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New comment by sapiogram in "A lot of population numbers are fake"

sapiogram — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:35:27 +0000

> Officially before the one child policy they were at 800 million. After 30 years of 1 child policy somehow they were at 1.2 billion. The math isn't mathing.

Even if I take your numbers at face value, it is absolutely possible for this math to math. To simplify massively, if the average person dies at 80 years old, the population growth today depends on the number of births 80 years ago, compared to today. Not 30 years ago. The population may have grown massively between 30 and 80 years ago, so that the absolute number of births remains high, despite a low birth rate.

New comment by sapiogram in "Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust"

sapiogram — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:58:49 +0000

Haskell is far more dangerous. It allows you to simple destruct the `Just` variant without a path for the empty case, causing a runtime error if it ever occurs.

New comment by sapiogram in "KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support"

sapiogram — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:29:05 +0000

I thought this problem was Wayland's reason for existing?

New comment by sapiogram in "KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support"

sapiogram — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:25:36 +0000

As long as you're willing to stay on some old LTS distro, you'll be fine for at least another 10 years. X isn't going anywhere.

New comment by sapiogram in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

sapiogram — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:35:45 +0000

Depends on your definition of "major". Small utility functions are added on nearly every release, but they definitely aren't major.

New comment by sapiogram in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

sapiogram — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:48:46 +0000

Rust's standard library hasn't received any major additions since 1.0 in 2015, back when nobody was writing web services in Rust so no one needed logging.

New comment by sapiogram in "Server DRAM prices surge 50% as AI-induced memory shortage hits hyperscalers"

sapiogram — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:57:51 +0000

> Or, for $300, you can buy an RTX 5060 that is better than the best GPU from just 6 years ago. It's even faster than the top supercomputer in the world in 2003, one that cost $500 million to build.

RTX 5060 is slower than the RTX 2080 Ti, released September 2018. Digital Foundry found it to be 4% slower in 1080p, 13% slower in 1440p: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Ob40dZ3JU

New comment by sapiogram in "Async/Await is finally back in Zig"

sapiogram — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:56:42 +0000

Kill threads at will?

New comment by sapiogram in "Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust"

sapiogram — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:07:54 +0000

Rust solves this at compile-time with move semantics, with no runtime overhead. This feature is arguably why Rust exists, it's really useful.

New comment by sapiogram in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

sapiogram — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:01:44 +0000

Do you monitor your product closely enough to know that there weren't other brief outages? E.g. something on the scale of unscheduled server restarts, and minute-long network outages?

New comment by sapiogram in "Zed is now available on Windows"

sapiogram — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:40:49 +0000

Idk about subpixel font rendering, but font rendering on Linux looks massively better after a patch last week: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomme...

New comment by sapiogram in "Apple M5 chip"

sapiogram — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:37:06 +0000

And that was already impressive. High-end gaming computers with dual-channel DDR5 only reach ~100GB/s of CPU memory bandwidth.

New comment by sapiogram in "Apple M5 chip"

sapiogram — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:35:55 +0000

> I wish Apple would take gaming more seriously and make GPTK a first class citizen such as Proton on Linux.

Note that games with anticheat don't work on Linux with Proton either. Everything else does, though.

New comment by sapiogram in "The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain"

sapiogram — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:22:02 +0000

In Norway, power cables have been a top-tier political issue for years. They make electricity more expensive locally, since the surplus power can be exported instead of needing to be dumped for 0 or negative cost.

New comment by sapiogram in "FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go"

sapiogram — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:10:20 +0000

> I bet it’s smooth given how concurrent friendly Go is with channels and go routines etc.

You can do the same in any language with threads, and a library providing channels. Hell, you could probably do it better with a library, go's channels are unnecessarily error prone with nils, channel closing, and cleanup behavior.

New comment by sapiogram in "Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust"

sapiogram — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:49:09 +0000

There's a hugely popular video game called Rust not written in Rust.

New comment by sapiogram in "Redox OS Development Priorities for 2025/26"

sapiogram — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:10:36 +0000

How close is Redox to being able to run a web browser? I'd love to try doing real work on it.

New comment by sapiogram in "WASM 3.0 Completed"

sapiogram — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:43:13 +0000

WASM does not support pthreads in the browser, only web workers, which are much more limited.

New comment by sapiogram in "Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value"

sapiogram — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:45:48 +0000

Wikipedia give a lower bound for BB(6) of 2^2^2^2^2^2... repeated 33554432 times, that's definitely a fast-growing function!

New comment by sapiogram in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

sapiogram — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:06:38 +0000

Thank you, that's really all the context I needed.