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New comment by poncho_romero in "C++: The Documentary"

poncho_romero — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:50:05 +0000

C Is Not a Low-level Language: Your computer is not a fast PDP-11.

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212477.3212479

New comment by poncho_romero in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

poncho_romero — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:45:51 +0000

Canada too, with all yellow No Name products at Loblaw's.

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

poncho_romero — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:14:14 +0000

I think Elixir is a good candidate here. It's small, coherent, and composes well, and (at least to my understanding) the authors consider the language finished, with no new major features planned.

New comment by poncho_romero in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

poncho_romero — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:59:24 +0000

> and most commenters think all yellow faces look the same and thus can't differentiate between a Japanese, Chinese, or Vietnamese working behind the counter at a konbini let alone other services jobs where Westerners are most likely to interface with.

This seems quite presumptuous, and not all that different from the orientalism you're accusing OP of.

New comment by poncho_romero in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

poncho_romero — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:52:29 +0000

I think when people criticize America for being car centric, they mean that even urban and suburban areas often rely solely on car travel (e.g. Houston). Cars in rural/less developed areas are perfectly reasonable.

New comment by poncho_romero in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

poncho_romero — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:41:25 +0000

Bun being a high profile project, that has had visible conflicts with Zig over AI contributions, and was recently purchased by Anthropic, is naturally going to make something like this big and flashy regardless of the author's intentions.

New comment by poncho_romero in "Cisco workforce reductions"

poncho_romero — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:52:06 +0000

I don't know anything about John Lewis, but Les-Tilleuls (https://les-tilleuls.coop/en/the-co-op) sounds exactly like what you're talking about. Completely employee owned IT shop full of talented contributers. I'm not sure about their consulting work, but they're behind a ton of innovative open source projects in the PHP sphere.

New comment by poncho_romero in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

poncho_romero — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:09:55 +0000

Any books or articles you recommend?

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

poncho_romero — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:51:42 +0000

They could make the software good again.

New comment by poncho_romero in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

poncho_romero — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:20:02 +0000

Yes, cars mean you can cover more ground in 30 minutes, but they also push EVERYTHING further apart. And what about parking? I can get very far on foot, by bike, or by train in 30 minutes, especially in an environment that hasn't been made artificially sparse by accomodating cars.

New comment by poncho_romero in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

poncho_romero — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:17:34 +0000

I think you are too focused on one problem caused by cars. Even if they didn't cause mental health problems due to isolation (seen most prominently in suburbia), they cause enough other problems to warrant pushback.

New comment by poncho_romero in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

poncho_romero — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:15:09 +0000

Most of these use cases exist because of the prevelance of personal vehicles. We reach for cars because they are there. We see the world through windshields, so when problems arise we conceive of car-based solutions. Cars force us into city designs and styles of living that require cars. That is to say, cars necessitate cars.

New comment by poncho_romero in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

poncho_romero — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:14:32 +0000

I believe Enkidu also became much more wild over time. In Against the Grain the author suggests earlier tellings of Gilgamesh presented Enkidu as unusual, but human. When the same story was being recorded a thousand years later, he was a monster. If the story was preserving some ancient memory about Neanderthals, such significant change seems unlikely.

New comment by poncho_romero in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

poncho_romero — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:14:01 +0000

What is the benefit of something like Venmo over Interac e-Transfer? And everything about Robinhood seems sketchy enough that I am comfortable keeping them firmly south of the border.

New comment by poncho_romero in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

poncho_romero — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:12:40 +0000

So no?

New comment by poncho_romero in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

poncho_romero — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:09:48 +0000

I hope this goes through. Trillion dollar companies are waging a war on our attention, using everything at their disposal to make these apps addictive. It isn't a fair fight and the existence of infinite feeds is bad both for people and democracy. Regulating consumer products that cause harm to millions is nothing new.

New comment by poncho_romero in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

poncho_romero — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:23:51 +0000

Fair enough!

New comment by poncho_romero in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

poncho_romero — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:22:56 +0000

What countries would you consider to not be racist? Canada is a functional pluralistic society. Yes there are racists here, but far fewer than elsewhere in my view.

New comment by poncho_romero in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

poncho_romero — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:02:01 +0000

Do you believe Trudeau could have made a speech like Carney did at Davos? Or that he would have been so active in signing new trade deals and international agreements, or on dismantling internal trade barriers? I think there is a world of difference between them.

New comment by poncho_romero in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

poncho_romero — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:35 +0000

Canada is one of the least racist countries in the world. Please travel.