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by m11a 8mo ago
> seems to be on it’s way out Change is fraught with chaos. I don't think exuberant trends are indicators of whether we'll still care about secure and high quality software in the long term. My bet is that we will.
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by m11a 9mo ago
I agree, and as much as I think AI helps productivity, for a high security solution, > Recently, with Claude's help, I rewrote everything on top of rusty_v8 directly. worries me
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by m11a 9mo ago
Is WASM’s story for side effects solved yet? eg network calls seems too complicated ( https://github.com/vasilev/HTTP-request-from-inside-WASM etc)
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by m11a 9mo ago
Node in Docker doesn’t have full isolation and ‘sandbox’ escapes are possible. V8 is comparatively quite hardened
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by m11a 9mo ago
The quick setup is cool! I’ve not seen this onboarding flow for other tools, and I quite like its simplicity.
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by m11a 11mo ago
So ... any bets the cause isn't DNS?
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by m11a 1y ago
It might meaningfully change the business model of LLM businesses. Becomes seemingly much harder to universally charge $30/mo subscriptions when the user is bringing their own API key.
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by m11a 1y ago
Right. IIRC, the acquiring bank would send an authorisation advice to the issuer when it comes back online. An auth advice is like notice that a payment happened, the issuer doesn’t really get a say in rejecting it (as it does for an author
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by m11a 1y ago
I’d agree. The biggest exception I can think of is X, which post-Musk has plans to reduce/remove ads. Though I don’t know how much this tanked their ad revenue and whether it was worth it.
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by m11a 1y ago
I think the problem is, so many demos are cooked these days, that it’s so much more trustworthy to see it work live.
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by m11a 1y ago
Codex got ported to Rust
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by m11a 1y ago
For Rust, there are a few blogs that lean more on fundamentals and language design (like https://without.boats/blog , https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps ). For misc Rust engineering, like the OP, I agre
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by m11a 1y ago
Think you need a healthy mix? eg: if you want distributed systems, esp Java-style, https://www.martinfowler.com is a pretty handy reference. (similar for other areas of SWE). It’s nice to have a single resource that documents a
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by m11a 1y ago
Graphite seems cool, it’s just unfortunately quite expensive and sometimes hard to convince procurement/etc to invest in when it has a noticeable cost involved. So I’m really hoping something like Graphite becomes open-source, or integ
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by m11a 1y ago
I don't know enough about networking as I should, so to plug for my gap in knowledge, I generally prefer to use more comprehensible (to me) forms of security. And a feature like this: > Speaking of SSH, Tailscale has special support
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by m11a 1y ago
Agree, for now. But the foundation models will eventually hit a limit, and the open-source ecosystem, which trails by around a year or two, will catch up.
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by m11a 1y ago
I tried these models half-sceptically. I ended up blown away. via Cerebras/Groq, you're looking at around 1000 tok/sec for the 120B model. For gentic code generation, I found the abilities to exceed gpt-4.1. Tool calling was
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by m11a 1y ago
Email is pretty difficult to reliably self-host though, and typically a PITA to manage. And you really don’t ever want to lose your email address or the associated data. Fewer people could say they properly secure, manage and administer a V
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by m11a 1y ago
At the end of the day, a big part of a good CEO's job is to make sure their company is well-funded and well-marketed to achieve its mid and long term goals. No AI/tech CEO is going to achieve that by selling AI for what it is curr
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by m11a 1y ago
Yeah, I feel like I’m missing the point of this. The original purpose of the WAL was for recovery, so WAL entries are supposed to be flushed to disk. Seems like OP’s async approach removes that, so there’s no durability guarantee, so why ev
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by m11a 1y ago
I think that notion is very specific to Rust's design. Golang for example doesn't have that trait, where the user (or their runtime) must drive a future towards completion by polling.
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by m11a 1y ago
I'd agree. There's so many footguns involved in multi-master setups, that most organisations should avoid this until they're big enough to hire distributed systems engineers to design a proper solution for the company. I pers
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by m11a 1y ago
Yes, but async Rust is basically built on tokio's runtime, which is what most the big async libraries depend on, like hyper/axum/tokio etc. And tokio is a thread-per-core work-stealing architecture, which requires Send + Sync
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by m11a 1y ago
That would be ASI I think. But consider: technically AlphaTensor found new algorithms no human did before ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication_algorith... ). So isn't it AGI by your definition of an
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by m11a 1y ago
Barring breakthroughs in robotics, it seems AGI will mainly act through a computer interface, which would primarily benefit countries with a large services economy via productivity improvements. Industrialised Western countries stand out in
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by m11a 1y ago
That's a weak form of lock-in though, because you can switch to another platform going forward, and access your previous Steam purchases for free. No ads, no subscription fee. Stay signed out of Steam Chat and the social stuff, and you
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by m11a 1y ago
It's not clear to me that these approaches aren't already being tried. Firstly, by some researchers in the big labs (some of which I'm sure are funded to try random moonshot bets like the above), at non-product labs working o
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by m11a 1y ago
Use the human brain as an example then. We don't really know how it works. I mean, we know there's neurotransmitters and neural pathways etc (much like nodes in a transformer), but we don't know how exactly intelligence or ou
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by m11a 1y ago
C syntactically is straight forward, but conceptually may be harder than Rust. You’re exposed to the bare computer (memory management, etc) far more than with a GC language or even Rust arguably, at least for simple programs. Towards deploy
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by m11a 1y ago
Well, the apps often come bundled with a bunch of other stuff. Automatic updates, background workers, telemetry … All of which sucks up your compute resources and battery. Repeat for every such little utility app you have on your Mac. Some

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