FizzyOrange

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I just use Rust for this. You can make the binaries fairly small if you put a bit of effort in. Plus it's not a niche language, and you get the benefit of a huge community. And your code is pretty much fast by default.

The only real downside is the compilation time, which is a lot better than it used to be but still isn't great.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I dunno I would say Lisp syntax is probably the worst option. Or APL style.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Seems like they allow () code blocks too, so it's kind of the worst of both worlds...

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If they could just decide where TLS certificates live...

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's also McFly which I slightly prefer, just because the interface looks a bit nicer. Although it does have an annoying missing feature - you can't scroll through the history.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's... not how hashes work. 🤦‍♂️

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would I hate systemd? It has fixed many of the problems with desktop Linux that many people refused to even admit were problems. This looks like it throws all that away.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It doesn’t.

Well... Not from Framework. I looked one up and it was £700 for the main board or £1300 for the whole laptop. Or I could get a laptop with the exact same CPU (Ryzen AI 7 350) from Asus for £800. I mean, sure it's probably not as good a laptop. But even so... If your laptop breaks are you going to spend £700 on a new main board that might fix it, or £800 on a new laptop that definitely works.

It definitely doesn't make sense for upgrading - you can just sell the old laptop and buy a new one if you want to upgrade.

Tbh I hope they succeed still, but it's really hard to compete with the sheer pricing power of less modular products.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Except for the small form factor I bought a second hand PC with those specs for £300. I think the only reasons to buy it are you really want small form factor, or you want to play with local AI and don't want to use a Mac (which is still better value for money on that front).

Not to downplay the small form factor - I do think that is cool. Just... Not £1k cool.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Kernel code isn't fundamentally different. Even designing hardware is still basically just coding, despite what hardware designers claim. (They think it's fundamentally different because many things happen in parallel in a single cycle.)

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

the Guardian and Israel’s +972 Magazine revealed Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, was making use of Azure to store countless recordings of mobile phone calls made by Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.

I mean... I don't think denying Israel access to Azure is going to have much effect on the genocide. It's not like they don't have plenty of alternatives.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, these people are all 100% guaranteed to be fired and blacklisted from every major tech firm for the rest of their lives…

I do agree, but also there are a lot of naive people who think that they won't get fired (in America of all places), so maybe they are just naive.

I mean, this exact thing already happened and somehow it was "news" when they were fired.

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