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usrnm··on Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
I live in the Netherlands and have absolutely no need for this ticket. When I need to go somewhere, I just walk or bike there, never takes more than 20 minutes. I cannot even imagine living in American suburbia
usrnm··on What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
I remember those times and there were a lot if windows that did not look like windows and buttons that did not look like buttons. Not in the apps provided by the OS itself, but in third-party software. It was the time of wild experiments, especially in software created by enthusiasts. We just tend to forget this stuff
usrnm··on US battery manufacturing output continues to break records
Invading a country, changing its government and forcing favorable trade deals under a threat of a military intervention is "trade"? What is colonialism then?
usrnm··on The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat
Interesting and sad to see the ratio of women to men doing hard manual work in these photos, even road repairs are done by women. It's mind boggling how devastating the war was for the country.
usrnm··on US battery manufacturing output continues to break records
You walk in and realize that there is nothing worthwile inside. The knowledge is gone or was never even there, all the inputs are gone, the process is in shambles, all you have is four walls and some bricked machinery. What now?
usrnm··on US battery manufacturing output continues to break records
Good old colonialism, sweet
usrnm··on US battery manufacturing output continues to break records
Not really? The questin is, if South Korea stops all cooperation with the EU tomorrow, will that fab continue to be operational? If the answer is "no", then it matters. It matters a lot
usrnm··on A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown
Why? Software developers aren't some superhumans, we're generally very bad at things outside our immediate area of expertise. Just like everyone else
usrnm··on Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines
At this point I just ask an LLM to resolve conflicts, works most of the time. An LLM can not only understand the language, it can also understand the intent behind both changes, which leads to much better results
usrnm··on Orthodox C++ (2016)
A defer is just a dozen lines of code nowadays, if you really need it, but in most cases you don't if you're doing RAII
usrnm··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
What do you think "voting age" means? The first sentence on the linked page is "The overall turnout of eligible voters in the 2024 general election was 63.7%"
usrnm··on Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine
Do you have a citation for that? I read the books a long time ago, but I was sure that he was corrupted through the palantir
usrnm··on Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails
Well, Russia is trying to do something about it and I think we can all agree that there are wrong ways to go about it. Simply being incompetent, like the EU, is not the worst possible scenario.

Btw, say what you will about Russia, but it's light years ahead of the EU in digital sovereignty. One of the reasons it did not crumble under sanctions.

usrnm··on Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails
Trump was elected. Twice. It was not a fluke, not a once in a lifetime event, he's a symptom of wider processes happening in the US. The world has changed and the old order is not coming back
usrnm··on BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada
What about the software side?
usrnm··on OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users
Which is actually good news if it still works
usrnm··on US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%
It obviously is part of the rises in other cost. We can argue how large a part, but I cannot imagine a world where they are unrelated
usrnm··on US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%
Energy going up drives evrything up, including food. Everything we do depends on energy in many different ways.
usrnm··on The iPhone's Last Stand?
Yeah, that's exactly why Apple is paying money to Google now to fix the shitshow that is Siri
usrnm··on The iPhone's Last Stand?
Are you saying that Google is a startup?
usrnm··on The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++
ABI changes do happen. gcc had an ABI change in std::string because of C++11. It was long and painful, but everyone survived, the world did not end
usrnm··on Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)
The simplest way to "fix" that is killing the original one as a required and atomic part of the process. Make it so that there is no moment in time when both are awake and concious
usrnm··on The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++
Sounds like a compiler bug to me. It is a valid reason to avoid them in some rare cases right now, but it doesn't make the feature itself bad
usrnm··on Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
> It's a Google model run by Apple

Run by Apple where? Do they really have enough hardware to run it in-house?

usrnm··on Siri AI
> I'm curious if Siri AI will be up to their usual standards

You clearly never used Siri before

usrnm··on Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea
Dishwashers also cannot work without a human loading and unloading dishes. How do you propose to automate this part?
usrnm··on sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3
I'm pretty sure that C is a much better choice if you really care about binaries that run on most devices
usrnm··on sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3
Cgo overhead is trivial compared to what's happening inside a database engine, totally not worth it
usrnm··on sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3
The readme really lacks the answer to the "why" question. What's the use case, why should I prefer it over real sqlite?
usrnm··on Nine Ways to Do Inheritance in Rust, a Language Without Inheritance
All systems languages before Rust (granted, it's not a very long list) were successfully used for GUIs, games, embedded stuff and much more
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