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New comment by _bohm in "Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy"

_bohm — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:24:22 +0000

Does it matter whether or not they have a better model? Is frontier-level intelligence needed for the kind of day-to-day tasks people use their phones for? I’m not convinced this will be a big differentiator in this area.

New comment by _bohm in "Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4"

_bohm — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:45:08 +0000

Is/was ParticleDB open source? There is a Github link on their website, however the only public repo in their org seems to be the Golang client library.

New comment by _bohm in "Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers"

_bohm — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:30:25 +0000

Spengler kinda was a reactionary, though. And his writings on this subject aren’t particularly unique. Off the top of my head, Hannah Arendt and Christopher Lasch are 20th century philosophers who have made similar critiques.

New comment by _bohm in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

_bohm — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:42:46 +0000

Are you saying that Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors have not been able to successfully influence US government policy specifically to align with their own interests?

New comment by _bohm in "Supabase is acquiring Turso"

_bohm — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:37:12 +0000

Because they don't want to self-host/manage it. It looks like this is an acquisition, not an acquihire, so it's unclear whether or not Turso was making enough to sustain itself or not. There are plenty of companies out there who release open source software and make money off of hosted/managed offerings of it.

New comment by _bohm in "Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service"

_bohm — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:10:43 +0000

Definitely not feasible to migrate off of actual cloud services using something like this.

New comment by _bohm in "Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract"

_bohm — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:06:58 +0000

You might be surprised to learn that much of the regulatory quagmire you speak of was devised by supposed proponents of the free market.

New comment by _bohm in "Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists"

_bohm — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:30:43 +0000

Sure, in cases where you need elements to be contiguous in memory then certainly an unrolled linked list is not appropriate. There's usually not a meaningful performance difference between a pointer deref and an indexed array access, however.

New comment by _bohm in "Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists"

_bohm — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:45:41 +0000

That's a good point. Using lockPointers would be a good way to enforce at runtime that your ArrayList is truly read-only.

New comment by _bohm in "Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists"

_bohm — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:42:43 +0000

Having written a bunch of Zig, I wouldn't say that the language design or culture explicitly encourages the use of pointers over indices in such situations. I would say it's more a language which trusts the programmer to make correct decisions about which constructs are appropriate in any given circumstance.

New comment by _bohm in "Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists"

_bohm — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:41:55 +0000

Aha, gotcha. To tell you the truth, I don't think I ever used it. I have a custom implementation I wrote because I didn't realize at the time that SegmentedList was an unrolled linked list :p

New comment by _bohm in "Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists"

_bohm — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:17:58 +0000

It's a nice feature but I can't help feeling like, if you need a stable pointer to an item in a collection, ArrayList is the wrong data structure to use? Maybe someone can chime in and give me an example of when you'd do this instead of, e.g., just storing an index. Alternatively, you could use an Unrolled Linked List (FKA SegmentedList in Zig before it was removed in 0.16, not sure why).

New comment by _bohm in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

_bohm — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:09:53 +0000

Ok so why are you still here?

New comment by _bohm in "Zig – SPIR-V Backend Progress"

_bohm — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:03:17 +0000

I’m writing a game engine in Zig and after tens of thousands of lines written, I have to say my mind has totally melded to the language. It really hits a sweet spot for me between being expressive enough, and there only being one way to do something most of the time.

New comment by _bohm in "Rent collections are down in New York"

_bohm — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:25:33 +0000

I can guarantee you that the overwhelming majority of low-income people who are delinquent on their rent have no clue who Cea Weaver is. Nor is there any kind of organized rent strike occurring. Do you live in NYC?

New comment by _bohm in "The dangerous delusion of modern warfare"

_bohm — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:35:24 +0000

What do you think Israel’s objective is then? It seems rather clear to me that they have expansionist ambitions which necessitate defeating their neighboring foes, who are backed by Iran. A non-hostile Iran is an Iran that does not back these foes. There has been no attempt to replace Hamas because Israel’s goal is the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

New comment by _bohm in "The dangerous delusion of modern warfare"

_bohm — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:59:00 +0000

I think an honest assessment of the history reveals that the Islamic Republic has been far more hostile to Israel and far stabler than the Shah, who oversaw a deeply unpopular monarchy and was deposed by his own people

New comment by _bohm in "The dangerous delusion of modern warfare"

_bohm — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:42:45 +0000

Who do you think the previous regime was? The Shah was installed by the US and was friendly to Israel. Under the Islamic Republic, Iran has been hostile to Israel and funded proxy organizations that have been in conflict with it.

New comment by _bohm in "The dangerous delusion of modern warfare"

_bohm — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:27:52 +0000

Sure, Israel played a hand here, but it’s hard to believe they’re getting exactly what they wanted out of all of this either. Regime change does not seem like it’s coming any time soon. Unless that happens, any reductions in Iran’s capacity will be temporary.

As for the Iraq war, Israel was supportive, but it would be incorrect to say the war was at their behest.

New comment by _bohm in "Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub and Why Zig Isn't 1.0 [video]"

_bohm — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:25:02 +0000

Curious what design changes you're referring to specifically. I've been using the language for a couple years now and the language itself has undergone pretty minor changes, perhaps the biggest one being the removal of `usingnamespace`, which I don't think was that big a deal. Or are you referring to changes in the stdlib?