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RobKohr commented on Taxing Growth   equitileconversations.com... · Posted by u/Incerto
RobKohr · 7 days ago
Or maybe no one with interesting thoughts on anything would invest anything in a nation where if post anything online that might be slightly controversial you might go to jail and not even have the protection of a jury to balance out the overreach of government.

That and other things that are transforming it into a nanny state make it a hell no.

But yeah, it's nice you are lowering taxes and regulations on those who fall in line.

RobKohr commented on Advent of Code 2025   adventofcode.com/2025/abo... · Posted by u/vismit2000
fainpul · 17 days ago
Opinion poll:

Python is extremely suitable for these kind of problems. C++ is also often used, especially by competitive programmers.

Which "non-mainstream" or even obscure languages are also well suited for AoC? Please list your weapon of choice and a short statement why it's well suited (not why you like it, why it's good for AoC).

RobKohr · 17 days ago
I have been learning lua to do a VR game in lovr, so I'll probably use that to get sharper with it.
RobKohr commented on 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest   apnews.com/article/hungar... · Posted by u/gmays
gverrilla · 22 days ago
What an aggressive website: at the same time, there's 2 different popups, a display ad and a video ad playing without being activated. Doesn't AP make enough money selling news to news organizations? Disgusting.
RobKohr · 22 days ago
Underneath all of that mud there might be treasures.

Adblocking is the brush you need

RobKohr commented on Pebble Watch software is now open source   ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-... · Posted by u/Larrikin
RobKohr · 23 days ago
I look forward to a year or two from now when there will be dozens of pebble clones just rolling out of factories for the price of a midrange Casio watch.

This along with valve's hardware announcement is quite a shot at all the entreched hardware manufacturers.

RobKohr commented on A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2   mastodon.gamedev.place/@T... · Posted by u/AshleysBrain
account42 · 23 days ago
It did work with the Index at some point. Valve have been neglecting VR though (especially on Linux) so I wouldn't bet on it still working.
RobKohr · 23 days ago
Considering the upcoming release of Frame, a VR headset based on Linux, I feel this couldn't be a more untrue statement.

The real truth is they moved out of the game development space and embraced the game platform space letting their old products wither and die.

RobKohr commented on Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window   docs.x.ai/docs/models... · Posted by u/hereme888
behnamoh · a month ago
Who here actually uses Grok? It's sad to see Elon's arc but when he doubled down on some of his political ideas he had it coming with the Tesla sales going down and x.ai not taken seriously.

I've always tried to remain apolitical and unbiased but it's hard to overlook who's behind a technology you wanna buy. Not that sama and others are saints either, it's just Elon's very obvious and vocal about it.

It's a shame, really, because Grok is a good model. But Elon promised to open source the previous model and it took them forever to do that with Grok 3. Sorry, but I wanna buy from someone who keeps their promises ("FSD by next year").

RobKohr · a month ago
I like grok for noncoding stuff. I find it hasn't been tuned for "Safety" (meaning it isn't tuned much for political correctness). It also seems good at making images and stories up well. I run some choose your own adventures stories with my kids through it. We tell it who each of their characters are and what the theme is for the night and grok gives them each a section of story and 4 choices. They also have the option of choosing something different then suggested. We have it so it cycles around the turns for everyone. Works pretty well, and if the kids wanna go dark (preteen boy) grok doesn't mind the violence.

Kinda reminds me of the video game from enders game.

RobKohr commented on I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs   dev.karltryggvason.com/ho... · Posted by u/kalli
lukan · a month ago
RobKohr · a month ago
Awesome, thank you!
RobKohr commented on Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers   torrentfreak.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/iamnothere
pyrale · a month ago
> If US Trade Office can be leveraged to destroy internet censorship efforts in other countries, then so be it.

...But, of course, US corporations enforcing the same kind of censoring is a-OK, because corporations are people and their censorship is free speech.

I'll be open to your posititon the day Boticelli's Venus doesn't get censored on FB because there's a pair of tits somewhere on the painting.

RobKohr · a month ago
Facebook is a single website. Other websites can host it just fine.

This is the same as blocking content on your own forum or comment section on your blog. Yes fb is huge, but still just a website, and one with fading popularity.

Blocking ips on a network level is different.

RobKohr commented on I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs   dev.karltryggvason.com/ho... · Posted by u/kalli
RobKohr · a month ago
I love finding new music. Looks like now I can go find some far away clubs and listen to their djs while doing some coding.
RobKohr commented on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach   theverge.com/news/797051/... · Posted by u/PaulKeeble
MaxikCZ · 2 months ago
Its as if the big social media companies lobbied for extra redtape, eh?
RobKohr · 2 months ago
Large companies love regulation and red tape because it usually kills smaller competitors.

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