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New comment by pie_flavor in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

pie_flavor — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:52:29 +0000

And then you look it up once, and now you know what it means forever. By contrast, the former expression is much wider with more going on, and furthermore you can't skim past it being sure nothing funny is going on because it may or may not be a range compatible with the latter form.

New comment by pie_flavor in "AI is a technology not a product"

pie_flavor — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:48:41 +0000

By 2021, we'll have completely abandoned light switches. We'll just use an app on our phones to turn off the light in the bedroom, or perhaps request out loud for Alexa to do so. The future is the Internet of Things.

I think this article is too soft a criticism by half. The iPhone defining the mobile era was not an artefact of the Apple logo being on it. Every bit of Apple's relentless productization went into what features the phone actually had and how they were integrated. This guy, in 2006, would have been telling Apple 'just release a feature phone like BlackBerry does, so you can define the era of feature phones like you did MP3 players'.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git"

pie_flavor — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:45:45 +0000

Thank you for repeating yourself in exactly the way I was criticizing without really reading the criticisms. So, once more with feeling: Radicle does not offer the Cargo crate registry protocol. Radicle does not offer anything to do with crate hosting that a generic Git remote doesn't. If you want a crate repository like crates.io, you do not want Radicle. The best crate repository software is Cloudflare's Freighter, but if you were to implement some sort of distributed version, that's also an option, but it wouldn't be called Radicle. If you just want the Git support that Radicle offers, you can do so just fine without Radicle; it is generic Git remote support, and you can declare Git dependencies in Cargo.toml from Sourcehut or Codeberg or whatever. Radicle is a product that puts issue/PR tracking on top of Git. It does not have anything to do with what separates git dependencies from crates.io dependencies, it does not have anything to do with automatically mirroring existing hosts, it does not offer anything to the git dependency experience, and it does not offer anything to the registry dependency experience.

> Crates.io has not moved away from Github-only authentication, and got into the habit of yelling at people who complained about it.

This was me updating you on the present state of the world. Replying with the previous state of the world, as though this is somehow new and better information, without even looking up whether it was still true, is a level of deliberate ignorance I can't fathom displaying on purpose. Again: crates.io is presently in the process of moving away from GitHub-only authentication.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git"

pie_flavor — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:11:30 +0000

* crates.io is moving away from GitHub-only authentication

* crates.io's attachment to GitHub is a fact about crates.io specifically, not the Cargo crate registry protocol

* Cargo's support for Git repositories is generic across Git and has nothing to do with GitHub specifically

* Radicle offers nothing to a crate registry that a Git remote doesn't

* and none of this has anything to do with the GPL.

It feels like you're just listing off things you like and don't like aesthetically. They have nothing to do with each other structurally.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish?

pie_flavor — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:52:07 +0000

Article URL: http://eee.fyi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084934

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by pie_flavor in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

pie_flavor — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:08:50 +0000

But after enough people run it, that disappears. They implement crowdsourced trust, because it isn't a rent extraction exercise but actual concern about malware.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Life During Class Wartime"

pie_flavor — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:20:33 +0000

This sounds completely made up. The medieval taxman has no idea how much gold you have squirreled away, and even finding everyone to tax them was hard enough. Most peasant taxes were based on productive land and observable yields thereof, and the rest were import/export duties. IE income and not wealth, because nobody was stupid enough to implement a negative growth rate until the 21st century (unless they were actively trying to loot holdings for redistribution, e.g. varlık vergisi)

New comment by pie_flavor in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

pie_flavor — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:13:12 +0000

Serious. And although 'seeing yourself as a customer' certainly makes things slightly better, I'm also referring just to the amount of cash that enters the coffers once it's no longer a tip jar per se. It is open source on the subject of copyright, but as was described in an article on here the other day, open-source doesn't mean community. By positioning the community aspect as something you have to buy into to enter, you end up (a) selling a product for cash without compromising open source and (b) ensuring everyone you deal with is serious. It's like the Red Hat model but workable at the lower end of software at the expense of lower upside.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

pie_flavor — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:57:41 +0000

Please observe a policy of extreme wisdom: https://github.com/Fody/Home/blob/master/pages/licensing-pat...

New comment by pie_flavor in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

pie_flavor — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:55:41 +0000

America produces many things more valuable than the NFL, is the difference. LaLiga is presently the single most valuable brand in Spain. When e.g. Google asks low-polarization parts of the government for things, it frequently gets them.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

pie_flavor — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:43:03 +0000

The parent comment just says it'll perform similar to how past similarly-shaped things performed, without saying what that past performance is. If that implies pessimism, that's not HN's fault.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Borrow-checking without type-checking"

pie_flavor — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:54:40 +0000

What's that supposed to mean? If I say `def foo(x)`, what autocomplete do I get off `x.`?

New comment by pie_flavor in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

pie_flavor — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:36:08 +0000

Re pt 3, says here he entirely declined to put on a defense during that part. https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/plaintiffs-attorne...

New comment by pie_flavor in "Borrow-checking without type-checking"

pie_flavor — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:07:19 +0000

The standard complaint of pointless type errors that static type analysis would catch has nothing to do with weak typing, nor does the other one about unreliable listing of available ops in your editor by pressing `.` and looking at the autocomplete list. If you think the only thing people think is wrong about dynamic typing is JS `==` then you are swinging at a strawman from a decade ago.

New comment by pie_flavor in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

pie_flavor — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:50:57 +0000

The context is that Jones blew up the court process every chance he got, setting a new record for contempt fining. The most important piece was refusing to comply with discovery (his lawyer was so bad-behaved here he ended up with a disciplinary suspension). As a result Jones received a default judgement, i.e. the plaintiffs win by default and he doesn't get to argue his case. This also means the plaintiffs get everything they were asking for. And then for some reason he didn't even enter an argument during the damages calculation phase, so the jury just went with whatever the plaintiffs said.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

pie_flavor — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:04:29 +0000

That is what the touchbar did. It doesn't take two steps. You motion like you're dragging the volume button and the slider appears under you, already being dragged.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

pie_flavor — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:06:24 +0000

Volume and brightness are exactly the place the touchbar shines: tap and start dragging and you're adjusting a slider, which is much better than mashing a button.

New comment by pie_flavor in "EFF is leaving X"

pie_flavor — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:22:22 +0000

Wow let me just never touch another piece of software whose developers suffered a layoff ever. That's what a trait of intelligence looks like.

New comment by pie_flavor in "EFF is leaving X"

pie_flavor — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:49:01 +0000

Twitter has become a lot better since people who say truly insane things like this have left. What on earth does Twitter have to do with child pornography? What kind of misinformation have you been reading?

New comment by pie_flavor in "EFF is leaving X"

pie_flavor — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:38:10 +0000

This very conveniently allows one to pick any actions they like regardless of stated goals or principles. There's very little it couldn't be used to apply to. "I'm principled but only when it's easy" isn't much of a statement.