo gives the impression this release comes with a much nicer API than the previous one.
People always talk about companies having low profit margins. Whenever any tax or expense falls on these companies, folks point to the low profit margins and say the expenses will go to the customer.

And yet these low profit margin corporations have executives and CEOs making millions of dollars a year. It doesn’t make any sense. Why not just pay the executives and finance people less?

(My comment does not apply to the small business board game company the original op thread link was about. My comment is only a direct reply to what this other comment is saying)
> Politicians won't tax gas because they'll get voted out.

I wonder if that's corporations' fault after all: shitty working conditions and shitty wages, so that Bezos can afford to send penises into space. What poor person would agree to higher tax on gas? And the corps are the ones backing politicians who'll propagandize that "Unions? That's communism! Do you want to be Chaina?!" (and spread by those dickheads on the corporate-owned TV and newspaper, drunk dickheads who end up becoming defense secretary)
> One ban consists of the exercise of their right to... Not associate with you.

Many people have been fired / expelled / and many more silenced by those examples. If you can't tell the truth about your side (from how you're writing I assume you think in sides) then there's no point saying it.

> The other sends you to a Salvadoran gulag. (The silence from all the 'free speech' folks on this point is deafening.)

I haven't heard about this. Who has been sent to a Salvadoran gulag for speech?
I know there are some very smart economists bullish on this, but the economics do not make sense to me. All these predictions seem meaningless outside of the context of humans.
I'm a huge fan of the actor model and message passing, so you do not have to sell it to me; I also strongly dislike the current async fad.

But message passing is not a panacea. Sometimes shared mutable state is the solution that is simplest to implement and reason about. If you think about it what are database if not shared mutable state, and they have been widely successful. The key is of course proper concurrency control abstractions.
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Trolling is a fishing technique [0] of slowly dragging a lure or baited hook from a moving boat, and is likely the meaning that online trolling takes it from rather than a creature from Scandinavian folklore [1].

There's definitely a metaphor to be made for trolling for data, that GP could have been intentionally making. I've certainly seen that idiom used before, although it could have been an eggcorn [2] for trawling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(slang)#Origin_and_etymo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
The MOS 6532 RAM-I/O-Timer chip used by the 2600 (and KIM-1 and others) has 128 bytes of RAM. Game cartridges could add 256 bytes more, along with the program ROM.

For an experience today closer to these machines, you can get a $0.10 CH32V003 microcontroller with 2k RAM and 16k flash.

Here's a 1 Euro retro-computer kit using one that has included in that price support for PS/2 keyboard and VGA video output, all included in the 1 Euro -- even the connectors! All from one 8 pin microcontroller chip:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfXWs4CJuY0
Yes, PulseAudio works great since it's actually PipeWire.
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