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There were a number of smaller libraries closer to the X11 primitives for drawing. Motif was one that i recall which powered opencde and like environments. We had used it for an in…

> A major part of why these sort of simple applications are taking gbs of memory is because the GC wants to simply grow as much as it can to avoid pauses/jank. There might be 10% o…

This would really help responsiveness. Keypress to pixel is a huge issue in these bloated frameworks which are running on top of bloated OS

GTK used to be considered the bloated option along with QT. My first Linux box had 128MB of ram and it was screaming fast.

Inflation from Covid spending is what got us. It was horrible before tarrifs.

Interest payment on public debt is already one of our biggest line items, top 2 or 3 in Canada. Federally and provincially. I believe it’s why interest rates are being kept low. We…

Webauthn is the api for Passkeys and things.

Curious if his isn’t some Over-optimization since how often do those characters ever come up.

Yeah, the customer support use case is already grinding me even worse than offshoring to India.

For the Americans and others: Our prime minister pretty much has full and complete control of the legislative and executive branches and even the appointment of judges. If you vote…

China has been building coal power plants like crazy. They brought around 80GW online in 2025 alone.

There are engineering standards where dynamic allocation and especially garbage collectors are banned. C is actually a perfectly approved language in these cases.

I remember a friend got one of the first mp3 players on the market. I think it was a Sony and could hold less than 10 highly compressed songs. Still, it was tiny and could fit in a…

I'm in canada. I don't think the two are even comparable.

Because China has stated they will take Taiwan, they have been threatening Philippines sovereignty too. Japan and others are on edge too. China currently has been behaving very adv…

Our society is pretty aligned that distribution is another kind of harm. Non-consented distribution of sexual images (eg: revenge porn) is also a crime. Children don’t need to be t…

Who owns the right for it now? I recall Sony bought it from Michael Jackson.

Now if only copyright didn't last forever..

Homo Neanderthalensis is not Homo sapiens [sapiens].

That’s still a few times older than our species.

I think there’s more to it than that. Claude uses a lot of confidence phrases, “I now have the full picture” when it absolutely should not use it. I think this is an actual problem…

Personally, I don’t even think adults with phones are alright.

Linux at that point’s whole purpose was to bang at it by hand and learn something. There’s a ton of irony in having an LLM do it.

Mars is more of a cost thing than a technology problem. We could definitely make it work if we dared.

You’re absolutely right! And after reading the story, I now have the complete picture. I verified rather than assumed.