hiccuphippo's comments

On: Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation

[hiccuphippo]

You can turn `zig fmt` off in both.

On: Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation

[hiccuphippo]

I really wish they called it unchecked instead of unsafe, it would have cleared lots of misconceptions about it.

Still, I think rust is safer than zig (ReleaseSafe) is safer than zig (ReleaseFast) is equally safe as unchecked rust.

[kibwen → hiccuphippo]

IMO "unchecked" is liable to cause the same sort of confusion; Rust is still performing all the usual checks, but we the programmer just introducing new things that must be manually upheld. I've come around to the notion that the keyword for the block should be `promise` (though 10 years ago this might have caused confusion with Javascript programmers), whereas the keyword for the function should remain as `unsafe`.

[0cf8612b2e1e → kibwen]

I like something such as “trusted”, but maybe that gives the wrong impression to newbies.

[mckeed → 0cf8612b2e1e]

Maybe "unleashed" to connote a potentially dangerous power is loose.

On: 300k USD Donation Pledged by Mitchell Hashimoto

[hiccuphippo]

He is also writting a terminal emulator called ghostty with zig: https://mitchellh.com/ghostty

[djbusby → hiccuphippo]

Wish I was on the beta, devlog entries look cool. In depth and nerdy.

On: Generate pip requirements.txt file based on import...

[hiccuphippo]

This project looks like a first step to migrate something to pyproject.

[skeledrew → hiccuphippo]

No need for the intermediate step. It's a straight shot to generating a pyproject.toml file.

On: WP Engine Reprieve

[hiccuphippo]

Are other providers safe? How do I know they are not going to block other sites that offer Wordpress as a service? At least this will give me some leverage to tell management to move away from Wordpress.

On: U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers...

[hiccuphippo]

Yes that confused me for a while.

On: Anime is eating the world

[hiccuphippo]

I think it should be the other way around and we should call anime "animation". Anime is just the word Japan borrowed for animation, no need to borrow it back when English has a perfectly usable word for it already.

[dragontamer → hiccuphippo]

Why not? Animes signature 'Big Eyes' are attributed to Astroboy (early 1950s anime) but the Astroboy style was clearly from Mickey Mouse.

Similarly: One Piece / Luffys gears have been confirmed to be various powers that Tom and Jerry (the cartoon cat and mouse) have done over the decades with Gear 5 being a full on cartoon logic power up.

The amount of play and borrowing from Japan to America and back to Japan and back to America is epic.

Samurai films are inspired by Westerns. But then Star Wars was inspired by Samurai films.

Bouncing back and forth between the two cultures is part of the fun of it all. Including borrowing words like anime, Isekai. Or Japan borrowing the letter 'H' (ecchi) from us with completely new meanings.

On: Anime is eating the world

[hiccuphippo]

You are underestimating the sheer amount of Anime produced every year. You probably get as much variety in a single year as a decade of western animation.

[vunderba → hiccuphippo]

That's true, but it's also not the point I was addressing which was that all western animation has the same humor/writers which is LLM hallucination level wrong.

On: Anime is eating the world

[hiccuphippo]

The "iyashikei" subgenre is specially nice for that. I'd really like to see what a western tv take on iyashikei would look like.

On: Anime is eating the world

[hiccuphippo]

What I like from manga is that there's usually a single author who envisions the whole story, there could be a small team of assistants and an editor to help but the story belongs to a person alone. Not a team of people writting a story by committee.