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And that leash was NorthStream? C'mon, it's not a leash when (1) both parties can stop the flow if they want, and (2) if both parties seem to be doing just fine with the leash/pipe no longer functioning.

If I just look around me, i see my omni friends and fam all struggling with overweight and some have expressed problems with constipation and high-BP.

Myself OTOH, lean, low-BP (without any bad symptoms), dont even know what constipation should feel like.

I beg to differ. Magnesium and vitD (especially in colder climates, or for indoorsy people) deficiencies are very, very, common.

There's lots of research on this.

B12 is about hygiene (not drinking from muddy puddles), not about an inherent problem with veganism.

I dont believe you protein remark. Protein deficiency is virtually unheard of.

I consider creatine and O3s a bio-hack more than a supplementation.

B12: yes. But most meat people eat has been fed a B12 supplement as well (as live stock do not live on dark soil that is abundant in B12; they live on concrete floors and eat factory-produced animal feed... with B12 added to it).

Calcium: nope. Magnesium is more important IMHO; IFF you do not get 2 portions of low-oxelate (most are low-oxelate) leaves per day. I try to get the leaves.

Iron: mostly a thing for menstruating women.

Zink: mostly a thing for ejaculating men.

As a vegan (for moral reasons) I take D3, B12, some Magnesium and sometimes Zink as supplements. I do bio hack myself: creatine, high DHA O3s, but also recreational/experimental drugs.

I agree veganism makes it harder. But I dont think that's what veganism is about: it is an ethical stance. If you are "eating a vegan-compatible diet, but not vegan" we should use another word: plant based diet (which includes fungi, yes, weird).

I moved from Ruby+Rails, though some other frameworks that I had no choice in (inherited the projects), to my new place of refuge: Kotlin+http4k.

Kotlin is a very acceptable Ruby-with-types. Even better than the new Ruby with optional types. It reads the same, it writes very similar, and it produces very similar "style" of code. I like the be on the FP side; Kotlin (as Ruby) allows that. I dont mind some OO in there; Kotlin (as Ruby) is okay with that. The benefit is a much larger community, JetBrains products that work well (and have free versions for Kotlin) and the JVM (interop with the Java ecosystem means there's a lot of libs you can use).

http4k is a library much like Rack in Ruby. It does a bit more, but essentially they are similar.

I prefer SSR over SPA. With Ruby I used HAML. Now I use kotlinx.html, which is "just Kotlin" (it compiles as Kotlin, allows me to put breakpoints, and mix in bits of logic --in Kotlin obviously-- where i need it. Much better than HAML (or ERB, or...).

I never liked Ruby's ORM. I just dont like ORMs. So I wrap functions over SQL statements that are strings. I do my SQL interpolation with Jdbi. Works very well, and, no ORM.

The test suite runs really fast and tests with a live db. I test that all SQL statements still work (one test per SQL statement; with a non-empty result to ensure the row decoding works).

All libraries (JARs) together amount to 11MB. That's all! I really like little libraries. As a reference SpringBoot (java's Rails) or Hibernate (java's ActiveRecord) require at least 15MB each!

Overall I'm happier here than with Rails. I just like static typing more nowadays, and prefer a "bunch of libs stringed together for my project" over a "framework".

I really appreciate Rails and DHH's approach though: I learned a lot about web development by using it (and Rack, and Merb). Much more than from Django or PHP or JSP/etc. But I'm okay with having moved on.

Why especially those?

What if you want errors to happen, e.g. deny care, bomb civilians; in that case 90% error rate is what you want, and plausible deniably so!

who's your audience? who will read/use it?

An if you dont like to give them your work, but still do open source, there are the copy-left licenses: GPL and AGPL.

They stay away from those.

What license was KHTML again? Checked: LGPL.

For me Kotlin is an "acceptable Ruby with types"

Actually better than the Ruby with types we have now...

> So right now Servo is funded by the community, and this is no good because why?

Because look at Mozilla... You need to get the browser in front of people. A browser that works on the real web, is such a huge project, you cannot do it as a hobby community-funded project for ever. You need user-share-%.

Samsung can put it in front of Samsung appliance users.

I remember waiting on the Mozilla project to deliver something that could browse as well on linux as closed source browsers on windows/mac did.

It... took... long...

But there it was. And it still works.

That's news! Would be really cool.

I really wish a patron would step up and sponsor this project. Not just by money, but also by plugging it in their browser-carrying products. Maybe Hauwei of Samgsung; they now sling a browser derived of another for-profit --usually competitor-- company's browser.

Reduce is like `fold` in Haskell right? Fold in Haskell has many variant, I forgot exactly which, but I remember there were many.

I never met so many different variants of the `map` or `filter` function in Haskell.

Maybe this shows, in a different way from the reasons in the article, why reduce is harder than map/filter.

I miss from the home page a link to github and/or a description of it's license and/or some code of an actual capsule app (what backend language is used? -- I have no clue and cannot find out) and/or does this bundle Node?

While I wish your project success and like the simplicity of Sqlite; I prefer to start with Postgres. PG has many of the benefits (x-platform, free, embeddable, etc) that sqlite has, but also provides an industrial strength db in case you need to scale at some point, or want to use more complicated constructs.

One of the more prolific opensource projects, but apart from the JEP process not very open access (which is a fair choice the contributor('s employer) can make).

I'd read it.

Ubuntu is free. But Canonical is for profit. In these cases "if you are not paying for the product, you are the product" applies.

Ubuntu users will test this. Once the problems are ironed out, other distros will follow.

They certainly have design issues. For such a big brand, I dont get it... Why not make 'm look nice?

Actually you reply to a comment that makes a lot of sense.

Look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

And in Russian I believe such a company is called a "Soviet". They idea that the main part of the economy is run by this kind of organizations is one of the best parts of the USSR's attempt at communism.

It's allowed to do a more democratic business in most countries, it's called a:

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

There have been some govts that mandated this type of organization for part of their economy; we usually refer to that as communism.

(no value judgement here, there are day's when I'm quite a commie myself)

I dont care for Sam Altman's color. But, c'mon, how's he not white?

I learned Duck-typing from Ruby: if it talks like a duck, walks like a duck and swims like a duck -- it's a duck.

Applying this to Sam: he's white.

In my last project (Kotlin; web app) I've decided against async (coroutines).

I just want to keep it simple.

Async "infects" you code: for it to bring benefits your whole codebase needs to be doing it (ingesting requests, db calls, web API calls).

Due to this we see "split" stacks in programming languages: one lib stack for synchronous, and one for async.

I did not think the benefits of better performance under load is worth the mental overhead of doing async everywhere. So i went with blocking calls and virtual threads. No regrets.

I thought Logo was interesting because it translated the syntax (and errors) to the language of the programmer. Thereby it removed "learning English" as a prerequisite for learning programming.

https://apps.kde.org/nl/kturtle/ (in pretty much every linux distro) also brings that benefit (though the language is not exactly a LOGO clone).

I'm sure AI corps have violated some IP laws here 'n there. Did not one guy die while he was trying to blow the whistle on this?

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

(sorry for the thinfoil hat remark)

Like with all the tricks Meta played... Maybe somewhere deep down Moonshot's EULA is says that they are allowed to "proxy from time to time for research purposes". Then it's legal right? /s

And now we learn they use Swift and Kotlin to replace React with. So they are not replacing it with Ruby. I think they've hit the limits on Ruby (like twitter had on Scala).

P.s.: I find Kotlin "an acceptable typed-Ruby" with an industrial strength VM (the JVM) and two compiles to native stories (KMP and GraalVM-native).

Glad they have a patron now. I use it in my project (because scoped-css is not yet available in browsers and I do not want to deal much with CSS). LLMs write Tailwind easily, so that's good. And I do not have yet another place where cruft builds up (the CSS files) while they changes to them can silently mess up some UI I did not check.

So thanks Shopify for taking them under your wings.

X-mas wish: that the Servo project gets a proper patron (looking at you, Huawei and Samsung).

Not saying Elm does not have it's hard parts, but the solution in there is succinctly different from what you just described that I think you might even find it interesting.

I used Qt, Gtk, React, Elm, JS-spagetti-with-some-jQuery-on-top...

And now I understand why people like Elm.