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New comment by talideon in "Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal"

talideon — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:57:56 +0000

But originating on Unix in '81, and thus predating Lotus 1-2-3 by ~2 years.

New comment by talideon in "Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal"

talideon — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:55:38 +0000

It's a tool with a long vintage, and it wouldn't make sense to port it to a different language just to take advantage of the likes of bubbletea or textual.

New comment by talideon in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

talideon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:36:18 +0000

I misread that acronym as TBDN, which made me wonder why they'd bought The Beef and Dairy Network podcast...

New comment by talideon in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

talideon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:30:08 +0000

Germany has a population of ~87,000,000 though.

New comment by talideon in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

talideon — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:03:59 +0000

The US is not in a position to process much of the sweet crude it has. Instead, imports sour crude, which is what much of the US's refineries are actually built to handle. This is why Venezuela was such a thorn in the side of the US, as they were one of the major producers and also largely produced sour crude.

As adwn says, it's a globally priced commodity, and the US is not in a position to disentangle itself from that market because in spite of being one of the world's largest producers, US refineries are not in a position to process that product, so it needs to go abroad. The US needs to import significant amounts of sour crude to be refined for their own use.

The US is just as screwed as the rest of us.

Also, the primary worry for Europe isn't oil, it's natural gas.

New comment by talideon in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

talideon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:54:32 +0000

Well, that's the first shoe dropping. Thankfully uv and ruff are MIT licensed and in a good place, so worst comes to worst...

New comment by talideon in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

talideon — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:08:22 +0000

Oil stayed more or less steady, so yes, it did.

New comment by talideon in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

talideon — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:04:37 +0000

The 'sell electricity to Ireland' bit here is doing an awful lot of work. It's more complicated than that.

For those who don't know, Ireland operates an all-island grid, and EirGrid (the grid operator for the Republic) owns SONI (the grid operator for Northern Ireland). That means that 'UK' and 'Ireland' in this has a large Northern Ireland shaped lump of ambiguity that statement.

New comment by talideon in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

talideon — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:17:11 +0000

Oh yes, the bastion of truth that is the Daily Mail.

Sorry, my eyes just rolled out if my head.

New comment by talideon in "Show HN: CEL by Example"

talideon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:15:16 +0000

And even then, I'm not sure it's apples to apples, at least if by Rego you're thinking of OPA. CEL and Rego take very different approaches, with CEL being quite procedural, while Rego is about constraint satisfaction, not unlike Prolog. At $WORK, Rego (in the form of OPA) gets used quite a bit for complicated access control logic, while CEL gets used in places where we've simpler logic that needs to be broken out and made configurable, and a more procedural focus works there.

New comment by talideon in "Show HN: CEL by Example"

talideon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:06:16 +0000

No, they're equating _Turing completeness_ with _might not terminate_. CEL, Expr, Rego, and other languages like them are intended to guarantee to complete. You can't do that cleanly with a Turing complete language.

New comment by talideon in "Show HN: CEL by Example"

talideon — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:03:19 +0000

It's not really a configuration language like Jsonnet and CUE. It's an expression language for specifying things like conditions and policies. You _could_ abuse it as a configuration language, but it'd be overkill.

New comment by talideon in "1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists"

talideon — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:59:05 +0000

I mean, it _is_ in modern Irish! It just needs to be transcribed.

New comment by talideon in "1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists"

talideon — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:57:27 +0000

Irish mythology gets bowlderised plenty, so we've a pretty thick skin about it these days. If you _do_ treat it well, any Irish players who have even the remotest interest in this kind of thing (which anyone playing TTRPG probably would be), would really appreciate it.

So, thanks for trying to be cool about this stuff!

New comment by talideon in "1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists"

talideon — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:52:41 +0000

Yes, she's making a lot of allusions of Irish mythology, and that's definitely a reference to the god Lug Lámhfhada. Also, the word 'lámh' in Irish isn't quite arm. It's your arm below the elbow, including your hand. He has that epithet because for a bunch of reason, not least because of how skilled he is in all things.

The line between folklore and mythology is fuzzy, but this definitely falls on the mythology side of the line.

New comment by talideon in "1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists"

talideon — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:34:21 +0000

And she's not just any Máiréad Ní Ghráda; this is the same Máiréad Ní Ghráda who wrote An Triail and Progress in Irish!

New comment by talideon in "Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler"

talideon — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:14:54 +0000

That wasn't a particularly pleasant talk to watch. While I think he was trying to be funny, he really just came across as obnoxious. I'm not expecting sweetness and light here, but dunking on other languages for no good reason isn't going to attract all that many people to using the language.

New comment by talideon in "Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS"

talideon — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:23:10 +0000

I'm still using my decade-old Precision 5510 (the XPS 15 at the time was a variant of it), and I've rarely felt the need to replace it, beyond Nvidia no longer supporting the discrete graphics as of last year.

There was a period around Project Sputnik where they were making really good machines. Years of abuse, and it's still in good condition, though the battery has been showing its age lately.

It's rather sad that things have gone downhill since then, as there was a period there that Dell were really good.

New comment by talideon in "Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere"

talideon — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:56:50 +0000

I run Miniflux on a Digital Ocean droplet, and Miniflutt on my phone.

New comment by talideon in "Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere"

talideon — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:37:41 +0000

RSS itself provides no benefits over Atom. In fact, you're quite likely to see a bunch of RSS feeds that use elements from the Atom namespace.

You should just use Atom.