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There is no rebuilding society because of energy. All of the oil and coal that could be extracted by a civilization that only has wood for fuel has been used. If we go back to the …

It’s not potential, it’s actual. There are court cases and settlements and everything. I’ll be getting a little money from Anthropic. As for how I feel, I think that LLM companies …

For Go it had to be a Gopher (as it is the mascot for the language). My editor showed me the artwork and I approved it.

Yeah. I don’t think people are aware of how few books are purchased. At this moment, Learning Go is 45,855 on Amazon US across all physical books. This is in the top few percent of…

I'm the author of O'Reilly's "Learning Go". Here are the last 13 months of paperback book sales: - Mar 2026: 124 - Feb 2026: 140 - Jan 2026: 157 - Dec 2025: 306 - Nov 2025: 484 - O…

Except that's not the case at all. That one poll is extremely dodgy. Here's are other polls: https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-70-of-israelis-support-se... https://en.idi.org.il/a…

And gold is a non reactive physical object. Storing gold is cheap compared to the infrastructure required to keep Bitcoin ledger information.

I’m the author of Learning Go from O’Reilly, so I might be a bit biased. What I’ve found is that different publishers put different amount of effort into producing good content. O’…

Sure. But it’s hard to ignore that they are far harsher on Israel than any other country. But don’t take it from me. Take that from a senior editor who left HRW after 13 years: htt…

Oh, you sweet summer child. Who do you think "private supporters" are in Saudi Arabia? And no, I don't think anyone with anything resembling power or wealth in Saudi Arabia support…

You are aware of Human Rights Watch’s history with Israel, right? Here’s a taste: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/07/fu...

If you are looking for a way to map SQL queries to type safe Go functions, take a look at my library Proteus: https://github.com/jonbodner/proteus Proteus generates functions at ru…

We used HJSON as the config file format for https://github.com/capitalone/checks-out and it worked out very well. It's a shame that it hasn't caught on, because it fixes the warts …

The video for the talk is now available: https://youtu.be/zPd0Cxzsslk

Unfortunately, the transcription doesn't match what I said. The video is now available at https://youtu.be/zPd0Cxzsslk

Hi, I'm the presenter AMA. One general comment; not every question was intended as a WAT. Some were setups to introduce a WAT.

I chose true := false for the humor and shock value. As you point out, accidentally redefining the meaning of len or new or close is far more likely.