The irony is that if the countries that pull out of the F-35 program buy jets that actually function instead (and aren't just a $2 trillion piece of scrap metal), this trade war might be what saves democracy.
Readit NewsBratmon commented on The F-35 is losing the trade war jalopnik.com/1945910/f-35... · Posted by u/rntn
To add to this, Java and other GC languages in some sense have manual memory management too, no matter how much we like to pretend otherwise.
It's easy to fall into a trap where your Banana class becomes a GorillaHoldingTheBananaAndTheEntireJungle class(to borrow a phrase from Joe Armstrong), and nothing ever gets freed because everything is always referenced by something else.
Not to mention the dark arts of avoiding long GC pauses etc.
It's possible to do this in rust too, I suppose. The clearest difference is that in rust these things are explicit rather than implicit. To do this in rust you'd have to use 'static, etc. The other distinction is compile-time versus runtime, of course.
> It's easy to fall into a trap where your Banana class becomes a GorillaHoldingTheBananaAndTheEntireJungle class(to borrow a phrase from Joe Armstrong), and nothing ever gets freed because everything is always referenced by something else.
Can you elaborate on this? I'm struggling to picture a situation in which I have a gorilla I'm currently using, but keeping the banana it's holding and the jungle it's in alive is a bad thing.
Data centers use evaporative cooling.
Data centers don't just heat up the water and return it - they evaporate the water into the atmosphere (yes, I know, the H2O still exists, but it's in a far less usable form when it's gaseous atmospheric H2O)
The implicit claim that data centers don't recondense the water they evaporate is surprising to me.
Do you have a source?
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Bratmon commented on AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy' theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
Reading the article and the linked Github post, as well as the original pricing announcement and the clarification post afterwards, this whole thing seems like some sort of Monty Python sketch. I can't believe that an actual enterprise targeted product comes up with something like:
> "AWS now defines two types of Kiro AI request. Spec requests are those started from tasks, while vibe requests are general chat responses. Executing a sub-task consumes at least one spec request plus a vibe request for "coordination"".
I still don't understand why pricing can't be as simple as it was initially and presented in a clear and understandable way: token cost this much, you used this many tokens, and that is it. Probably because if people would see how much they actually consume for real tasks, they would realize that the "vibes" cost more than an actual developer.
If you're care about how much money you're spending, you're not in AWS's target market.
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No, speed differential kills.
Yeah! It's the pedestrian's fault for not already moving 45 MPH before they got run over!
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Bratmon commented on Fennel libraries as single files (2023) andreyor.st/posts/2023-08... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Like the other person said, you're mixing up single file libraries with having no package manager or dependency management.
That being said in C and C++ the single file libraries typically have no dependencies, which is one of the major benefits.
Dependencies are always something that a programmer should be completely clear about, introducing even one new dependency matters and needs to be thought through.
If someone is blasting in new dependencies that themselves have new dependencies and some of these overlap or are circular, and nothing is being baked down to standing alone it's going to end in heart break and disaster no matter what. That basically the opposite of modularity, a web of dependencies that can't be untangled. This applies to libraries and it applies on a smaller scale to things like classes.
If the goal of your dependency system is to discourage people from adding dependencies, then isn't supporting single-file libraries counterproductive because it makes it easier to add new dependencies?
Bratmon commented on Fennel libraries as single files (2023) andreyor.st/posts/2023-08... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I would argue that it's the opposite. It's "more complicated cases" that are designed to fit modern dependency management.
If the goal of your dependency system is to reduce the number of dependencies that library authors include, isn't encouraging people to make single-file libraries counterproductive?
For the communists isn’t this exactly what you want? State ownership of the means of production? Shouldn’t you be cheering Trump on for nationalizing corporations and/or industries or at least heading in that direction? Or is the primary criticism he isn’t nationalizing industries fast enough?
What we're seeing here is a situation in which favored firms are subsidized by the government in exchange for personal loyalty to the leader, but profits are still privatized. This is called the "fascist mode of production"