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Are f-strings not easy for beginners? What would you prefer instead?

> Unlike other approaches to increasing the safety of C, Fil-C achieves complete memory safety with zero escape hatches. Except there is an escape hatch, by your own admission abov…

> the zunsafe api is basically unused. One library uses it (OpenSSL) for good reasons Wait, so there are escape hatches? But… you’ve repeatedly said, many times, that there are zer…

Why is it becoming obvious?

> That's a different attack vector So you’re saying that the attack vector has… shifted.

> Surfside Beach Mayor Robert Krouse said the emailed payment request appeared genuine. “We don’t see where the town erred,” he said, so he didn’t see “why we should be paying doub…

How would that help, at all?

It doesn’t necessarily follow that because Postgres is “fully utilised” it is hitting “hardware maximum”, or even that it’s not bottlenecked on contention. As an example, spinlocks…

What specific technical issues are you experiencing with running Bun that would justify a change?

> Please make my predictions come out wrong.

Wow, you missed the entire point of the article.

> I've invoked it in my job mostly to explain to younger developers why learning vim keybindings+terminal git usage Interesting - I see it as the opposite: learning the git CLI is …

US card fraud rate is significantly higher than in the EU. In 2015 it was about 0.042% in the EU, vs 0.1388% for the US. The 2021 rates for the EU fell to ~0.028%. You get nervous …

I see that, but the adversary wasn’t a low effort one, and didn’t need millions of accounts.

> New user registration was stopped on June 11 and then re-enabled after the project added Anubis to try to foil the attacker's mass account registrations. That did not work This c…

> As a discussion regarding if it’s ethical to ignore restrictions progresses, the probability of someone bringing up a famous case where someone ignored unethical restrictions app…

Was Rosa Parks unethical for sitting down on a bus? The point is that the context matters: both the users context and the context of the restriction. It’s not as clear cut as “igno…

Are you making an honest attempt at stating your opinion that there is absolutely no reason to prefer a MacBook over your chosen device? Or are you just being glib because you’ve g…

> how 99% of the population are not going to afford a setup like that > could or will? much fewer than 1% are going to spend their money on that. It’s ok to change your point, you …

That’s not at all what you said though, was it?

99% of the population don’t code using models, local or remote. So that’s a useless metric. What % of developers could afford an older MacBook model, second hand? Far, far more tha…

I wrote something similar with go, but MacOS only. Creating a worktree became instant, but the bottleneck shifted from that to git needing to build its index. Claude code runs `git…

Why? Calling a reasonable thing grim without any follow-up isn’t the hallmark of a good comment either.

> postgresql also does not synchronously replicate By default. Generally your primary database is in a completely different failure category than a kubernetes node running an ephem…