silasmariner

@silasmariner@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atmospheric Slapping Tournament⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d disagree with that argument and draw an analogy with the short reactive pathways triggered by e.g. that thing where you tap a knee with a hammer and it jerks; I don’t think the reaction loop there counts as a sense, and only when you add in the CNS and perception of it does it even connect to one. But it’s hardly a cut’n’dried argument and I’m sure there’s a lot left to plausibly disagree on here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: 'It turned out to be a tougher one': Trump says he was wrong about ending war in Ukraine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a pretty funny comment you made on the article, but like obvs the wrong place to post it lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atmospheric Slapping Tournament⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s a tree’s brain in this analogy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok fair, sorry for being snappy, I think fusion is cool and probably pretty close these days and get a bit defensive when I feel I’m misrepresented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that’s not my attitude at all, I said ‘not there yet’, I’m sorry you can’t read bro

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fusion power ain’t there yet though, bad example?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard to answer the question when you don't even understand the question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Understandable soldering bollocks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Philosophy is in entirely the wrong place for some reason. Should be slightly to the right of maths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm good, thanks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Halfway to a great comment there but it fizzled out a bit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohhhhhh yeah that makes sense, they’re only really happy with easy targets in overwhelming force because they’re cowardly c***s. Gun probably scares them off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s being white, isn’t it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And there’s no Tim Curry, who frankly makes RA2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In reverse order:

  • Directly mapping structs to JSON is a solved problem in userland for every major language
  • yes it does, and worse it’s part of the return signature and null is super-prevalent or necessity as a result
  • even java doesn’t do that any more, but fine I guess
  • cool, but access modifiers actually make a lot of sense. Go’s solution to this is to use capitalisation as a marker, which has no ‘inferential readability’ – public/private is obvious. Foo/foo? Considerably less so

  Further, meta programming in go sucks donkey balls. Sure, it finally got generics but also they suck. Last I checked it still didn’t even support covariance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, weird ass-comment. I can share my opinions and they don’t have to be positive ones. Go is a tool and its purpose is to be an aesthetic stain on the realm of software.

  Thank you for your attention

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s completely fair, thank you for your service

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically Go is such a shite verbose language that basically everyone I know who has to work with it will use an llm code-assistant tool to avoid having to write all the boilerplate themselves.

  I know of no other language that comes close to prompting the level of LLM-dependency that Go inspires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Loved complex analysis. Poles for days. Such weird maths

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s widely considered to be the article about it tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just pissing about and downvoted you with the understanding that you were sufficiently decent to survive a downvote without getting upset. I don’t see a reason, however, to performatively downvote that second comment and think whoever did that was unfair, so I’m giving you an upvote.

  I have never sat for an autism diagnosis, I have no idea why that would be relevant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. You are in the minority and you will be adjusted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough my eldest is getting a laptop this Christmas. Arch Linux with a heavily locked-down environment (I’ve disabled WiFi on the non-root account, even). She’s just about to turn 7 – how old are yours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well time will tell won’t it, but we’re both just guessing at the end

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No that’s way too paranoid. Honestly 20 years not 6 months. And by then ladybird will be viable so nbd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Careful, he's a hero⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they just didn’t believe his version of the story and thought it a post hoc rationalisation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I very much doubt that the primary motivation to be the first person to walk around the world from South America to the UK is a bet. It’s … Y’know, probably more to do with being the first person to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a lot of fish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a guess 🤣⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Paedo in a lea, tho’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They got the punctuation all mixed up. Instead of ‘Windows 10 will be the last ever version! No more major upgrades!’ it was meant to read ‘Windows 10 will be the last ever version? No! More major upgrades!’

  Unfortunate mistake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe worried about looking personally identifiable. It’s understandable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is weird because if you’re actually trying to get shit done, you get much more value out of someone with experience in your ecosystem than someone you’ve just hired, and it’s astonishing how low you an keep those ppls salaries compared to new hires who’re much less effective. Hire+fire is shit for everyone. Except, I guess, idiots who can only think 2 months in either direction.