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If I were Anthropic I would sue him for slander to get the equity back. Then, he may actually return it. Or he may go to court, which would be revealing...
I would like to have a great laptop running Linux but the hardware options are just not there.
So I end up with a MacBook with macOS. Some may refuse to do that but I expect that's only a tiny missed opportunity.
The article starts by calling Kamen Rider, Power Rangers. Before that it said something about posts taking a long time due to research.
Didn't read the rest but did skim through that crab bat pic wondering what that was, didn't realize it's Ganon!
Funny how the threads are all about jj. Personally the move to a startup focused on version control, to me an obvious sinking ship, is more interesting. Not spectrum though.
I recently found a rust library that downloads and runs Bazel transparently.
Lost a lot of faith in the safety of the Rust ecosystem...
It's always amazing to me how everyone continues to pay a fairly ridiculous price for Slack. Sure it has it's issues but I think people would get used to it and be just as productive with the free Google Chat they already have if any executive had the guts to say they're not going to waste money on Slack anymore. But never happens.
Comparing a wrapped C++ gRPC backed stack with an httpx/requests backed one is like comparing apples to elephants.
SoftBank has always managed to squeeze by after every mistake selling some early huge wins Alibaba, Nvidia, arm. Wonder if they still have any of those left in the back pocket.
And the other half thinks you can raise taxes and grow revenues while keeping the loopholes for their elites.
The only thing intentional in politics is preserving your personal status and wealth. This is bipartisan.
I have seen so much governance weirdness from Codeberg over the years that it isn't even on the radar to migrate to. GitHub has gotten less stable, I wouldn't mind an alternative, but Codeberg just wouldn't ever be that. To be fair I am just on the sidelines seeing net commentary so it may not be a fair take but it doesn't change that point.
Do people know Codeberg well and migrate to it anyways, or they just don't know? If the former, wondering what gets you to that point.
I think anyone grandfathered in to a lifetime license is getting a pretty good deal on this. Mine was $119 in 2017. The only other lifetime license I have bought is Adguard, also excellent. Software that gets unlimited updates for a low price is _very rare_ right? If there are other good examples, happy to hear them!
I get that things are changing with Plex, naturally given it was a steal. But somehow it feels in bad faith when the author got that great deal but puts out this hit piece.
I maybe am reading too much into this, but it's weird to me that a zig lead would be posting about an AI-only project despite zig's stance on AI. Maybe zig's official stance isn't that well supported in their own community.
I think I follow this and most people probably also understand what it is that causes a bank default (i.e. everyone withdraws their money simultaneously). Still trying to dig at the mapping.
IIUC the main difference with stock is the market prices the items by demand unlike where the treasury effectively prices the items by supply and banks work under that. So the stocks are expected to always be liquid potentially at a lower price while banks have to be bailed out by the government for liquidity if a bank run. This definitely feels different, though I guess the extreme case gets closer, if every single bank needs to be bailed out at once, the currency price will go down like stocks do.
While I don't want to ruin this thread with coming out, I can't find a better place - sorry.
While I have a guess on what elephant everyone is thinking about, I wonder if it's just the stock market - at a higher level capitalism itself. I have felt Android get less stable with pretty much every release for many years now, well before the current boom. I think this is all a long term trend devaluing craftsmanship, with a root cause of why care if you can still make tons of money anyways.
I have found LLMs struggle with Rust's constraints - they are optimized to produce code that passes the tests, not necessarily good code. So instead of working out lifetimes and borrowing, it will be happy to copy a buffer many times without thought. This means I have to still go through line by line to review and often rewrite either by hand or with another LLM iteration.
There may be some prompting that can help with this but I suspect there is a fundamental tension between writing working code vs good code in LLMs. Go is popular for being simple, making it easy to jump in and write something fast and stable - minimizing the gap between working and good code probably helps out the LLMs a lot.
I notice Gemini is essentially a frontend to Reddit at this point. I'm guessing that was on TikTok and also Reddit, while the malicious Wikipedia edit doesn't make it through a subreddit.
Too much muscle memory to change yet but I continue to want to at least try changing my default search engine to Reddit Answers for a trial to see how it compares to Google, probably at least as good.
I think this is precisely why I don't mind it that much. I can't audit a huge codebase like a JavaScript runtime, whether the code is by a human from scratch or not. I just have to trust it as a black box.
I've seen LLMs produce terrible code indeed, but I have also seen humans produce terrible code. I haven't dug in to JS runtimes specifically but have read plenty of code in openjdk and cpython - there are many points that could be done better, but there's also no point since it's working, and keeping working code unchanged tends to be a smart decision in software engineering.
So of course the last point brings up whether it was a good idea to rewrite bun if it was working. Apparently the bun team thought the difficulty in getting changes in zig upstream meant it is. I don't intend to hold LLM code to a higher bar than human code - notably if the runtime continues to work, that is as good as I can expect from what is otherwise a huge black box of extreme programming (not that agile kind).
I agree with the sentiment and don't like Elon at all. But I think there is a case to say the Full refers to features, so not only lane change / parking, but actual driving fully. If it said Perfect FSD or even High Quality FSD, that's definitely worse, but we have to acknowledge FSD can fully drive in many cases, not enough for me to be comfortable enough maybe, but comparing to rat poison seems like a stretch.
If the latter is no, I do hope the US finally ends military aid to Israel. I really doubt it will happen, but if the record says it should be ok, then that would be really great.
I don't know of anyone accessing a database like Postgres with just the stdlib in real apps. Or maybe the API is just serving data out of a JSON file checked in the repo?
I agree the stdlib is great but the reality is production apps cannot be built using only it.
Most codebases have dependencies. Most accept dependency updates from renovate etc without much thought. Go can remain secure if goproxy has thorough security scans (I think they do but am not sure if it's unbeatable) and if the fact that any attack will be in OSS code itself, rather than packaged just-in-time in a workflow, makes it visible before significant damage. I have no idea if the latter is true but it might be. Of course NPM packages are just as visible as long as someone is scanning them so maybe not.
Completely irrelevant news - switched to Zen Browser last year and never looking back.
(Cheeky phrasing, of course this is an anecdote. But for anyone the news is relevant to, definitely recommend a try!)
Gotten so used to brew, tap, etc never even thought how unintuitive that might be for newcomers.
At this point I assume anyone with more than five years at Google is morally bankrupt to at least some degree. I don't want to paint them as bad people or anything but can't find better words for it - it's so obvious that if you stick around, you are accepting it and likely contributing to some degree. People I still talk to are generally honest about accepting it. I wonder if they will all reneg with this sort of quitting post when the time comes.
Can you clarify what you are saying here?
This project seems to get shared every month or so. It's really sad that HN's signal to noise has fallen this hard... While I continue to have it in my feed, I'm more and more opening up Reddit since it just feels more robust now adays.