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by defen 10mo ago
> don't voluntarily gift money to a literal billionaire. The entire point of this post is that the money is not going to him.
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by defen 10mo ago
> Claude Code, FactoryAI, OpenCode, and others are all built with Bun. Anthropic chose to use Bun to build their tooling.
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by defen 10mo ago
I find comments like this fascinating, because you're implicitly evaluating a counterfactual where Bun was built with Rust (or some other "interesting" language). Maybe Bun would be better if it were built in Rust. But maybe
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by defen 10mo ago
There's nothing inherently Zig about this - it's some random person who is not affiliated with the project in any way. They could have done the exact same BS copyright-infringing AI slop project in any language.
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by defen 11mo ago
How are you supposed to know that if you're evaluating whether to use a tool / service?
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by defen 11mo ago
Hindsight is 20/20 but that article definitely makes me question the technical leadership of the project. They chose to write a source transformer (which introduced its own set of issues) rather than update string literals to use b&#x2
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by defen 11mo ago
It does pattern match to the Spanish Prisoner scam, with extra FinCEN violations thrown in.
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by defen 11mo ago
I'm not sad for Softbank missing out on $200 billion; I'm sad for not getting to witness how much more investment degeneracy that could have funded.
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by defen 11mo ago
Doing that seems like it's just manually replicating a call stack (with potential for error); I don't see what the benefit is. Making functions independent of global state - and allocation is a huge source of implicit dependency o
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by defen 11mo ago
> the common case is small values with periodic very large values I find that a common scenario here is parsers where "Real world" input will tend to be small but you're also exposed to adversarial input. e.g. a parser for
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by defen 11mo ago
That's a values debate, I guess. What is the purpose of punishment? Is it to set an example to others, is it to remove a dangerous person from society, is it to prevent the criminal from reoffending, is it to satisfy society's des
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by defen 11mo ago
A felony conviction, three years probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $25,000 (inflation adjusted) fine for a novel non-violent crime with no personal material benefit isn't exactly "got away with it"
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by defen 11mo ago
Indeed; I can't imagine a world where 11% higher gains makes a significant difference. Either that 11% is a large number in an absolute sense, in which case the 89% you retained is also VERY large; or it's not that big of an absol
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by defen 1y ago
> I think he was one of the first to realize that you could take regular YouTube videos that are several minutes long and turn them into skippable pre-roll ads, and some people would watch the whole thing. I'm struggling to understa
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by defen 1y ago
You're not making a strong point. He didn't say that the person's own children should watch it, and his own children are under 12. Finally, he was talking about the death penalty, which is different from murder by most people
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by defen 1y ago
He didn't say that on Bluesky so I don't see how that is relevant to this conversation.
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by defen 1y ago
Bluesky is 99% people who left twitter because Elon Musk took over. I don't have any hard data but I can't think of any reason why a Bluesky user would celebrate someone on their side being attacked or murdered. > It sounds lik
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by defen 1y ago
I doubt there were many (if any) legitimate (as in, not bots or sockpuppets) Bluesky accounts celebrating either of those things, so I don't see why a warning would be necessary.
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by defen 1y ago
Everything is making a lot more sense now, thank you.
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by defen 1y ago
Is the title supposed to say "(How) I solved a distributed queue problem 15 years ago"? As it stands it makes it sound like you've been working on this problem for 15 years and just solved it.
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by defen 1y ago
If you're on here, you probably work in tech, and if you work in tech, you're probably pretty affluent, which means you don't need to signal that you're affluent.
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by defen 1y ago
Portland OR is trying to do something similar ("Preschool for all") and is running into the exact problems OP identified, to the point that the Democratic governor is sending warning messages to the county: https://www.
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by defen 1y ago
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20170603 > We test the symmetry of this finding by studying the persistence of a sizeable negative shock to noncognitive outcomes arising with the introduction of unive
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by defen 1y ago
In a US context "childcare" means "a place to drop your kids off so you can go to work".
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by defen 1y ago
This preening moralizing is precisely the problem. When you tell people they are "white supremacist-coded" they simply do not care. You are like an evangelical Christian telling me that if I don't accept Jesus I will go to he
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by defen 1y ago
I want to make it clear that we're not having an object-level discussion about this. This is not about "the actual stated policy" of the Democratic party. This is also not about "are those policies good or bad". It
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by defen 1y ago
> If there's a dichotomy that I can't really reconcile politically, it's the fundamental idea that people coming here is bad. That we cannot allow anyone else in. We can't even allow things from other countries to com
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by defen 1y ago
Agreed. What we're actually witnessing is the end of mass-produced education.
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by defen 1y ago
The MCU I'm currently working with has 12KB of RAM and it feels luxurious.
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by defen 1y ago
> I would have thought it uncontroversial view among software engineers that token quality is much important than token output speed. We already know that in most software domains, fast (as in, getting it done faster) is better than 100%

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