silasmariner
@silasmariner@programming.dev
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s widely considered to be the article about it tbh
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
That’s a lot of fish
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 1 month ago:
Paedo in a lea, tho’
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 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 2 months ago:
Maybe worried about looking personally identifiable. It’s understandable.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 2 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.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 2 months ago:
Nah actually I’m pretty happy mostly. Although I do get horrible muscle spasms when I’m stressed sometimes
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 2 months ago:
Only if you believed his bollocks, which we all know is not to be believed
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 2 months ago:
Huh. Never noticed the MLM parallels of the current AI hype so much before. Literally levenschtein distance of one, should’ve spotted it.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 2 months ago:
I think the idea is that, whilst shorting, you get squeezed. The question is not ‘if’ but ‘when’ and if it takes too long and you’re $1B deep you can lose your shirt
- Comment on hmm breakfast 2 months ago:
Sicilian ice cream sandwiches are a real thing and they are basically the best thing that’s ever happened to breakfast cuisine
- Comment on hmm breakfast 2 months ago:
Siesta is barely a thing in Italy any more unless you’re like 70+ and rural lol. But a brioche stuffed with ice-cream is the king of breakfasts what are you on about
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 2 months ago:
Grab that cash with both hands and make a dash
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 2 months ago:
You’ve got to be kidding me! 😡😡
- Comment on some days i cant even 2 months ago:
Depends if you’re going for most or all of the leaves. If you’re just going for most and you’re not incompetent, rake is easy and which.
- Comment on Beware!!! 2 months ago:
It’s a reference to ‘taking the knee’, I think there was a big thing in American football about that.
- Comment on Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming 3 months ago:
Eh…Homm2 was better.