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by troad 9mo ago
As a person who's lived in Europe, I encourage you to try it. You'll find that there are some upsides to all the regulation, but also many downsides. More than you'd expect if you've never lived and worked in Europe befo
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by troad 9mo ago
If someone wanted to replace C, they are likely seeking to do so for reasons intrinsic to C, such as the risk of memory over/underflow, use after free, problematic numeric promotion, lack of proper strings and bools, etc. Transpiling t
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by troad 9mo ago
Wild that I can't use Kagi in Safari on iOS, where my search options are still locked down to three~four Apple-approved choices, of which at least one is just a multi-billion-dollar paid product placement. (Yes, I know about the exte
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by troad 9mo ago
How does substituting JS for some other JS achieve a goal of replacing JS? If someone wanted to replace C, would you suggest C as a C replacement? That's nonsensical in context. Adding browser interop to Wasm that obviated the need for
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by troad 9mo ago
The folks behind WASM are wilfully blind to the big honking use case that everyone wants (a fully-featured JS replacement, targetable in any language), in favour of an abstract adventure in chasing some ideal Platonic ISA, except there&#x2
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by troad 9mo ago
This is spot on and has really reduced my willpower to post, tbh. Like begets like. A glib and snarky comment gets an emotional response, leading to quick, emotional votes. A nuanced, thoughtful comment gets the reader to think, but that&#x
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by troad 10mo ago
> Word -> Copilot 365 text app Microsoft Copilot 365 Subsystem For Rich Text
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by troad 10mo ago
AustLII, CanLII and NZLII are all clones of the original Legal Information Institute (LII) from Cornell University. [0] Most Australian courts require or prefer that case law be cited using exact page numbers from the 'authorised repor
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by troad 10mo ago
>> Nothing good comes from the US intervening in foreign affairs. Idk, I sure prefer Germany / Japan circa 2026 to Germany / Japan circa 1936. The last time the US did something similar was in Panama in 1989, and that countr
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by troad 10mo ago
> sold the country to the West for nothing > Country was destroyed, markets were destroyed, industries were destroyed. And yet somehow, mysteriously, the exact same shock therapy that Russia couldn't handle produced a thriving an
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by troad 10mo ago
> The fact that this comments section indicates such a yawning chasm of gaps in knowledge (much less, understanding) - in a forum whose users are generally known to be more technically savvy than most - is exactly why IPv6 is still not w
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by troad 10mo ago
> For many, the decision of which protocol to use was easy because IPv6 didn't add features that represented major improvements. This is the obvious and only key to this puzzle. We tech nerds have this mad idea that everyone will wa
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by troad 10mo ago
sick
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by troad 10mo ago
I switched away from (K)ubuntu over this. I have no major beef with Snaps, I see the benefit of a containerised app distribution system, but hijacking apt by squatting on popular packages to promote your store is completely unacceptable. Tr
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by troad 10mo ago
> You're overthinking [noun] Yes, almost certainly! > I do some fairly complex stuff with no extra partials. Trick is just always rerender and use hx-select and hx-target to slice out the bits you want to update on the current pa
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by troad 10mo ago
I appreciate the helpful reply, but I think this is precisely the kind of indirection I need to avoid. I'm a sucker for elegance. If left entirely to my own devices I'd probably design a language / write a transpiler of my ow
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by troad 10mo ago
Plain HTML is very cozy to me - I came of age in that era. Marquee tags 4eva . But as much as I hate to admit it, it is very difficult to build something functional today with plain HTML and no/minimal JS. If you want, say, a model fo
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by troad 10mo ago
The established wisdom is that it is because the Xbox was one generation "behind" the PS. They didn't want to call the second Xbox an "Xbox 2" because people would assume it was intended to be a competitor to the PS
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by troad 10mo ago
I tend towards libertarian defaults on social issues, but this completely breaks down for compulsive behaviours with severe externalities - gambling, smoking, etc. And naturally there's no such thing as "libertarianism except for
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by troad 10mo ago
Oh no (Would elaborate, but, y'know. Opportunity cost)
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by troad 10mo ago
Good. Let's not be all "well, I had to learn it, therefore..." It's a pointless skill. Let it die. Teach the kids something useful instead. I wear an analogue watch myself, but I'd happily trade all my knowledge o
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by troad 10mo ago
This is very cool! I like this a lot. Thank you to the poster for sharing this. Dynamic languages have amazing dev speed, but once code matures, slapping some types on that code is just plucking low hanging fruit. It inevitably picks up eas
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by troad 10mo ago
Not OP, but as I'm sure you already know, there is a small but significant minority of games that don't play nice on Linux. Generally these are triple-A games that either have very competitive MP scenes, and/or which are thin
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by troad 10mo ago
I am aware of it. I don't think it's equivalent to the tools I mentioned, though it is definitely an improvement on mere ASDF/QL. The problem with ocicl is that it's more brownfield than greenfield -- it's fixing th
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by troad 10mo ago
My honest take is that if someone truly loves CL and wants it to get more hacker attention, it would greatly, greatly benefit from someone greenfielding a modern package manager for it. That is to say, a cargo/zig/mix/golang-
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by troad 11mo ago
Meanwhile, those with the backbone not to do evil from the start get nothing at all, continuing this warped set of incentives (do evil > get rich > "I'm sowwwy" > zero accountability) for the next generation. It&#x27
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by troad 11mo ago
This is a sob story from someone who got wealthy from building an engine to finance crime. There are paths towards redemption - the author could begin by donating every ill-gotten cent to a worthy charity. What's that? Crickets? Though
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by troad 11mo ago
I thought it was really perceptive. Look at what JS was designed to do cf. what it's actually doing these days. Turns out it doesn't really matter what domain you were originally trying to tackle. If you've stumbled upon a lo
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by troad 11mo ago
Terrible, no good, upsetting, false class consciousness-derived take. The point of the left is to bring prosperity into reach for everyone, not to stroke the hair of able young men in poker dens who refuse to work, and whisper "You&#x2
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by troad 11mo ago
You have pretty explicitly framed Zig as a C replacement yourself, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv2I7qTux7g More broadly, I think the observation tends to get repeated because C and Zig share a certain elegance and

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