verandaguy

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by verandaguy 25d ago
If someone were to list out all the things this admin's fucked up during this term alone we'd be here all day. Seriously; on his watch, there's been food poisoning and child imprisonment; transparent market manipulation; roll
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by verandaguy 25d ago
... Right.
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by verandaguy 26d ago
Did you just create a new account so you could keep arguing with people?
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by verandaguy 26d ago
You made yourself an expert in Rust and have never heard of an LSP? This seems surprising to me given that Rust was one of the first languages to broadly advertise a toolchain and editor integrations which rely on the technology.
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by verandaguy 28d ago
I don't know how this relates to my comment, but sure, I guess?
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by verandaguy 29d ago
Not GP, but personally I don’t trust claude. Work does for some reason, and work strongly encourages using it, but i stay far away outside of that. I think every product in this space should have to clear a very high bar for trust rather th
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by verandaguy 1mo ago
It's basically the Torment Nexus meme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus ... but I guess some people took this as positive reinforcement.
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by verandaguy 1mo ago
He has apparently been involved in web technologies since… after i got involved with web technologies. I made my first website in 2003. Which naturally makes me an authority on the matter. I may have been in middle school but i guess sheer
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by verandaguy 1mo ago
You'll forgive me for harbouring some pessimism about current world leaders' climate strategy.
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by verandaguy 1mo ago
This website has been trying to gain a veneer of legitimacy for months now. Half of its contents aren't even published by any real standards body, it's just AI-centric "best practices" for the current generation of hyper
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by verandaguy 1mo ago
The environment's already lost. We've passed the 1.5ºC deviation mark from the pre-industrial global average, and we're on track to hit 3ºC in a few more decades. The excess deaths and human misery (both that which is increas
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by verandaguy 1mo ago
It probably comes from the recognition that energy access being a common good, a tax-collecting government should work for its constituents in helping provide energy at a reasonable cost, especially if the subsidies support an improvement t
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by verandaguy 1mo ago
Could that possibly be shielding? I can't say I've seen it on USB-C-esque cables (except maybe a thunderbolt cable a while back?) but I've seen some cables use a type of aluminum or mylar-looking foil between the outer rubber
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by verandaguy 2mo ago
Nah. They're all rotten to the core, just in different ways. The key difference between xAI and Anthropic/OAI/Google is that xAI has the least-likely path to existing as viable business in a decade. That said, the economics o
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by verandaguy 2mo ago
Oh, you mean, when are we going to achieve AGI?
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by verandaguy 2mo ago
Importantly, webrings are not known to allow their users to live unnaturally long lives, and webring-wraiths have never been observed hunting them.
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by verandaguy 2mo ago
I always felt similarly about webrings as I did about demoscene. It's less about being strictly practical and more about just a fun little thing you made with your friends. I'd argue that in this day and age, building something fr
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by verandaguy 2mo ago
I'm not sure about the other three, but Bun's rewrite from Zig to Rust was a bit of a joke. `unsafe`s in the thousands, a quarter-million lines of diff, and merged inside a week with no significant public discourse (at least, not
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
GP may have been commenting that they don't find this development particularly glib.
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
I will say that a good solution to this starts before a line of code is written, and does require a PM or scrum master with a deft touch (ideally one who's been involved with the engineering side of a project for a while). Working with
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
It's easier to justify in a fast-moving greenfield code base with a verbose language... but I won't defend it. I've gotten better and I'm still getting better at breaking these things up. I brought the 10-12kLOC PR up as
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
I've seen the Bun Zig->Rust MR a few weeks ago when it was current. Now I'm seeing this, and I have to ask, since you're here: Is there no way to make this changeset smaller? At work, I've usually written large patche
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
The indicator light is very easily defeated on Meta glasses. I wonder if this will be, too.
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
I'm split on this. On the one hand, this solves the problem of smart glasses being too stealthy to tell when you're being filmed/broadcast in public by someone wearing them; where Meta's glasses look like Wayfarers, thes
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
Hot take: the rich (especially the upper strata of the rich) are perfectly comfortable victimizing the non-rich in some material ways (from monopolistic practices, to lobbying against labour interests and union busting, to regulatory captur
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
I'm sorry, a billion full-body scans a month? For what possible reasons? Are people going to be doing these things recreationally? Cause otherwise you're talking about scanning the entire world's population, including the
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
Right, but both of those examples are terrible ideas on their face. On migrant workers, much of the US economy is underpinned by the assumption that cheap manual labor is abundant, with the implicit assumption that this tier of labour isn’t
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
LOTR is easy to love. It's a classic story arc, well told, and well adapted for mass consumption. It's also a very thinly veiled metaphor for the ceaseless pursuit of industrialization in every aspect of life chipping away at th
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
Technically, it is described. It's described in the S-1. Trouble is that most (active) investors don't read the S-1. Fund managers and the like do, which covers a lot of passive investors, which is good until a company joins one
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by verandaguy 3mo ago
This should frankly be disqualifying for any company trying to go public. Super voting shares have their place but there's no scenario in which overall control of the company can be retained by super voting shareholders who make up a s

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