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by n42 1y ago
You’re allowed to not like it, but that doesn’t change that your argument that this is a form of coloring is objectively false. I’m not sure what Rust has to do with it.
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by n42 1y ago
Aside from the ridiculous argument that function parameters color them, the assertion that you can’t call a function that takes IO from inside a function that does not is false, since you can initialize one to pass it in
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by n42 1y ago
This is very well written, and very exciting! I especially love the implications for WebAssembly -- WASI in userspace? Bring your own IO? Why not both!
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by n42 1y ago
in a sense it's a reference to Allocgate (a previous big breaking change to allocators in Zig), which was itself a reference to Watergate
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by n42 1y ago
I think that's an interesting observation. It seems to be a philosophical discussion on social trust. Anticheat is an attempt to control the behavior of the community. Your solution is to just control who is in your community. In a way
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by n42 1y ago
Yes, rather than ignore you, this time I chose to spend five minutes of my life writing a well meaning piece of critical feedback. Whether that was a waste of my time is left to you.
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by n42 1y ago
Oh, like OP I didn’t see the difference. I believe the difference is: Container is a CLI tool Containerization is a framework
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by n42 1y ago
This is just so inspirational and cool. I’ve had so many of these concepts floating around in my head, without the critically necessary capability, or followthrough. I’m sure others have as well. It’s very cool to see someone execute on it.
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by n42 1y ago
Life is not smoking guns, objective truths, or us and thems. I do find it amusing how disorganized the app has become, and that has become my favorite example. I find it even more amusing that you think citing search as a primary UI path is
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by n42 1y ago
You seem to frequently appear in threads involving WebAssembly. Each time you do, I see you point out how bytecode VMs have been done before. And, every time, it doesn’t contribute anything interesting to the conversation. I don’t mean this
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by n42 1y ago
one of my favorite examples of how bad the System Settings app is: find where the Default Browser setting is, without using search.
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by n42 1y ago
I’m not sure if this how other people do it but my hands sort of float around as I type rather than being fixed in one place. They gravitate towards home row but I was never trained “classically”. I type (peak) 140wpm. my understanding of t
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by n42 1y ago
if we kept our brain, and knew for certain we'd be back after a year, that could be kind of fun.
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by n42 1y ago
Furthermore, “I recognize this technology as a rehash of something that already exists” is just extremely uninteresting conversation without getting into the specifics. Clearly there are differences. Let’s talk about the merits and demerits
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by n42 1y ago
This was a really interesting read. I've spent a lot of time thinking about incremental changes to our US democracy, but this opened my eyes to some of the preconceptions I have on what a democracy even looks like!
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by n42 1y ago
I was referring specifically to dang's post in the linked thread. I realized I had accidentally stumbled onto a topic with such a controversial history on this site that it might have been banned outright. As in, HN's personal dem
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by n42 1y ago
Oh. I fear that I have unwittingly summoned HN demons.
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by n42 1y ago
I see so much controversy every time V comes up; can someone explain why, without devolving into name calling and personal attacks? What specific design choices or implementation details are contentious, and what legitimate concerns exist b
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by n42 1y ago
please, god, let this thing make it to production in the US!
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by n42 1y ago
I think that's the point the parent was making. I read it as them describing a benefit of Zig's approach.
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by n42 2y ago
is there a future where Mozilla buys Kagi and becomes the privacy Google?
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by n42 2y ago
it's true. I never in a million years could have imagined that I would be paying for a search engine. now you can pry Kagi out of my cold dead hands.
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by n42 2y ago
well, in my personal experience, parsing is the easiest part. it's what you do with the AST once you have one that is the hard part. but for some reason an overwhelming amount of writing is about frontends when you could teach the conc
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by n42 2y ago
Something being hard doesn't mean it's not worth trying. It's up to the developers to decide if the outcome is worth the effort. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong, but either way – if they succeed, we're
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by n42 2y ago
my comment was based on the last PR update I read some months ago where the developer had given up on merging it, so this is great to hear!
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by n42 2y ago
> defy the current administration? Sounds pretty anti-democratic to me defying an administration that you disagree with, within the rule of law, is just about the most American and democratic thing I can imagine. this is a corporation, n
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by n42 2y ago
I really want a Helix/Kakoune mode in Zed, but last I checked the development of such a thing was dead in the water, unfortunately
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by n42 2y ago
Regardless of the fact that Apple’s laptops were shipping with Thunderbolt years before they were “forced” to add USB-C ports to iPhones, or that Thunderbolt and USB-C are orthogonal, Apple was involved in the creation of Thunderbolt in the
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by n42 2y ago
I just started using it when it launched 1.0. the stock configuration is basically perfect for me, with a few minor tweaks and a theme: confirm-close-surface = false macos-titlebar-style = tabs theme = IR_Black
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by n42 2y ago
> I am really surprised almost no one is doubling down on something like this. I've thought a lot about this – every time a new one is posted. I wish we could live in a world where this is what STEM education looks like. I think tha

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