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New comment by robinei in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

robinei — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:45:01 +0000

Who cares if a piece of open source has American maintainers? The point is not to avoid touching anything American. It is control and sovereignty.

New comment by robinei in "Error payloads in Zig"

robinei — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:40:16 +0000

Do you think it would fundamentally be a mistake to thread data along with error type through the error return path, or is it just that it costs too much say from a calling convention perspective or some other technical reason? Is it related to ownership?

New comment by robinei in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

robinei — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:27:23 +0000

My feeling is that I consistently find on-point solutions for my Linux problems with a quick search. However if my Windows install gets in trouble my search will yield some DISM.exe invocation which doesn't help at all. A bit anecdotal, but this is my experience. I've always been able to fix my Linux installs.

New comment by robinei in "Bag of words, have mercy on us"

robinei — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:52:26 +0000

Let’s not underestimate the scale of the search which led to us though, even though you may be right in principle. In addition to deep time on earth, we may well be just part of a tiny fraction of a universe-wide and mostly fruitless search.

New comment by robinei in "Mesa3D Drivers for Windows"

robinei — Tue, 27 May 2025 10:55:02 +0000

XWayland is compartmentalized, and should not make life harder for anyone else in the Wayland world (except the ones spending time maintaining it). And Zink gives us a clean OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan (so not contributing to complexity in the base stack). I'm fine with a long tail of software requiring XWayland+Zink, and I don't think of them as polluting my system.

New comment by robinei in "Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview"

robinei — Wed, 07 May 2025 03:40:19 +0000

Since it's trained on a vast a mount of code (probably all publicly accessible Go code and more), it's seen a vast amount of different bespoke APIs for doing all kinds of things. I'm sure some of that will leak into the output from time to time. And to some extent can generalize, so it may just invent APIs.

New comment by robinei in "Evolving OpenAI's Structure"

robinei — Tue, 06 May 2025 07:30:41 +0000

If it was first, it could have self-improved more, to the point that it has the capacity to prevent competition, while the competition does not have the capacity to defend itself against superior AGI. This all is so hypothetical and frankly far from what we're seeing in the market now. Funny how we're all discussing dystopian scifi scenarios now.

New comment by robinei in "Zig 0.14.0 Release Notes"

robinei — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:39:46 +0000

Cut for the foreseeable future AFAIK. They may return to it when ready

New comment by robinei in "Zig 0.14.0 Release Notes"

robinei — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:39:16 +0000

Why would the function's dependencies need recompilation? I guess the dependees may require it, if they inlined it, or if the signature changed.

New comment by robinei in "Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us""

robinei — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:27:17 +0000

That's the theory. However, isn't likely that as things like the new Nova Nvidia driver is written in Rust, the things that depend on Rust are suddenly so important, that shipping with it disabled is unrealistic, even without a policy change. (I don't think this is bad)

New comment by robinei in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

robinei — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:36:44 +0000

Calling some of those leftist is quite a condemnation of the right.

New comment by robinei in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

robinei — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:33:10 +0000

The question is who is suppressed.

New comment by robinei in "The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution"

robinei — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:55:43 +0000

And start treating the alliances as vital part of the whole, and stop betraying the fragile trust they are built on. Use Korean industry until the industry at home can catch up.

New comment by robinei in "Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16"

robinei — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:59:18 +0000

Maybe idealism is dead and even the youth have been corrupted these days.

New comment by robinei in "Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16"

robinei — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:50:46 +0000

I’m talking of the typical left/right split. Where leftist policies tend toward redistribution of wealth to the benefit of broader swathes, while right oriented policies tend to at least lead to more concentration of wealth. Maybe it is an outdated bias, but until now at least my impression is that young people have had a greater tendency toward some form of humanistic idealism.

New comment by robinei in "Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16"

robinei — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:43:58 +0000

On the flip side, it seems evident that younger people tend to vote for the betterment of all, while older people tend to shift toward voting for «themselves».

New comment by robinei in "Spending too much time optimizing for loops"

robinei — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 10:27:36 +0000

Ideally arrays of primitive values like `long` to store the bytecode represenation for proper good performance. Then use bitwise manipulation to access "fields"

New comment by robinei in "The Making of Dune II: The birth of the real-time strategy game"

robinei — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 06:39:16 +0000

I actually prefer the Adlib version!

New comment by robinei in "Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest"

robinei — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 06:12:45 +0000

Given the accepted MAD doctrine, which kept the "peace" throughout the cold war, you would think nuclear escalation would be unthinkable as a means to stave off a conventional defeat on foreign soil.

New comment by robinei in "A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley"

robinei — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:36:51 +0000

Though if the evidence presented for this event is persuasive, then all they achieve by making the connection is to speculate on a natural cause for a biblical "miracle". I mean it can strengthen a view of the Bible as source of historical information, but not as the word of God.

If this event happened, I would expect it to leave long lasting trace in oral tradition.