ossobuco · HackerTrans

I don't know, socket.io already feels like an unnecessary abstraction to me, and this is another abstraction on top of it. I generally dislike APIs that hide what's happening under "magic" abstractions, plus this seems leaky, as it abstracts on socket.io but requires you to know how it works.

ossobuco

작년discuss

It's an oligarchy, always has been. I don't know how colossal the pile of evidence supporting this has to get before people finally accept it.

ossobuco

2년 전discuss

> The fact that it not only doesn’t have a built in build tool/package manager...

I've been programming in Odin for a few months now, and I've come to actually like this choice.

I still use the occasional dependency, and installing it is even easier than with a package manager!

I download a repo as zip from github, extract it in my project, and voilà, it's ready to use. No compilation, transpilation, peer dependencies, locking versions, etc.

Another positive of this approach is that I can now easily read the dependency source code and if needed modify it, as it's become a part of my project, not some transpiled and minified version of that code sitting in an unversioned folder.

Overall, in Odin I use dependencies much more sparingly than when I work with JS. The reason is that the core and vendor packages of the language already include a surprising amount of things you'd normally reach npm/cargo for. Need linear algebra primitives? Specialized data structures like a priority queue? SDL2? stbi? It's all included in the language (and so much more), ready to use.

I've come to realize that more often than not it's fine to reinvent the wheel to solve your specific problem rather than relying on a generalized (and thus unoptimized) 3rd party library.

ossobuco

2년 전discuss

I agree, especially considering that Batista had been sold arms until 1958, when the fights with the rebels had been ongoing for a while already (1956 I believe). The result is that Batista fought the rebels using USA weapons, embargo or not.

ossobuco

2년 전discuss

That's how revolutions work, if you disagree you usually get killed.

The thing is that people would get killed for disagreeing even under Batista. If your family was happy with Batista then I don't think they were in a clean line of business.

ossobuco

2년 전discuss

> we don't want to fund what their government is doing

What is their government doing that is so terrible?

Anyway let's suppose Cuba is a brutal dictatorship, even though it really isn't by any metric. Why are there no sanctions on Saudi Arabia? Why no sanctions on Taiwan during the white terror? Why no sanctions on Chile when they threw alive protesters from flying helicopters? I could go on for a while.

ossobuco

2년 전discuss

> What would it take for the US to lift sanctions

Open the doors to US investors to exploit every single resource Cuba has to offer.

Kicking out Batista the dictator and closing those doors was the reason sanctions were applied in the first place.

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