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    11 days ago

    Same for Estonian, which is why we need umlauts for letters that don’t exist in many other languages’ versions of the latin alphabet. But since we’re special snowflakes, we also have õ, which is such an uncommon letter in the world that we have a border sign on our biggest island to signify where the language border exists: On the mainland and most places we use õ, but people on Saaremaa people will use ö instead because they’re behind the times.

    We also have ž and š but they’re a bit less special, many european languages use them. Because how would you even know how to pronounce gelatine without writing it as želatiin?



  • Well I think it’s different for scientific discoveries where something is either found or not. Software and other products… There are niche things that may never exist without the author, and there are generic things that would be created in one form or another anyway. Once programming languages were a thing, general purpose high level languages were bound to happen IMO and there are infinite possible languages.



  • Oh wow I didn’t realize Pascal was even older than C, thought it showed up in like mid-70s or early 80s. To be fair I’ve ever only interacted with Delphi, not OG Pascal.

    While I don’t necessarily like C, I am happy for C-style syntax over Pascal-style, which I’ve also worked with. Give me braces over begin and end any day of the week.




  • Not to downplay dmr’s importance here because he quite literally is the father of modern computing, but without him we’d just have something else and perhaps it would’ve been a bit later. A different systems programming language and a different operating system everything else is modeled after. High-level programming languages weren’t a new concept when he wrote C. Before B they already had Fortran. Funny to call any of those High-level in 2026, but that’s the whole importance of C, isn’t it? It made writing complex systems easy compared to assembly languages or even fortran.

    I’m not gonna bother doing a writeup about Jobs, we all here know he made precisely Jack shit.


  • Completely vibe-coded project it seems, even documentation. And yet:

    Human-Origin Source License

    Also love this:

    You may not, without prior written permission from the Author:

    - ship or maintain a modified version outside the contribution-purpose
      rules;
    - maintain a divergent private or internal fork;
    - port, clone, rebrand, or recreate the Covered Software;
    - create an API-compatible replacement, behavioral clone, competing
      implementation, or Derivative Implementation; or
    - use AI-assisted implementation mining to create, improve, test,
      document, or validate a Derivative Implementation.
    

    Look, I use AI too (mostly to speed things up by working on multiple items in parallel), but I’m not gonna stuff “human-origin source license” on anything I use it for, nor do I think creating API-compatible replacements, competing implementations, etc, should reasonably be possible to block with a license… Also, quite literally, he’s creating tools for reverse engineering, which in itself is generally in breach of the license of whatever software is being reverse engineered. Fuck off and use a FOSS license, whether it be permissive or copyleft…


  • This is… uh…

    It reads like the author doesn’t know what containers are. Because this is actually a great use case for containers unless I’m missing something.

    Now, do I want reverse engineering software from someone who in 2026 doesn’t know of a better way to manage dependencies than “tell AI to install everything”? Not particularly lol

    Also:

    Install Eclipse Adoptium 21: https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=21

    It’s Eclipse Temurin not Eclipse Adoptium. And why not install from distro repo?

    Install from https://cmake.org/download/

    Also why not from distro repo?

    Install Visual Studio 2022, or apt install build-essential / xcode-select --install

    NOW distro repo is fine, but only if you use an APT based distro?

    and then 3 more dependencies it tells the agent to install from websites.

    The weirdest thing is you can get much better results from AI. I’m 99% sure this person gave the AI particularly bad instructions to generate the install instructions, or used a cheap, crappy model.




  • I’ve always had a bad diet. In my late teens I was physically active and had a super high libido, which till I got my first girlfriend meant jerking it and when I got my first girlfriend, we did it up to 5 times a day (though usually less). Mid 20s I was single most of the time and, you guessed it, took care of my own needs. Late 20s, in a relationship, my libido had decreased considerably, I did think maybe it was all the masturbation, but looking back, there was a lot of stress and my weight was the highest it has ever been.

    Now I’m in my 30s, dumped my ex-wife, have lost some of the weight, am more physically active again and it’s summertime. Had some kinda thing last winter that didn’t turn into a real relationship, went 3 times a day with her when she stayed at my place and still wanted more. Now it’s summer, I’m more active physically and I’m even hornier.

    Excessive masturbation has had precisely zero long-term effect on me. Short term? Absolutely. But long term, the thing that has affected me the most has been physical activity, body weight, stress level, and surprisingly enough, the seasons. Lots of difference between wintertime here with 6 hour days and mostly overcast skies, everything is muddy, etc… vs middle of June, there’s basically no darkness, sun sets at 10 PM and rises at 3 AM, but it doesn’t even get dark between sunset and sunrise… There’s just so much excess energy. August is even warmer than June, but at least we have nights now.


  • World runs on them though. I don’t mean business to consumer shit, all that can rot in hell. I mean business to business. There’s shit out there that’s incredibly niche, takes a ton of effort to develop, and there’s no way it would ever be achieved without a huge financial incentive (because it’s just so niche and it turns out paying tens or hundreds of people takes money). And someone’s gotta pay the people writing all your open source code so most of them need day jobs anyway, which will be difficult to have without any commercial software existing. Sometimes the “all our code is GPL, but you can pay us to host it for you” model works, but a lot of the time it doesn’t.