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by tomlockwood 3mo ago
Not sure! I cludged together a counter using git log. I could go back and redo it but I think the number would serve my point either way.
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by tomlockwood 3mo ago
Author here: An apology on the graphs, they just count rust files touched in commits, not total commits. So if there were two commits and one touched 3 .rs files and another touched 2, it'd be counted as 5 for the purposes of the graph
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How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?(lockwood.dev)
496 points by tomlockwood 3mo ago|384 comments
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by tomlockwood 3mo ago
This stuff is a commodity and China seems to be the only one that's noticed.
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by tomlockwood 3mo ago
It's been shipping in the company that's success is partly contingent on it shipping? But there's no release? Curious.
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by tomlockwood 3mo ago
Is the bun rewrite actually done? There's no tag for the release, and as it stands robobun has almost 1.3k open PRs on the repo: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pulls/robobun It doesn't look done. An
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by tomlockwood 3mo ago
idk I have a BA Phil and have been a professional programmer for over a decade now. If you don't know how to search stackoverflow I'd agree. But I had to go to University to learn all the ins and outs of philosophy. Much easier to
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by tomlockwood 4mo ago
It's a fatal flaw to think counter-intuitive == wrong.
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by tomlockwood 4mo ago
Practically printing money!!!
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by tomlockwood 4mo ago
I've seen lots of ads saying I should use chatgpt to plan a workout or give me recipes. Thats apparently the killer app for 95% of the population at this point.
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by tomlockwood 5mo ago
I can't recommend going doorknocking for a cause you care about, enough. Its maybe a half-day, you'll find most people aren't like the angry commenters on twitter, you'll meet people in your community and it makes you mo
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by tomlockwood 6mo ago
The question is how many people tried to solve this Erdos problem with AI and how many total minutes have been spent on it.
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by tomlockwood 6mo ago
America should fund tertiary education better, and that would solve even more problems.
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by tomlockwood 6mo ago
Can you imagine how much ChatGPT cancer research we could fund if we stopped funding cancer research?
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by tomlockwood 6mo ago
I think one day the VCs will have given the monkeys on typewriters enough money that these kinds of comments can be generated without human intervention.
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by tomlockwood 6mo ago
Because it could be a massive waste of time and money.
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by tomlockwood 6mo ago
My big question with all these announcements is: How many other people were using the AI on problems like this, and, failing? Given the excitement around AI at the moment I think the answer is: a lot. Then my second question is how much VC
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by tomlockwood 6mo ago
The communist small business funding scheme.... Interesting.
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by tomlockwood 6mo ago
I love how at the beginning of this boom people were talking about how heuristics applied to AI outputs were short-term gains disguised as real progress. Now it seems like almost every new tool is a series of heuristics applied to AI output
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by tomlockwood 7mo ago
Is this the best one for blowing up arab children and identifying their bodies in the rubble?
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by tomlockwood 8mo ago
Go on?
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by tomlockwood 8mo ago
One of the books that influenced my thinking the most was The Accidental Guerilla by David Kilcullen where he posits that economic disadvantage drove a lot of people to insurgency. This article supports that. Worth a read!
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by tomlockwood 8mo ago
https://archive.is/ZwCIo
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by tomlockwood 8mo ago
Yes yes such a complex situation and so hard to tell whether the guy with the pedo non-con site wanted to go to the pedo non-con island.
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by tomlockwood 8mo ago
Elon's in the files asking Epstein about "wild parties" and then doesn't seem to care about all this. Easy to draw a conclusion here.
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by tomlockwood 9mo ago
Oh wow! Guy who's current project depends on AI being good is talking about AI being good. Interesting.
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by tomlockwood 9mo ago
The people working for Palantir are collaborators.
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by tomlockwood 9mo ago
Doesn't contradict what I said at all. You think she was aiming at this chump?
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by tomlockwood 9mo ago
In no way is this "towards" anyone.
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by tomlockwood 9mo ago
ICE agents should be tried in the Hague.

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