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New comment by ch4s3 in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"

ch4s3 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:39:49 +0000

If you allow FFI are you really inspired by Elm? ;)

New comment by ch4s3 in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

ch4s3 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:38:36 +0000

Opencode can't lazy load skills, mcps, or agents and has limitations on context. It's a total nonstarter from my experience using it at work.

New comment by ch4s3 in "Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life"

ch4s3 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:28:09 +0000

Yeah, that's basically all of the original Neo-Conservatives. Many of them started out as Trotskyites, like Irving Kristol, James Burnham, Sidney Hook, and others. Arguably Bayard Rustin had a similar trajectory.

New comment by ch4s3 in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"

ch4s3 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:05:50 +0000

Lot's of political movements are/were anti-capitalist.

> industrialists were often very good Nazis

This is sort of banal. Lots of X "were good nazis". Where you could substitute scientists, elementary school teachers, trade unions, priests, bus divers, authors, political scientists, or farmers for X. It was a totalitarian society, everyone who wasn't on board was coerced by threat of violence to at least put on the outward appearance of being in support.

New comment by ch4s3 in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

ch4s3 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:48:53 +0000

>If it had a generous built in HTTP cache, and instruction to maximise use of the cache, then it could avoid a lot of re-fetching of content, which would help reduce the harms.

While this is a great idea, the harms are somewhat overblown. The big scare number for water consumption includes water used in power generation which itself includes evaporation from hydroelectric power.

New comment by ch4s3 in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"

ch4s3 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:58:12 +0000

The fascism of Europe in in the 1930s was EXPLICITLY anti-capitalist. You can read tons of statements by various prominent fascists about how capitalism was the tool of the British empire and "globalists"(they often used a different word). They viewed it as separating the people from the land. Capitalists were not in any way fundamental to the rise of Nazism.

If you're on about Pinochet, he only embraced market reforms 3 years after coming to power and came to power directly by a military coup. Business leaders had basically nothing to do with it.

New comment by ch4s3 in "TruffleRuby"

ch4s3 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:24:48 +0000

Yeah, he was such a great guy. I hope his family is doing well.

New comment by ch4s3 in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

ch4s3 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:51:21 +0000

I mean you wouldn't hold verizon accountable for someone using their cellphone for a criminal conspiracy would you?

New comment by ch4s3 in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

ch4s3 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:09:21 +0000

I go to my mom’s old farm and marvel at the thought of them having grown anything in that hard red ground.

New comment by ch4s3 in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

ch4s3 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:16:19 +0000

Sure they do, just whatever the average of "fashion" was across the training set.

New comment by ch4s3 in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

ch4s3 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:33:53 +0000

There’s a lot of really great software out there right now, and a lot that’s terrible and I think powerful abstractions enable both.

New comment by ch4s3 in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

ch4s3 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:19:28 +0000

> Step therapy is required in countries with universal healthcare, too.

This is something Americans with strong opinions about healthcare but little time spent researching it never seem to know.

New comment by ch4s3 in "Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn"

ch4s3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:07:54 +0000

Yeah European welfare states fucked up by pinning retirement payouts to an assumption of a growing labor force, and doubly fucked up by shackling their energy needs to Russian gas. What you have in Europe are sclerotic states with declining capacity. Vote better.

New comment by ch4s3 in "Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn"

ch4s3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:17:25 +0000

Not at all. I'm arguing that the deployment of new processes and technology is uneven and takes time to permeate the global economy. You can see the progress in a lot of places, it's just not everywhere yet. Many countries are still operating the mid 20th century tech stack, or in many cases earlier iterations. There's a lot of work that could be done on clear land registries for example that would alleviate a lot of deforestation. Slash and burn agriculture doesn't happen in developed economies, and is a solvable problem.

New comment by ch4s3 in "Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn"

ch4s3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:28:32 +0000

Sure, we're rapidly expanding battery technology alongside solar and wind which changes the calculus with respect to the externalities of power generation. Many industrial processes have moved from coal to LNG which is safer/cleaner to produce and creates less air pollution and emits less CO2 when burned.

As I mentioned in another comment, agriculture has become incredibly efficient in the broader west and China. We grow far more on far less land and this has involved all sort of innovations. New biotech promises even more gains. We're on the cusp of cereal crops being engineered to fix nitrogen which would dramatically reduce fertilizer use.

Mass timber is another cool example.

New comment by ch4s3 in "Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn"

ch4s3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:24:41 +0000

Most of this is in developing nations where people are expanding agriculture into wild areas rather than implementing innovations in more intensive agriculture. Developed nations are currently increasing forest cover and wild land. You're demonstrating the EXACT myopia I'm referring to.

New comment by ch4s3 in "Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn"

ch4s3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:12:48 +0000

These arguments all fell like they're warning that we'll all be drowning in horse manure and running out of guano in 5 years. Likening economic growth to the growth of organisms in a petri dish is the wrong model entirely. We are all the time finding new uses for things and moving on from old ways of powering society. It on;y looks static if you're quite myopic.

New comment by ch4s3 in "Starlink Militarization and Its Impact on Global Strategic Stability"

ch4s3 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:52:13 +0000

Yes but the problem is that the battle lines are fluid and the drones are obviously aiming for the Ukrainian side.

New comment by ch4s3 in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

ch4s3 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:28:52 +0000

> There isn't a single person on this planet (detractor or not) that would believe this statement.

It's so galling to see people say shit like this. It's like the old build slack in a weekend trope.

New comment by ch4s3 in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

ch4s3 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:17:07 +0000

Indeed that’s what a lot of Elixir and Erlang packages do, if it’s done then it’s done.