netbioserror (u/netbioserror)

netbioserror commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01

alexfromapex · 4 days ago

People don't realize that all of our problems lately are stemming from lack of truly representative government. Until we find a way to ensure political candidates aren't corrupt and bought off, there will always be corruption, double standards, and lack of accountability from them.

netbioserror · 4 days ago

Colossally awful take. Corruption is an intractable problem in human history. Power is a magnet for the worst people, and every system we invent can be exploited in innumerable ways. The only variable is how long the people of any individual society can remain free and prosperous before their decline. Temporary recoveries have only happened by lopping off massive chunks of empire, implementing extreme monetary reforms, and/or a switch to full autocracy. Every other outcome is terminal decline.

netbioserror commented on Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video] youtube.com/watch?v=-vGE0... · Posted by u/evakhoury

netbioserror · 11 days ago

The feature list here has significant overlap with Nim. Maybe we need a website that categorizes languages with feature tags, so we can visualize the overlap!

netbioserror commented on The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen github.com/quaadgras/grap... · Posted by u/Splizard

netbioserror · 18 days ago

I've been statically linking Nim binaries with musl. It's fantastic. Relatively easy to set up (just a few compiler flags and the musl toolchain), and I get an optimized binary that is indistinguishable from any other static C Linux binary. It runs on any machine we throw it at. For a newer-generation systems language, that is a massive selling point.

netbioserror commented on Show HN: A small programming language where everything is pass-by-value github.com/Jcparkyn/herd... · Posted by u/jcparkyn

netbioserror · 19 days ago

Nim has a similar, strong preference for value semantics. However, its dynamic heap types (strings, seqs, tables) are all implemented as wrappers that hide the internal references and behave with value semantics by default, unless explicitly escape hatched. It makes it incredibly easy to manipulate almost any data in a functional, expression-oriented manner, while preserving the speed and efficiency of being backed by a doubling array-list.

netbioserror commented on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025) jpmorgan.com/insights/glo... · Posted by u/andsoitis

JumpCrisscross · 24 days ago

> Say what you will about how dated a gold standard is, but it forces immediate fiscal responsibility upon governments

We were on metal standards for millenia. Governments routinely spent beyond their means, including for imperial aims. This is like four centuries of Roman history.

netbioserror · 24 days ago

What @cheeseomlit said, plus: During the Age of Exploration/Colonization, competing European powers each minted metal currencies and couldn't reasonably debase their metals without immediately being out-competed (which is why the trusted purity of Spanish gold and silver coinage slowly dominated). The primary mode of failure for those empires was bankruptcy via war. The impossibly high cost of fielding armies around the globe was laid bare during that era. Paper money lets us (funnily enough) paper those costs over and live with the illusion that it's all a free lunch. But what we're actually doing today is debasement, and eating, vociferously, all of the deflationary efficiency gains won by 20th century technological progress.

netbioserror commented on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025) jpmorgan.com/insights/glo... · Posted by u/andsoitis

touwer · 24 days ago

The US century is already over. It's just that a lot of US citizens don't see that. De-dollarization will happen when one is a traitor to it's allies

netbioserror · 24 days ago

There are also many Americans who have always desired de-dollarization, since the dollar has been the foundation of our imperial system and abuses of state power. Say what you will about how dated a gold standard is, but it forces immediate fiscal responsibility upon governments; fiat currencies defer responsibility, turning it into a Sword of Damocles that catastrophically falls upon future generations. You trade geopolitical dominance now for guaranteed future withering. Of course, fiscal responsibility and the rejection of imperial ambition were core principles of the Anti-Federalists, Democratic-Republicans, and Whigs. It's baked into our history and tradition to not want to be the unilateral arbiters of a global trade and alliance system.

netbioserror commented on jQuery 4 blog.jquery.com/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/OuterVale

netbioserror · a month ago

I was surprised that for most of my smaller use cases, Zepto.js was a drop-in replacement that worked well. I do need to try the jQuery slim builds, I've never explored that.

netbioserror commented on Maggots, an efficient source of protein smithsonianmag.com/scienc... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

netbioserror · a month ago

You can also feed the maggots to chickens.

netbioserror commented on Is Rust faster than C? steveklabnik.com/writing/... · Posted by u/vincentchau

netbioserror · a month ago

The real question at the core of any production: What's the minimum performance cost we can pay for abstractions that substantially boost development efficiency and maintainability? Just like in other engineering fields, the product tuned to yield the absolute maximum possible value in one attribute makes crippling sacrifices along other axes.

netbioserror commented on Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C github.com/z-libs/Zen-C... · Posted by u/simonpure

Lucasoato · a month ago

> Mutability

> By default, variables are mutable. You can enable Immutable by Default mode using a directive.

> //> immutable-by-default

> var x = 10; > // x = 20; // Error: x is immutable

> var mut y = 10; > y = 20; // OK

Wait, but this means that if I’m reading somebody’s code, I won’t know if variables are mutable or not unless I read the whole file looking for such directive. Imagine if someone even defined custom directives, that doesn’t make it readable.

netbioserror · a month ago

Yeah, immutability should probably use a `let` keyword and compiler analysis should enforce value semantics on those declarations.