Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation

Post by anotherevan » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 10:21 PM UTC

Lerc wrote: post #34

It's great to be in a position to do this, however I'm beginning to think that their greater contribution is ghostty I don't really know how to value things any more when I see someone develop a tool that is kind-of useful that then gets acquired for half a billion dollars. As someone with a decent number of decades of terminal hopping, the improvement that ghostty has brought a breath of fresh air. To me it has repr…

Post by __turbobrew__ » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC

mitchellh wrote: post #166

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #125

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If you assume Hashimotos net worth is one billion dollars, a $400k donation is equivalent to a $400 donation if your net worth is one million dollars. I don’t believe donating $400 really feels that satisfying, the impact is fairly negligible in most contexts whereas donating $400k can very visibly improve a lot of lives. I think this illustrates just how much a billion dollars is and maybe why a very small wealth ta…

> If you assume Hashimotos net worth is one billion dollars, a $400k donation is equivalent to a $400 donation if your net worth is one million dollars. 1. Net worth is significantly less than that (taxes + heavy philanthropy) 2. $400K donation is orders (plural) of magnitude off our actual philanthropic giving in total. This is just one donation.

Post by MMMaellon » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC

beepbooptheory wrote: post #106

noisy_boy wrote: post #101

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Seconded. I keep hearing about ghostty but I have yet to see a strong enough justification about how it is _that_ better. I use konsole and has significantly more user friendly screen to manage settings. I heard about ghostty's performance so I did some timing tests and ghostty was faster than konsole but not that much - not in any perceptibly significant measurable sense.

I never got the speed thing. Ghostty at least seems slower on my machine compared to foot(client).

Post by __turbobrew__ » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:01 PM UTC

bluecalm wrote: post #151

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #125

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If you assume Hashimotos net worth is one billion dollars, a $400k donation is equivalent to a $400 donation if your net worth is one million dollars. I don’t believe donating $400 really feels that satisfying, the impact is fairly negligible in most contexts whereas donating $400k can very visibly improve a lot of lives. I think this illustrates just how much a billion dollars is and maybe why a very small wealth ta…

>>If you assume Hashimotos net worth is one billion dollars, a $400k donation is equivalent to a $400 donation if your net worth is one million dollars. It's not an equivalent. It's proportionally the same but it's completely different. >>I think this illustrates just how much a billion dollars is and maybe why a very small wealth tax can be used for a lot of good in society. If anything it illustrates taxes should b…

Post by __turbobrew__ » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 11:11 PM UTC

bluecalm wrote: post #155

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #136

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How is it out of touch? I donated much more than Hashimoto did relative to our net worths, but I cannot deny that I would have felt much more satisfied making a 1000x impact if I was a billionaire. I donated $6000 to a halfway house last year and that doesn’t even come close to covering a single bed for a year. If I was a billionaire I could have built an entire halfway house.

Hashimoto did more valuable work than you and then he is in position to do more impact wherever he pleases. >>I donated $6000 to a halfway house last year and that doesn’t even come close to covering a single bed for a year. If I was a billionaire I could have built an entire halfway house. We need some mechanism to select people who makes the choice. Popularity/lying contest (politics) ain't it. People making money…