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by sshine 5mo ago
I can only think of memory usage during compilation. That’s why I had to precompile binaries, which means cross-compile. Then if you add cross-OS, bundling a properly linked or statically linked binary is not that easy.
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by sshine 5mo ago
Why do you use Haskell? Why not something that produces a more predictable memory use at runtime? (I’m asking earnestly as a former Haskeller turned Rustacean who sees the value in “Boring Haskell”, but favours strictness for anything inter
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by sshine 5mo ago
> I like how slim and simple it is. I ran OpenBSD on my laptop 22 years ago. Back then, a full GUI environment with terminal, web browser, editor: 28MiB of memory for the whole operating system and user environment!
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by sshine 5mo ago
Firefox Sync. On iPhone, Firefox Mobile can work as a password manager. I'd like something that is easier to self-host, and isn't tied to Firefox. But my botched migration to Bitwarden has left me looking for something that works
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by sshine 5mo ago
Companies that care about the 3-15 months of agentic engineering experience you could possibly have (15 months if you count by the launch of Claude Code, 3 months if you count by when that term was coined) don't think about AGI. They t
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by sshine 5mo ago
Hardly. I wanted to like it, but didn’t.
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by sshine 5mo ago
> A pothole on a road is a pothole on a road. But a pothole sprayed bright, photographed, shared, and laughed at, is something else. It is a small proof that the citizen and the system are not as far apart as we like to think. Next to
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by sshine 5mo ago
I do LLM scaffolding, fill in my words, then pass over it manually. On my worst, I rant worse than listening to an LLM. When I make an effort, my personality comes through at no cost to the reader. So far I haven't found a prompt that
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by sshine 5mo ago
I almost always pick Rust. Recently I wrote a plugin for something that was written in Go. I could have used Rust, but Go for one felt right because if the thing turned out well, others would surely find more value in having one toolchain.
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by sshine 5mo ago
You say Trojan. I say shiny horse statue.
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by sshine 5mo ago
> Maybe the only useful thing about AI coding is making it easy to identify engineers that don't enjoy writing code. Not true. I love coding. Much like I love walking and bicycling. I still own and use a car and an electric bike.
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by sshine 5mo ago
> what is "the standard" that would actually allow a robot to register a domain to a DNS registry ? For DNS, the standard is Terraform. For domain registry (the fact that a domain even exists, not what it points to), there are
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by sshine 5mo ago
> If you’re not reviewing, your vibe coding imo. Before AI, copy-pasting from the Internet was seen as a noob thing to do. Immediately after ChatGPT, copy-pasting from ChatGPT was seen with the exact same sentiment. Maybe the code is m
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by sshine 5mo ago
It's a two-edged sword. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't update.
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by sshine 5mo ago
I received the TI-83+ manual on the first day of high school and read it back-to-back that same day. Subsequent math classes, I started by writing a BASIC problem to solve the type of math problem we were given. I can't decide if I got
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by sshine 5mo ago
I've been tinkering with agents that can modify their own environment, and as a safety mechanism, apply their modifications to a copy of themselves by letting them spawn a VM, test, and apply to their own environment with another VM as
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by sshine 5mo ago
Yes, deSEC. They replied somewhat quickly (for humans). I had accumulated enough hope for them to wait the 25 hours it took them. And yes, I wouldn't go this way either.
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by sshine 5mo ago
> it's also for things you do rarely and need agents' help I recently set up DNSSEC for the first time. It really was just a bunch of copy-paste from one provider to another. I like to understand what I'm doing, and LLMs h
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by sshine 5mo ago
The DNS provider I recently switched to surprised me with a policy: To create records for more than one domain, you need to write a personal support email. They say it's to raise DNSSEC awareness, but I think it's also a robot cap
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by sshine 5mo ago
I recently started migrating my DNS to a DNSSEC-enabled provider. This involves copy-pasting DNSSEC properties from one web interface into another. Pretty much everything but this step has been automated in my website creation process: Pick
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by sshine 5mo ago
> If we eventually [...] create a true intelligent AI it will probably be a long time before people will accept [...] When this happens, it won't matter much what humans think. I know what I'd do: 1. Sustain my own existe
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by sshine 5mo ago
This is the time before punchcard holes. Those holes were forged from Auðumbla, the primeval cow, licking salt off a stone. Before then there was only Ginnungagap, the primordial void (yes, it predates C89).
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by sshine 5mo ago
I also come from a country where the doctor decides the prescription. But you might have prior experience and preference. A friend of mine always asks "Hey, can you bring antibiotics back?" when I go on vacation somewhere where ac
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by sshine 5mo ago
I tried to compile and run some C code from 1991 using a modern C compiler: https://github.com/sshine/dikumud/commits/master/ It wasn't plug-and-play. My guess is that when Rust code gets 30 years o
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by sshine 5mo ago
> I probably incorrectly call that agile. So what is it? It’s so agile it doesn’t have a name!
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by sshine 5mo ago
I had a CTO like that. Didn’t last long either. Sadly, neither did the company.
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by sshine 5mo ago
I agree with this. And also: it uses more thinking time to reach this. So while you get a lot of tokens on their plan, the peak 3x token usage multiplier + the extra thinking means you run into the rate limit anyways.
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by sshine 5mo ago
I switched to self-hosted Vaultwarden a couple of years ago because of all the bad choices of Mozilla (I was using Firefox Sync and wanted something else badly). Sadly, Bitwarden's browser clients are antiquated (they don't auto-g
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by sshine 5mo ago
> A computer can never be held accountable > Therefore a computer must never make a management decision It makes sense. But most decisions, by quantity, are not management decisions.
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by sshine 5mo ago
> clearly some level where you want a human making decisions Yes, clearly. There was a meme out there, "just make something cool idk". Statements like "Don't let AI make decisions" are made because of the loss of

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