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lijogdfljkon Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces

People are already giving up their freedom, friends, spouses and children. They're called Ukrainian.

Also, he did say it, according to that _transcription_. I don't speak Russian, so i wouldn't know beyond that. Regardless don't play dumb, you and everyone else knew what he meant. Whether or not he'll follow through is the question - but what he meant was obvious. He knew what he was implying.

lijogdfljkon Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oAOSTiumsg

How can you ask for source but then confidently claim otherwise. Ugh.

edit: https://old.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/t0di4z/t... is a crappy Reddit link, but also goes on to include the nuclear mention as well.

How can you view this as anything but a nuclear warning?

lijogdfljkon Automerge: A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently

Why would you ever put a hyper focused distributed system in a centralized architecture?

You're choosing a sledge hammer for a screw.

This is a database that can work when you're offline. Your central server has nothing to do with this and is entirely incapable of even working.

lijogdfljkon Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021

I think everyone is right there, to a degree. Ie yea, the government is at fault, but who is controlling the government here? etc

The solution is balance. I'm a capitalist, but unrestrained capitalism is difficult to impossible. Unrestricted government or capitalism will fail in both cases imo.

lijogdfljkon Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021

Communism? We sit here and allow wealth inequality to take record highs and then we're shocked when the capitalists are so strong that they own the government?

This is uncontrolled capitalism imo. When the rich have such buying power that they own governments, as they do now, you can't really call it communism now can you? The government is just an arm of the rich now, and nothing will change until that is brought into check. Getting rid of government wouldn't stop the rich either.

lijogdfljkon Investors bought a record share of U.S. homes in 2021

> Really the most concerning aspect is that the cost to build new housing has drastically gone up.

Any idea why? This is a life plan for my wife and I, we're currently looking for the right spot of land (~10 acres) and then we hope to start building in ~5 years after significant saving and planning.

We're in the initial stages of planning out our floor plan/etc, and costs are high, but we haven't really noticed a huge difference between building and buying. .. but i suppose we also aren't far enough long that we're getting real price estimates either.

lijogdfljkon Show HN: Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source

I wanted to dogfood and experiment on most of the things, from design to SR algo.

My primary goal was to make something i wanted, which means lots of experimentation across the board. I also want to make a very general purpose/flexible system where you can tweak the underlying SR algo based on the type of knowledge. Ie i want to store music scores, as well as units of fact, and the SR algo or logarithms should support either.

Pulling content (Reader) seemed the hard part to me, mostly because of legality concerns.

lijogdfljkon Show HN: Lurnby, a tool for better learning, is now open source

Hah, i am working on a near identical app. How did you deal with pulling content from the web without reinventing wheels?

I was thinking about reusing an existing store of scraping instructions, InstantView by Telegram (iirc that's the name). Looks fairly straight forward to write a parser for that spec. However, i wanted to be able to store some in a repo on my own as well, but i fear DMCA strikes on a repo that stores instructions to scrape pages.

How did you solve this?

lijogdfljkon Show HN: An AI program to check videos for NSFW content

Why does everything have to be perfect? Humans get this wrong all the time as you say, and we still do it - right?

Seems like we already acknowledge good enough practices and are okay with them. Lets not demand perfection in the same way we shouldn't assume perfection of ~~AI~~ ML.

lijogdfljkon ASCII art for semantic code commenting

If i understand you, the Mac-only Monodraw handles this fine. It lets you draw objects, point to objects (say like a diagram), and then move them around with the pointers auto adjusting to remain correct.

It's a shame that it's mac only.

lijogdfljkon Tell HN: GitHub is down (Update: Back online now)

Yup. Not even the unauthenticated home page is showing up. Wew

lijogdfljkon America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich

Conversely, it also seems to be how capitalist designs work.

I ask: What designs actually help the working class?

lijogdfljkon Framework Raises $18M Series A

Yea i think they're going to be my next laptop when it's time for me to upgrade.

lijogdfljkon Trio of Rust Core Team members hit the road

> which is in itself certainly quite unenjoyable and certainly not something people tend to desire without a huge internal urge. Calling them "them" doesn't cost a lot (especially considering that we do this with strangers on the internet already) — why not just do it?

I don't think anyone here, including myself, is objecting to that. I'm objecting to the generic identifier being both plural and singular and can lead to confusion in contexts, as in this case.

I really don't care about the whole identification debate. It's no different to a name to me. However as is often the case i don't know what they prefer, and i don't care to look it up, i'm just trying to be generic.

lijogdfljkon Trio of Rust Core Team members hit the road

Yea i just didn't care to look it up tbh. Generally i avoid such information about people and try to be generic. Though in this context it was ambiguous imo

lijogdfljkon Trio of Rust Core Team members hit the road

Florian is commenting on the reddit post[1]. Sounds very drama free for them (the singular them.. not the plural... sigh).

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/sh7erp/changes_in_the...

lijogdfljkon Rust extension traits, greppability and IDEs

Fwiw people aren't building the webpage on demand. They're doing it on entry to the project, and so it's already ready when you want it.

Rust takes forever to build too if you've never built the project before, but most people also build that ahead of time too. Repeated doc usage and repeated builds/checks don't require the "full build"

lijogdfljkon Waymo sues state DMV to keep robotaxi safety details secret

Hah, sounds like you get _(and want)_ more exposure to people than i do. Good on you for being proactive though. I imagine when (if? :( ) i retire i'll become a hermit. I'm already quite close to a hermit, with remote working for the last ~7 years.

If i didn't hate to drive i'd be tempted to follow in your footsteps. I'll definitely think of exposure-retirement-jobs in the future though. Thanks for the insight :)

lijogdfljkon Waymo sues state DMV to keep robotaxi safety details secret

Regardless of your opinions on the subject, they removed that ages ago iirc. It's irrelevant now.

lijogdfljkon Waymo sues state DMV to keep robotaxi safety details secret

What's a retirement job? Something you do for fun after retirement for some unneeded but fun-money?

lijogdfljkon Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high paying remote job?

Man, i feel like i'd be worried about droughts of jobs.Any advice on dealing with that stress? I take a lot of value out of standard jobs and stable companies.

lijogdfljkon Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high paying remote job?

On the note of leetcode, what other products solve it similarly? How does leetcode rank against, say, Exercism?

lijogdfljkon AirPods don't “just work”

> one earbud playing while the other isn't,

Funny, i deal with this nearly every day with my AirPods Pro. Often the pods do this when switching from high bandwidth listening to low bandwidth for mic/headset usage.

lijogdfljkon WebAssembly techniques to speed up matrix multiplication

> when performing tasks that were trivial even on hardware 15 years older.

Did the software to perform those tasks stop working?

lijogdfljkon PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL

I wonder how this compares in practice to EdgeQL, https://www.edgedb.com/showcase/edgeql

Offhand i thought PRQL seemed easier to reason about, but something about EdgeQL seems better to me.. though i can't describe it.

lijogdfljkon Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

Looks cool! Hope Rust gets some libraries like this, i'd love to make use of this functionality!

lijogdfljkon Show HN: Lockless Ringbuffer Built with Go Generics

Not bad, or bad, depending on how you learn it, what you try to do, etc.

In my experience, you can write Rust a lot like you write Go. A little more learning perhaps, because Go will do things "automagically", but you can reference count just like you would in Go/Python and it makes your code _far, far_ simpler. You also can use Rust's "interfaces" (`dyn Foo`) which behave a lot like Go's interfaces of `Foo { }`.

You waste a bit of memory, but who cares when you're coming from Go or Python. You aren't trying to write the most efficient program ever (usually).

As far as web backends, it's what we use it for at my shop. The only rough part there is framework maturity. The best novice framework (imo) is Rocket, though it's not quite mature. The "best" framework is probably Actix, but it's a bit more complex for newcomers.

So yea, my advice is to be careful to learn only what you think you need to know. Don't bite off everything at once. Generics is the same story, learn the basics of what a generic is, how to use it, etc, and then rarely use it. You didn't have them in Go, right? Write Rust like Go.

Learning a pinch of everything is useful though so that when a complex annoying thing occurs you have some idea how to handle it or where your knowledge is deficient. Also embracing Rust communities like /r/learnrust/ is useful too. Very friendly.

Hope this helps :)

lijogdfljkon Show HN: Lockless Ringbuffer Built with Go Generics

Boy your progress sounds super similar to mine. Though with swapped order on JS and Go. Mine was primarily Python->JS->Go->Rust. I've been a Rust fanatic for maybe ~2 years now.

It was a natural progression for me, and i quite enjoyed it. I also love Rust, the stdlib (and supporting crates) gave me a UX quite similar to Go's batteries-included stdlib.

lijogdfljkon Show HN: Lockless Ringbuffer Built with Go Generics

If it is indeed faster, my gut is that it wasn't generic, it was "generic" hah. Ie runtime reflection was used instead of true compile-time generics. Runtime reflection has a cost, and is (was!) one the strongest arguments against Go. All powerful "generic" code you'd write in Go heavily relied on reflection over interfaces that caused memory behavior commonly associated with worse performance.

Compile-time generics can often perform similar behavior but with a far better memory layout resulting in better performance.

Purely speculation though about `chan`, i have no clue.

lijogdfljkon Pijul 1.0 Beta

I like Git, but it does give me tons of conflicts when a smarter system shouldn't.

I recently merged two functions from two different branches. It interleaved the lines because the functions were similar. Tooling can help this problem of course, also choosing different merge strategies i think is an option, but that in think is what Pijul is attempting to solve. To reduce conflicts when slicing and dicing past histories.