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by afavour 3mo ago
If the tyrant goes against established law, yes. (an aside but the majority of the US population didn't elect Trump. He is in office because of the electoral college. Might seem like a distinction without a difference but I think it
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by afavour 3mo ago
So why not say that ? Perhaps because it highlights a flaw in AI agent workflows?
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by afavour 3mo ago
> I know a few people at anthropic and oai > They aren't managing some message and trying to teach the anti AI folks a lesson. Unless you know the senior execs in charge of marketing at these companies I don't know how you c
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by afavour 3mo ago
As the article mentions, the follow on question from that is: why does that matter if your codebase is written exclusively by AI agents?
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by afavour 3mo ago
TFA article addresses this directly. The write up is good but it is selectively written to contain almost exclusively positives. Like build times: they rewrote the Zig compiler to improve them, but Rust build times are typically much slow
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by afavour 3mo ago
> Anthropic is not in the programming language market; Did we just read the same blog post? I see no assertion in it that Anthropic is in the programming language market, rather that this rewrite was a marketing opportunity for them
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by afavour 3mo ago
> provide service to the entire world If the entire world used Starlink it would grind to a halt. They’d need to spend exponentially more to have more satellites to provide that necessary bandwidth.
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by afavour 3mo ago
And how many years of being passed over for promotions, I wonder. Not that it justifies what he did for a moment but you can absolutely work somewhere for a long time and end up resenting it by the time you leave.
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by afavour 3mo ago
I disagree, maintaining a giant fleet of satellites is almost certainly more expensive in the long run than just running a lot of cable. Not that cable doesn’t need maintenance but Starlink needs to replace every satellite every five years.
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by afavour 3mo ago
In NYC we’re often only wired for one provider. 5G home internet was a big deal in finally opening up that competition.
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by afavour 3mo ago
I think that while Starlink is a technical innovation its primary benefit is as a political innovation: it lets you sidestep a lot of politics. Rural communities in the US should have high speed internet, just like efforts were made to give
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by afavour 3mo ago
> this just isn't the kind of professionalism needed for a serious project I actually think this gets to, but steps over, the core objection: traditional "hacker" mindset vs VC "growth hacking" mindset. > And
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by afavour 3mo ago
It isn't. The grapevine stuff was unnecessary and should have been cut out but there is plenty of concrete stuff in there as well.
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by afavour 3mo ago
> It's insane to me that Andrew thinks this post will somehow exonerate Zig I'm not sure that's his aim here. I imagine he has been asked dozens of times what he thinks about the switch, what it means for Zig, etc. etc. an
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by afavour 3mo ago
Discussing the privacy implications of a big box that says "drag files to me!" is thoughtful criticism. I would get the point if this was someone's personal Show HN project but this is Cloudflare. They can withstand a littl
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by afavour 3mo ago
I don’t feel the verbosity with Rust. Haven’t written it in a while but now in the LLM era I’m looking forward to saying “sort out the lifetime errors for me”.
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by afavour 3mo ago
I’d be careful labelling any of that “love” though. There’s certainly not any proof of ants “loving” each other, they have a community, sure, but that’s just doing what best serves their colony. I’d need more evidence to consider that “love
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by afavour 3mo ago
I’m surprised they don’t just eject the injured worker from the colony. I wonder if there are specific tasks the amputated ant then goes on to do, or if they resume their former duties at a lower speed.
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by afavour 3mo ago
> I can't speak for those people, but decisions like quitting your job aren't one-dimensional. Quitting a job can create severe hardships for a family, stress relationships to the breaking point, etc. I can't disagree with
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by afavour 3mo ago
> The rank and file engineers and designers and PMs doing the work were all morally correct people Then why didn't they quit? I believe I could have gotten a job at Meta (and hey, maybe I'm wrong!) but I've never been able
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by afavour 3mo ago
> Here's a reminder that a Montana-LLC registered car is a legitimate privacy-preserving use case and not the tax-evasion that Straw Manners and Ad Hominem attackers make appear to be. I mean, it’s both, right? You’re definitely get
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by afavour 3mo ago
I think we're trying really hard to rationalize a fundamentally irrational behavior here. The vast majority of people betting on Kalshi are not thinking "well, worst case I'll just kill myself".
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by afavour 3mo ago
> A college degree is no longer a guaranteed path to a stable, well paying job. Building wealth through real estate is no longer viable. ...and winning a life's fortune via gambling is even less viable. I agree with what you're
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by afavour 3mo ago
You use Cloudfront. Which you’re already doing anyway but yes, you do need to configure it.
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by afavour 3mo ago
> It's also weird that America's birthday is celebrated using a Chinese invention. Not really. America is an amalgamation of all the countries and cultures that emigrated to it. It’s one of the best things about it.
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by afavour 3mo ago
I often leave the house without my wallet these days. It’s great. Especially riding the subway, where Apple’s transit functionality means you don’t have to do anything other than tap your device without even unlocking, is a very nice conven
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by afavour 3mo ago
I think it’s more a failing of a link aggregator site like this one dropping you into a release announcement page without context. If you don’t already know what Phosh is, why would you read their 0.56.0 announcement? Normally you wouldn’t.
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by afavour 3mo ago
> The last time I worked for someone else was 1992 Sometimes it’s fine to see a topic and tell yourself “I have no relevant knowledge in this area so I won’t comment”.
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by afavour 3mo ago
One advantage of precompilation is risk reduction. Say tsx gets hacked somehow (hardly unprecedented with Node modules!) you’ve got it running on your production server exposed to the internet. Precompilation on a CI pipeline is still a ris
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by afavour 3mo ago
In my experience the bundling isn’t really the important aspect (though it also doesn’t harm anything), it’s more just having an ecosystem of plugins for code transpiling, static asset inclusion (e.g. text files) etc and a configuration for

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