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The sensible regulation would be aiming at socially harmful features of tech, not forcing people to provide proof of identity to a third party in order to continue harming themselv…

All software runs on somebody's hardware. Ultimately even an utterly benign program like `cowsay` could be backdoored to upload your ssh keys somewhere.

The meat brain is the only one that can be held accountable.

Do you think the attention and engagement is because people think this is some sort of an "ai misalignment" thing? No. AI misalignment is total hogwash either way. The thing we wor…

I think when Fish shell announced the Rust rewrite, they especially highlit that, in the form of "being more attractive to contributors" as one of the reasons.

> I'm not 100% clear on what you mean here The core of their complaint is that if you use `jj edit` it's not obvious how to get a diff of what you did. The answer, of course, is th…

Ah, I see Tom the Genius has moved on from using Subversion for his enterprise JSON DSL

I think a part of the point is to question the need for things like that. Do your users actually need all of these bells and whistles?

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Nothing changed, you need to know that host:port first, and that's where the problems with the official serverlist being flooded with fake entries become apparent.

That really is not a solution. Third party servers used to host plenty of non-standard gamemodes that Valve does not provide. Retakes, mentioned in the blogpost, is one of those mo…

Could it be that it gets no credit for things it got right because it got barely anything right?

I think you make a pretty bad case for how embedding a Scheme interpreter is going to help with the pain points of async. Listing "stack traces full of tokio code" and then seeming…

I'm not saying they are related, just saying that the committee committeing is going to take half a decade at least for both.

Coming right after profiles are done, probably?

Yes.

That essentially comes for free with stack unwind, and will not be possible with `panic=abort`

As if the stock owners have any more engineering knowledge. They are sewn from the same exact MBA cloth.

I'd imagine not seeking employment at Google is a big part.

Set of concepts derived from "whatever the hell Ken Thompson had in his environment circa 1972".

I've had more luck running games from 97-00 under wine than on modern Windows.

Yes, but Sonic Pi DSL feels a little more Lisp-y than natural language-y.

It does. Not sure if publisher can opt-out though. Another point is that Steam DRM is a) optional b) unlike always online GaaS trivial to circumvent

I may be projecting, but I feel like the kind of person to get excited about crafting interpreters wod also get excited about crafting databases or OSes.

All praise Bob! On a more serious note, have you thought about trying to aim lightning at the same spot again and write another book about implementing something most programmers t…