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These companies know their value was never in the models. There’s a scramble to acquire as much hardware as possible, and to build as many services that people get soft locked into…

A blockade of Taiwan could be met with a blockade of China. China can survive much longer on their own supply and reserves. But it’s still something to make them think twice. They …

Only bulbs I’ve had fail in the last 10 year was some IKEA GU10 bulbs (maybe 2-3 years). I got them replaced for free with no receipt, and the new design had obvious improvements t…

But the article isn’t saying that no form of planned obsolescence exists. If you think it’s important to make people aware of genuine planned obsolescence, then use examples of gen…

This article was about Europe. There is no benefit for Tesla here. It’s all CCS now. Anyone can use Tesla superchargers. Afaik it’s the same in US, isn’t it? Just with the complica…

> You have no such guarantee when you upload government IDs to a server. The problem is that so many people here look at this purely from a USA perspective. An age check in many Eu…

We don’t need any of those things, but they’re in no way the source of our problems anyway, and eliminating them will do nothing of significance to solve the problems. So it’s poin…

If the energy you need is in the form of heating, it’s actually surprisingly viable to store energy for months. Heat batteries is probably the cheapest and easiest way to store ene…

Since they did a one-to-one translation to start with, hypothetically, if these were the true numbers, you could probably get a static analysis tool to guarantee you that 97% of th…

Why feel bad? If you’re using Zig to write a game or a system tool why should you care if Bun uses it or not? All this drama has very little impact on most users of Zig or its deve…

For posterity here are some comments I’m curious if will be deleted 1. > Id like a clarification on how this is safer than Rust? (Seems reasonable enough) 2. meme image with the wo…

I did notice one comment that was there before but which is now gone. But it was a completely unserious and garbage comment (just a comment dissing Zig) And now I see a bunch more …

I spend quite a bit of time in the Zig community, more as an outsider as I don’t contribute very much. I really don’t see how you could find the community toxic unless you take eve…

I think the point here is to include C library dependencies. Which GC languages in general consider outside the scope of its memory safety.

“Here is the catch: that single integer is wearing three hats at once.” How many times did that point have to be reiterated in unnecessary AI style? Was the article AI generated. I…

Zig is intended to be as robust as it can be as long as it doesn’t implicitly add code (no destructors that run code you didn’t explicitly call), or increase compiler complexity an…

That’s totally reasonable. But while each minor version has breaking change, a minor version release itself is generally fairly stable and useable. There are solid production softw…

Did you read the article at all? Zig itself is an incredibly fast compiler. And the language and standard library is designed to support writing that compilers. And yeah, that’s al…

The tests and the numbers are interesting. The LLM writing style? Insufferable. It really wouldn’t have taken much effort to cut out the worst of the AI fluff, and maybe add some h…

The results improving the end user experience didn’t have much to do with the rewrite. Improvements in binary size and speed could be had with similar efforts on the Zig codebase. …

How can it linger in a higher orbit. Maybe some of the debris gets a kick which increases its velocity, but you need two velocity boosts to circularise the orbit, no? So I figure a…

I have the exact opposite impression. From everything else I’ve seen around Andrew and the Zig Foundation he is extremely professional and skilled with managing community. In fact …

I didn’t read the beginner energy comment as faux positive at all. In fact Andrew has commented about his own beginner energy just recently and shared some embarrassing forum post …

> You didn't see K&R publish "so-and-so writes bad C", or Stroustrup decrying the Boost maintainers as hacks. The world is completely different now. The VC fuelled culture was not …

How often do stuff fall of the rails, and how common is derailment? In case of derailment you’ve got much bigger problems than some broken solar panels.