Mikhail_K's comments

On: Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase

[Mikhail_K]

I usually use the method "shout Banzai! and charge straight like a kamikaze"

Is that the Mikado method?

On: LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in

[Mikhail_K]

> their UI feels dated

A big selling point for me. Needless reworking of familiar interfaces plagues MS Windows ecosystem and I'm glad LibreOffice is displaying healthy conservatism by not fixing what isn't broken.

On: Two kinds of AI users are emerging

[Mikhail_K]

> I still can't figure out quite what motivates these "AI evangelist" types

I'd hazard a guess and say "money"

On: There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape

[Mikhail_K]

> It’s beautiful, I love it.

When computers become disposable, their programmers soon become disposable as well. Maybe, you shouldn't love it.

[Dylan16807 → Mikhail_K]

That doesn't make sense.

[sejje → Dylan16807]

Life lessons from anime and the WordPorn meme account.

On: Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples

[Mikhail_K]

What, sugars and gum, but no sandwich wrappers?

On: Lenses in Julia

[Mikhail_K]

In the release 1.12 they finally implemented the ability to create compact executables, so I would say the answer to your question is "yes".

On: We need to start doing web blocking for non-technical reasons

[Mikhail_K]

If the USA and Europe decide to got this way, they will be (as in many other ways today) followers, rather than the leaders. China already does large-scale net censorship.

[constantcrying → Mikhail_K]

Exactly, what this article is arguing for is essentially just the Chinese model of the Internet. The outside is largely inaccessible and the inside is tightly controlled by having political oversight over the large platforms.

No doubt this is effective at achieving the political goal it aims to achieve.

On: Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI

[Mikhail_K]

The belief that it is useful.

On: Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly

[Mikhail_K]

Words "Python" and "fast" do not belong in the same sentence.

[ModernMech → Mikhail_K]

Yeah, when I see these kinds of headlines about Python, I'm always left wondering what they mean by "fast". In this case, "fast" means "still slower than Python usually is".

[dominicrose → Mikhail_K]

python is fast because computers are fast, but yea compared to rust it isn't, and in a lot of cases it doesn't have to be

On: Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system

[Mikhail_K]

It doesn't, it hurts you by limiting the number of platforms Git is available on.

[pipsterwo → Mikhail_K]

If it works on mac & linux I've got nothing to worry about