Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)

@kurisu Do people build web applications in Rust? I'd think that even the Rust fans would admit that's not where that language would shine?

@kurisu There is some scary level of groupthink in the Rust community.

@lynnesbian Stupid would be to say "I don't care about this, let's go shopping"

@lynnesbian The negative mass thing isn't so silly actually. I mean, from the perspective of a human on earth, it does make sense.

@veer66 You might want to take a look at ABCL if you want to do Lisp on the JVM.

Clojure is very different from regular Lisp. That's not to say that Clojure can't be a useful language in its own right of course, but ABCL is a full Common Lisp that compiles to Java bytecode.

@clacke
This looks pretty cool. I definitely want to look into that.
@grainloom

@grainloom
Well, I don't trust any software. It's just that I trust closed source software even less.

Also, I don't trust myself from making mistakes either, so isolation is good against mistakes too.

@grainloom
Do you happen to know if Guix isolates applications like flatpak does? I feel really uncomfortable running arbitrary software on my machine, and even more so if the software is closed source

@feld
How does BSD solve the problem of initial entropy? That's the root cause of the current Linux issues, isn't it

@thegibson
You can have some of ours, it's been raining for days here.

@thegibson Thanks for the summary. It would probably have taken me quite some time to figure all of that out.

@thegibson For someone who is not following US politics, what's happening now?

@dekkzz78
I'll do that next time. After all, I wrote an Emacs client for it. It's just sad that they insist on only deliver an Electron version.

@dekkzz78 I haven't checked how much CPU the non-electron parts takes, and you're probably right that it's much less.

That said, if I start the GUI and then close the window, the Electron processes won't stop, and they will sit there, using CPU.

I kind of like Keybase, but seriously, something needs to be done about Electron. Requiring that for the client is terrible. If I just start it on my laptop, power consumption goes up significantly (by several watts). That's not acceptable.

Because of this, I only start Keybase on my laptop when I need it, and then explicitly kill it afterwards.

If should be completely unacceptable to deliver applications that are built on Electron with no proper alternatives.

@temporal
I don't think you'd see this sign in Europe, for that exact reason.

@uuim
No, it's the condition to even enter the property.

@mal @mirzaba @taweret I just finished watching the last episode of DS9 last night. That series was pretty amazing.

I'm not a fan of Discovery. I'm hoping that Picard will be good.

@angristan Great article. Thanks for sharing it.

@ben Anxiously waiting for the next progress update from you. 🙂