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tombert commented on Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25   mfbmina.dev/en/posts/wait... · Posted by u/mfbmina
tombert · 32 minutes ago
Forgive a bit of ignorance, it's been a bit since I've touched Go, but this looks awfully similar to a Java CountdownLatch [1]. Is this just a glorified Go port of that or am I missing something vital here?

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurre...

tombert commented on Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine   github.com/librebox-devs/... · Posted by u/libreboxdevs
danieldk · an hour ago
It's just silly gatekeeping. E.g. LibreSSL is permissively-licensed and is from 2014.
tombert · 40 minutes ago
Yeah fair enough. Pedantry about names can get silly.
tombert commented on Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads   libreantisocial.com... · Posted by u/rododecba
ceroxylon · an hour ago
Interesting, but after my initial impressions I predict the results of the experiment will be "this is why we can't have nice things"
tombert · 43 minutes ago
I feel like this experiment has already kind of been run with 4chan and 8kun, which are sort of famous for their awfulness.
tombert commented on Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine   github.com/librebox-devs/... · Posted by u/libreboxdevs
LtdJorge · 3 hours ago
Libre means free. MIT gives more freedom than copyleft.
tombert · an hour ago
I think they're saying that "Libre" typically implies Copyleft, with a GPL or AGPL or MPL License. Something that (in some cases) forces you to make your changes available.

LibreOffice, for example, is Mozilla Public Licensed, which is a weak copyleft, like LGPL (I think).

tombert commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
tombert · 21 hours ago
Any reason to think that Trump didn't just buy a bunch of options before demanding this?
tombert commented on FFmpeg 8.0   ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8... · Posted by u/gyan
JadoJodo · a day ago
I don't know a huge amount about video encoding, but I presume this is one of those libraries outlined in xkcd 2347[0]?

[0] - https://xkcd.com/2347/

tombert · a day ago
Yeah I think pretty much everything that involves video on Linux or FreeBSD in 2025 involves FFmpeg or Gstreamer, usually the former.

It’s exceedingly good software though, and to be fair I think it’s gotten a fair bit of sponsorship and corporate support.

tombert commented on FFmpeg 8.0   ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8... · Posted by u/gyan
porridgeraisin · a day ago
Personally I never understood the problem with tar balls.

The only options you ever need are tar -x, tar -c (x for extract and c for create). tar -l if you wanna list, l for list.

That's really it, -v for verbose just like every other tool if you wish.

Examples:

  tar -c project | gzip > backup.tar.gz
  cat backup.tar.gz | gunzip | tar -l
  cat backup.tar.gz | gunzip | tar -x
You never need anything else for the 99% case.

tombert · a day ago
Yeah I never really understood why people complain about tar; 99% of what you need from it is just `tar -xvf blah.tar.gz`.
tombert commented on The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off   wsj.com/business/media/th... · Posted by u/andsoitis
Melatonic · 2 days ago
I feel like there's a funny Onion article version of this story :-D
tombert · 2 days ago
Traveling Businessman Makes QA Automator After Mistaking Joke Newspaper For Reality.
tombert commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
esaym · 2 days ago
There were quite a few small ISP's in the 1990's. Even Bill Gothard[0] had one.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/19990208003742/http://characterl...

tombert · 2 days ago
At a previous job I worked under a guy who started his own ISP in the early 90’s. I would have loved to have been part of that scene but I was only like four when that happened.
tombert commented on The contrarian physics podcast subculture   timothynguyen.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/Emerson1
cycomanic · 2 days ago
Exactly she used to say this all the time and now she's weighing in on topics ranging from EVs to nuclear power to 5G causing cancer (yes she did a show on that, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOvAZPHDogs and she was peddling to the "sceptic" crowd by saying that "she doesn't have any reason to believe that it's is unsafe, but ..." and pointing to doctors saying smoking was save in the 50s).
tombert · 2 days ago
Yeah, I remember the 5G one and it kind of upset me.

Obviously people can have opinions on anything, and of course you can't be an expert on everything, but I feel like what Sabine does goes beyond "having an opinion"; she seems to have pivoted into fear-mongering about academia. I don't love academia either, and I have my criticisms of how it is run in the US, but I think a lot of my complaints can largely be explained by incompetence at the administrative level, not a grand conspiracy to control narratives or suppress questions or anything like that.

Granted, the research I've worked on has been pretty apolitical [1], mostly mathy computer science stuff, so maybe I was never at a risk of my research being suppressed, but I certainly don't think that Eric Weinstein is being censored by no one taking his attempt at Unified Field Theory seriously.

[1] Yes I know everything can be political. You don't need to explain this to me.

u/tombert

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