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New comment by ReflectedImage in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:53:33 +0000

"From the perspective of the Iranian state" Well you say that but they have got a non-nuclear nuke equivalent in the form of kamikaze drones.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:48:45 +0000

There is a designated third party Pakistan and they say Lebanon is part of the ceasefire.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "A fire sale has U.S. office buildings going for 90% off"

ReflectedImage — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:42:50 +0000

Oh no, I live in a flat in a converted commercial building.

They have been going wild in the UK converting office space to residential.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

ReflectedImage — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:38:43 +0000

The Spanish tankers aren't going through because there aren't any Spanish tankers that operate in that region.

Spain has permission from Iran to send through tankers if it indeed had some.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

ReflectedImage — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:43:58 +0000

So going forward all countries will be providing citizens of other countries free access to the internet whilst censoring their own citizens?

New comment by ReflectedImage in "MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience"

ReflectedImage — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:28:00 +0000

Static typing and duck typing both date back to the 1950s. You may have heard of Lisp.

The last new significant thing invented in programming was OOP in the 1990s.

Everything else is just ancient, OOP was about bringing the benefits of micro-services to single computer environments. Yes, you read that right

The new ECS system for 3d games was used by the first computer drawing program Sketchpad in 1963.

Programming is mostly just recycling ideas around and around.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience"

ReflectedImage — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:09:06 +0000

The issue is that duck typing with a minimal set of types was the great idea of ABC, which is the language Guido cloned to make Python

New comment by ReflectedImage in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:50:27 +0000

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New comment by ReflectedImage in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:24:22 +0000

Well given that the US DHS is posting on social media that it intends to get rid of all 100 million non-white Americans. What exactly did you expect?

New comment by ReflectedImage in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:51:39 +0000

If you are a good software developer in India then you move abroad. It's not that India doesn't make great software developers, it's just they don't tend to stick around.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

ReflectedImage — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:47:41 +0000

Well either $100,000 per person or an large one time direct donation to Trump to be legally exempted from that charge.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

ReflectedImage — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:48:14 +0000

MAGA at its core is a rejection of the lower classes having wealth.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

ReflectedImage — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:36:56 +0000

Replacement? They haven't overthrown the Venezuela government just captured it's figure head.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI"

ReflectedImage — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:02:09 +0000

Well I don't think anyone would pay for the COBOL to Java conversion software.

Since it's no longer New Years Eve, I'm a bit more sober :p

Programming language to programming language conversions seems to be one of the things LLMs are actually good at. Whether they can actually do it or not is an open question.

CEOs will mandate security so the CSOs will mandate Rust over C/C++ and so Rust will slowly take over C++ in next 20 years. Can't see anything in C++'s defense other than it's legacy. The drawback of sticking every feature from every language into your language is that it becomes a massive security hazard.

huh? I'm currently at $1500 Monthly Recurring Revenue, so I'm currently between seeing if I can increase that or if need to get a job. I'll find out in a couple of months.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI"

ReflectedImage — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:32:53 +0000

Well it's in Windows, Linux and Mac OS kernels. So you moving into Retro computing?

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI"

ReflectedImage — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:03:12 +0000

Yep, not a single line left. Retired quicker than COBOL. Won't even be any maintenance jobs for legacy systems left.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI"

ReflectedImage — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:52:50 +0000

Have you heard of Microsoft's C++ elimination plan? They are building an LLM based transpiler that automatically turns all C++ code into Rust. In a couple of years, there won't be a single line of C++ left... Isn't that wonderful?

New comment by ReflectedImage in "Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI"

ReflectedImage — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:40:48 +0000

The military isn't going to allow C++ anymore due to it being a massive security hazard. You can't get away with buffer overflows, use after frees, data races, etc. forever.

Due to an evil entity called the military industrial complex, you are going to be using Rust in the future.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types"

ReflectedImage — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:54:00 +0000

If JITs hadn't been invented you would be completely right but JITs have been invented.

There are deeper optimizations that JITs can do such as knowing at runtime that the value of a variable is always 2 that typing information simply can't express.

Duck typed Python is optimal for development speeds, the only thing that matters in startup environments. It has it's niche.

You aren't gradually improving, you are gradually deteriorating the codebase to make it look more familar to you.

New comment by ReflectedImage in "T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types"

ReflectedImage — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:31:33 +0000

The problem is there are a lot of developers who have only coded with static typing and have no idea about the terrible drawbacks of static typing.

They don't understand what static typing does to code verbosity and development times.

Take Turborepo going from Go's typing light system (designed to emulate duck typing) to Rust's heavy typing system (true static typing). Originally the code was 20,000 lines and was coded by 1 developer in 3 months. When moved into the typing style you like so much, the same code is now 80,000 lines and was coded by a team of developers in 14 months.