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by vga42 10mo ago
Vibe coding benefits from hard limits relatively more than human coding. So in that sense, we should be coding in Rust (where raw performance is needed), Idris 2 or Haskell, and specifying with formal methods. Perhaps the programming langua
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by vga42 10mo ago
At this point, I have almost 30 years of daily driving Linux desktop experience, and several decades of professional Linux experience. I have tried and kind of liked NixOS and although I prefer the simplicity of Arch Linux, I see how it wou
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by vga42 10mo ago
I think they also perfectly nailed something about the ambience that none of the follow-ups somehow managed to. Lightning in a bottle, perhaps.
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by vga42 11mo ago
It's 'extensible.' That's what they say. 'Extensible.' You know what that means? It means they didn't finish it! It's like buying a car, and they say, 'Oh, the engine? That's... extensible.
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by vga42 11mo ago
Rust safe multi-threading is pretty simple, though. Async, perhaps not so much. But they are two different things.
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by vga42 11mo ago
I think the core of the critique against rent control is that it mostly is a wealth transfer to the already wealthy, and that doesn't seem sensible. Or very leftist.
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by vga42 11mo ago
There exists a power that no amount of political power will bend infinitely. Eventually, reality will stop bending and bounce back, and no amount of populists will be able to hold the backlash. That said, I'm sure there are lots of goo
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by vga42 11mo ago
Demagoguery is at least a 2000 years old concept.
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Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayor's race, capping an ascent(apnews.com)
64 points by vga42 11mo ago|19 comments
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by vga42 11mo ago
Not among the 100 000 worst things China has done.
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by vga42 1y ago
That's not the whole story. Excluding the pro-Soviet fringes, Finland always wanted to be free of Russia. When Soviet Union fell, Finland moved significantly to the west and also started inching towards NATO. But only the real NATO mem
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by vga42 1y ago
It's of course obvious to everyone now that there has been no reason to trust Russia. US investors have been resourceful enough to realize that investing in Finland carried a significant country risk due to Russia, even in times of rel
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by vga42 1y ago
What percentage of Windows games runs on Windows? I'm not trying to be funny; it's clearly less than 100%. I've been personally running Linux on my gaming box for 2-3 years I think. AMD hardware, obviously. BF6 doesn't w