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New comment by mihaelm in "Is it all just vapourware?"

mihaelm — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:59:14 +0000

Scaling AI use in highly-collaborative environments, which open source projects are, is very challenging. I totally understand the apprehensiveness around it.

New comment by mihaelm in "Is it all just vapourware?"

mihaelm — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:38:37 +0000

On your last point, I think it has a lot to do with how it's introduced in organizations. If everyone just goes hog wild with it, enamored with their newfound productivity, not only will the little gains be lost, I'd argue all the generated noise will be a net negative. And people will hate that.

That's the result of AI adoption in a company being people just getting a subscription and doing their own thing, instead of systematically introducing and finding a common ground; a trivial example of that would be open source projects increasingly adopting LLM policies to get everyone on the same page.

New comment by mihaelm in "Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)"

mihaelm — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:02:28 +0000

Joe Schmoe LLC will probably do just fine by sticking to popular clouds. I reckon adopting Oxide Computer would pay off at much larger volumes of traffic, or if you have to do on-prem due to regulatory reasons.

It would be nice to know more about pricing so the Enthusiast Joe can have a better idea, but it's more a boutique vibe right now.

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

mihaelm — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:28:19 +0000

Do you maybe know some Rust? I'm also not that experienced with FP languages, but Gleam felt familiar enough, due to some Rust-isms, to allow me to focus more on the concepts rather than the syntax. Granted, I spent a few afternoons with it, but if I were to pick a FP language again to wrestle my brain into submission, I'd probably go with Gleam due to familiarity.

New comment by mihaelm in "Debug Project"

mihaelm — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:51:15 +0000

Less mosquitoes, more bees please :)

New comment by mihaelm in "Debug Project"

mihaelm — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:39:54 +0000

More generally, it's known as the sterile insect technique and you'll find plenty of campaigns with some googling.

New comment by mihaelm in "Sysadmining Like It's 2009"

mihaelm — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:49:58 +0000

Microsoft's recent track record with Windows 11 seems to have kickstarted another Win -> Linux migration wave.

New comment by mihaelm in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

mihaelm — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:46:59 +0000

`pnpm` also has that and it's on by default since `v11`:

https://pnpm.io/settings#minimumreleaseage

New comment by mihaelm in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

mihaelm — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:43:38 +0000

I just use `pnpm` and set up a liberal `minimumReleaseAge`: https://pnpm.io/settings#minimumreleaseage

Thankfully, it's on by default since v11.

New comment by mihaelm in "Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog"

mihaelm — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:46:29 +0000

They're probably refering to their strict "No LLM / No AI" policy: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/src/branch/master/README.md...

which applies to contributing to the Zig project.

The "contributor poker" blog post should probably be a required reading to understand where it comes from: https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/

"Anti-AI stance" is painting it with too broad of a brush. You're definitely not breaching any CoC or whatever by using AI for your Zig projects.

New comment by mihaelm in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

mihaelm — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:24:00 +0000

I always wanted my car to feel like a plane pilot cabin.

New comment by mihaelm in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

mihaelm — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:22:02 +0000

Dunno, people hate the all-touch trend so much (I've never come across someone who likes it), it surprised me it took them so long to reverse course.

New comment by mihaelm in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

mihaelm — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:18:30 +0000

I read it as finding a happy medium between analog and digital i.e. people will love the big screen if they still have physical buttons for all the functions they use often while driving. If you force them to fiddle around with touch screen for everything, they'll hate the big screen alltogether because the experience frustrates them.

New comment by mihaelm in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

mihaelm — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:53:27 +0000

It's more the hope that he can bring the culture embedded in the hardware division over to software, which hopefully results in better software.

New comment by mihaelm in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

mihaelm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:39:53 +0000

Small countries are already doing this through the Internet since so much of the consumed content is in English.

New comment by mihaelm in "Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes"

mihaelm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:33:50 +0000

Sure, this is the issue tracking the work: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/30677

The idea is to offer some kind of CLI parsing in the std. It says minimal, but the discussion also veers into some more advanced options.

The discussion resulted in two PRs (that I know of):

- Type-driven: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/30677

@dotcarmen extracted it into a package (https://codeberg.org/dotcarmen/clip) so people could more easily try it out.

- Composition-based: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/31620

If you're familiar with Rust's clap, it's a bit like derive vs builder API.

You can also see how each approach would look in practice if you inspect the diff for the "tools" directory on the PRs.

New comment by mihaelm in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

mihaelm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:05:39 +0000

I didn't understand him that way. It's more that it helps if people can more easily pick up a foreign language, or solidify their skills, along the way through media. Doubly so when it's a lingua franca like English.

Though for you, I understand you might have been peeved if people kept switching to English when you just wanted to practice Dutch.

New comment by mihaelm in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

mihaelm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:00:03 +0000

Subtitles all the way. Only advantages of dubbing I can see is accessibility for vision impaired and employment opportunities for local VA talent.

But dubbed live action media is such a horrid experience for me.

New comment by mihaelm in "Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes"

mihaelm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:13:28 +0000

The approach feels like a natural extension of Zig's philosophy about explicitness around low-level operations (no hidden control flow, no hidden memory allocations, etc.). Your function can be blocking? Communicate that through the function signature! Very in style for the language.

New comment by mihaelm in "Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes"

mihaelm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:08:21 +0000

Obviously, I/O as an interface is the headliner here, but there are lots of other goodies to pay attention to, such as the "juicy main".

Small integers auto coercing into floats is a nice gift to game devs. It's nice that game dev is acknowledged as one of the niches Zig can target as I believe it could really thrive there due to how easily it can integrate with C & C++. Or, rather, more easily than the alternatives.