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> Most likely next Tuesday we’ll do the release of 1.4. Next Tuesday, otherwise known as last Tuesday. Still no 1.4 at https://bun.com/blog . I'm very curious to see what happens w…

Ironically you can barely find a single mars bar in the UK these days. Usually what's stocked is "Mars Duo": two mars bars in one wrapper.

I struggle to identify with the apparent glee you feel at berating the person you imagine yourself talking to. I guess we all have our own idiosyncratic forms of fantasy, but this …

I shouldn't be surprised how prevalent this viewpoint is, given the entrenched anti-intellectualism these days in the US and across the world, but it's disturbing to see it so wide…

Claimed refutation of one of OpenAI's 10 claimed advances (their disproof of Connes' rigidity conjecture): https://philpapers.org/archive/NIEWTC.pdf I am hopelessly ill qualified t…

A bigger factor is that Claude Code is owned by Anthropic. They can view issues in the combined CC+Bun as issues in one overall thing that they own. They can reproduce and test the…

I haven't read the article myself yet as it's big and I haven't got time now, but I will as it looks like it might be very good. However, if you read just the very first paragraph …

It was a reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031519 . Not a topic I know anything about.

IMU: We've awarded Fields medals to these outstanding mathematicians. Hackernews: Next time it'll all be LLMs. AI's going to kill us all, though, one of the mathematicians said so!…

Indeed it's surprising, given the zig compiler famously causes all developers who use it to merge into a single organism with a combined nervous system.

The Collatz conjecture is a question about positive integers, so enumerating and checking all the possible counterexamples is trivial, albeit requiring infinite time. It has been v…

It's not a great way of inferring software quality, but I think the numbers for both Bun and Claude Code are pretty bad. cpython has ~7,000 open issues, but ~70,000 closed ones, a …

The port of Bun, which has >5000 open github issues, is used in Claude Code, which has >11000 open github issues. Do people use Bun in things that are expected to work reliably? Ha…

Surely that outcome requires that the capital retains its value/usefulness. One advantage of crypto and AI is that they can utilise massively parallel computational resources (and …

Am I right in thinking the Bun rewrite hasn't actually been released yet? There was a big kerfuffle when it was merged to master and people seemed to be behaving like that meant it…

Yes, I think I understand it (or am at least on the way to understanding it) now. Thanks!

Ah, interesting. I see "homogeneous coordinates" are covered later in the book I've just started reading (Projective Geometry, Coxeter) as a way of representing projective space. I…

Tiny nit / check of my understanding: > It was already widely understood that projective geometry allowed one to represent rotations and translations in R^3 with a single linear op…

Lovely game! Takes a bit of fiddling to get the hang of it, but so do most puzzles worth doing. The instructions are clear, the presentation is great and I like the decision to pri…

See the paragraph beginning "Yet terms and conditions also apply."

Assuming your two uses of "model" have the same meaning, I'm mad that people are seriously suggesting we scrap representative democracy in favour of government by LLM output.

They're not plausible or internally consistent for reasons in my edit. It's not the Fermi "paradox" that rules them out. There could easily be interstellar civilisations in the Mil…

It doesn't though. The galaxy is ~100,000 light years across and likely to contain at least 100 billion planets, of which we've only just developed the ability to even detect the e…

The Fermi paradox isn't evidence for anything except space being big.

Even if it was a supply chain attack, which isn't known, the agent was in the "build trust" phase. It was supposed to be doing helpful things, even if the end goal was nefarious, b…