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FpUser··on GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
This is what I do. If however I wanted to do some open source I would definitely copy releases to GitHub as well
FpUser··on The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)
Never ben to Kyrgyzstan. In Uzbekistan - yes lots of meat but also superb veggies and fruits.
FpUser··on The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)
I did learn few things, everyone loves my Plov ;) No shortage of ingredients in Toronto and proper cookware.
FpUser··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
>"non-submersible" - this right away excludes it from even considering for my use.
FpUser··on The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)
I spent about a year of my life in Uzbekistan. Food there is pure heaven
FpUser··on Our position on open-weights models
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FpUser··on Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]
I have business oriented C++ backend where I use mostly OOP but also use DoD in few critical places that do a lot of calculations over big chunks of data. It is simpler than for games since I only need high average performance, not real time 60 or whatever FPS with no jitter.
FpUser··on Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]
>"Nonsensical levels of generality is one of the classic OOP pathologies"

I think it has nothing to do with OOP which I find very convenient for some domains and not so much or even opposite for others. These "Nonsensical levels" of anything is a disease which is called Architecture Astronauts Syndrome and victims apply it to any paradigm

FpUser··on I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated
>"...but damned if I could find one with a red seven-segment display that I liked..."

Funny but I have one which updates time "via the cosmic ether", has big red 7-seg LEDs and as cherry on top it has laser LED based projector that displays same big red 7 seg digits on whatever surface one points it to - ceiling in my case. I bought it decades ago in RadioShack

FpUser··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
>"something has to change for Putin for him to remain in power, and one option is an escalation with NATO"

I think us couch experts including author of that particular video have no fucking clue what he will do and what the true state of affairs is. Had all those expert prediction materialized Russia would've already disintegrated 10 times and Putin would've lost power in a first months.

FpUser··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
>"Putin on his own is something Europe should easily be able to handle as long as they've got Ukraine on their side."

500+ million people and corresponding economy needs Ukraine to protect themselves? this is just plain pathetic or what's worse proof that the EU would fight Russia to the last Ukrainian

FpUser··on A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras
Spying on citizens just in case. Reminds me some countries.
FpUser··on India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
>"AFAIK space is still exactly the same, at least in the US." - I believe he is talking about countries other than the US
FpUser··on Em dashes are amazing
I think Em-dashes are fucking useless and confusing.
FpUser··on Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds
This is a gem. And I loved the music
FpUser··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
>"China has violently annexed sovereign countries in the past decades."

An outright lie. The only possible candidate is Tibet but it's former sovereignty is very questionable and not clear cut

FpUser··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
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FpUser··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
>"Anthropic was just fined for not paying for the pirated books they copied into a training database."

Normal person would be sitting in jail for doing same thing. It is a shame they call it justice.

FpUser··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
>"banning Americans from downloading Chinese open-weight models" - land of free is being even more so
FpUser··on Understanding the AI Economy
>"we as a society must work together" - this is really rich. do they say the same about sharing the "benefits"
FpUser··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
I do not block posts and I never downvote.
FpUser··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
>"1) its not illegal (it is)"

I am a practical man. From what I see laws are mostly for common folks and often do not even serve real justice. The higher one goes and the amount of money / power involved the more the laws bend and on international level the only law that matters is the size of one's club and willingness to use it. And when the country with supposedly biggest one starts crying I find it laughable.

FpUser··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
>"A lack of prosecution does not make something legal"

Plainly who gives a flying fuck. The US can claim whatever rules they want and so can China or any other country. On international level all those rules are artificial constructs unless they can be enforced. China can just say for example that they do not recognize copyrights /patents / whatever so it is "legal" for them.

FpUser··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
Or when one country can print endless money while threatening the rest of the world with all kinds of punishment if they stop using it as a reserve currency.

Stop crying already. US subsidizes a boatload of things.

FpUser··on Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU
>"Rust may be verbose, but at least you can read it without turning into a cynical greybeard subject matter expert first."

Actually stuff like fn, mut etc. feels like mutilation to me. I guess it is highly individual.

FpUser··on Why Vanilla JavaScript
Team or not makes no difference.

Front ends works like this - main app split into few smaller ones callable from a menu. Each sub-app is dynamically imported module (no need for building, code mutilation, direct dependency etc). Sub-apps in turn can consist from the other sub apps. Each can be worked on completely independently by different team member with virtually no interaction needed. Apps can share some approved libraries (like for graphics etc) and HTML components responsible for particular bits and pieces. Components and libs go into common pool. Once component is in a pool modifying behavior is punishable by death. Only internals. If change is breaking then simply new version is developed and deployed.

The whole thing is super scalable organization wise (nearly everything is decoupled) and resource wise as well since everything is loaded strictly on on need basis.

FpUser··on Why Vanilla JavaScript
>"frameworks scale and provide structure"

Web Components and vanilla JS scale just as well. Been doing this for ages.

FpUser··on 'There Is No Going Back': The Inside Story of Europe's Rupture with America
>" ally-ship was getting too one sided"

unless you consider the world accepting USD as the reserve currency which is enormous "one sided" gift to the US. I remember how hysterical orange went with various threats when the idea of dedollarisation had started to get any roots.

FpUser··on 'There Is No Going Back': The Inside Story of Europe's Rupture with America
>"copying already proven solutions, such as AWS"

Who says that copying AWS is any good. Some version of it sure is useful but the rest is nothing but arm twisting half of the world into idea that they should be paying huge rent to a giant corporation for the things that can and should easily be done without. Corporations like this are a threat to security.

FpUser··on Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)
Actually modern rendering might involve GPU
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