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The "Why" section exclusively opens with a reference to zstd-rs: > Why though? > Using zstd in Rust is already supported via the zstd crate, so why bother with a whole new implemen…

Yes, and IBM has current documentation if you need to that has been updated in 2026: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.2.0?topic=considerations-u... It's generally and simply an en…

The CDC recommends against heating milk in a microwave[0] whether it's human milk or formula meant for a baby due to the creation of "hot spots" and also the potential destruction …

"Flappy Bengt"[0] is broken at least on my browser it's not playable as a human (nor LLM) due to requiring too large of an APM for anything but TASbot or a special purpose mechanic…

Which ones are you claiming have already been achieved? My understanding of the current scorecard is that he's still technically correct, though I agree with you there is velocity …

"Code is a liability. What the code does for you is an asset." as quoted from https://wiki.c2.com/?SoftwareAsLiability with Last edit December 17, 2013. This discussion and distinc…

> Meanwhile, my cofounder is rewriting code we spent millions of salary on in the past by himself in a few weeks. Code is not an asset it's a liability, and code that no one has re…

I'm glad we agree.

Interesting and thanks for clarifying that aspect. I have a few more questions if you would be able to answer any of them at any level of detail I would appreciate it. How much wou…

Again, I disagree and reaffirm my being full of inquisitiveness. You are being downright unpleasant and I don't think we should continue this conversation further until you open yo…

I'm inquisitive not narrow minded. The GP didn't mention anything about freelancing so unless you know them or stalked them you are perhaps being narrow minded here.

It sounds like you use your personal Claude Code subscription for work of your employer, but that is not something I would ever consider doing personally so I imagine I must be mis…

Thank you for the explanation, but I did fully understand that is what you were saying. What I don't fully understand is how you can characterize that as "not limited" with a strai…

> The $200/month plan doesn't have limits either... once you've expended your rate limited token allowance... pay for the extra tokens out of an additional cash reserve you've set …

LLMs aren't calculators; for example, your calculator always gives you the same outputs given the same inputs. Long division is a pretty simple algorithm that you can easily and qu…

I believe prompting an AI is more like delegation than abstraction especially considering the non-deterministic nature of the results.

Too bad they haven't done a release song since 7.3: https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#73

It seems we're still collectively trying to figure out the boundaries of "delegation" versus "abstraction" which I personally don't think are the same thing, though they are certai…

There's a section on "why not printf" which is Standard C, but I can't find any section on "why not std::format"[1] which is Standard C++ since C++20 and works on all major compile…

Was the website the only thing down? This community Starlink Status page doesn't seem to show any outage: https://starlinkstatus.space/

Additionally, you can store other data for example one could have scans of important documents that are stored in Pass which means they are GPG encrypted and backed by a git reposi…

Greenspun's tenth rule: > Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. > -- P…

Delegation is not the same as abstraction, to my understanding.

> on different projects This seems like an important caveat the author of the article failed to mention when they described this: > you can have several agents running simultaneous…