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New comment by asib in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

asib — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:58:05 +0000

Right, I meant the libraries. I haven't used Gleam for a couple years at least though, so my opinions might be very outdated on this.

New comment by asib in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

asib — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:28:14 +0000

You're taking my comment way too literally. I'm basically just making a syntax comparison. Obviously Rust is not at all like Gleam in many ways either. It's just statically typed and has a similar syntax.

New comment by asib in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

asib — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:16:34 +0000

Do you like Rust or do you like Erlang? Writing Gleam is like writing Rust, writing Elixir is like writing Erlang.

I don't know the current state of Gleam OTP, but last I checked it wasn't great.

If you don't care about either of those things and only about types, use Gleam. But then why not just use Rust?

Bambu Lab A2L

asib — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://bambulab.com/en-us/a2l

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357173

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by asib in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

asib — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:36:39 +0000

> > The parent there may be making the same assumption I am, that large enterprise _never_ pays sticker price.

> I shared that assumption until yesterday, when I found out that it wasn't holding for LLM pricing from OpenAI and Anthropic.

This reads like GP saying "enterprise never pays sticker price" and you responding "I thought so too until I saw the sticker price".

Is there some info you have that you can't/didn't share? Your article doesn't offer anything beyond the above.

New comment by asib in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

asib — Sat, 16 May 2026 00:06:31 +0000

Are you serious? This is so ignorant it's unbelievable. There are gazillions of marches that have ended without incident.

Colorado governor commutes sentence of election denier Tina Peters

asib — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:24:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/colorado-governor-tina-peters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155233

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by asib in "I hate soldering"

asib — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:34:51 +0000

"Well ventilated" on its own is completely insufficient. If you are soldering without any fan or extraction, you _will_ inhale fumes because you have to look right over your work when you solder, which is exactly where the fumes are.

In general, the danger with soldering fumes is not the average concentration in the room in which you're working over the duration of a session, it's inhaling the very high concentration of fumes right as the soldering happens.

We could debate how much damage this is going to do and whether it's worth worrying about, but there isn't really room to debate that ventilation alone is going to do absolutely nothing.

Well ventilated area + fan is probably okay, but you need the fan right next to your soldering iron or it needs to be a gigantic fan otherwise, again, you are just going to inhale most of those fumes.

New comment by asib in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

asib — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:26:24 +0000

That’s not the intent of letmegooglethatforyou. It’s a pointed way of telling the recipient they should do the bare minimum research on their own before asking someone else for help. It’s not about being angry that someone told you something they found from a cursory google search

New comment by asib in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

asib — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:22:55 +0000

> Cool idea, just wondering why you wouldn't travel during a sabbatical.

Because they didn't want to? A very odd question; people have motivations/interests that aren't yours.

New comment by asib in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

asib — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:55:48 +0000

Err what? They bombed various countries in the Middle East (not just US bases) and even a British base in Cyprus.

New comment by asib in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

asib — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:10:42 +0000

WannaCry massively affected the NHS.

Army investigates after two helicopters hovered by Kid Rock's pool as he saluted

asib — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:47:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/30/kid-rock-army-helicopters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586586

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by asib in "Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails"

asib — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:57:20 +0000

Whatever the case, he's clearly a profoundly unempathetic person. If it wasn't premeditated, this woman died because this man could not summon any care for her at so many points in this story. That's just as sad to me.

New comment by asib in "Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails"

asib — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:53:37 +0000

Excellent video, has a lot more detail on evidence the judge decided to ignore (including the testimony from the ex girlfriend) when deciding his sentence.

That one anecdote about the woman who was told to dress super casually for a first date and found out she'd been invited to a fine dining restaurant is really eye-opening.

Men who do this are pathetic and it's really sad to discover that they behave this way at seemingly every turn.

Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails

asib — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:40:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/mar/17/alpine-divorce-abandoned-hiking-trail

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416520

Points: 7

# Comments: 7

New comment by asib in "Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]"

asib — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:18:15 +0000

If you press t key you will get a full width video player.

New comment by asib in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

asib — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:23:41 +0000

This is incredibly outdated mate. Literally everyone I know does all the things you talk about. I don’t even really know where to start in response. You’re also conflating climate change action with environmentalism.

New comment by asib in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

asib — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:10:46 +0000

What are you trying to do here? Either you acknowledge the climate catastrophe and this is some holier than thou thing for you, or you don’t and you are the problem.

Voting is literally the only way to solve this. Nothing will happen without legislation to force the hand of greedy corps.

Maybe spend your energy trying to convince climate deniers to vote differently.

New comment by asib in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

asib — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:19:54 +0000

Not responding to climate change is hurting everyone's pocket. Home insurance premiums are obscene in some places. Energy insecurity due to reliance on fossil fuels sourced from overseas (particularly relevant right now with the US war on Iran and Russian war on Ukraine). Extreme temperatures mean we either spend more money on heating/cooling our homes or, if you're not wealthy enough to pay, you pay by having to endure the temperature extremes.