MoltenMan (u/MoltenMan)

MoltenMan commented on Good EU regulations actuallygoodregulations.e... · Posted by u/saubeidl

What would be the next better feature for a plug? It seems USB-C has it all except for being expensive on the port side with the muxers. Anything different would require tossing a bunch of still useful things. It supports fast charging and good data rates.

MoltenMan · 2 days ago

That's the entire problem though, isn't it? Now we'll never know.

The one thing I can think of off the top of my head is some sort of magnetic connection similar to macbook chargers to prevent damage when the cord gets pulled out. (Also I would like the USB-3 standard to not suck, but that's never happening and doesn't relate to the physical hardware anyways)

MoltenMan commented on Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live opuslabs.substack.com/p/l... · Posted by u/opuslabs

romesmoke · 15 days ago

I wouldn't have commented if the article kept neutral on when to apply its ideas. But the push for daily learning-reflecting-etc is there. Even the segment you're quoting uses days for accounting. You're downplaying one's potential to read something like this on the Internet and try to literally live by it.

As for machines and tyranny, they're terms capturing the Zeitgeist all too well.

MoltenMan · 14 days ago

> But the push for daily learning-reflecting-etc is there.

But this is a good thing; if I waste a day without learning or doing anything, I feel bad about myself. And I want to feel bad! Always pushing to improve myself has helped me immensely. It's easy to keep telling yourself 'oh, I'll do better tomorrow'; it's harder to actually do better tomorrow.

That's not to say you shouldn't take it easy on yourself every once in a while. But figuring out those exceptions isn't what this article is about, and it's certainly not a 'tyrannical' article. As a society I feel we have gone way too far in this direction; sometimes life is hard! Sometimes you have to do hard things! And often it will pay off later in life and you'll be glad you put in the work.

MoltenMan commented on Zig's Lovely Syntax matklad.github.io/2025/08... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

bscphil · 16 days ago

> Like Rust, Zig uses 'name' (':' Type)? syntax for ascribing types, which is better than Type 'name'

I'm definitely an outlier on this given the direction all syntactically C-like new languages have taken, but I have the opposite preference. I find that the most common reason I go back to check a variable declaration is to determine the type of the variable, and the harder it is to visually find that, the more annoyed I'm going to be. In particular, with statically typed languages, my mental model tends to be "this is an int" rather than "this is a variable that happens to have the type 'int'".

In Rust, in particular, this leads to some awkward syntactic verbosity, because mutable variables are declared with `let mut`, meaning that `let` is used in every declaration. In C or C++ the type would take the place of that unnecessary `let`. And even C (as of C23) will do type inference with the `auto` keyword. My tendency is to use optional type inference in places where needing to know the type isn't important to understand the code, and to specify the type when it would serve as helpful commentary when reading it back.

MoltenMan · 16 days ago

I much prefer Pascal typing because it

1. Allows type inference without a hacky 'auto' workaround like c++ and 2. Is less ambiguous parsing wise. I.e. when you read 'MyClass x', MyClass could be a variable (in which case this is an error) or a type; it's impossible to know without context!

MoltenMan commented on Jujutsu for busy devs maddie.wtf/posts/2025-07-... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

flockonus · a month ago

I legit ask myself how many folks avoid Github Desktop for some dogmatic reasoning equivalent to "having an UI makes it worse", when it does the core of common flows extremely easily and clear.

To be clear where it ties to this post: it makes git far more convenient with nearly 0 learning curve.

MoltenMan · a month ago

When I was first learning coding, git, etc. and had no clue how git worked I downloaded GitHub desktop and used that. It's true that I was much younger and less knowledgeable then so it's possible that's influencing me but man when you actually understand git the cli just feels so much smoother, cleaner, and faster. It really doesn't take much dedicated to time to learn the top 5 commands you'll use 95% of the time and if you don't know git currently I think it's probably one of the most leveraged ways you can spend your time.

MoltenMan commented on If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading? hardcoresoftware.learning... · Posted by u/whobre

gchamonlive · a month ago

I think it's the type of thing that the mere awareness of it counts a lot to counterweight the problem.

It's like when you are growing up and a certain type of behaviour that would work for socializing when you're 14 years old suddenly doesn't work anymore when you are 21. You learn about it when someone you trust brings you attention to it and suddenly you have the opportunity to reflect and change your behaviour.

The thing with AI that I really fear is the same with mind-altering drugs like Adderall. In some places you just can't afford the luxury of not using it without losing competitiveness (I think, never used it but I know of people that do with regularity).

So maybe we don't want to not read what we write, but sometimes there is a middle manager making you do it. Then it's a problem of context that awareness in itself doesn't help, maybe only in the long run.

MoltenMan · a month ago

> I think it's the type of thing that the mere awareness of it counts a lot to counterweight the problem.

I'm unfortunately not too optimistic about this. There are plenty of things that are bad for you that everyone is aware of: not exercising, eating junk food, spending all day online, etc. But so many people do these things anyways; the human mind is incredible at cheating itself to make things easier on itself, and I don't think this is an exception.

MoltenMan commented on The future of ultra-fast passenger travel spaceambition.substack.co... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

Philpax · a month ago

Aside from the people it's killed: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article310829260.html

(I love high-speed rail; I enjoy it in Europe. I think Brightline's implementation may need some work before it's scaled up.)

MoltenMan · a month ago

From what I've seen the majority of the deaths are either a. intentional or b. really not the trains fault. That's not to say it isn't horrible that it happens, but IMO the solution is train safety awareness (don't stop on a railway crossing!!!), and if anything building more high speed rail in the US will improve public awareness of how to be safe around trains.

MoltenMan commented on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected theconversation.com/avoid... · Posted by u/gnabgib

heavyset_go · 3 months ago

> On the other hand, blocking training on published information doesn’t make sense: If you don’t want your stuff to be read, don’t publish it!

There's a difference between reading something and ripping it off, no matter how you launder it.

MoltenMan · 3 months ago

I think the line is actually much blurrier than it might seem. Realistically everything is a remix of things people have done before; almost nothing is truly brand new. So why specifically are people allowed to build on humanity's past achievements, but not AI?