All of this matters, and all of it is erased when it's just Google itself apparently telling me in black on white text above all the search results "here's the answer you're looking for ps. I'm an AI and can make mistakes, btw this space will sometimes secretly be an ad lol"

This is one of several major arguments made against unikernels in that famous Triton rant from a decade ago:

https://tritondatacenter.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-p...

Basically, even if your application _can_ run as the kernel, and it's desirable for it to run with kernel-level permissions, do you really want production to be a world without strace and iotop and the like?

(barring the transmissible cancers article that your sibling comment linked to, but that's not the common case)

Once we solve the cancers we know about, they're solved forever, with the one caveat that more people will live longer, so that will increase the window for eventually still ending up dying to one of the cancers that happens to have a non-evolved built in resistance to this or that treatment. Which is a great deal of course, especially if it's a treatment that sounds way less destructive of QoL than chemo, radiation, etc.

This has gotten better in recent years with user namespaces but it takes time for it to be adopted and achieve parity with what used to be just jumping to a user who can only write to a newly created dir in tmp.

But then two years ago I got a desktop computer with an external mouse again and.... natural scrolling doesn't work for me on a physical wheel. With a trackpad, the metaphor is direct, that the page or document is being moved by the motion of your fingers; but with a wheel, I still want to pull it toward me to scroll down, because that feels like rolling the little wheel along the document, or turning it to advance the document beneath, like a printer finishing a page.

Maybe that's all silly, but for me it's natural scrolling on trackpads and conventional scrolling on mice with scrollwheels.

But yeah no, on the whole cost of the checks and duplicated binary size aren't seen as worth it, so instead it's piecemeal implementations mostly in numeric packages like eigen and lapack.

I assumed the latter and therefore that the memory is depreciating along with the GPU cores it's soldered onto PCBs with.

... or is it a different argument being made, perhaps that depreciation for GPUs has slowed because rising demand will keep them in service longer?

The rise of editors that will own your system just by browsing to the wrong folder without opening or running anything is relatively speaking newer, but I think most people in HN audience should be able to intuit some of the risks, especially when untrusted PRs and semi-trusted LLM bots are in the mix with your "trusted" codebase.

Part of the point of types is enforcing more of the contract at various code boundaries (function, module, etc), and that enforcement is specifically so that you don't have to keep the whole codebase in your head / context window in order to be able to work on it.

On mobile it's long-press the hyphen on the keyboard.

On Windows I use https://cemrajc.github.io/em-n-en/ so that ==- is turned into it system-wide.

On recent Ubuntu versions, you can set up Compose Key, for example with Caps Lock: https://www.danielkossmann.com/how-to-get-em-dash-ubuntu-lin...

I've long been an em-dash user and enjoyer and hope that using it stops becoming such a signal for AI text.

It may not pay the rent or put food on the table, but seeing your name in the credits of a movie your friends watched or a game they played is a perk that has real value. Writing a technical book rarely pays the bills either but it's the same story of getting to see your name on the shelf, and maaaybe it leads to getting on a conference panel or something at some point but really you're doing a lot of labour for far below minimum wage just to be able to say you did (as I did for Apress when I was 20 years old... and it landed me an internship at Google, so there you go).

But there are always gaps in there where I don't feel as drawn into it. Right now I try to get in a few rounds of Deep Rock Galactic every week with my twelve year old, and that hits the right things as far as having some progression for us to chase together while still being time-boxed to clear rounds and not having a huge survival/base-building component to it like Minecraft or Valheim or Don't Starve Together.

Basically... I expect this pattern will remain for the remainder of my adult life. I'm not going to retire and suddenly be like "ah yes now I will revisit six decades of forgotten gems sitting in my backlog" but I'm also not going to completely walk away from it. Rather certain things will grab me and I'll obsess over them for a bit, and then I'll take a break to work on a coding project or build something with my hands, or putter around the garden, or whatever else it is.