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New comment by vegabook in "Notes on writing Rust-based Wasm"

vegabook — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:48:18 +0000

“seems” doesn’t need a source

New comment by vegabook in "A decade of Docker containers"

vegabook — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:02:12 +0000

Increasingly flake.nix is present in good repos. Zillions of packages are available. But yes, you will need to learn and sometimes File System Hierarchy assumptions need to be worked around. The rewards however, dominate the (few) inconveniences once you know your way around.

New comment by vegabook in "A decade of Docker containers"

vegabook — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:52:09 +0000

Nix and never looked back.

New comment by vegabook in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

vegabook — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:47:30 +0000

“Yeah okay forget sense, show me how good you are at budget protecting overdesign”

New comment by vegabook in "MacBook Neo"

vegabook — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:10:35 +0000

There’s now a gaping 500 dollar hole in the lineup between this and the macbook air.

New comment by vegabook in "How will OpenAI compete?"

vegabook — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:22:20 +0000

yeah but effective GPU RAM has ramped thanks to unified mem on apple. The 5y thing doesn't hold anymore.

New comment by vegabook in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

vegabook — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:07:56 +0000

totally. In fact the current monopoly-coddling dispensation is antithetical to market economics, which clearly espouses real competition. It's kinda been coopted and hijacked.

New comment by vegabook in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

vegabook — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:07:58 +0000

agentic crap from green usernames is getting tiresome.

New comment by vegabook in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

vegabook — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:17:52 +0000

more market economics framing of life, as if numerous very smart people haven't already tried to make this paradigm work for society, and failed.

New comment by vegabook in "Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production"

vegabook — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:40:23 +0000

The periscope style vector CRTs use in the arcade Battlezone were a claustrophobia and panic-inducing experience. Glowy unpixellated 3d, narrow field of vision. Unforgettably cool.

New comment by vegabook in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

vegabook — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:35:02 +0000

With a new agentic-lashup tearing across the internet every week, pointing the way to "gradient descent" software development, any purchasing manager worth their salt is going to ask some serious questions about their enormous SaaS bill before committing to another expensive long term contract. It follows that valuations must decline. Even if only because risks to moats have increased, but also because it makes sense to negotiate hard on pricing when there's fear in your counterparty.

New comment by vegabook in "Pandas 3.0"

vegabook — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:14:26 +0000

you have map_elements in polars which does exactly this.

https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/dev/reference/expressions/ap...

You can also iter_rows into a lambda if you really want to.

https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/dataframe/a...

Personally I find it extremely rare that I need to do this given Polars expressions are so comprehensive, including when.then.otherwise when all else fails.

New comment by vegabook in "Pandas 3.0"

vegabook — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:35:45 +0000

because method chaining in Polars is much more composable and ergonomic than SQL once the pipeline gets complex which makes it superior in an exploratory "data wrangling" environment.

New comment by vegabook in "Pandas 3.0"

vegabook — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:22:31 +0000

"revolutionary"? It just copied and pasted the decades-old R (previous "S") dataframe into Python, including all the paradigms (with worse ergonomics since it's not baked into the language).

New comment by vegabook in "KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer"

vegabook — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:33:38 +0000

cool, but doesn't sound that great when you close your eyes and just listen. Other synths beat this hands down especially at > $1000, and can easily bring in the physical world already, including live workflows. The issue is when we get into the physical analogue world, craftsmanship, materials, shape, often age, and of course the varied kinetic interactions with the sound solicitor, bring depth and richness which no little electrically-excited xylophone will ever get anywhere close to.

New comment by vegabook in "What has Docker become?"

vegabook — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:48:45 +0000

It's become what happens when others learn your simple card trick.

New comment by vegabook in "Why I don't have fun with Claude Code"

vegabook — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:11:38 +0000

basically it's a cliché

New comment by vegabook in "AI Usage Policy"

vegabook — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:11:46 +0000

Ultimately what's happening here is AI is undermining trust in remote contributions, and in new code. If you don't know somebody personally, and know how they work, the trust barrier is getting higher. I personally am already ultra vigilant for any github repo that is not already well established, and am even concerned about existing projects' code quality into the future. Not against AI per se (which I use), but it's just going to get harder to fight the slop.

New comment by vegabook in "In Praise of APL (1977)"

vegabook — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:17:32 +0000

there's also a Forth-meets-APL project called uiua [https://www.uiua.org/]

New comment by vegabook in "Can you slim macOS down?"

vegabook — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:35:27 +0000

I don't understand why Apple doesn't offer a headless MacOS or at least a path to a minimal install. Those mac minis make a great little server box but losing 8GB to hundreds of processes, before you've done anything, just feels wasteful and inelegant.