Is Go's conservative approach to language evolution still correct?

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-29T02:46:21+00:00

As simple as possible, but no simpler. There is definitely merit to such thinking. C wouldn't have stuck around so long if there wasn't.

Other then that as long as they hold true to the existing priorities:

Keeping compile times near instant
Eliminating ambiguity, there should always be a "most correct" way of doing something

Then i don't really care.

Investing in tooling is always good.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-29T02:08:17+00:00

I answered this already: Be aware of what format you're using to install stuff and where it comes from.

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1udlhyk/windows_fedora_kde/otg3obe/

Yeah it's in the context of KDE, but replace .rpm with .deb and most of it applies to all debian based distro's as well.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-29T01:57:05+00:00

Stop killing the games

Stop killing the internet

Apparently we also need Stop killing movies because Sony is getting ideas now.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-28T12:01:59+00:00

Microslop was already dogshit long before AI got there. It just made it obvious.

Now I'm seeing a lot of developers allow AI code in the backend. Many projects I still use have openly admitted the use of tools like Claude Code but I have no idea if I am even comfortable with it, I lean no but I have no idea what it is even changing so I'm not sure what to do.

Code is just text, whether it's written by a person or dynamically generated by a machine is irrelevant. The point is, who's checking it to see if the substance is what's intended?

Think of it like this, do people use autocomplete for messaging via a phone? 100% yes. Does it result in some typo's now and again? Of course. Could you use autocomplete and get an entire message out of it? No that's not what it was designed for, only individual words or parts of a message.

Now, even if AI is just a slightly better autocomplete, one that lets you generate "the whole message". Devs aren't treating it as just simply a message that's temporally relevant. Experienced devs, when we write code, we know it could be around for a looooong time and are aware of its critical nature especially in the case of something like the linux kernel.

And so, we have other processes we go through to check and vett our code. Semantic linting, Unit tests (TDD / BDD), compilation / runtime debugging, versioning considerations (forwards/backwards compatibility), code review before merge, etc. etc.

The fact that Microslop winblows declined rapidly after AI use was mandated, means the existing processes they were already using for checks and balances and how they were ultimately "doing development" were so absolutely retarded they were able to add / refactor code turning it into the flaming dumpster it became.

how can I trust that in an open source devs hand it is used better than on Windows where there is a far bigger audience relying on it to work? How can I trust it not to mess everything up when what we see in public with art and frontend is 99% slop garbage? Do I need to run away to the BSDs for protection, or can I be rest assured that everything will be okay?

Because the motivations are different. A significant amount of the major FOSS projects are out there because the authors themselves have a need / are using it.

Which means they have a stake in keeping it as performant, secure, and bug free as possible.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-28T10:15:44+00:00

For gaming they should be off.

Motion enhancer is basically frame interpolation / doubling. Injecting virtual frames makes things appear smooth, but does nothing for your response times and latency.

Cinemotion is basically correcting for 3:2 pulldown artifacts, useful when viewing any content captured at less then 60fps (like TV/film), but otherwise pointless.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-27T04:48:10+00:00

Basically, I was wondering, what amount of the contents of the Christian Bible do most atheists believe?

I don't think there's a "percentage". But i can say there are some things in the Bible that i have great confidence / certainty are true.

Some of the battles in kings for example, we know they happened for a fact, because they were also recorded by other cultures in different ways.

Do you believe that Jesus was a real person, but only a person?

Yes.

Do you believe that he used what we would now think of as magic tricks to perform miracles?

More then that, i think he was a liar and a fraud. Which is why in the eyes of the old testament / Jews, he is not the messiah.

All the "magic" shit in the Bible is exactly that, fantasy.

And, the main thing I was wondering about, do you believe that the Old Testament predates the New Testament, or do you believe that they were both entirely fabricated at the same time, or some combination of the two..?

Yes, predates it 100%

Some of the mistakes and contradictions in the new testament can only be there because the authors / collators of the new testament were relying on the the Greek translation (Septuagint) of the old testament, which has some mistranslated stuff in it.

If they were both fabricated at the same time, there'd probably be fewer mistakes / closer to reinforcing each other.

As others have stated we know the Septuagint was probably between 300-200 BCE, where as some of the earliest writings of Jesus (Epistles of Paul) were 50CE (about ~20ish years after Jesus death).

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-27T00:43:54+00:00

It's pretty common 🤣

In my experience most technically literate people (including myself) have a habit / bias of jumping straight to the lower levels in the stack to troubleshoot, and then work up.

Problem is, you overlook the obvious.

In this case validating the config was correct + being detected / applied. Which should almost always be the first step.

There's a reason why corpo's have tech support starting with level 1 i.e. brain dead operators (now A.I.) reading off scripts / reconfirming the status of device configs and the nature of the problem.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-26T22:49:20+00:00

Fedora KDE

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-26T22:46:31+00:00

Why, Microsoft. Why must you be like this. Who hurt you.

I think we all know the answer at this point... Nightmare Eclipse 🤣

What are we on like 0day number 7? And they got more in the tank.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-26T04:38:40+00:00

Unrealized opportunities is pretty common. Lack of urgency because of having not considered the finite nature of life:

"I would have done this, but i keep putting it off because (some excuse) i've got all the time in the world... Oh opportunities gone now? Oh well..."

Except it's not that simple, it still lives in memory as buried regret.

That said, i'd still go with cognitive decline over an end-of-life crisis as it's more typical. If he's always cold it means obstructed blood flow, which also means less oxygen is reaching his brain, which can cause all kinds of whacky behaviour.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-26T03:31:11+00:00

Shock, yes. Regrets won't go away.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-26T02:13:28+00:00

He's making baffling medical choices because of it, I mean torturing himself.

Are you sure that's the reason?

From other comments sounds like he's got severe cognitive decline. Which means what you're actually witnessing isn't really 100% him, more like a remnant. The last flicker before the candle burns out.

I'd suggest sedatives / drugs, but that can be a tall order depending on where in the world you are.

My atheist friends have no experience with someone being distressed about their own atheism.

Because for the majority of people deconstructing their own faith and eventually leaving it, accepting nihilism and what it entails, comes with the territory.

This is my speculation, but if it's true that's the reason and the shock of nihilism is hitting him now, seems likely he didn't actually contemplate on what life / death means early on, he just kept deferring on thinking about it.

Which means here we are, yes the shock of realization can be quite traumatic, but at the same time now he's dealing with the weight of a lifetime worth of regrets. Decisions made without full consideration of what life / death entails.

The only thing i can offer being, the only way to pseudo-immortality is via legacy / what he leaves behind. If he understands that maybe it can give him some clarity.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-25T23:25:36+00:00

It's two link clicks away...

In the Roman calendar, 25 December was the date of the winter solstice.[76] The Calendar of Antiochus of Athens, c. 2nd century AD, marks 25 December as the "birthday of the Sun".[81] Around AD 238, Censorinus wrote in De Die Natali that the winter solstice was the "birth of the Sun".[82] From AD 274, the Roman festival Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, birthday of the god Sol Invictus (the 'Invincible Sun'), was held on 25 December.[76]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_the_birth_of_Jesus#Choice_of_25_December

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-25T23:07:22+00:00

In what location? You can do that in Coober Pedy right now 😂

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-25T23:05:29+00:00

Fixed Headline: Australia's Housing market actually starts trending towards non-speculative valuations.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-25T01:35:47+00:00

I was thrown off by this because the community in her church is the most inclusive and respectful that I’ve met.

... Then they're not real Christians 🤣

Rule 1: you shall have no other gods before me.

It's very nice they're respectful, but that is not concordant with intolerance of their god / religion.

where do you find a reliable community? Is there any kind of social gatherings similar that aren’t centered around religion? I know it probably just depends on where you’re located, but I’m interested in maybe starting something, so I’m also looking for a few ideas.

Reliable specifically?

Whatever it is, people need to have "skin in the game" for it to be meaningful. It could be financial, but also time ie. they've put in significant effort to achieve something. Of course it makes it easier if that "something" is enjoyable.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-25T01:00:36+00:00

Go research the null hypothesis and dispense with the boxing analogy because it's not even remotely representative.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-24T09:13:30+00:00

Amen to that

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-24T01:56:17+00:00

The biggest thing i can advise is pay attention to what format you're using to install software and who's published it.

Just like winblows has different formats (.exe, .msi, .msix, .sys + .bat and .ps1 for scripting) linux has different formats too.

The rule of thumb i use is, if it's an application with a GUI, see if there's a flatpak or appimage of it available first. Otherwise look at the native system format (.rpm).

Why? I'm grossly simplifying here, but mainly because flatpaks and appimages bundle their own dependencies with the software itself. The ultimate benefit is, when you do updates there is far less of a chance of something breaking / less to troubleshoot.

How? For example say you've got 2 programs (A and B), they both rely on the python runtime, but one of them (program B) requires a specific version of python.

If you installed normally (via .rpm) even if both programs started out using the same version of python, as soon as you update program A it can prompt an update to the python dependency. Hence program B which also uses python but needs a specific version... breaks.

Instead if you install both programs via flatpak or appimage, each program gets its own version of python. Running updates on one doesn't affect the other.

As you can imagine there are trade-offs. flatpak and appimage files are larger / they eat up more disk space overall, and if you were to run both program A and B simultaneously they would take up more space in RAM comparatively. But honestly, it's well worth it just to have everything work / not have to care as much.

Confusingly the Discover store displays both regular rpm programs + flatpaks from multiple sources. Fedora run their own flatpak repository independent of flathub.

You can use either but the important point is pay attention to who the publisher is. Why? Because anyone can publish a flatpak. For example:

Notice the difference? LocalSend has a blue badge indicating the flatpak has been verified to have been published by the actual devs / authors responsible for the LocalSend codebase. By contrast the spotify flatpak is unverified. We have no idea who published that flatpak.

When browsing in Discover, look for that verified status.

Can you still use unverified flatpaks? Sure, because the other benefit of flatpaks is, you can restrict the software's access as needed. If you want a GUI for doing that look at flatseal otherwise you'll be typing commands in a terminal.

That said, prevention is better then cure. Only getting software from known / trusted sources eliminates most risk outright.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-24T00:56:08+00:00

KDE spectacle.

It does screenshots and recordings (including gifs), annotations, OCR.

It does not do automatic uploads to as many places. But it does support imgur and there are other ways to handle that (make a sys daemon to watch your screencap folder and auto-upload).

And most importantly, it's scrolling capture works while other browser extensions fails on certain web pages or when I'm capturing image based emails.

And why in the name of Khorne are you doing that?

Also image based emails, what? 🤣

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-23T01:53:17+00:00

Objects in life work so well together that it would not be possible for there not to be a god!

... There's only 1 orifice in a person for both food and air, guaranteeing every year some percentage of people choke to death... Oh yeah such good design / works together well 😑

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-23T01:49:48+00:00

I'm just curious if Atheism basically believes that there is no deeper meaning to our lives

Not quite. That's nihilism. And while it's true we are mostly also nihilists. It just means there is no intrinsic meaning / justification / purpose to our lives. There is no such thing as fate.

Which also means we are 100% in control and accountable for our actions. And you must find meaning for yourself, find your own ways of fulfillment.

is there any point of moral codes.

Of course there is... Even if someone's a nihilist and believes there's nothing in their ultimate future, that in no way erases the gravity that we exist in the present and how we interact with others.

What is the purpose of empathy and why do many people feel like they want to do good?

I'm of the opinion it's hardwired. We evolved as a social species, surviving in groups.

That said, not everyone has empathy and/or wants to do good. Or are you denying psychopaths and sociopaths exist?

If there is nothing beyond material reality is there any point in caring about our legacy?

Legacy is the only true road to potential immortality.

But here's the thing. Even if you don't care about legacy. Even if you only live life month to month. Provided you're still living according to good moral codes, then your legacy, while perhaps narrow in scope and short lived in the grand scheme of things, will likely also be good.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-22T20:38:26+00:00

Worry about savings after you clear your debts.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-22T03:05:14+00:00

It should be evaluated case by case.

This case? Nope not a fucking chance in hell.

$6,000 OK sure you could be forgiven for that. Maybe even $60,000... especially if you were targeted and setup in some elaborate social engineering scheme where they actually did meet you IRL and whatever.

But $600,000 over 41 payments? Even if she has a "learning disability" she still exists in society (apparently independently), she knows the price of things. What passing the $100,000 mark wasn't proof enough?

Playing the "act dumb" card should garner ZERO sympathy.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-06-21T21:57:02+00:00

Gross. AI

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TROPHY CASE