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Re:AWS Acquires DuckDB on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:07AM (#49460008)
Wait, you guys actually call yourselves MotherDuckers :rofl:. I was thinking before that would be a hilarious name, kind of like how Google has “Googlers.”
Re:WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:19PM (#48470995)
I ride a motorcycle (not a big one), and it will slip out of my short's pocket onto the road pavement, every, single, time, without a case.
Re:The Emacsification of Software on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @11:32PM (#48130797)
but what did Gruber do?
Re:Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:54AM (#47598092)
Tested with zed and vscode. They don't seem to have the issue. Probably due to "Restricted Access" mode when opening new folder?

Edit: yeah pwned when clicking the big green trust button

Re:Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:34AM (#47597969)
I don't think this is fair, as it will likely also affect any editor with Git integration (or not?)
Re:ARC-AGI-3 on Thursday March 26, 2026 @03:46AM (#47527694)
where did you get this 1%?
Re:LLMs Predict My Coffee on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @01:08AM (#47498800)
Then I was wrong, at least until further research into the topic. Such is the tale of science.
Re:LLMs Predict My Coffee on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:38AM (#47485544)
It's because you was wrong (or at least not correct). The Mpemba Effect wasn't scientifically proven, and can be explained away with error in measurement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkH2iX0rx8U
Palantir only select people that are okay with this, so I doubt they say anything here.
Re:Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System on Sunday December 14, 2025 @09:37PM (#46269793)
obviously, they and their claude didn't think about that
Re:Zig's New Async I/O [video] on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:13PM (#45767957)
I don't get it, what's the difference between "got or don't" vs "it depends"?
Re:The New Calculus of AI-Based Coding on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:44AM (#45729783)
The "metrics" is hilarious. The "before AI" graph looks like those meme about FAANG engineers who sit around and basically do nothing.
Re:Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature on Sunday October 12, 2025 @05:13AM (#45556702)
It's not the same because, with AI, they will likely be called anti-ai or anti-progress if they push back against it.
Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts on Monday June 02, 2025 @11:44PM (#44166070)
The thing I don't understand is that you keep bringing up your friends' experience in all your responses and in the blog itself. What about your experience and your success rate and productivity gain that you observed with AI agent? It feels like you yourselves aren't confident on your gain and must bring up second hand experience from your friends to prop up your arguments
Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts on Monday June 02, 2025 @11:27PM (#44165986)
the rust code in question is the example on the cursor landing page though
Re:Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster on Sunday June 01, 2025 @11:41PM (#44155654)
> Doing a presentation at another company? They've got an overly-aggressive firewall on the guest network

This happened to me lol. I copied a demo video from our landing page, and the host company somehow blocked our CDN, so the demo slide is just a blank page. Have to mouth the whole demo from memory, not too bad but it's really awkward.

Re:Planet squeezed in between two stars on Saturday May 24, 2025 @12:42AM (#44078831)
Wow really life taldain from stormlight archive
Re:Zig's (.{}){} Syntax on Sunday November 10, 2024 @11:00AM (#42100829)
> why do I call .deinit() on a structure before alllocator() call

This is explained right in the documentation about arena allocator. Arena allocator deallocate everything at once when it goes out of scope (with defer deinit()). You need to call .allocator() to get an Allocator struct because it's a pattern in Zig to swap out the allocator. And with this, other code can call alloc and free with out caring about the implementation.

This is just how arena allocator works and not related to Zig's design. You may take issue with how Zig doesn't have built-in interface and having to resort to this implementation struct returning the interface struct pattern, but I think the GP clearly explained the Why.

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Re:evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:30PM (#35649545)
This feels GPT generated, but I guess that is just everything nowadays.