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vincentkriek commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental   lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
amiga386 · 9 days ago
Does this mean that all architectures that Linux supports but Rust doesn't are straight in the bin?
vincentkriek · 9 days ago
No, Rust is in the kernel for driver subsystems. Core linux parts can't be written in Rust yet for the problem you mention. But new drivers *can* be written in Rust
vincentkriek commented on Why I (Still) Love Linux ?   it-notes.dragas.net/2025/... · Posted by u/signa11
travisgriggs · 24 days ago
Like the author, I am saddened by systemd. I'm not rabidly opposed to it. I use it because Debian uses it and I like debian. And in some ways, I like the consistency better than the plethora of init script/run levels I used to have to deal with. But it does lack (to me) the Unix gestalt of having composable little pieces that could be pretty well put together and are each individually documentable and compose well in conceptual space as well. There was less surprises and nuanced side effects.
vincentkriek · 24 days ago
As an init manager, systemd is the best thing that has happened to the wider linux ecosystem. Being able to indicate dependencies, document order and being able to let an application tell the init manager it is done and dependents of it can be started makes starting up way better.

I understand the downsides people have of systemd, but I have the feeling the huge upside is often overlooked.

vincentkriek commented on Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia   cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch... · Posted by u/piskov
magicalhippo · 2 months ago
> Netherlands AND Holland? Isn't that the same place?

Holland is part of the Netherlands. Not unlike how say Texas is part of the United States.

So in that regard the statement was redundant, yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland

vincentkriek · 2 months ago
And ASML is not in Holland, nor is Nexperia or ASMI. I can't think of any semiconductor business in "Holland".
vincentkriek commented on Libghostty is coming   mitchellh.com/writing/lib... · Posted by u/kingori
WD-42 · 3 months ago
How is this not driving things forward? It's the best terminal emulator I've ever used.
vincentkriek · 3 months ago
The person you replied to agreed, but the maintenance could be done by other people while Hashimoto could continue to improve other technologies.
vincentkriek commented on How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)   michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure
gigatexal · 7 months ago
I want to like NixOS I just hate the language — idk maybe I’m in the minority. Give me a functional language like F# or some better DSL that builds a DAG and then you’re golden.
vincentkriek · 7 months ago
The language and the compiler infrastructure is for me the biggest problem. It's very hard to understand what is going wrong when it goes wrong. Most advice feel like copy pasting existing code without knowing what it does.

Learning this also complicates things as I am feeling overwhelmed with all the things needed for simple configuration structures instead of starting out with a simple program.

vincentkriek commented on Calibre 8.0   calibre-ebook.com/whats-n... · Posted by u/thawawaycold
theshrike79 · 9 months ago
I think you can use Calibre-web as a "store" for Kobo devices pretty easily (basically swap one URL in a config file on the device).

I gave up on the synced reading position at the same time I sold my Kindle, but I can live with that.

Getting stuff on the device is a bit of a hassle too, because I can't exactly go plug it in to my NAS, but exporting 50+ books to a directory and copying them manually takes a few minutes and I'm set for a year or more - so it's time well spent :D

Having everything (except for comics) consolidated in one place is the main reason I tolerate Calibre's quirks and eccentricities. It's ... opinionated, but it's still by far the best tool available for the price.

vincentkriek · 9 months ago
Kobo Sync as it's called in the documentation (https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio...) works very well, and is very easily enabled (updating a single line in a config file on the ereader that appears when you mount it on your computer).

It will convert books to Kepub automatically and you can select to only sync certain shelfs.

vincentkriek commented on Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail   maragu.dev/blog/go-is-my-... · Posted by u/markusw
dsfasfd · a year ago
Not having operator overload making the code more readable is the same argument that was brought up with generics and it is still false.

Go does have operator overloading, for example + is overloaded for float.., int.. and even non numeric types like string.

And it does so for a very good reason: having operator overloading makes code much more readable when used correctly. It's just that the language designers didn't trust their users.

As long as you know the types of x and y you always know precisely what x + y does, same as you know what x.Add(y) does. There's no difference.

vincentkriek · a year ago
There is no difference to a .Add() function, that's true but even for strings you wouldn't have an Add function. It would be an Append() most likely which explains much more what is happening.

And verbosity helps, forcing users verbosity helps the general level of quality. Programmers could overestimate themselves and think they are doing it correctly. Looking back in my code from a year ago I see things I should have done differently. I like languages that avoid me making real dumb mistakes

vincentkriek commented on WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side   webvm.io/... · Posted by u/sebg
Mutjake · a year ago
IRC <3 Still daily driving it with some friends. I wouldn’t be surprised if my Discord chat history was unavailable in a decade, so IRC is a nice option to run on the side. There’s value in simplicity, and I admit the risk of sounding like a tech hipster.
vincentkriek · a year ago
IRC has no chat history either, right. I get the simplicity of IRC but searchable history is a bonus for Discord. As long as the service is available, searching is kinda possible. With irc you have to find out which bot provides history, which is then usually split over multiple files
vincentkriek commented on My (Neo)Vim workflow   seniormars.com/posts/neov... · Posted by u/Hadi7546
29athrowaway · a year ago
You can map most actions in an IDE to a key combination.

And IDEs have integrated terminal panes as well.

vincentkriek · a year ago
Never said it can't be good in an IDE. But there is something that draws people to vim, which isn't just the cool factor. IDEs often even have vim modes but vim itself is a nicer editor.

Same way an IDE is a nicer debugger, linter, profiler, test run platform...

u/vincentkriek

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