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The sole and entire purpose of Diverse Double-Compiling is addressing Thompson's Trusting Trust: https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

> You make subtle mistakes in how you perceive the world, the interlocutor makes similar mistakes And the LLM makes subtle mistakes perceiving what you were trying to say, and I ma…

The WIT types don’t seem random or Rust-centric to me, they’re basic types common to every major current-generation language, not just Rust but also Swift, Kotlin, even Zig. It’s t…

You seem to be implying that these goals were optional, but I don’t understand how #2 cross-lang interop could ever have been optional. Isn’t running non-JS languages the entire po…

Are you pretending you didn’t even have an LLM help you reword it before publishing? Because that would be an obvious lie. If you were to propose a sufficiently trustworthy way to …

Specifically there’s a lot of clickbaity constructions like: “setup: payoff” or “sentence fragment, similar fragment, maybe another similar fragment”. This paragraph has both: > Th…

Does it bother anyone else when an article is so clearly written by an LLM? Other than being 3x longer than it needs to be the content is fine as far as I can tell, but I find the …

Not the same people. I’d expect to get way more out of talking to one of those sets of people than the other

In theory they try to get people hired for their competence rather than their network. A widely-cited anecdotal example of this reportedly working well is the Rooney Rule: https://…

> "Main" doesn't have that connotation. It has had the connotation of "mainline", a synonym for "trunk", in version control since before Git existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Nah, the supply follows demand. There are fewer native app bootcamps because that's not what people want to hire or learn.

key features implemented in a multi-process architecture, using plenty of C++ and Rust written modules Which is exactly the point—the UI is written in HTML/CSS, not the native plat…

There are no second chances in the court of public opinion, no punishment severe enough, no act of restitution sincere enough. This just isn't true. Look into how Dan Harmon gave a…

If learning that Cloudflare took action against literal, self-identified Nazis—who praise Hitler, deny the Holocaust, and drove a car into a crowd and killed a woman—made you worri…

I strongly disagree with the analogy between CDNs and ISPs. ISPs operate on the user-side, they have no business filtering what the user sees. CDNs operate on the server-side, they…

This is so overwrought. We're not talking about Embrace, Extend, Extinguish here, where Microsoft wanted to exploit their OS monopoly to bend the Internet to its will. Cloudflare's…

That's what domain fronting is for, and even though the GFW attempts to filter by SNI, genetic algorithms like Geneva are able to find workarounds: https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/papers…

A few notes: • a quick search for "refuting bell's theorem" will turn up attempts in 2000, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2017, etc, so let's take this with a huge grain of salt • Europhysics L…

The recent spike in homelessness, the health insurance coverage gap, rising economic inequality, we are facing many major urgent crises. But there is a severe lack of imagination t…

This seems like...word salad. What are you actually trying to say here? Autonomy vs social control is a modern trend? That's not what totalitarianism was? What change of governance…

This sounds naive to the point of dystopian. What about tragedy-of-the-commons collective action problems, like pollution, natural resources (overfishing, overlogging), climate cha…

Whoops, missed the comment window on all the replies to me except for this one! I clearly completely failed to communicate what I meant about "diagramming" a programming language, …

That is such an interesting and...low-level way to think of it. To me it feels a little deeper than just there being a "maze of rules". Your earlier mention of "everything's connec…

Wow, that's crazy. Others here, and presumably your friends, have talked about how they think of programming "visually", but they don't think visually about conversing in natural l…