zem's comments

On: Cwal: Scripting Engine Without a Language

[zem]

very interesting project! the docs don't use the phrase "virtual machine"; i wonder if they don't consider it one, and if so, what the distinction is.

On: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

[zem]

I'd say "it's funny because it's true", but this goes all the way into "too true to be funny"!

On: The Static Site Paradox

[zem]

> unless a wired headphone is connected

aren't wired headphones increasingly unsupported in newer phones?

[dorfsmay → zem]

Yes, that is becoming a huge issue for me.

On: Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?

[zem]

as a genxer I was not sure if he meant blue or grey and snowing.

On: Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby ...

[zem]

the problem with that is not the payment, it's that you will only be sharing it with people similarly willing to pay for a walled garden. I'm guessing most of what we're nostalgic for was created by people who wouldn't be up for that

[_DeadFred_ → zem]

It was created by people that

1. could afford a computer back then and saw the utility of owning one. 2. had access to the internet, so either in college, a 'tech' company, or ties to some local collective that provided access.

When people say 'the old internet' they are referring to a very self selective/elite group.

[anal_reactor → _DeadFred_]

> When people say 'the old internet' they are referring to a very self selective/elite group.

And that's what made it fun I guess

On: Gleam Is Pragmatic

[zem]

visual basic has the `with` statement for that https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/langua...

[elcritch → zem]

Nim has a similar `with` for the same use case. It can be handy!

On: Some Automattic employees accept severance package...

[zem]

I was effectively forced to take a similar "offer" recently (iow laid off with six months severance), and while I did end up getting another job relatively soon it was an extremely stressful time. I do not think I would have taken it voluntarily in the current economy, even if it did happen to benefit me in the end.

On: Ask HN: What do embedded engineers do?

[zem]

this is a weird tangent; you don't need to be a prima donna or call the shots for your work to be fairly valued at $200k

On: Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future (2003)

[zem]

people who like this might like ernest callenbach's "ecotopia" (from 1975), and cory doctorow's "walkaway", which cover some of the same themes.

On: Show HN: RelayBeam – A new way of messaging using ...

[zem]

did anyone else think this was going to be an erlang-based multi-language rpc system?