> b/c composer is written in php for (almost) no reason.
It's written in PHP because obviously it's for the PHP ecosystem, sounds like a really good reason. Secondly, PHP is a much simpler language to learn and write than Rust, sounds like a pretty good second reason.
With those two reasons, plus the reason that composer isn't by any way slow today, nor do you deal with thousands of packages in a project like NodeJS, the very good reason of "why not just PHP" appears as well.
Leading me to ask more questions about why spending the time to write and maintain a Rust version of a PHP packager that already works OK and fine, when the existing package manager also been written in the language the users who use it know?
> because it was too slow (especially when docker is involved)
This makes it sound like you wrote this entire project just because you had Docker misconfigured, or maybe you're on Windows which struggles with many files?
The experience where I was working was that nobody would run dump-autoload in their dev environment because it would take upwards of five minutes. This was even after solving all of the surprises that we had with our docker setup.
In our case, the docker issues were somewhat endemic, because different people would touch parts of the local setup, without realizing what downstream consequences there would be.
Part of the preference is being able to run on the host without installing PHP, so you don't pay the virtualization boundary tax (we were on Mac, so it's small but not nothing)
> Part of the preference is being able to run on the host without installing PHP, so you don't pay the virtualization boundary tax (we were on Mac, so it's small but not nothing)
Seems strange to me to want to develop PHP applications without running PHP locally, but I guess I'm a "old school" programmer by now.
But yeah, doing PHP development on macOS hardware is kind of sucky, because of the virtualization/filesystem issues. Same applies on Windows too. Not sure how developers are not all on Linux yet, the performance difference is so stark, even given the exact same (compatible) hardware. Oh well...
The not having PHP locally installed is a reasonable decision - if your dev environment is dockerized, then you can debug it for everyone at the same time (I have wrangled many MANY local envs in my day, and I prefer it this way).
Of course, for the same price you can enbug it - we had an issue that we changed the image for clickhouse when bitnami stopped hosting their image, and the new image was dumping all sorts of statistics and logs, and then eventually bloated >10GB of the stuff, leading to crashloops which ate up ALL of the virtual CPUs in the docker virtual machine. but i digress
Part of the reason i didn't just pick PHP also was that I was testing a workflow where I would let claude write the whole thing, while just making sure to validate it externally.
My experience with agents writing PHP was less than stellar - there are a lot of sharp edges that humans don't realize. Rust is a lot more reliable when you need to change a bunch of things, cuz it simply won't compile (and helpfully so) until you get it right.
So, it's a pistol on a robotic arm, or what? Kinetic weapon doesn't say much.
A pillar with a tiny engine that just incrementally increases the speed could be devastating at a distance though, I'm sure I've read this as some solution to a problem (or attempted solution to some problem) in some sci-fi book, can't remember which though.
Yeah im not sure what they are going on about, "Rods from God" and kinetic bombardment applies to things at the bottom of the gravity well getting hit from shit dropped from up above, it has nothing to do with satellite-to-satellite weapons. Like to launch up a few ton bullet of tungsten into orbit, then maneuver it in place when needed to deorbit and strike a major target, hits like a nuke but without the nuclear program.
But to me it really doesn't make more sense than using nukes though unless they are coming from another body in space, dropping shit from normal earth orbital altitudes is like throwing peanuts compared to something coming out of solar orbit, and actually hitting your target is 10,000x harder. And anyone with a space program large enough to put such weapons in place could more easily produce nukes instead.
Yeah, not sure why not at least being upfront about the possibility is so hard. In Spain we've had train derailments, flocks of people being directed on social media to force themselves across borders, subterfuge deluxe everywhere and what not, yet the government is mostly silent and claim it's all unrelated, but it's hard to not also see the parallels across the continent and reach your own conclusions. But then also, don't wanna fall into some conspiracy theory trap either...
Russia isn't the only group interested in doing terrorism in The Netherlands. Recently the Farmers Defense Force and Extinction Rebellion have caused far greater disruption.
Could it be Russia? Obviously. But in my opinion the odds are less than a coin flip.
> Recently the Farmers Defense Force and Extinction Rebellion
Why derail trains though, especially in regards to the latter? Given it's one of the most environmental ways for transportation. Besides, groups like that tend to want to take responsibility, the whole point is to get attention to their groups.
You're misunderstanding why they do those things in the first place. You're referencing real activities here, how many of those activities you references people refused to take responsibility for doing?
Look at photos from these events you refer to, people are proudly holding banners and signs here, not trying to be anonymous and flee from police and intelligence services.
Have you never participated in political activism yourself, and you have no clue why you'd do those things you cite?
Please, do suggest this to any of these environmental activism groups and see how they'll laugh at you. You seriously think these people think like that??
Groups such as Extinction Rebellion are easy to steer off course by the state into taking meaningless actions such as gluing themselves to London Underground trains.
Perhaps this is just as well. If Extinction Rebellion really wanted to take down the entire transport network, they could do so by 'accidentally' touring the big stations with a leaky rucksack filled with lead paint fragments or ground up asbestos tiles, to then tip off the press. This would probably reveal an unfortunate truth, that there was plenty of aforementioned toxins already on the network, from brake pads and paint of yesteryear. Nonetheless, some closure for the guys in hazmat suits would be needed.
Well, colonialism also been an issue for hundreds of years, but wouldn't it be boring to bring that up every time a country impacted by it is mentioned?
This article is clearly not about missionaries, why would they be required to mention them? Half the world been impacted by missionaries one way or another, we'd never hear the end of it if it'd be mentioned every single time...
It's a very incomplete picture of the situation in PNG to describe it in a reasonably lengthy article (particularly the situation in the post 1945 modern era) without at least spending a paragraph on the presence and influence of missionaries.
It's like trying to describe Idaho and neglecting to mention the potato farming area in the fertile flat land within a few hundred km radius of Boise, for example.
Missionaries put a very specific special emphasis and great deal of attention on PNG as a "target", so yes they're worldwide, but they're very much more so in PNG.
> It's a very incomplete picture of the situation in PNG to describe it in a reasonably lengthy article (particularly the situation in the post 1945 modern era) without at least spending a paragraph on the presence and influence of missionaries.
Why don't you read through the article before you comment on how incomplete or not it is? It's literally not about missionaries but about something else, the first contact with those tribes, which wasn't missionaries at all, but seemingly gold prospectors, if I skimmed correctly.
I read the article and I comprehend the English language. The article puts a specific emphasis on foreigners "discovering" that the rural interior of the country was populated, and foreigners going up into the highlands and contacting the local people. A great many of those foreigners were (and still are) missionaries.
It's a well documented historical fact that a great deal of the "exploration" of the interior of PNG was by Christian missionaries.
> A great many of those foreigners were (and still are) missionaries.
Sure, but not in this case, that the article we're supposed to be discussing, is about! Does every article about PNG need to include that Christian missionaries at one point were there, even if the events the article discusses isn't about Christian missionaries? Like some sort of legally enforced disclaimer in the footer or whatever? Why the crusade here, against some random article about something else??
To be clear I don't have a beef with the author of the article, but the missionaries themselves. I just thought it was odd to write an article about foreigners going up into the PNG highlands and not mention missionaries at all.
Not sure whether it's intentional in the context, but interesting Freudian slip type use of the word "crusade", you might want to consider its etymology and origins.
Very much intentional, because just like the crusades, you're fighting against some imaginary enemy in a very misplaced location. The article is about different set of foreigners going to the highlands, the first ones, which weren't missionaries, so of course the article doesn't talk about the missionaries...
Not on macOS but have my own browser extension basically doing the same with Firefox, for use with agents.
It's using a clone of my real Firefox profile, and can "ping" me if it encounters a page that needs my human input, like a login page (as I don't give it access to my password manager) or captcha page. Although sometimes it "bypasses" the captcha page by itself, even though I've instructed it not to...
I see people taking cars for distances that would take 10-15 minutes to walk. If we're hunting to cut down on inefficiencies, there is a lot of stuff we could attack before a robot arm becomes impactful enough to care about.
I genuinely don’t understand this binary thinking. You could easily turn it around: if we’re cutting down on inefficiencies, laundry folding robots will give people more time to exercise.
Or, why bother going to the gym if you don’t eat healthily? Or, why bother eating healthy if you don’t go to the gym.
Not trying to give you a hard time specifically, it’s just a pattern that I feel left out of. If A and B are both improvements over status quo, why does one obviate the other?
You can't really take HN commentators (mine included probably) as some general sentiment from the average person out in the world. It's a relatively biased (in its own ways) place, don't read too much into it if you're mostly interacting with the real world out there.
cURL can do the same if you're in some utility closet and downloading ebooks and papers from a local network. Wonder how illegal that would be? It's also acting as the agent for a user.
I feel like it's the government that has to sue OpenAI for reckless endangerment of human life, or something similar. I don't believe the current models could "take over the world" even if humans tried to help them, but both OpenAI and Anthropic themselves talk publicly about how dangerous they believe these models to be. Then if that's so, they should be held responsible as if the models were that dangerous, but who's supposed to put that in motion? The only entity I can think of is the government.
It's written in PHP because obviously it's for the PHP ecosystem, sounds like a really good reason. Secondly, PHP is a much simpler language to learn and write than Rust, sounds like a pretty good second reason.
With those two reasons, plus the reason that composer isn't by any way slow today, nor do you deal with thousands of packages in a project like NodeJS, the very good reason of "why not just PHP" appears as well.
Leading me to ask more questions about why spending the time to write and maintain a Rust version of a PHP packager that already works OK and fine, when the existing package manager also been written in the language the users who use it know?
> because it was too slow (especially when docker is involved)
This makes it sound like you wrote this entire project just because you had Docker misconfigured, or maybe you're on Windows which struggles with many files?
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