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Gemini sounds less personal, but I think that is good. From my experience, the quality of response is much higher than ChatGPT or Grok, and it cites real sources. I want to have a mini-wikipedia response for my questions, not a friend's group chat response

You don't need V8 for running JS for scripting, you have quickjs[1] or mquickjs[2] for example. You might have problems importing npm packages, but as we can see from lua plugins you don't even need support for package managers. Performance is not as good as luajit, but it is good enough

[1]: https://bellard.org/quickjs/

[2]: https://github.com/bellard/mquickjs


I don’t want npm anywhere near my tooling thanks.

I believe the Minio developers are aware of the alternatives, having only their own commercial solution listed as alternatives might be a deliberate decision. But you can try merging the PR, there's nothing wrong with it

There's also Allegro[1] (the graphics/gaming library). I was confused on why the old-school gaming library was interested in testing the old-school terminal browser

[1]: https://liballeg.org/


In Poland Allegro.pl is much more recognizable than the Allegro graphic library. It exists for ~25 years already.


The game library first released in 1990, 36 years ago. (Most recent release January 2026.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro_(software_library)


The 'who was there first' game doesn't make sense because neither of them created this term. One is older, the other is a company worth over seven billion euros and one of the biggest marketplaces in Europe. I'd argue that it has wider brand recognition because of that, but ultimately it all comes down to your background. I'd expect the number of people in the US who heard about it in context of the game library to be larger than for Allegro.eu and at the same time smaller than the original meaning.


Well, true, but it was a small Atari ST library back then. For example, first commit to SourceForge SVN was done in year 2000.

I mean it wasn't popular back then at all.


Or fish oil


It might take some time to end though, executive power without laws is very close to dictatorships, and some dictatorships take a long time to dissolve (if they dissolve at all). They might not even have an end. As an example, look at Russia, from an empire to a dictatorship to an oligarchy. It never seemed full democracy and there's no hope of it changing in the next decade. There's a lot of speculation on what will happen at the end of Trumps presidency


I think you can do it on pure Androids that can have more than 1 SIM card, you need to have an Android profile for each and have both sim cards in the same phone.


Nexus used to support unlimited profiles for the whole phone including every app, Samsung phones don't.


Not sure about other countries, but there were a few trys in creating unions for software engineers in Brazil, where I live. They all failed for lack of interest from the engineers themselves.

Aside from that, you need to contribute with money for something that will not get you anything in the short term. Also the lack of transparency incentives corruption


Why does there have to be a lack of transparency?


I'm not saying it has to, I'm saying what happened in Brazil


I think he/she is talking about avoiding both Windows and Linux


Yes, I am asking why avoid Linux too?


Maybe the monoculture that many kids nowadays think UNIX === Linux?


I don't think the kids these days know that UNIX exists.

UNIX is also basically irrelevant unless you are talking about macOS technically being UNIX, so I agree with the kids.

The idea that Linux is a monoculture is also hilarious to me. That umbrella includes things like RHEL, SteamOS, Bazzite, Android, Chromebooks, Gnome, KDE, dwm, i3, your robot vacuum, car infotainment systems..."Linux" is the exact opposite of a monoculture.


All powered by the Linux kernel, the very meaning of monoculture.

Also it isn't as if BSD, FreeRTOS, Aix, INTEGRITY, SmartOS, Illumos, QNX,... don't exist.


But it’s not a monoculture because they’re wildly different applications of the technology.

It’s also not a culture at all because it’s a kernel.


FreeRTOS is an odd one in that set.


It also has good enough POSIX support.


> Aix

This is more a limitation on the architecture - virtually nobody has power arch hanging around to play on.


As owner from Red-Hat and Linux contributor since 1998, IBM isn't certainly blocked by choice, they also have Linux for the same architecture, which Aix customers could switch to and don't.


I mean, AIX essentially _does_ not exist unless you happen to work in an enterprise or are in a similar environment that has it. It's not something to easily get your hands on – esp. not "as a kid".


Ragebaiting/hater comment


not linux, specifically linus. its just a shame hes still attached to the kernel


Okay, so why avoid Torvalds? I am not sure what part of him you find objectionable.


What would be the point of avoiding linux?


At what level do you mean that? Kernel level? Driver level?

Wine[1] is the de facto compatibility layer with NT executables. Driver compatibility is too complex and obscure to worth the while. Often information is undocumented or hard to get.

There are a few implementations of windows behaviors at kernel level for a few subsystems features, ntsync, samba, ntfs, etc. they can be used by wine to improve compatibility or performance

[1]: https://www.winehq.org/


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