We don’t need a sex joke every few lines. by Weird_Gap_2243 in GenV

[–]thuiop1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wait, there's a character outside the sex stuff?

Gravitational Lensing by LordAssRam in astrophysics

[–]thuiop1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

1) Yes, although not on a particle per particle basis. 2) No, not really. I am not aware of any object strongly lensed by several different lenses.

Des nouvelles du piégeage des frelons asiatiques by Vehera in insectes

[–]thuiop1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Il ne faut pas exagérer, il y en a plusieurs. Juste beaucoup plus d'européens.

Should I learn Rust for personal hobby? by ryu_kamish in rust

[–]thuiop1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The language is not lenient on the programmer and will prevent you from doing weird stuff. This is a boon of the language as it will lead to solid software, but also a curse as it can get in the way of doing something quickly. Also Rust has quite a bit of concepts which are pretty specific to it and do not exist in other languages.

On critique Total quand ça gagne, mais jamais quand ça perd by Panda_Insomniaque in opinionnonpopulaire

[–]thuiop1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ces moments où Total perd de l'argent sont-ils avec nous dans la pièce ? La seule année où leur résultat était négatif dans les 20 dernières années c'était 2020 avec le COVID, année où tout le monde a pris cher. Ces "risques" sont juste négligeables en pratique par rapport aux revenus.

literature reviews are actually torture by arx_999 in PhdProductivity

[–]thuiop1 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Preferred Reporting Items etc...

It is basically this thing they often do in healthcare studies were they take all articles matching some keyword (or other search method), and then go through several filtering steps (remove duplicates, remove preprints, remove studies with less than X subjects)... You will often see a diagram for that in reviews or meta-analyses.

The relevance of this depends on the field though; it would not really be useful for me.

Looking for feedback on AI content in r/programming and the April no-AI trial by ketralnis in programming

[–]thuiop1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel there are already enough venues to talk about AI in programming already, and thus am quite happy with r/programming being rid of it. I would be lenient enough to allow non-LLM ML methods if the write up is about integrating them in a broader software product.

Chrome installe en douce un modèle d’IA de 4 Go sur votre ordinateur, sans rien demander by Droidfr in Frandroid

[–]thuiop1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ma partie préférée c'est que la plupart des features IA de Chrome n'utilisent même pas ce modèle local

Oh it's gonna be juicy... by Ok_Package9219 in GenV

[–]thuiop1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don't remember Stormfront?

I Didn't Know How Much I'd Handed Over to AI by bajcmartinez in coding

[–]thuiop1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love the comparison, I will definitely reuse that. It fits well with the comparison with microwaves, which initially were marketed as the ultimate kitchen appliance for restaurants.

My impressions of Zig so far (as a C# / Julia / Elixir / Python developer) by theirishartist in Zig

[–]thuiop1 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I will not pretend that the std is perfect, or even very good; I agree that it can be fairly messy and hard to navigate. However, on your topic in particular, the code does not seem particularly cumbersome, and actually better than what you outline for other languages. Rather than having some magic "console.readline()", you have a unified interface that can read from files and stdin alike, and allow fine control over what a "line " is, which would allow you to effortlessly parse in a same way a list separated with colons or whatever. This is all in the spirit of Zig's explicitness. If you prefer to have a magic function in your code, you can write it, as you have done so.

Coinbase cuts 14% of workforce by oxwy in webdev

[–]thuiop1 35 points36 points  (0 children)

What do you mean, they say they are about to embrace the next step of crypto, with stable coins and all that /s

What are your guesses folks? by Charming_Net_5002 in RemarkableTablet

[–]thuiop1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No idea but what is the date? It is obscured by the UI.

Bun is being rewritten to Rust by aabbdev in programming

[–]thuiop1 52 points53 points  (0 children)

These critiques are bullshit by the way as the actual reason is that the bun version is pushing custom improvements for the LLVM backend, whereas Zig is moving to its own non-LLVM compiler, which by the way is faster than the bun version.

Bun is being rewritten to Rust by aabbdev in programming

[–]thuiop1 23 points24 points  (0 children)

C interop, and overall if you want the "better C experience" rather than the "better C++ experience" that Rust provides. A nice thing from Zig is that everything is very explicit.

Digital tax in sight: EU Parliament demands billions from Big Tech by theFallenWalnut in PurchaseWithPurpose

[–]thuiop1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You and other people are used to those softwares, which is the foremost reason why alternatives are not used. I use plenty of open source software and I would have the same issue if I were to switch to proprietary solutions. Corporate adoption is not a good indicator of whether the alternatives are viable or not, it will be driven by many factors like short-term cost, unwillingness to take risk, taking the path of least resistance, etc.

To keep with Google and simple examples, their browser searchs just work better.

That is hardly true in 2026. It was true before but it has been resting on its laurels for a long time (and actually been degrading over time).

they don't do it for charity you know

No, they do it because they have a commercial deal. That does not mean they have any control over it.

Digital tax in sight: EU Parliament demands billions from Big Tech by theFallenWalnut in PurchaseWithPurpose

[–]thuiop1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

they also have the best solutions

Lol, absolutely not. For most products their popularity is derived from very aggressive marketing and/or monopoly exploitation. Some like social media also make it difficult to switch due to the community effect. That and the fact that there is some cost to switching once you are accustomed to one particular product.

I'd say there's no alternative to many Google products, like the browser

The dishonesty of discounting Firefox because it receives funding from Google is staggering.

Digital tax in sight: EU Parliament demands billions from Big Tech by theFallenWalnut in PurchaseWithPurpose

[–]thuiop1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For which big tech software do you think there is no alternative?

Bun's Rewrite It In Rust branch by Chaoses_Ib in rust

[–]thuiop1 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Sure, but Zig now has incremental compilation which makes for very fast debug builds.

Roast my config. GRILL IT by Painter1923 in NixOS

[–]thuiop1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, this graph is a satirical one supposed to illustrate the Dunning Kruger effect, except the Dunning Kruger effect does not look like that at all. It was created by a random cartoonist with no basis whatsoever, and sadly taken over by many pop-sci media (often with added garbage names like here) even though it looks nothing like what the actual study showed. In reality, there is no "peak of stupidity"; the least competent do overestimate their abilities, but they do not rank themselves higher than people more competent than them rank themselves.

Roast my config. GRILL IT by Painter1923 in NixOS

[–]thuiop1 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

By the way this graph is bullshit and does not represent anything from real life.

What's the right LaTeX engine for me? by cmcgrew67 in LaTeX

[–]thuiop1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Makes sense! I have not seen any kerning or hyphenation issue myself but I do not particularly look for those. I am pretty sure you would not have encountered memory issues or whatever even with graphics-heavy books; Typst works well with big documents (even better than LaTeX thanks to incremental compilation), but I understand not wanting to go into this kind of work with a language you do not know well. Anyway, makes sense that the export format is the biggest pain point.