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I have experience with elderly trying to use a mobile phone. No, not a smart phone, just a basic brick before smart phone was a thing. It was painful to see how incapable of retaining the most basic information they were. So no, the web is no the problem. The common denominator is age and loss of neuroplasticity.

wtf? 10 lines of hello world code is not a kernel.

I don't think it's any different than product hunt. Nobody cares because the market saturation reached critical mass.

It's not about clicking, it's about time spent on the platform, looking for what you're actually after. The longer it takes you, the bigger their attention numbers get and the more ads they can show you.

Because google decided to prioritise profit above all, so all their services were made to keep you engaged - more searching, more clicking, more viewing, more time wasting....by giving you bad results, forcing you to work for it and stay on their platforms.

The entire US economy stands on AI hype. There is nothing else. Once it pops, USA will finally go into stagflation. The markets were rigged for way too long and the dollar has overstayed its welcome. Things will get bad, very bad. 2008 was nothing compared to what is coming. If you have any savings, DO NOT KEEP CASH. Go and buy precious metals to preserve whatever purchasing power you have. Or, if you want to catch the best ride of your life - go and buy shares of mining stocks. That's all, there is no reason to go more into details on HN as this is too broad of a topic on technical, financial and geopolitical side.

Braintree is now essentially paypal, so that is off the list. Adyen is good but can be strict with what businesses they support.

In short, i recommend using local providers, not these multinationals. Each country has a bunch of them, so there is plenty of choices, they are just not world renown brands.

nope. i don't even think ibm were being widely sold at all. ultrastar rings a bell, somewhat, but definitely not ibm hard drives. and i'm talking early 2000s here.

at this point, the obsession with white, or grey, text on black bg is just a mental illness.

Try to make them pronounce nuclear instead of nucelar :D

aluminium :D

Don't use stripe. It's none of their business and they already have a bad reputation.

it's legit if has this https://ooooooooo.ooo/?id=7de223e4-745d-6f7e-a209-3219931b4f...

> Like everyone else with a keyboard, a brain and a vested interest in their future as a programmer, I’ve been using AI agents to write a lot of code recently.

alrighty then..

Too late. Trust is gone.

Sure, but Zig has way more money and people working on it. And Jai has inspired all of these new languages so all they had to do was to steal John's ideas whereas he had to actually think very hard about them and do countless iterations to come to a solid conclusion. He paid the cost, they reaped the benefits. So Zig being 10 years old and unfinished just shows they have no original thought, or a plan for that matter.

I've read Bun is just a wrapper, not actual Zig implementation anyway. Also, making a financial database in beta language that constantly changes and breaks is "really smart".

he said it in a video, i think it was in the recent wookash podcast. although you might fing a short clip of the segment somewhere.

Remember that it was Jai that inspired all these new languages. When you talk about the capabilities like comptime, that's all from Jai and why John no longer does public presentations(as people keep stealing his unfinished ideas).

Your comment about gamedev focus makes no sense as that it the most hardcore segment of all the programming there is. So if a language is good for gamedev, it's good for everything else - with high performance.

I'm still in the GC camp with Go and don't see myself leaving any time soon but Zig is just rust-fugly and takes for ever to complete(it started 10 years ago, mind you). Odin is essentially complete, just lacks official spec. I like it but can' bring myself to use it as it lacks methods and I won' be going back to writing a procedural code like its 2002.

I'm curious to see Jai being released, despite having no use case for it. My initial post is merely about purposefulness, or the lack of, for named programming languages as nowadays John's name will carry more weight than Zig could ever have. so without Zig being 1.0 after a decade, and having no competitive advantage over Jai, it has no chance to survive after Jai is released. As I said, Odin will likely will as it is quite simpler, more niche language. Zig just goes directly against Jai and it will lose.

Go has a runtime. That alone is over a megabyte. Tinygo on the other hand has very limited(smaller) runtime. In other words, you don't know what you're talking about.

I'm working on my own text editor and have ventured into font rendering as well. The main thing to understand about fonts and font rendering is that they are just bitmap images and the program just puts them together with simple XY+WH from a pre-rendered square image(square because GPUs like squares), called atlas, which in CSS would be called a sprite. It's really that simple.

"back in my day", seagate was "the shit". only much later, hitachi drives came to be popular and wd, sort of.

Google NOT following the spec is not surprising. SHOULD does not mean MUST and they are completely in the wrong here.

UPDATE: doing full installation mitigated all of the issues. The problems were caused mainly by LiveCD mode.

Thanks for the reply. I used KDE. And sure, Gnome's Nautilus might have worked but I have huge distaste for it(it's pretty, but omg what a pain to set up to be an actual DE, let alone out of the box).

Anyhow.. "You can open a terminal and type".. yeah, no. This is exactly what I or any other Windows/desktop user does not want to be doing on a desktop computer. Linux always promised to get rid of this "just use terminal bro", which is what being a desktop OS is all about, but it never got there..it seems.

The premise of my test was to see whether the OS is ready out of the box(the main point of a linux distribution, after all). But neither was. Again, I am not saying it is not usable. I am just saying it requires more work to be put into it from the get-go than I am willing to put in, despite having the skill and knowledge to do so.

I want someone to index youtube and provide independent search engine that actually works and can also hook into my account and build recommendations to what i watch or search without google's bs. I think it is perfectly doable to turn youtube into pure video storage service and do everything else outside of it(which is finer since there is no ad bypass or anything nefarious). But definitely not commercially viable and likely google would block the services from its api.

I was also planning on testing zorin, pop os, maybe nobara, and fedora and suse again, but it felt like it would be a waste of time.

i know that. i run my own linux servers and i know how to use bash. but i specifically do not want to be doing any of these things on desktop. i was hoping, after such hype-wave for linux due to w11 being utter crap, that things got better. they did not. and yes, of course, this is just N1 experience.

As I had zero plans on moving to Windows 11, I was looking into which distros are popular nowadays over the past few weeks. Today, I tried Cachy OS and Aurora(non-gaming version of Bazzite) in VirtualBox and after 5 minutes I knew that after 30 years of using a computer with windows(dos, then w95 and onward) Linux is still not there yet on the desktop. I just can't believe how they still can't get the utmost basic things right. Yet here we are.

And yes, you can game on linux nowadays, finally! Even get better performance due to Windows bloat. Office, OBS, internet, video...everything is working...yet it still is not there in usability.

To be specific what irked me today when I tested them was installing new programs. On Cachy, I wanted to test jetbrains IDE. Last time i tested it was on suse and fedora in virtualbox last year and it worked but neither distribution was there just yet in UX. This time, I downloaded the tar version from jetbrains website. I could not open it(maybe due to it being run in live cd mode in virtualbox) or extract(no option in dir manager or decompression program) the content in Cachy. So I wanted to get 7zip but there was no linux version. Cachy has its own packages that can be opened(website) via its welcome screen(otherwise there is no program manager - no snaps, flatpacks...) and after downloading it with some arch file extension i could not install it. I could open it and see usr and bin directories but that helped me fuckall and i was not willing to tinker with this bs in 2026. Then in Aurora, it has bazaar for flatpacks, before i wasted bandwidth to download the IDE in vain again i preemptively wanted zip manager, there was pea..something. So i clicked install, it did and .. nothing. Nowhere to be found. Tried multiple times and no result. Could not find it anywhere. So I said F that and am sticking with the indian windows spyware. The devil you know and whatnot.

in other words, "we know our product is overpriced as hell, so i will pay for it to avoid further exposure of our pricing model".