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It’s also a fairly traumatic thing to people through and I can imagine it does a lot of damage to people’s faith in law enforcement. Personal anecdote: when I was a teenager some c…

Someone in the thread about the Ruff update ingenuously said they wished Go had something like Ruff, being unaware of this framework. In that thread, someone seemed to take it as a…

Personally I love it for cache invalidation. I used it on an older especially on project originally built without caching in mind that then added caching for immutable data without…

That number, incidentally, is the entire NATO military budget. Which scares me because I can imagine someone planning on taking action that would result in the dissolution of NATO …

When I read what someone has written, I learn things beyond its literal text from the fact that I’m reading it, which implies it was worth effort for them to put into so many words…

I don't know if the intent was to deceive, but the comments certainly had the effect of deceiving me. I came away from that first thread thinking, "Ah, so the 'story' here is that …

I think relatively few people are probably running Bun in production, but as a dependency management system and bundler for the JavaScript ecosystem, it's similar to `uv` from the …

I made a Python tool to build distroless container images for projects managed by uv. It draws inspiration from Ko from the Go ecosystem and works with/depends on uv from the Pytho…

When I read some written content, before AI, I learned a few different things in order. First, just by its mere existence, I learned that someone had found an idea worth expending …

The missing status page [1] treats it as downtime any time any component of the system is down, and calculates the overall uptime based on the time that doesn't overlap with any in…

This analysis yields very different results under utilitarianism vs rule utilitarianism. Under the former, you could argue, "What I'm doing is a science or useful art, so if copyri…

Cloud is more cost effective the less of it you have because it doesn’t cost 3x more to maintain a kubernetes cluster with thrice the nodes, but it does cost 3x more to rent one. T…

The Nightmare Course [1], so named because someone with that skillset (developing zero-days) is a nightmare for security, not because the course itself is a nightmare, and Roppers …

When I look at historical cases, it seems different from a case today. If I’m a programmer in the 60s wanting async in my “low level language,” what I actually want is to make some…

It’s surprising to me how much people seem to want async in low level languages. Async is very nice in Go, but the reason I reach for a language like Zig is to explicitly control t…

Apparently there are lots of people who signed up just to check it out but never actually added a mechanism to get paid, signaling no intent to actually be "hired" on the service.

I've actually been experimenting with that lately. I did a really naive version that tokenizes the input, feeds the max context window up to the token being encoded into an LLM, an…

Even that functions as a sort of proof of work, requiring a commitment of compute resources that is table stakes for individual users but multiplies the cost of making millions of …

It’s gotten easier of late because Bazel modules are nice and Gazelle has started support plugins so it can do build file generation for other languages. I don’t like generative AI…

I’m not a fan of generative AI for the use case because it’s rote enough to do deterministically, but deterministic code generation is getting better and better. Gazelle, the BUILD…

I’ve been experimenting with this today. I still don’t think AI is a very good use of my programming time… but it’s a pretty good use of my non-programming time. I ran OpenCode wit…

Even with the ellipsized link I knew you were talking about one of a few things because the link shows up as `:visited` for me... had to be either BigTable, MapReduce, or Spanner. …

There's some real science there for a couple of reasons. Protein is a macronutrient you can be malnourished if you don't get enough of even if you eat enough calories and the right…

This goes further into LLM usage than I prefer to go. I learn so much better when I do the research and make the plan myself that I wouldn’t let an LLM do that part even if I trust…

As I've gotten more experience I've tended to find more fun in tinkering with architectures than tinkering with code. I'm currently working on making a secure zero-trust bare metal…