dingdingdang (u/dingdingdang)

dingdingdang commented on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues noheger.at/blog/2026/02/1... · Posted by u/erickhill

debesyla · 6 hours ago

Also MacOS completely crashes if you have ethernet cable connected and decide to also turn on the WiFi. No "hey, choose whatever you wish" or "hey, disconnect from ethernet first" errors, just complete crash to reboot, lol.

dingdingdang · 6 hours ago

I abandoned MacOS back in 2018 since I found it too quirky and poweruser-unfriendly (the main thing that comes to mind is neatly indicated by todays other MacOS related frontpage article on resizing). Now we can add overt instability to the list.

dingdingdang commented on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants blog.ncase.me/on-depressi... · Posted by u/mijailt

dingdingdang · 15 days ago

Confusing mg and IU units up front really do NOT inspire confidence on the topic and conclusion as a whole.

dingdingdang commented on Devuan – Debian Without Systemd devuan.org/... · Posted by u/smartmic

dingdingdang · 16 days ago

I use another distro but totally appreciate the effort to keep different branches of potential futures alive. Humans have a tendency, in tech and most other domains afaict, to put a lot of eggs in one basket because it's easier/allows-faster-moving-forward.. but that basket may have structural weaknesses that only shows once it has A LOT of eggs in it.

dingdingdang commented on Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives anthropic.com/research/an... · Posted by u/malshe

bilsbie · 22 days ago

Reminds me of psychohistory.

dingdingdang · 21 days ago

Never read the Foundation series, the concept of psychohistory makes me want to though!

dingdingdang commented on Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives anthropic.com/research/an... · Posted by u/malshe

dingdingdang · 22 days ago

The title actually cringes me out a bit, it reads like early report titles in academia where young students (myself no doubt incl back when) try their hardest at making a title sound clever but in actuality only achieve obscuration of their own material.

dingdingdang commented on Go away Python lorentz.app/blog-item.htm... · Posted by u/baalimago

skeledrew · a month ago

I'm pretty sure the gtk dependencies weren't built by Astral, which, yes, unfortunately means that it won't always just work, as they streamline their Python builds in... unusual ways. A few months ago I had a similar issue running a Tkinter project with uv, then all was well when I used conda instead.

dingdingdang · a month ago

Yeah.. this is exactly the overall reality of the ecosystem isn't it? That being said I do hope uv succeeds in their unification effort, there's nothing worse than relying on a smattering of diff package managers and built streams to get basic stuff working. It's like a messy workshop, it works but there's a implicit cost in terms of the lack of clarity and focus for the user. It's a cost I'm not willingly paying.

dingdingdang commented on Go away Python lorentz.app/blog-item.htm... · Posted by u/baalimago

PaulRobinson · a month ago

Mad genius stuff, this.

However... scripting requires (in my experience), a different ergonomic to shippable software. I can't quite put my finger on it, but bash feels very scriptable, go feels very shippable, python is somewhere in the middle, ruby is closer to bash, rust is up near go on the shippable end.

Good scripting is a mixture of OS-level constructs available to me in the syntax I'm in (bash obviously is just using OS commands with syntactic sugar to create conditional, loops and variables), and the kinds of problems where I don't feel I need a whole lot of tooling: LSPs, test coverage, whatever. It's languages that encourage quick, dirty, throwaway code that allows me to get that one-off job done the guy in sales needs on a Thursday so we can close the month out.

Go doesn't feel like that. If I'm building something in Go I want to bring tests along for the ride, I want to build a proper build pipeline somewhere, I want a release process.

I don't think I've thought about language ergonomics in this sense quite like this before, I'm curious what others think.

dingdingdang · a month ago

Talking about Python "somewhere in the middle" - I had a demo of a simple webview gtk app I wanted to run on vanilla Debian setup last night.. so I did the canonical-thing-of-the-month and used uv to instantiate a venv and pull the dependencies. Then attempted to run the code.. mayhem. Errors indicating that the right things were in place but that the code still couldn't run (?) and finally Python Core Dumped.. OK. This is (in some shape or form) what happens every single time I give Python a fresh go for an idea. Eventually Golang is more verbose (and I don't particularly like the mod.go system either) but once things compile.. they run. They don't attempt running or require xyz OS specific hack.

dingdingdang commented on Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster fidget-spinner.github.io/... · Posted by u/lumpa

Quitschquat · 2 months ago

Tbh, 15% faster than slow AF is still slow AF

dingdingdang · 2 months ago

Yup, but 5 to 15% faster year on year is real progress and that's ultimately what the big user base of Python are counting on at this point.. and they seem to be getting it! Full disclaimer: I'm not a heavy Python user exactly due to the performance and build/distribution situation - it's just sad from a user-end perspective (I'm not addressing centralised web deployment here but rather decentralised distribution which I ultimately find more "real" and rewarding).

dingdingdang commented on Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go rue-lang.dev/... · Posted by u/ingve

steveklabnik · 2 months ago

Something in the area of linear types and mutable value semantics.

dingdingdang · 2 months ago

Anything out there for reference or would you be implementing from theory/ideas here? God speed to you in terms of the project overall, it's exciting to see the beginnings of a rust-like-lang without the headaches!

dingdingdang commented on Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go rue-lang.dev/... · Posted by u/ingve

dingdingdang · 2 months ago

Any tentative ideas yet as to how you will manage the memory management? Sounds like a sort of magic 3rd way might be in the making/baking!