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mg74 commented on How to build a coding agent   ghuntley.com/agent/... · Posted by u/ghuntley
akk0 · 10 days ago
That seems like a leaky implementation detail to me, for a published piece.
mg74 · 10 days ago
You should learn to be grateful for what other people do on their own time and demand nothing from you for you to benefit from it.
mg74 commented on Apple lacks strategic vision   unherd.com/2025/08/time-i... · Posted by u/retskrad
izacus · a month ago
That was 5 years ago and the chips themselves are much older than that. They can't skate on that forever, especially since the competition caught up.
mg74 · a month ago
Where has the competition caught up? Arent Apple's chips still by far best-in-class from the laptop down to the watch?

Its an honest question, I would love an arm based laptop running NixOS that is competitive with the upcoming M5 Pro's but I dont see it anywhere.

Case in point: Google's newest Google TV box (released this year) is an absolute turd when compared with an 8 year old 4k Apple TV box.

mg74 commented on Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/mdhb
mettamage · 3 months ago
IMO the US needs proportional representation, not a 2 party system. But I'm Dutch, so I'm biased as we have exactly that.
mg74 · 3 months ago
Hard agree. The first-past-the-post single representative election system that is the foundation of the two party system in the US is breaking the country. It encourages politics where the current winner has no reason nor expectation of compromising on anything; now is their time and they are justified in breaking everything the previous winners did. It encourages politicians to act like babies, not grownups.
mg74 commented on Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023)   stevana.github.io/erlangs... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
travisgriggs · 5 months ago
I mostly prefer the Elixir syntax. But I don’t care for all of the “ends”. Wish they had taken more inspiration from Python in that department.
mg74 · 5 months ago
And I am grateful for the ends, wish Python had them as well. Python already marks the start of every block with a :, one more keyword and the semantic whitespace madness could end.
mg74 commented on GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search   github.blog/changelog/202... · Posted by u/julius-fx
joshSzep · 7 months ago
this happens after I've moved everything to height. downside is it was a lot of work. upside is height is amazing and I'm pleased with the choice. anyone else using it?
mg74 · 7 months ago
what is height?
mg74 commented on Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?   mikegalsworthy.substack.c... · Posted by u/mariuz
mg74 · 8 months ago
Your nations politics are depressing enough from afar; I would not choose to have it affect me more directly than it does now.
mg74 commented on We're forking Flutter   flutterfoundation.dev/blo... · Posted by u/alexzeitler
bhaney · 10 months ago
Process groups, some solid performance tweaks to ETS and Mnesia, etc. It all got upstreamed or became redundant eventually. Rick Reed gave a couple talks about it around a decade ago if you can track down recordings.
mg74 · 10 months ago
Thank you
mg74 commented on We're forking Flutter   flutterfoundation.dev/blo... · Posted by u/alexzeitler
zerr · 10 months ago
Modified Erlang. Genuine one didn't scale.
mg74 · 10 months ago
How so? Is there anything on what changes they made to Erlang/BEAM?
mg74 commented on Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill   drew.silcock.dev/blog/eve... · Posted by u/chmaynard
pansa2 · a year ago

    >>> from __future__ import braces
    SyntaxError: not a chance

mg74 · a year ago
Thank you, but I rather not inject a tool that hasn't been updated in 6 years into my build chain. Thats how we do things in the Javascript world and frankly it sucks.
mg74 commented on Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill   drew.silcock.dev/blog/eve... · Posted by u/chmaynard
stavros · a year ago
I don't have this problem, and I've been writing Python for more than twenty years. Sure, I may have the occasional wrong space somewhere, but it's maybe a few times a month, whereas I'd otherwise have to type "end" for every single block.
mg74 · a year ago
I dont think this is a problem anymore in todays world of LSPs and auto formatters. I almost never have to type "end" in Elixir for instance, it is always autocompleted for me.

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