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New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby"

assbuttbuttass — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:54:42 +0000

Sounds like a great way to get dozens of dependencies before you even write a line of code

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "The git history command"

assbuttbuttass — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:18:57 +0000

And then bisect fails because it finds one of the many commits that broke the test before the actual regression

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "The git history command"

assbuttbuttass — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:32:37 +0000

Suppose we have a failing test. For many commits, gp carefully separated their change that would break our test, from the change that would fix the test. At some point, someone forgot to run the tests, and introduced a commit that broke the test without adding a second commit to fix it. Now it's treated as a "pre-existing failure," and many more commits are added on top.

How would you identify the commit that broke the test?

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "The git history command"

assbuttbuttass — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:23:03 +0000

Of course, but this thread was in the context of someone "carefully curating" their git history

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "The git history command"

assbuttbuttass — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:17:48 +0000

That sounds like it would break bisect

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky"

assbuttbuttass — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:47:51 +0000

We've entered the "bond villain" era of VC startups

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

assbuttbuttass — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:50:06 +0000

If someone manages to become a world class chess player, they are likely very good at chess

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory"

assbuttbuttass — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:59:06 +0000

> I must admit I'm a little surprised how many people seem to disable secure boot.

To me, secure boot is the setting that I need to remember to turn off before installing the OS, but I would be willing to be convinced otherwise

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

assbuttbuttass — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:52:57 +0000

Hmm I wasn't familiar with join, but it looks like you still need join + fmap for the construction? I believe fmap would also need a generic method

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

assbuttbuttass — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:21:09 +0000

It's (sadly) still not possible to express monads with this change, since generic methods can't implement interfaces. You'd probably want something like:

    type Monad[T any] interface {
        Bind[U any](func(T) Monad[U])
    }

However this requires the Bind method to be generic, which still isn't allowed in an interface

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "What color is your function? (2015)"

assbuttbuttass — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:07:37 +0000

> Why would there be paranoia when writing blocking code with async?

In languages like JavaScript, you have to be careful to avoid blocking the event loop, and use something like worker threads for CPU-intensive tasks. Otherwise you will end up with long tail latencies. In Go, the runtime automatically manages this and can suspend and resume long-running goroutines.

> naively accessing a global value can lead to race conditions

Fair point that the language doesn't automatically catch this, but that's what a mutex is for. In return you get actual parallelism that can use all your CPU cores

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "What color is your function? (2015)"

assbuttbuttass — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:34:19 +0000

> Your entire codebase is now a surface area that is at risk of being blocked

The point of goroutines is that they can freely block when needed. It's not like async where you have to be paranoid at every moment about writing blocking code

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

assbuttbuttass — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:00:19 +0000

Interesting, thanks

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

assbuttbuttass — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:40:07 +0000

Also C++/Java static initialization, C# static constructors, or Rust global variable initialization, ...

Most languages have this feature Afaik

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)"

assbuttbuttass — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:56:35 +0000

I use lowercase for my personal environment variables. It works well since most programs only depend on variables in all caps. Hadn't thought of using MY_

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

assbuttbuttass — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:30:32 +0000

I really want to like Helix, but I wish the developers paid more attention to performance, or were more receptive to outside contributions. Helix can really chug, even on small files, and the perception in the community seems to be "it's written in Rust so therefore it's blazingly fast :rocket-ship-emoji:"

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Why Go Can't Try"

assbuttbuttass — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:51:38 +0000

Which aspects of Rust syntax are adapted from ML? Semantics sure, but to me the syntax seems a lot more similar to C++ (e.g. semicolons, type parameters using <>, etc.)

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Pentagon Adopts Incel-Speak"

assbuttbuttass — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:48:59 +0000

The incels have grown up and now work at the Pentagon

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "LLMs as the new high level language"

assbuttbuttass — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:10:31 +0000

This still doesn't help when you update your compiler to use a newer model

New comment by assbuttbuttass in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"

assbuttbuttass — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:28:28 +0000

Just a personal anecdote, but the errors from Guix are terrible. I had to reinstall because I couldn't figure out the scheme errors for my system config