- #rust
- Perhaps Rust needs "defer"
- an example that using defer idiom rarely gets past the borrow checker
- showcases well how working in Rust with lots of FFI interop feels like
- `miri` used in iterations
- from comments of A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability
- The Generativity Pattern in Rust
- DrawAFish.com Postmortem
- used childhood 6-digit password when creating the website
- set up Google Auth, then used it ever after
- forgot that the password remained
- which was previously leaked
- God created men; Sam Altman made them equal
- hyperstition: a cultural self-fulfilling prophecy
- pessimism is an anti-myth that makes Mutual Destruction inevitable. Pessimism is a luxury we can no longer afford.
- the future is unavoidable, but we are always writing its prologue.
- techno-optimistism is now a necessity
- Malcolm Gladwell's cardinal categories of Law & Order provide a compass for tech-induced power redistribution:
- Western
- there’s no system
- AI evades law
- movies
- Ex Machina
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Transcendence
- Her
- Blade Runner
- Neuromancer
- Ghost in the Shell
- Northern
- there’s a system and it’s fantastic
- AI enforces law
- movies
- Person of Interest
- RoboCop
- Iron Man
- Knight Rider
- The Machine
- Southern
- the system has to be reformed from the outside
- outsiders against AI
- movies
- The Matrix trilogy
- Eagle Eye
- Alita: Battle Angel
- Free Guy
- The Terminator
- Hackers
- Johnny Mnemonic
- eXistenZ
- Eastern
- the system is reformed from within
- insiders against AI
- movies
- Short Circuit
- Minority Report
- Sneakers
- I, Robot
- Westworld
- War Games
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Wall-E
- Governance in GNOME
- A “bottom up” approach, over-reliance on personal projects and taste, to be sublimated into a shared vision
- options for maintainers
- make yourself indispensable, so that everything ends up passing through you, and everyone has to defer to your taste, opinion, or edict
- replicate your toughts, taste, and opinions into the minds of the people using the API you design
- reimplement the entirety, a reflection of your taste, commitment, and ethos
- governance
- a structure for people to know what to expect and how to navigate the decision making process inside the project
- responsibility is not something to hoard: it’s something to distribute
- random GitLab issues should not be the only place where people can be informed that some decision was taken
- individuals should be able to contribute to a decision without necessarily becoming responsible for a whole project
- a single person responsible for multiple modules should not be able to design and commit on their own
- a lightweight but well-defined process
- discussion: present to the stakeholders, for iteration and consensus
- documentation: for reference to the decision-making process and resolution during implementation and on-going developments
- reminds me of ADR
- HTMX is hard so let's get it right
- many alternatives are suggested on HN
- Maybe the Fastest Disk Usage Program on macOS
- healeycodes/dumac: 🗃️ Very fast alternative to 'du -sh' for macOS that uses getattrlistbulk.
- in #rust, with tokio::task
- macOS has a syscall called getattrlistbulk(2) which allows you to read multiple directory entries and their metadata in one go. It's like a combined "readdir + stat" that returns a batch of file names along with requested attributes like file type, size, etc.
- inspired by the Linux equivalent 201984/dut: A disk usage calculator for Linux - Codeberg.org
- Modern Node.js Patterns
- most of them are news to me, it's glad to learn that nodejs has aquired so many desirable features
- wonder if they apply to Bun as well
- #agent/idea
- Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits? (on HN)
- The Bitter Lesson
- trying to build knowledge into agents plateaus and even inhibits further progress in the long run
- breakthrough progress eventually arrives by an opposing approach based on scaling computation by search and learning
- four major blows to the human ego
- The Copernican Revolution: we weren’t the center of the universe.
- Darwinian thought: we weren’t separate from animals.
- Freud’s ideas of the unconscious: we weren’t in full control of our selves.
- Cyborgs, robots, and automatons: non-humans could do the work of humans.
- Garbage Can Model
- organizations as chaotic “garbage cans” where problems, solutions, and decision-makers are dumped in together
- decisions often happen when these elements collide randomly, rather than through a fully rational process
- represents a world where unwritten rules, bespoke knowledge, and complex and undocumented processes are critical
- issues of the bitter lesson
- dependent on high-quality data
- adding compute is often not practical nor optimal
- Read your code (on HN)
- The Future Of Software Is Small
- Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding (on HN)
- Rust, Python, and TypeScript: the new trifecta