seems like tariffs are just like economic sanctions: promoted as a way to hurt leadership, but with the impact falling almost entirely on everyone else

funnily enough, I did remove the hyperlink from my post, but didn't realise Bluesky would retain the association regardless

possibly a glitch in their CMS, but yeah, poor example sorry

either LLMs are a worthy step on the path to AGI, or they are a local and extraordinarily-wasteful maxima

we'll know when AGI is achieved, and probably no sooner :)

but I think folks in both camps should "devil's advocate" their own thinking, what if the other folks are right?

if only it were easier to find and achieve the right balance between maintainability and efficiency for a given project

or if only there was a magically correct one-size-fits-all answer :P

i wonder if much of the misplaced emphasis on "zero cost" comes from the Rust marketing that is intended for the C and C++ audience, especially when it is consumed by folks outside that audience that don't necessarily appreciate nor even need it?

friends don't let friends use macOS for anything serious :P

eek

i do think it's worth researching and discussing which aspects of DEI are achieving their goals, and perhaps coming up with different approaches, sure

going full anti-woke doesn't seem helpful or promising :S

is nim governance still ... erm ... hmmm ... forum.nim-lang.org/t/10312 ? the answer given here is just so weird, in the least

but i'll admit it's good behaviour to at least leave their response here for future reference and discussion, instead of trying to rewrite/wash history

well, it's not "new" exactly, it's the Fn key that built-in laptop keyboards have but is absent from external keyboards except for the new Apple ones: support.apple.com/en-au/guide/...

the symbol for the Fn key within macOS is a little globe 🤷

if macOS actually had key bindings for tiling window management that didn't require a key only found on newer Apple keyboards, then Chrome doing this internally would be very redundant and weird

alas

and if we turn this around: how much damage and cruelty have we inflicted on other animals and even other humans on the basis that they didn't appear to demonstrate language and we're therefore probably not intelligent?

e.g. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

The best summary that I have seen about this was about ten years ago from a blogger calling herself "Autistic Abby". I don't know if she originated it, but she's 100% correct. It's why small men crave authority, because they think it will make others respect them when they have earned none.

tangential question: is a type changing from ?Sized to Sized a breaking change in terms of SemVer?

are we already at the "LLMs don't kill people, people kill people" phase of this technology? yikes

there's an entire YouTube series devoted to taking broking Kubernetes clusters and fixing them: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

after playing with kubernetes for a while, i've been toying with the idea of something that takes kubernetes "reboot every pod until ok" concept and uses that to solve concurrency and sequencing in an ansible replacement

e.g. "retry a task until it succeeds" + "run all tasks all at once"

not sure what the problem is, that's the latest version of Java, right? :P