In my experience, these cars are old and decrepit, and force you to breathe locomotive engine exhaust all the time, and especially when the train is idling. It’s a fast track to cancer. Don’t spend any more time than you need to in one. They do not offer the air quality of a modern passenger rail car. Heck, I wouldn’t even sleep in a modern rail car at night, in a rail yard, when all systems are off.
Readit News7e commented on Privately-Owned Rail Cars amtrak.com/privately-owne... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright
7e commented on JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language infoworld.com/article/402... · Posted by u/pjmlp
Please don’t have it run in a virtual machine. Or at least the JVM. All of Jetbrains products would be 10x better if not written in Java. Native is best.
7e commented on Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs github.com/manzaltu/claud... · Posted by u/kgwgk
Huh? Open source licenses long predate Stallman. He was, at best, an opportunist who tried to coopt the OSS movement and take it into a kooky ideological niche.
Do you remember how the world got all kinds of weird cults before we got good at identifying cults and the phenomenon of cults? Well, the FSF/GPL is one of those. Many people still need to be deprogrammed.
7e commented on Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs github.com/manzaltu/claud... · Posted by u/kgwgk
A lot of us are grateful in some abstract way for all the foundational work RMS did both technically and organizationally to preserve what remaining software freedoms we still have, but got off the bus a long time ago. He got really weird and it was on some "no fly zone" shit.
There's an `emacs` community that recognizes the history without being involved in any contemporary sense.
Huh? Open source licenses long predate Stallman. He was, at best, an opportunist who tried to coopt the OSS movement and take it into a kooky ideological niche.
7e commented on Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs github.com/manzaltu/claud... · Posted by u/kgwgk
It's interesting that AI fulfilled for the common user—through vibe coding—the mission which GNU/FSF could not: the freedom to create any software you want at any time. And it's ironic that of all of the software used to create AIs (like PyTorch and NVIDIA's CUDA stack), none of it was licensed GPL, though plenty of it is OSS. GNU is no longer relevant and, compared to MIT and BSD licenses, really never was. RIP FSF.
7e commented on A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability notashes.me/blog/part-1-m... · Posted by u/hyperbrainer
I don't agree with your contemptuous framing. It's incorrect, and per the post's author, "dangerous" — but depending on your background it's not "silly" or "borderline insane". It's just naive, and writing a slab allocator as an exercise or making honest explorations like in this blog post will help cure the naivete.
It’s undefined behavior. It will never be stable. Investigating every permutation of zero-utility undefined behavior in the universe is borderline insane. Will the author next investigate exactly how a 2002 Fiat becomes inoperable after a head on collision with a 2025 Volkswagen? These are all deep dives into infinite chaos.
7e commented on A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability notashes.me/blog/part-1-m... · Posted by u/hyperbrainer
Allocating memory with C and freeing it with Rust is silly. If you want to free a C-allocated pointer in Rust, just have Rust call back in to C. Expecting that allocators work identically in both runtimes is unreasonable and borderline insane. Heck, I wouldn't expect allocators to work the same even across releases of libc from the same vendor (or across releases of Rust's std).
Counter fact: In our city district, which is the richest and biggest district of our 600k developed city, we decided to turn off the street lights at night on purpose to help with sleeping better. There is no street criminality, people feel safe without street lights. Our city is the richest in our country, which is at the top 5 in the world
Why not use deep red lights instead, which are sometimes used in wildlife areas to reduce sleep disruption for animals?
7e commented on Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market denverite.com/2025/07/25/... · Posted by u/matthest
> because this doesn’t magically solve the housing crisis
It does. Twenty thousand units represent about 5% of Denver's housing stock [1]. Commit to adding this many units to the housing stock every year for the next 10 years and you'll have solved the housing crisis. (You'll probably need to bail out recent homebuyers, who will be permanently underwater, but that's a separate issue.)
[1] http://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US0820000-denver-co/
It is instructive to look at how we got expensive housing in the first place. Expensive housing comes from a surplus of people. How did we get all those people? By building more housing and having people breed there.
New housing is only a temporary salve and perpetuates a vicious cycle. The people who move into these new units will have more babies, because they have new habitat. These babies will grow up and eventually drive up housing prices. Even before then, people will move or emigrate into cheap housing and fill it up. Housing then becomes expensive again, only with more people filling up the earth: polluting the air, straining water supplies, clogging roads, uglifying neighborhoods with massive buildings, overrunning parks and trails.
Thankfully, expensive housing, in part, has reduced American baby making to 1.6 per woman, a sustainable rate. Unfortunately, because humans are living longer, the US population still continues to rise. The U.S. Census Bureau currently projects that the resident U.S. population will peak at nearly 370 million around the year 2080, before it gradually declines to about 366 million by 2100. If immortality is invented before 2080, the population may never go down, ever.
Meanwhile, the latest estimates put the current U.S. population (as of mid‑2025) at approximately 342 million. The population has increased roughly 4.5x since 1900. From building new housing.
Investors are likely betting there is an AI play buried deeply in here somewhere.
The founders are uber geeks but have never done anything successful on their own. I predict this company will be another zombie.