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by pas 2mo ago
static link everything? ship a docker image? ship your own userspace (like Oracle DB used (?) to)?
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by pas 2mo ago
are they dealing with more or less memory safety bugs? for me it was already "don't run in prod" quality before. (at least after this I'm considering adding it to the CI to see how it fares.) segfaults. I don't know
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by pas 2mo ago
the neat part is that you don't have to, millions will do it for you! the point is that it's a quite obvious opportunity that was just some pipedream years ago. by the time v8.0 comes around we'll have more data on the bun re
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by pas 2mo ago
> at which point, why not just do that from zig. because for the same effort you get a better result if you can and do use a better tool?
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by pas 2mo ago
> I don't believe the LLM port makes the full transition any easier than doing things the old fashioned way: a dual lang code base like Linux ... how so? let's say Linus opens a branch, rust-temp, and in 2 weeks pushes ~15 mill
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by pas 2mo ago
this seems exactly the usual anti-consumer bullshit that is regulated state-by-state (or sometimes by (lack of) FCC/FTC effort, or by the CFPB that is now a zombie) however, AI doesn't really influence this. already there's a
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by pas 2mo ago
LLM-assisted software engineering seems to be very efficient if you have a deterministic target. (bun rewrite from zig to Rust, 100% Node.js compatibility, pnpm compatibility -- https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull&
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by pas 2mo ago
Arguably the question is whether it's economically feasible to self-host something similar. Are you self-hosting Google or Bing? No, but we have quite a huge ecosystem of full-text search tools with PageRank, with options to scale to a
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by pas 2mo ago
let's say a non-profit hosts it somewhere can people use it to file their taxes for free?
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by pas 2mo ago
you need to compare the alternative. and also take into account the growth that happened thanks to cheap mortgages. there was a nominal price bubble (especially visible in the rent vs buy graph) but rents did not show the same spike, there
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by pas 2mo ago
how come the UK bailout was an expense? the US one paid for itself.
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by pas 2mo ago
LLM does not work on encrypted tokens. It happens at the API gateway.
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by pas 2mo ago
or add some metadata and don't allow downgrading.
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by pas 2mo ago
assuming their "reserve item" function is just "update the table set N rows to reserved=true where reserved==false" more transactions can commit at the same time, but with one counter they would conflict (as it did in th
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by pas 2mo ago
in the age of containers, overlay filesystems, a decade of UX work regarding sharing data/files/content between applications on phones, it should.
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by pas 2mo ago
biology uses a lot of gradients and culling. the brain starts with more neurons than it needs, and those that don't form connections get recycled. no need to start futile fights when you are in the (ideological) minority.
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by pas 2mo ago
> What is the correct procedure for this? in general to work on something that will get "into the rust compiler" it needs at least an RFC and then a Major Change Proposal [0] in practice it starts with asking on zulip [1] [0]
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by pas 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4B_movement
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by pas 2mo ago
oh, it could be worse! spending time on fake CVEs while people are exploiting real 0days against your system.
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by pas 2mo ago
I have complicated feelings regarding academia, and in general IMHO it's way past due to start focusing on quality instead of hype. who was first to some kind of novelty? who cares. someone did something but no one can replicate it? in
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by pas 2mo ago
ehh, it's Python, it's mostly vibe-based. https://stackoverflow.com/a/32802486 though there's sandbox: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/sandbox/ it simply preda
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by pas 2mo ago
... what is understanding of mathematics anyway? if some AI result helps a mathematician to solve more problems I would say then that it gave them some understanding, but just as there are proofs that span hundreds of pages it's likely
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by pas 2mo ago
that doesn't mean much. it has a lot of tests, the architect seems sane, it fits a niche (for example scripts baked into container images don't need full (Node + tsx + esbuild) or Bun/Deno)
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by pas 2mo ago
how would they detect?
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by pas 3mo ago
the same is true of passwords. some sites provide password reset some don't. how is that not clear?
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by pas 3mo ago
natural selection rather quickly fixes this, don't worry
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by pas 3mo ago
sure, and there are obvious pitfalls, but IMHO it's much better than going to a 100+ dates and not reflecting on what went wrong/well after any of them. (tangentially related recommended reading https://danluu.com/
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by pas 3mo ago
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-dating-men-in-t...
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by pas 3mo ago
use an open source password manager that supports them. as others mentioned, there's BitWarden (cross-platform, self-hostable), but if you want something simple there's KeePassXC (and you can put the store file on a dropbox shared
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by pas 3mo ago
password managers do the backup for you based on how you set them up (eg. to your google drive, or to a simple SFTP/FTPS/S3 URI) those that don't have this built-in (eg. KeePassXC) recommend using Dropbox or some external syn

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