Colonialism is terrible because it deprived people from their right to self determination.
But somehow, when Russia organizes a coup against a democratically elected government in the 21st century, this is totally fine. Oh, yogthos, the public display of your cognitive dissonance is a wonder to witness day after day :)
If you target the same hardware in the end, why wouldn’t it be possible to have another language implement the same arithmetics with the same performance? I’m sure modern languages’ metaprogramming could enable that with a syntax that even sucks less…
we hated studying that shit
It’s a more than fine functional programming language if you ask me. Was that the functional aspect that you disliked? Or the syntax? Because in one case like the other I’ve got some bad news for you about what’s to come in the programming languages landscape :)
Who tf uses OCaml.
The rust compiler (initially), large financial companies, the energy sector, etc: practically anywhere functional programming shines
written by a Scala programmer
Any idea how Scala would rank? I have a hard time thinking it’d end up far away from Ruby.
I am unfortunate in that I am the owner of a pixel by choice, and given an iPhone by my employer. I hate Apple’s “exceptionalism” and inconsistencies, that they kept the lighting connector alive for so long, that they removed the audio jack even though I have good BY headphones, their constant bait for their ecosystem/cloud storage and whatnot, now this arbitrary cap on USB capabilities (the list is seemingly endless). iOS is also such a frustrating user experience. The perspective of typing long form on an iPhone is off-putting enough to often compel me to pick up the laptop or the pixel given how stupid the keyboard completion and text entry UX are. Don’t get me wrong, I also think Android is a terrible OS, but at least it’s not forcing its shortcomings down our throats. For instance, I use nova launcher and sesame shortcuts, so that I just type what I want (contacts, common actions, app-specific shortcuts, settings, directions, …) and barely do any menu/app navigation at all. And that’s what I want: to order my phone about my immediate needs and get immediate feedback/answers. Apple UX is about prettifying a workflow which I don’t want in the first place, stripping out elements of UX which I might need, and leveraging a hard to reach zoo of applications which never interact/complement each other. They really managed to turn an incredibly powerful device into a dumb phone. Did I mention already how frustrating the user experience is?
Why keep giving cloudflare a monopoly of the internet traffic? Isn’t the whole self-hosting movement about breaking out of the tech giants’ shenanigans and promoting a healthy alternative with a decentralized and robust internet?
Just a reminder that this is the result of the greenhouse gases emitted a generation ago, and that since we went from 355ppm to 420ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. The war in Ukraine and global food shortage is a blip in what’s to come.
No “love” from my side, I have thousands of users, not thousands of servers so that’s not a solution for any of my problems :)
Just use scala or any other decent JVM language then :)
You could just check my posts history before calling me a “tankie”, I even have this apparent habit of drawing hostility from anything lemmygrad and hexbear-related, which makes your comment extra funny.
Then if you could please point-out what exactly I wrote that makes you think that I am blaming her (or anyone?), and for what (?), that’d be helpful.
I know her works because they overlap with some of my hobbies, in other words, I “know” her for what she does, but not so much the side of her activism on social media. If I got myself trapped in some controversy, and that just mentioning some aspects of it is taboo, then so be it, I’ll make sure to stay away from the vendetta.
and what’s worse, you’re very wrong.
Fine, care to explain how? I’m legit curious (despite the hostile tone).
Regarding the Vice piece, here’s what you find in it:
But Wu’s form of activism can also be hostile and combative. She wields her impressive Twitter presence to confront people she disagrees with. I know this from personal experience, as Wu took issue with my reporting after I returned from China.
Wu told me she didn’t want to discuss her marital status, but before publishing the piece, I followed up with her.
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At the same time Wu responded to me, she started tweeting about VICE. Over the next several weeks, Wu publicly shopped our correspondence to journalists and tagged me, my former colleague, my editor, and VICE in dozens of tweets; her followers sent me many more.
In emails, Wu accused me of blackmailing her and writing a “hit piece.” Without having seen the story, she wrote that if I published the article under my byline, VICE “will throw you to the wolves.”
“If you don’t believe me, I’ll direct my tweets to your name- see if they come help under the VICE brand or make an excuse why they should stay out of it so they can blame you later for acting alone and cut you loose- with a reputation written where it can never be erased as the female journalist who signal-boosts harassment campaigns against women in tech,” she wrote.
Wu asked to see a draft of the story prior to publication, which we declined to do as it is against our editorial policy. She took issue with other standard editorial protocols, such as when a fact-checker reached out to other sources for this piece.
“We just need whatever article you vomit out to determine in just how many ways you violated basic journalistic ethics,” Wu wrote in an email to my editor.
I know this is one-sided, but if at least the chronology is correct, this seems overblown.
This other piece below mentions her not so recent history of activism “conflicting” with the law enforcement of her country, this predates Vice (2018):
https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes?
Ok, not to be pedant, but it’s her activism that got her in trouble, not Vice? Just trying to connect the dots between this message and the previous one.
Also, not defending Vice, I did read the article and it looks like Naomi freaked out and lashed at Vice on social media before she even got to read the piece about her, which might have Streisanded the same things she wanted to keep under the rug (ironically and to the point, despite having watched many videos of her, it’s your post that made me aware of the matter of her sexuality, which I suspect not many of her followers in the maker space care about).
Can you elaborate? To me it reads like she outed herself by going against tencent, or more probably/accurately, her government and one of its convenience spyware. She had already said for many years that she was under scrutiny, and her assumption was that her western followers would somehow compel the CCP to back off.
I’m not a hater, but for anyone paying attention that’s ludicrous. With her knowledge, she couldn’t be that naive.
And now they have Ukrainian-children rapists and murderers instead. Big fucking win.
Since everyone’s placing their favourite non-mainstream non-opensource forge, I don’t feel as bad simping for jetbrains space: https://www.jetbrains.com/space/
It packs a lot of the intelligence of their IDEs, which comes really handy.
Mainstream and open source, I’d go for heptapod, i.e. gitlab with mercurial support: https://heptapod.net/
Why mercurial? Because that’s everything you ever wanted git to be (with proper branching via topics, and convenient and safe history rewriting/traceability to collaborate on PRs).
Matches my experience. Not everything is bad about azure DevOps, but an awful lot is, and the platform is evolving at a glacially slow pace.
Generally that’s what you get when working at a Microsoft shop with bean counters at the helm: of course this is bundled with some other Microsoft product so you might have been paying for it in part by just breathing near a windows box with VS installed on it.
You can have a look at the communities there: https://programming.dev/communities
Any way they can find to shove even more azure in our faces, right? And later on “bundling is not monopoly abuse”
Edit: but we should love new Microsoft, because open source or something
Yeah, how about you read the damn article? This is mentioned:
The crew vehicle served the Soviet space program through 1991 and since then has been a mainstay for the country’s large space corporation, Roscosmos. The Soyuz is a hardy, generally reliable vehicle that NASA counted on for crew transport from 2011 to 2020, after the space shuttle’s retirement and before SpaceX’s Crew Dragon came into service.
The Soyuz spacecraft, as well as a lot of the country’s other satellites, launches into orbit on the Soyuz rocket. This vehicle dates back even a bit further, to 1966. Russian engineers have modified and modernized both the spacecraft and rocket over time, but they remain essentially the same space vehicles.
There’s nothing wrong with aging technology that works. However, there have been some issues of late with leaks and other problems that have raised serious questions about quality control and the ability of the Russians to manufacture these vehicles.
IOW, Russia lost a decades-long ability under the watch of Putin/his appointed cronies
Did you miss the whole article at the top of this thread, and detailed analysis it refers to? I’ll make it even simpler for you and save you one click:
https://blogs.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/prod/sites/5/2023/09/Sahel-Gabon-Coup-Playbook-PDF.pdf
The onus of the proof is on you to debunk this paper as fallacious, and I’d love to read your take on it.
The rest of your comment is just insults and doesn’t bring anything to the argument.