nix-zarathustra (u/nix-zarathustra)

nix-zarathustra commented on Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/rbanffy

kuerbel · 15 days ago

I live in Germany and I'm not afraid of Russia. If they had more manpower they would have overrun Ukraine by now. They do not. I'm not saying it would be an easy fight, but Russia stands no chance. Not even with Belarus on their side or some other satellite states.

nix-zarathustra · 14 days ago

That's foolish. If Russia wins in Ukraine, they would have the two strongest armies in Europe. European states simply don't have enough ordinances and gear to survive a long war.

nix-zarathustra commented on Lessons Men Learn Too Late in Life, According to Miyamoto Musashi newtraderu.com/2025/11/14... · Posted by u/begueradj

nix-zarathustra · a month ago

More AI blog slop

nix-zarathustra commented on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized cnn.com/2025/10/02/middle... · Posted by u/nashashmi

softwaredoug · 3 months ago

> the US is slowly distancing itself.

Public opinion in the US has turned against Israel, yes. Trump doesn't care about public opinion. He'll be buddy-buddy to Netanyahu other than symbolic acts of distancing / reprimanding.

nix-zarathustra · 3 months ago

Trump is also "buddy-buddy" with a lot of the Gulf States, in fact, he probably likes them more because they have more money to give him. If Israel does something they don't like, such as bomb Qatar, Trump can swing against Israel.

nix-zarathustra commented on Bluesky Issues Warning to Any Users Celebrating Charlie Kirk Assassination newsweek.com/bluesky-char... · Posted by u/SilverElfin

harimau777 · 3 months ago

That doesn't work in practice when platforms like BlueSky serve as the defacto public square.

nix-zarathustra · 3 months ago

BlueSky is more a shopping mall than a public square: anyone can enter, but security can escort you out if you start causing an uproar.

nix-zarathustra commented on End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn

munksbeer · 4 months ago

In the UK, most of our elected MPs are idiots. I cannot imagine they're anywhere near intelligent enough to be part of some sophisticated conspiracy while on the face of it saying "save the children". So it can't be coming from the MPs. If this is all a cover for full government control, where is it coming from? Who is doing the push and how are they keeping it secret?

nix-zarathustra · 4 months ago

You can be malicious and incompetent. The only reason we know about project mkultra was because parts of the project were misfiled in the wrong place and were stumbled upon by accident.

nix-zarathustra commented on Lossless video compression using Bloom filters github.com/ross39/new_blo... · Posted by u/rh3939

metadat · 7 months ago

Does Postgres support Lisp?

nix-zarathustra · 7 months ago

No, but it has a stutter.

nix-zarathustra commented on Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992) openculture.com/2025/04/i... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

aszantu · 8 months ago

Funny thing About Asimov was how he came up with the laws of robotics and then cases on how they don't work. There are a few that I remember, one where a robot was lying because a bug in his brain gave him empathy and he didn't want to hurt humans.

nix-zarathustra · 8 months ago

>he came up with the laws of robotics and then cases on how they don't work. There are a few that I remember, one where a robot was lying because a bug in his brain gave him empathy and he didn't want to hurt humans.

IIRC, none of the robots broke the laws of robotics, rather they ostensibly broke the laws but the robots were later investigated to have been following them because of some quirk.

nix-zarathustra commented on 'Trump Gaza' AI video intended as political satire, says creator theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/beardyw

Protostome · 10 months ago

Turkey took millions of Syrian refugees, Germany in particular and a lot of european countries accepted many more from all over the middle east.

Food for thought why Egypt and Jordan refuse to ease the sufferring of Gazans by offering them temporary refugee statuses, until Hamas is eradicated and they could live in Gaza happily ever after.

nix-zarathustra · 10 months ago

> Food for thought why Egypt and Jordan refuse to ease the sufferring of Gazans by offering them temporary refugee statuses, until Hamas is eradicated and they could live in Gaza happily ever after.

Historically, Palestinians have destablized those countries. Palestinians assassinated the King of Jordan[1] and a Prime Minister[2]. Not to mention the instability in Lebanon from Palestinian migrants [3]. Eventually Jordan had to expel the Palestinians from Jordan. [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_I_of_Jordan#Assassina...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Wasfi_Tal

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September

nix-zarathustra commented on Ask HN: Why Does the US President Have So Much Control over Foreign Policy? · Posted by u/perfmode

JohnFen · 10 months ago

The President isn't "head of government". He's the head of the executive branch. He's not in charge of the other two branches.

nix-zarathustra · 10 months ago

The President is effectively Head of Government, since he can veto any bill (unless rare ocassion that congress overrules, but requires large majority). The President basically sets the agent for policy about what can get passed in congress because of this.

nix-zarathustra commented on I still like Sublime Text ohdoylerules.com/workflow... · Posted by u/james2doyle

ben-schaaf · a year ago

Sublime Text developer here, thank you for all the praise! I'm looking forward to what we can accomplish this year. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer.

nix-zarathustra · a year ago

1. You've said that the UI system is tightly coupled with the text editor. What are the benefits to this? How difficult was it to use the UI system with sublime merge?

2. How are you able to maintain stability of the application? Do you have an extensive test suite? What QA do you have in place?

2a. How do you ensure that there is no regression in editor performance?

3. Sublime text is almost 2 decades old. How has the code based evolved since then? Does it have a lot of technical debt, or has the core of the editor aged well and remains relatively unchanged?