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Irssi's UX is better than that of any other chat software, though. Why it hasn't been replicated for things like XMPP and Matrix is probably due to the more difficult and featureful state transitions of those protocols.

Sorry for misunderstanding the mood and context. In context of Zig, this makes a lot of sense, making my calls for humility premature and tad ironic.

Well, you've met one now, so you can update that assumption. And also if you look higher up this thread, the author of this article takes it seriously as well. So that's two already in a pretty short time!

If you had that reaction, you might want to take some time to explicitly free your thought process from OOP-isms.

If you have this reaction, perhaps you should take a humility lesson before claiming that a few syntax tricks is all it takes to outsmart people who spent their entire university careers thinking about these problems.

KDE beats macOS 4 years ago

That's a bit silly. I was a Linux user from 1996 to 2015ish, then went to use macbooks almost exclusively. Apple's UI immediately made sense, even if it was remains tad unoptimal for serious use, when comparing to UX masterpieces like i3 and sway.

KDE has always been bit of an awkward horror, and I've given it a shot now and then for their whole existence. The latest incarnation, Plasma, is quite a lot better than it used to be, granted.

Exploring Mastodon 4 years ago

How is following someone on another server with Mastodon difficult? Or is that some sort of a meme now?

[dead] 4 years ago

With this level of cluelessness, we have to be extra thankful that he cannot become president of USA.

Ideally the society where the companies operate in should provide the safety rails, thus allowing the company to do whatever it legally can to maximize profits.

But that wouldn't be the crony capitalism that we're stuck with now. Also, things have been moving too fast for a long time, making it nearly impossible for governments to keep up.

Why Lisp? 4 years ago

After writing Lisp there is just something wrong about how most languages have an additional step in order to generate the AST. Why?

Because it's possible to have a lot better representations of computer code for humans than AST.

Systemd 252 4 years ago

Hey, someone rediscovered xinetd

With a much better piece of software, exactly.

"Never will" is of course an untrue hyperbole. There are stronger and stronger incentives to make this happen, and while it's probable that non-renewables will never go to 0.0%, they will definitely reach for it.

173TW is the amount of solar energy that reaches Earth. More than 10,000x what we currently use. Sure, we'll probably never (there's that word again!) use all of it, but it gives a sense of scale. And who knows, perhaps we'll use more since there's always the other side of the sun. Apparently, a full dyson sphere around the sun would theoretically give us 400 septillion (10^24) watts.

Slack just released video chat and they've had screen sharing for some time. Teams should start feeling a bit nervous.