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New comment by pxeger1 in "Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System"

pxeger1 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:50:37 +0000

One possible argument in favour of what happened here:

If you wanted to implement a package manager in the build system and keep it in the compiler, what abstraction for it would you provide between the compiler and the build system? This probably affects how you design the import system, and some other fundamental parts of your language. Those are important to get right, and probably hard you change. If you start by tightly coupling the package management and the compiler, it could be easier to design that by starting with the programmer experience you want and working backwards. Then you can change the implementation later, affecting fewer users.

I'm thinking specifically of Python here, where the import system is crazily complicated and warty, partly to accommodate all the varied ways package management was done. This compares to Go where there is a comparatively neat and small syntax for imports and the like, because they were designed with package management in mind from the start. (Not that I agree with all its design decisions.)

New comment by pxeger1 in "Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)"

pxeger1 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:03:08 +0000

How many people have died because the people who could've saved them didn't think it was possible to save them?

New comment by pxeger1 in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

pxeger1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:43:12 +0000

How are they going to enforce this?

New comment by pxeger1 in "AI is slowing down"

pxeger1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:10:32 +0000

This rests on a lot of assumptions that the published figures for "planned" datacentres, "committed" AI spend, etc. are irreversible. I suspect that at least some of it is possible to back out of.

New comment by pxeger1 in "Optimal Strategy for Connect 4"

pxeger1 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:04:55 +0000

You're talking about Gödel encoding, not Godel's incompleteness theorem.

New comment by pxeger1 in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

pxeger1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:00:30 +0000

The bureaucracy isn't trying to be utilitarian, it's trying to be democratic, and the people don't want utilitarianism. No politician wants to be the one who removed the red tape that would've stopped the reckless professor from poisoning all those children with his botched clinical trial.

New comment by pxeger1 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

pxeger1 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:41:52 +0000

I've had a Discord account for 10 years. They seem to assume all discord users are at least teenagers, so surely they can't think I was 8 when I created the account. So can't I have the "full" experience automatically?

New comment by pxeger1 in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

pxeger1 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:33:57 +0000

> If somebody doesn't know what double parking is - it's when cars parallel park beside one another, implicitly on the road, making it difficult to see what's beyond them

This is not called double parking. Double parking is something different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_parking

I don't know about you but here in the UK, close parallel parking is normal and expected, and I was taught to avoid trying to cross in the gap between two parked cars, and to be extra careful if I was going to. In this scenario some blame might lie with the driver for going too fast, but I would certainly also blame the child (or their parent) for stepping far into the road without looking.

New comment by pxeger1 in "Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds"

pxeger1 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:20:08 +0000

Is it at all realistic to expect the stable and/or fiscally conservative countries to accept the high bond yields imposed by the more fiscally loose or perceived-risky countries? Could this ever happen without the EU centralising more control over fiscal policy?

New comment by pxeger1 in "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]"

pxeger1 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:11:51 +0000

> this capability was leaked

I think the policy Harris is referring to is based on the _risk_ of something like this - it is easy to imagine wireless devices being vulnerable and enabling this capability - rather than being based on definitive existence of this capability.

New comment by pxeger1 in "Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster"

pxeger1 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:22:32 +0000

Profile of llm generated comments

New comment by pxeger1 in "Inverse Parentheses"

pxeger1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:55:01 +0000

I don't understand

New comment by pxeger1 in "Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key"

pxeger1 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:37:37 +0000

Why does the IACR use the term "cryptology" rather than "cryptography"?

New comment by pxeger1 in "Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?"

pxeger1 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:34:14 +0000

> if it is on Windows it is not called a futex

What is it called?

New comment by pxeger1 in "Apple's iPhone overhaul will reduce its reliance on annual fall spectacle"

pxeger1 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:05:18 +0000

iPhone was released before iPod touch

New comment by pxeger1 in "Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (2015) [pdf]"

pxeger1 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:04:36 +0000

> by far the most popular effect system around

Crazy claim to make without providing any evidence

New comment by pxeger1 in "An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic"

pxeger1 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:34:31 +0000

The "Architect" live migration tech seems super cool and useful on its own. Is it available independent of your kubernetes stuff?

New comment by pxeger1 in "AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process"

pxeger1 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:11:29 +0000

> the most valuable resource is rack space

I've always heard it's cooling capacity. I'm also pretty confident that's true

New comment by pxeger1 in "Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday?"

pxeger1 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:54:32 +0000

> folks still win the lottery, and you’re more likely to get struck by lightning than win the powerball jackpot

I'm more likely to get struck by lightning than win the lottery, sure. But it's much more likely that someone wins the lottery this week (~100% in fact) than that someone gets struck by lightning this week.

Edit: my point about independence of events still stands, but it turns out people get struck by lightning amazingly often. The chance of someone in the world getting struck by lightning this week seems to be about 99%!

New comment by pxeger1 in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

pxeger1 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:01:28 +0000

> I'll do you one better

I think this is a weaker example.