> Not one of these guys questioned the pad dimensions, or asked about pin mapping accuracy. They went straight to identity assassination and their two minutes of hate.
Why would they ask those questions when the author claimed earlier that they did a write up of the project which likely contained those answers:
> Ladyada checked the pins, verified the dimensions, and shipped a board. Then she wrote it up because that’s what we do here: we test tools openly so others can decide for themselves.
In addition, maybe it's because I don't use any social media but I can't imagine she is the only person to have received this level of hate for using AI. This happened after an already particularly fiery public spat with Sparkfun and the public defense of Arduino. This didn't happen in a vacuum.
And not just urinate on them but urine tainted with a deadly drug - he wants to kill people by pissing poison on them. Talk about a strange way of thinking.
> I honestly don't get why George R. R. Martin doesn't just hire a ghostwriter at this point to help him get it across the finish line.
Its his story so perhaps he wants it to remain that way. I am not a fan of the series, I maybe only saw 15 minutes of the HBO series, but to demand an ending is a bit preposterous. If George does it, he does it. If not, oh well. That's art.
The Go tooling is heavily based on the Inferno tool chain which was based off the highly portable Plan 9 tool chain. Plan 9 by default is statically linked as dynamic libraries are supported but not implemented anywhere. The idea was that librarys should instead be implemented as a service that runs local or on a remote machine.
What does 'tacit' mean in the context of "A tacit array programming language"? What is being implied?
I'd also like someone to point me to a more beginner friendly primer on the benefits of an array based programming language. I can think of a few areas like bitmaps/graphics and audio. But what about more general purpose logic? This looks good for handling chunks of data but what about boring logic, e.g. GUI programs? Edit: to be clear: what problems do array programming languages solve effectively?
> Combining these already terse systems results in code with a very high information density and little syntactic noise.
I like the idea of glyphs but it does not seem to mix well with the above use of the word tacit as these symbols imply nothing until you learn their meaning. IMO replacing the symbols with words feels more implied as one could easily read the code without needing a mental map of symbols. Kinda how Ada programs read as a contract of what it will explicitly do.
However, there is a good argument to be made for glyphs: they eliminate the human language barrier making them more applicable and perhaps adaptable to non-English speaking programmers.
I also wonder if you can use glyph based languages as a human language agnostic syntax. You could map language to the symbols using implicit words per symbol and instantly translate code between languages. This way a Japanese programmer can see the meaning of the symbol in their native language IDE, save it, then a Farsi speaking programmer could open it and see the symbols in Farsi. Comments would be a challenge but translation of some form can be used.
Load of rubbish. This is a pretty walkable city and living in Queens I will walk and get my own food or worst case, drive. That or the restaurant has their own drivers that I tip in cash. Delivery apps are parasites that can evaporate for all I care.
> In September last year, Navalnaya said analysis of smuggled biological samples carried out by laboratories in two countries showed that her husband had been "murdered".
> the "wonder" of drywall is entangled with the fossil fuel economy in a way that makes earth-based construction methods look increasingly attractive as that supply chain unwinds.
I keep thinking of that scene in Brazil where the hero, Harry Tuttle, opens a modular wall panel in Sam's apartment.
We standardized on 16 inch stud spacing here in the US a long time ago when we likely still used cement with a plaster skim coat on wood lath. Cutting up a board of nearly the same stuff feels primitive. You have to break open the wall to fix things.
To me the next logical step is a standard for modular walls that are laid out on a grid structure. I get that no one wants exposed screw holes but I can think of ways to hide them or make them part of a decorative pattern to blend them in. The coverings would be made to be cut to size as well. Wall panels would have to be environmentally friendly so wood is a first choice in natural and/or composite forms.
If you think this will look boxy then look up the passive house and notes on home building. Homes with a winding structure are difficult to seal reliably and roof so a boxy home is actually more economically friendly in terms of insulation to reduce HVAC energy consumption.
We have exactly what you want - it's called shiplap or car siding.
It's wood that is nailed up in such a way that you can pretty easily remove and repair something and replace it.
However, inside wall things get done so rarely that the cost savings by using drywall more than covers paying someone to patch the drywall after a repair.
A middle ground is to run all utilities at the bottom or top of the wall, and use large baseboards/crown molding to cover it up.
The best is to build in such a way as to not have to fix them in the first place. European standards mandate passing all wiring through corrugated tubes. Builders add spare empty ones for future expansion, which makes it unnecessary to open the walls in most cases.
Having owned a couple European houses they’re horrible to alter and mediocre on energy. I miss nice adaptable wood structures. Bizarrely Europeans seem to think their cinderblock homes are nicer…
I've never wanted to adapt a house that significantly. But yeah, I much prefer the cinderblock homes and miss them. Something about the wood and drywall houses just feels incredibly cheap, and I don't like the aesthetic (de gustibus et coloribus..)
Houses change over time. A house could have been build in 1920 without a toilet or central heating. Then over time it got a fireplace on the second floor, an indoor toilet, indoor bathroom, then central heating with gas, extra insulation, a couple decades later double paned windows, hybrid heating with a heat pump, then full electric heating, underfloor heating, solar panels, home battery.
Houses change a lot over time, it is nice to be adaptable and not need to carve out stone and concrete every time you add a feature to a home.
The most beautiful homes I have been inside in Europe were wooden cabins in Sweden. The exposed wood ceiling beams, the unpainted wooden panels everywhere, the little details. I never had that with stone or brick buildings. Mainly because they got plastered and painted over, you almost never see the raw materials on the inside.
It's not the unavailability of trees. European countries have wisely decides that cities built of wooden houses are prone to massive fires. USians haven't learned that lesson and the Los Angeles fire isn't going to be the last one.
A yes, the wise Europeans like the Dutch who have homes in Amsterdam that are sinking into the ground due to rotting wooden beams sinking in swamp ground and homes in Groningen with cracks all over due to the earthquakes that came with pumping gas out of the ground.
Or the dozens of structures in Italy that came crashing down, like the various bridges over the past twenty years (250 bridge collapse events in Italy between January 2000 and July 2025).
Yes us Europeans are indeed superior and we never pick the wrong building material ever.
> To each their own I guess. I’ll happily move walls, add or remove a bathroom, add windows, etc.
A sign of the restlesness. Once you find a house to settle in, why would you need to change it ? European houses are typically versatile, US houses aren't due to having closets (which make a room's layout very inflexible) as well as electrical outlets being mandated exactly in the middle of the wall precisely where one would like to place furniture. US building codes are beyond stupid.
> Terrible carbon footprint for concrete too.
Carbon footprint is not that important. I want comfort. More specifically: if you are somewhat wealthy (in the top 10% of incomes, like most of the people here), in the continental Europe you can nowadays easily buy an apartment in a Passivhaus (or almost if renovated) building, with underfloor heating throughout the place, supplied by a geothermal heat pump, with triple-glazed windows and external covers that give you the utmost quietness even when there's traffic just outside. You can't get that in the US because even if you were willing to pay, there exist only a handful of construction companies that know how to build that, and they're all booked for years.
> I know modern structures are better but I also don’t entirely trust block in an earthquake. Obviously less of a concern in most (not all!) of Europe.
You can take a look at Japan. Modern buildings can withstand earthquakes. The issue in the US is that developers are allowed to just build without a civil engineer or architect designing the building. I wouldn't trust that either.
There are residential jurisdictions within USA that require metal conduit between jboxes (e.g. Chicagoland) — initially more expensive, but much easier to modify/update. Flexible plastic conduit doesn't seem to offer barely any more protection than a standard US NM sheathed cable.
As an electrician of two decades, my commonest USA gripes are these:
•) grounding wires should always have insulation, too (instead of just bare)
•) modern NM isn't protected enough (neither physically nor chemically)
•) jboxes should have better wire anchoring inside, and bigger in general
•) oldwork cut-in jboxes aren't substantial enough even perfectly installed for long-term use (if you screw them to an adjacent stud they're great, but this is against code for grounding reasons).
That means everything in your house is literally set in stone. Sometimes people want to redecorate, have plumbing in a different location or a TV on a different wall.
My father grew up in a home without central heating or an indoor toilet. Last time that home was listed on the market it had underfloor heating, two bathrooms, triple paned glass, an extension on the roof and various other modern amenities. Times change, houses should too. We are not longer pooping in an outhouse anymore.
I guess at one point people would wonder why you would want to poop inside the home, and call it "sometimes people want stupid things".
Eh, people have a terrible time renovating or adding anything in housing in Europe. A lot of construction doesn’t have those tubes.
It’s hard to articulate how wildly different habits are in Europe vs US around things like ‘what electrical appliances I have’ partially because of this.
Housing tends to be a lot smaller too, largely due to population density differences, but also overall differences in economic earning power and ease of buying things.
It's not any different from having to renovate a 40's house in the US. You'll have to redo all the plumbing and electrical system to current code. Corrugated tubes have been common since the 90s and mandatory shortly thereafter.
Most European housing is made of concrete, stone, or brick.
It absolutely is different from typical US housing, because unless you want to run surface mount everything (which most people don’t in residential), it’s an insane amount of work to run new anything.
‘40’s homes in the US, you typically just tear down to the studs, re-run new stuff, and throw up new drywall. Boom, done.
Unless you’re in a place that did block/brick etc like some of the big cities, then yeah it’s a nightmare there too.
I love exposed everything in construction. Every plumbing and electrical problem that required me to call someone involved the thing being hidden for aesthetic reasons.
I'm currently in an old house in Vietnam and I had to add exposed PVC piping to route around a leak inside a wall that was also feeding mold.
Half of the work involved each time I call someone is understanding the hidden stuff + getting stuff out of the way to see the hidden stuff.
"Engineering types" have built much of the world most of us actually live in. Yet a core piece of engineering——maintainability——is pathologically persistent.
My dad, who has been a carpenter for over 50 years used to rail against boxing in pipes.
"Once upon a time people were just glad to have running water, now it has to arrive by magic"
In his house there is a duct behind the skirting boards upstairs. You can fish a wire to most places from there.
His other pet hate was glued down cupboard flooring. Squeaky floors were a common complaint in new houses. It was normally caused by not levelling the first floor joists properly (levelling the tops is the correct way), and just dropping them on the walls. The solution industry came up with was to glue the tounges and grooves together, and later to glue the boards to the joists as well. This is a big problem if you need to take up the floor for a leaking pipe. Whereas before you just cut the tongue of a board with a circular saw, pulled it up, and put a noggin under the joint, now you have to destroy a board, and try and buy a similar one
FWIW, Plan 9 windows work this way. They are just plain UTF-8 buffers with no typewriter emulation. You can edit any text you wish. If you want graphics, the draw device is a 2D graphics compositor you load assets into then issue rendering commands. Text is a draw primitive and easily displayed any way you want, angled, rotated, moving around, colorful. VT emulation is accomplished by vt(1) which does VT over stdio and emulates an ANSI typewriter using the draw device and it works well. You could even write a Plan 9 native TUI That way, just run it under vt(1). But I would not recommend that - go native.
Why would they ask those questions when the author claimed earlier that they did a write up of the project which likely contained those answers:
> Ladyada checked the pins, verified the dimensions, and shipped a board. Then she wrote it up because that’s what we do here: we test tools openly so others can decide for themselves.
In addition, maybe it's because I don't use any social media but I can't imagine she is the only person to have received this level of hate for using AI. This happened after an already particularly fiery public spat with Sparkfun and the public defense of Arduino. This didn't happen in a vacuum.
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