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The Nvidia Shield is the best thing I've ever bought. I love it. I hope Nvidia make a new one, because i'd buy it immediately.

> Go looks nice to work with but actually is a hidden monster full of footguns. Really? Me and my team been using it for years with no problems whatsoever.

Torvalds is ambivalent to rust he just wanted to see if it worked out. If we're appealing to authority here's his response a few weeks after the mail you posted: https://lkml.org/l…

> I'm pretty sure Torvalds is the one who decided to add Rust to the Linux kernel. No it really wasn't. He just said let's see how it goes when the rust devs proposed it.

> This is NOT because I hate Rust. While not my favourite language it's definitively one of the best new ones and I encourage people to use it for new projects where it fits. I do …

> If you use ctx.Value in my (non-existent) company, you’re fired This is such a bad take. ctx.Value is incredibly useful for passing around context of api calls. We use it a lot, …

I'm not particularly impressed by Odin but maybe i'm not the audience. If you like strictly procedural languages (or a die hard C fan) it's probably fine but it feels like a 'My Fi…

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The 'end of the world' scenario isn't perhaps something that we expect. We always think the end of the world will be disease or natural cataclysm. Also, humanities curiosity can't …

Use D's -betterC flag? https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html

Node is single threaded. No more needs to be said after that.

> I still have bets on this all being a massive game of life. You might be right! https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...

This article is just a stealth extension of the so called 'open source sustainability crisis' argument. Basically, it's just a bunch of people wanting to work on open source softwa…

I use Ubuntu and i'm sick of having snaps forced on me. When I next install, i'm either completely ridding the system of snap or i use another distro. I'm fed up with it. The kicke…

Four top lawyers in the UK have asked the regulatory authority to investigate. > In a letter to Ofcom, Lord Wolfson KC, Lord Pannick KC, Lord Grabiner KC and Jeremy Brier KC urged …

How does this make code easier to read and maintain? It all looks like gibberish to me.

Rob Pike was right: "features were being added by taking them from one language and adding it to another" "...and I realised all of these languages are turning into the same langua…

Packages are wheels? lolwut? > Wheels are the new standard of Python distribution and are intended to replace eggs. Ahhh... ???

Raylib is awesome! It reminds me of the old school days of using BlitzBASIC to get things drawn on screen because it's easy and so much fun. This is how programming used to be, no …

> Node 20 allows you to compile your app into a single executable along with the entire Node.js core so you can run your apps on systems where node isn't installed, or your don't t…

Please stop mentioning neovim as if it's a defacto replacement for vim. The original vim is very much alive and much more popular than neovim. Neovim is a cash grab by developers w…

I had a tour around this cathedral a few months ago which was really interesting. The cathedral is built very similar to a castle. There are window slits for archers to defend, mur…

If OOP is over-complicating your code, you're using it wrong. OOP is a tool to manage complexity. Functional programming, in my experience, created much more complicated code becau…

I've just left a startup company who's entire backend was written in a functional style using Typescript by an agency. The only reason I can fathom why is 'why not, functional prog…