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nmz··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
> Its not our Job to aid the world. Foreign aid is a huge money laundering scam by and large. We have major problems here on our own shores.

Not that huge, not a scam either given America is so deeply hated on most of the world, America decided to fight and kill everyone who even thought about "communism" whatever that meant, USAID is its foreign marketing team. Seems like it doesn't want to market itself. that's fine, You also quoted medicare and snap there, I hope you're not one of those that think having well fed people and farmers is not part of a governments job.

> Good. Maybe we can actually build some more nuclear plants instead of having to fight green energy bureaucracy.

If you can't build a nuclear power plant safely, maybe you shouldn't build it at all. Also some firings were people who handle the nuclear weapons.

> Circumstantial timing. The FAA has been having close calls before it was gutted. The government can do more with less. The plane crashes will stop when we return to meritocracy.

It's so great that you mention doing more with less and a meritocracy in this instance given that, the washout rate for being an air traffic controller is incredibly high and there is a deficit of air traffic controllers.

https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/one-thing/episodes/8b310a...

> The government can do more with less.

Can it though?

https://www.gq.com/story/no-irs-audits-for-the-rich

> The cuts are depleting the staff members who help ensure that taxpayers pay what they owe. As of [2017], the IRS had 9,510 auditors. That’s down a third from 2010. The last time the IRS had fewer than 10,000 revenue agents was 1953, when the economy was a seventh of its current size. And the IRS is still shrinking. Almost a third of its remaining employees will be eligible to retire in the next year, and with morale plummeting, many of them will.

> The plane crashes will stop when we return to meritocracy.

Return to when? When was this true?

nmz··on Darcs, Friendly Version Control
Linus called cvs/subversion broken, did you stop using git?
nmz··on State Capture
Never thought I'd hear being a nazi referred to as tribalism. But you are right.
nmz··on State Capture
I do wonder why they downvoted, denial? ideological capture? are the majority of users in HN oligarchs?
nmz··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
They're lying. its a propagandist

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/usaid-payments-to-politico...

nmz··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/usaid-payments-to-politico...

> The above claim was false. Publicly available records showed that in 2023 and 2024, the USAID paid a total of $44,000 — not $8 million — to Politico, and the payments were earmarked for institutional subscriptions to E&E News, a Politico publication. No other transactions between USAID and Politico were listed for the entire previous decade.

Nice, how much are you getting to propagandize?

nmz··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
Apparently neither is accountant, auditor, federal employee, journalist, judge, reporter, lawmaker, lawman, weatherman, scientist, congressman, etc.

And yes, everyone agrees that there is waste on government, however, what is being labeled as waste is medicare and SNAP and foreign aid.

Why are people upset? there's 200,000 people getting laid off and its only february, of course people are upset, I very much doubt 200k employees are DEI hires.

> The layoffs include between 1,200 and 2,000 employees at the Department of Energy (DOE), including staff from the nuclear security administration and the loans office, two sources familiar with the decision told Reuters.

https://www.newsweek.com/federal-layoffs-live-thousands-prob...

Let's not forget about FAA, which immediately had 2 crashes after it was gutted.

> The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry — including the airlines and major unions — as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group’s recommendations were adopted over the years.

https://apnews.com/article/coast-guard-homeland-security-pri...

nmz··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
There's no media here, just people talking about the jobs they lost and the jobs they're going to lose, everyone can see it.

For better or worse, there is no media, only social media mobs.

nmz··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
Electric cars are a con job though, impressive, but still a con.
nmz··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
I think a link to archive.org might be better here, the criteria changed and so must have the website as well no?
nmz··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
He has to do it, he's already a felon, jail time probably awaits him if a dem is elected.
nmz··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
Yeah, like he stated that he wasn't going to do anything that was in project 2025. So that was a lie.
nmz··on Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2
If the focus is on text, then the best example is probably the sqlite amalgation file which is a 9mb C file.
nmz··on Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behavior (2024)
As intended.

https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-p...

nmz··on I ditched the algorithm for RSS
What are they going to do? ban you? if so they're doing you a favor.
nmz··on Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)
Well that's the problem, it isn't, its a pseudo csv. A simple csv can be done with {awk -F ,} you only have a certain amount of fields separated by ",". field N is ".+". This means you don't need a parser, but it also means the format is variable depending on the headers. but you also can create a simple BRE regex, thus having pretty good performance.
nmz··on Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)
well, yeah, that's what a csv is but the format is not regular.
nmz··on Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)
Quite frankly I'd love a programmers dictionary over terms, I recently called a file with a csv like format a db because, well, its not a csv and I don't know what else to call it.
nmz··on Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)
Have you tried plan9's rc? easy to memorize syntax thing. It's still easy to make mistakes though and nobody uses it.
nmz··on Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)
POSIX sh doesn't even have arrays. I remember having to use awk for that functionality.
nmz··on The GTA III port for the Dreamcast has been released
Bit of hyperbole considering opentombs Tomb Raider can run on the GBA.

https://opentomb.github.io/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GVSLcqGP7g

nmz··on Blogs rot. Wikis wait
A blog is personal a wiki is not.
nmz··on Lua is so underrated
Of course, it doesn't have millions of dollars thrown at it.
nmz··on Lua is so underrated
Mind you its a bit unfair to compare nodejs with lua, a better example is luajit.
nmz··on Lua is so underrated
It's _ENV by default, it just defaults to _G.
nmz··on Lua is so underrated
Associative arrays are also "nicer" with 1 based indexing

  t={}
  t[#t+1] --> t[1] DONE!
  t[#t==0 and 0 or #t+1]
Now, in order to fix this (or achieve the same behavior as #t+1), the length operator must return -1, which would be ridiculous. its empty, and we have a perfect representation of emptiness in math "0".

This is also true in awk as well, nobody ever whines about awk "arrays" being 0

nmz··on Spreadsheets 1/3 – Rye Language
in this case its more like rebol and factor had a baby. both of which are evolutions of tcl and forth I guess.
nmz··on Spreadsheets 1/3 – Rye Language
lua tables are dynamic and they call that tables
nmz··on Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
Not a bad idea, light enough to implement a telegram bot everyone can use or email or maybe a bitlbee plugin so you can have a twtxt channel.

But, what is it? can you PM someone? participate in a conversation? or is it just that, a microblog? Usability wise what will you do? keep a client running that always checks if new blogs have happened over, how many followers? I'm currently following 500 people, that's 500 connections if this takes off.

It would be nice if an rss client supported it, until then ehh

nmz··on Biggest shell programs
Honestly the first thing I do is get busybox, busybox's behavior is at least somewhat predictable.
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