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I know this is supposed to be a negative comment, but I don't think this is a bad thing

Some languages do it better, but it's really not a problem. It's just verbose, but people say that about Java and that never stopped it from being used everywhere

qwmon Go 1.27

You can't terminate goroutines like individual threads, but there's no good reason to anyway. They designed the context system to be able to signal across goroutines and do cleanup that way

qwmon Go 1.27

In the network and web backend world, we haven't moved on, and for good reason

qwmon Go 1.27

Can't relate, I love Go

qwmon Go 1.27

I'm a big fan of `go fix`, such a nice thing for big projects

qwmon Go 1.27

Same. Go feels like the language that does everything I like about Java with a lot more control than Java gives

qwmon Go 1.27

I think you're gonna like it a lot more now. The language has gained a lot of nice things since they added generics

qwmon Go 1.27

This was one of the times where it made some sense. A lot of their complaints were about GC, which Discord has had issues with in the past on other things. Notably, Discord switched from Cassandra to ScyllaDB for their messages, and cited the Java GC as a big reason.

qwmon Go 1.27

I think it only really happens when companies run into GC problems

qwmon Go 1.27

If I'm being honest, I actually hate this feature. I like things being obvious, and structs were always something I could rely on being very explicit.

qwmon Go 1.27

this is hilarious

qwmon Go 1.27

Funny enough, in one of my projects I created a struct with a string field just to have a distinct type that couldn't accidentally be initialized by typing a string. This update completely messes that up lol

qwmon Go 1.27

I don't think it ever suggests anything specific to 3rd-party packages

qwmon Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

I found that music video last year, and it blew my mind. So good

qwmon Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

Funny enough, I find myself closer to the conservative Christian upbringing I received as a child than ever before, but I totally agree with him on needing to unlearn some things when it comes to dating. Different world in the past I guess, conservative Christian or not.

Taken as a whole, the intro to his talk was pretty cohesive in my opinion, albeit controversial. It made sense when taken together, even though some people will take issue with the subject matter. The point wasn't the little details about his own experience, that was just to get you invested in the story about the degeneration of certain types of communities when people who "graduate" from them leave, and the people who never moved on remain.

qwmon Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

I guess I kind of agree with this, but Monero-related stuff is the exception for me.

qwmon Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

Not the biggest fan of crypto myself, but allowing LLMs and "AI" stuff with open arms while condemning PoW crypto is hilarious. They should just say they don't like crypto at that point, because LLMs and datacenters for them are causing way more harm. Even if their qualms are fraud and abuse, I have some bad news for them about what people are using LLMs for lol

qwmon Changing how we develop Ladybird

> This isn't the death of open source. It's the death of the global village were everybody can freely roam and it's easy to interact. It's the resurrection of small, social, trusted communities. I hope this spreads to all of the internet.

This is definitely a microcosm of what's happening to the entire Internet.

qwmon Bun support is now limited and deprecated

Being conservative with technology choices and only using Node LTS has paid dividends lol

qwmon A JavaScript static site generator that will still work in 5 years

You can drop the library into your project as a single file and it'll still work without NPM. You can just copy it straight from GitHub, even.

qwmon Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

The guy who threw the molotov should have called his Congressman, signed a petition, and paid his taxes.

qwmon Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

I did this exact same thing for porting a compiler from one language to another with Codex. I run tests at every step, and verified that bytecode output was byte-for-byte identical. I was very impressed at the results, and this is coming from someone who's always pointing out issues with AI programming.

qwmon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://poop.net/

Yes, really.

qwmon Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

My compiler runs on my computer and produces the same machine code given the same input. Neither of these are true with AI.

qwmon Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

ahahahaha so many implications in this comment

qwmon Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

My favorite benchmark for LLMs and agents is to have it port a medium-complexity library to another programming language. If it can do that well, it's pretty capable of doing real tasks. So far, I always have to spend a lot of time fixing errors. There are also often deep issues that aren't obvious until you start using it.

qwmon GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder

This isn't an ownership problem, it's a medium problem (and perhaps a legal problem)

qwmon GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder

It's worth noting that many, if not most, games on Steam don't have DRM. You can often just take the .exe files out of them and play. Sometimes you need a polyfill for Steam's client API, but that's usually it.

qwmon I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

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