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WhereIsTheTruth··on Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows
For advanced end users? why would they ditch: https://systeminformer.sourceforge.io/ ?
WhereIsTheTruth··on TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
You got brainwashed

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12503/1

"1982 U.S.-PRC Joint Communiqué/Six Assurances

As they negotiated establishment of diplomatic relations, the U.S. and PRC governments agreed to set aside the contentious issue of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. They took up that issue in the 1982 August 17 Communiqué, in which the PRC states “a fundamental policy of striving for peaceful reunification” with Taiwan, and the U.S. government states it “understands and appreciates” that policy. The U.S. government states in the 1982 communiqué that with those statements “in mind,” “it does not seek to carry out a long-term policy of arms sales to Taiwan,” and “intends gradually to reduce its sale of arms to Taiwan, leading, over a period of time, to a final resolution.” The U.S. government also declares “no intention” of “pursuing a policy of ‘two Chinas,’” meaning the PRC and the ROC, “or ‘one China, one Taiwan.’”"

WhereIsTheTruth··on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
I kept getting flagged for calling out Firefox/Mozilla, for years

Now you get what you deserve, folks

WhereIsTheTruth··on WhatsApp, Signal Sign letter against UK privacy bill, say they will not comply (2023)
Yet they'll both comply to the American Cloud Act

How is this behavior called again? ;)

WhereIsTheTruth··on Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code
github struggling to display that page is sad, github devs should feel embarrassed
WhereIsTheTruth··on Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows
Chromium on linux has a similar issue, white text / dark background, very noticeable on low DPI 1080p screens

You can instantly notice it when you try to read comments on youtube (w/ dark theme)

WhereIsTheTruth··on WASM will replace containers
Just like with systemd ruining every cloud infrastructures, here we go with WASM

Who wants everyone to be forced to use the same BigTech slop?

WhereIsTheTruth··on How does DeepSeek work: An inside look
If they lied about copyright infringements, why wouldn't they lie for data collection too?
WhereIsTheTruth··on [dead]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing
WhereIsTheTruth··on New Outlook's security issues: Businesses should avoid switching
Decades ago i would have said someone is trying to sabotage Microsoft

But nowadays, with experience (this is not the first time that this is happening), it seems like it's the opposite, Microsoft is constantly trying to sabotage its "clients", i'm using quotes here because what are the alternatives they are allowed to use?

This level of impunity is criminal

WhereIsTheTruth··on El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
The people behind bitcoin perhaps thought of creating technologies for their respective CBDC

But for the common mortal, cryptocurrencies are not about replacing anything, it's a highly volatile speculative playground, digital gangsters who want to make a quick buck

Nobody cares about the ideology

Bitcon as legal tender? lol

WhereIsTheTruth··on Hard Mode Rust (2022)
C++ problem isn't just RAII, it's the language becomes an unreadable mess, just like this Rust code

C++ and Rust share the same criticism

- poor readability

- poor code navigation

- poor compilation speed

I find it interesting how they call simplicity "hard mode", quite concerning

WhereIsTheTruth··on I still like Sublime Text
- build system that understand colors.. out of the box..

- revamped project system so i don't have to store extra files in my root directory, there is a plugin for it, but this should be working out of the box imo

- drag&drop panels to create layout with the mouse

- tabs in output/temporary panels

- UI API for status panel, side panel and in the views

- a proper built-in terminal, i know there is Terminus, but color support is lacking, tabs support is lacking, doesn't work well with tmux, overall it's very janky (wrt to scrolling)

- sticky scrolling (the thing that pins the scope name) or - the thingy that says where in the code we are, i forgot how it's called: [MyStruct > my_function]

I'd be willing to pay extra for a proper terminal for ST

WhereIsTheTruth··on I still like Sublime Text
They need to enhance their plugin API asap, i remember wanting to make a small assistant panel, the only choice was to use a pseudo mini-HTML api, it's not good for anything dynamic.. a shame

I'd love an Immediate Mode API, give me full control, or give me access to your OpenGL context, i'll write my own UI

They also need to improve the layout system for their panels, Origami is good, but sometimes using your mouse is better

And i agree about getting stuff to Package Control, it's unnecessary painful

Other than that, it's the perfect editor, but that plugin API holds it back, lots of missed opportunity, specially with the advent of AI stuff

WhereIsTheTruth··on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
A mix of capitalism, socialism and communism is the key, they complement and balance each other

Trying to ostracize one model to favor the other is the recipe for a collapse

Perhaps that's what the USA is, a disposable Empire

WhereIsTheTruth··on Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram
this is called "controlled opposition"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_propaganda

WhereIsTheTruth··on TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona
Even when presented with facts and argumentation, people still downvote, i guess there is no turning back

No blood on my hands!

WhereIsTheTruth··on TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona
"It's only a democracy if the results suits our interests"

You are not being objective, a poll is not a vote

In a vote, the registered population gets to vote using official ID

In a poll, only 'god' knows who the respondents are

WhereIsTheTruth··on TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona
Taiwanese are pro-reunification, Tsai wich is pro-US and pro-indepandance had quit due to her party loosing local elections

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Taiwan-elections/Taiwan-s-T...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/2024_Leg...

WhereIsTheTruth··on Why and where European founders should move to the U.S.
Europe should categorise brain drain advertisements as sabotage/foreign-interference

It's hard to believe it's done in good faith

WhereIsTheTruth··on TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona
"invade" = western propaganda

The proper word is "reunite", as it was agreed with the US

It sure gonna hurt the US Military industrial complex, no war = no money

"1982 U.S.-PRC Joint Communiqué/Six Assurances

As they negotiated establishment of diplomatic relations, the U.S. and PRC governments agreed to set aside the contentious issue of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. They took up that issue in the 1982 August 17 Communiqué, in which the PRC states “a fundamental policy of striving for peaceful reunification” with Taiwan, and the U.S. government states it “understands and appreciates” that policy. The U.S. government states in the 1982 communiqué that with those statements “in mind,” “it does not seek to carry out a long-term policy of arms sales to Taiwan,” and “intends gradually to reduce its sale of arms to Taiwan, leading, over a period of time, to a final resolution.” The U.S. government also declares “no intention” of “pursuing a policy of ‘two Chinas,’” meaning the PRC and the ROC, “or ‘one China, one Taiwan.’”"

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12503/1

WhereIsTheTruth··on Brazil says Meta hate speech policy changes do not fit with local law
Typical case of CIA spreading propaganda to create civil unrest all around the world

Relevant:

"Come to the ‘war cry party’: How social media helped drive mayhem in Brazil

Researchers detected a surge in aggressive rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday’s rioting"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/08/brazil-...

and

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-r...

and the classic:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

WhereIsTheTruth··on Obvious things C should do
Parsimony? more like thankful for learning from other language experiments and research work

Zig is young, and far from 1.0, and many long promised features still not implemented

WhereIsTheTruth··on Obvious things C should do
I'm curious, is there any features, from any language, that you wish you had implemented, or want to copy, in D?
WhereIsTheTruth··on Obvious things C should do
Another obvious things C should do:

- better enums (with tagged union)

- compile time type introspection

D does the latter (very well btw), but completely missed the mark with enums

WhereIsTheTruth··on China's overqualified youth taking jobs as drivers, labourers and film extras
and it's a good thing

they have no shortage of highly qualified workers

and they may use all this knowledge to advance the fields in which they'll be working in

everyone is educated, what else do you want? bunch of dumb people? bbc? sir?

high crime rate? low trust society?

WhereIsTheTruth··on How AI is unlocking ancient texts
Don't forget to spice it up with some bias!

https://x.com/i/grok/share/uMwJwGkl2XVUep0N4ZPV1QUx6

WhereIsTheTruth··on TSMC's Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips
A victory for sovereign Taiwan, protecting the industry they built from the ground up!
WhereIsTheTruth··on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
Downvoter, you are historical illiterate: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB509/

Competition is the greatest tool for innovation

And i am omniscient

WhereIsTheTruth··on Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
I would love to know the identity of their GC, the team that does it all
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