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this’d make an interesting study in the limitations of testing/fuzzing to find bugs, and the need for through understanding of systems.

(and no shade to the SQLite folks, who do great work)

06.03.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1. yes
2. what’d you do to make a β€œprogramming competition” interesting (beside huge belt buckles, ofc)?

06.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

where do you buy used corporate thinkpads or macbooks on the cheep?

05.03.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

none of the AI copyright stuff can be resolved until Tom Scott comes out of retirement to make a another 45min documentary. that’s our only hope.

05.03.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

but the netherlands it all city’s, they only have factories downtown

04.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

maybe this is why their writing is so soulless

04.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

kinda weirds me out that LLM's never get writers block.

04.03.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

need to move to the country, eat a lot of peaches. that would fix me.

04.03.2026 12:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

also: face reveal i guess lol

03.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

come see my talk! people are already calling it β€œone of the talks that will be delivered at RustWeek 2026 in Utrecht this May 18-23”

03.03.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

georg cantor is an outlier and cannot be counted

02.03.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

can't even vagueposte without someone looking at the same code i am smh [/lh]

01.03.2026 23:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

tracking down a bug, and find, right where the bug occurs:

```
// FIXME: Do these need handling?
// The person writing this comment doesn't know.
```

01.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

sqlite really was ahead of the curve

01.03.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(and TBC i still like that they’re principled enough to walk away from DoD (while licking their boots on the way out!))

28.02.2026 11:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

would anthropic be ok with every non-american getting surveilled? would anthropic be ok with the rest five-eyes surveilling all of america? do they think that Americans have ”fundamental rights” everyone else doesn’t ?

28.02.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights.

Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights.

im enjoying the idea that mass
foreign surveillance wouldn’t be a violation of fundamental rights

(from www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...)

28.02.2026 11:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ai seller. i am going into battle, and i want your strongest ai

my ai is too aligned for you traveler. you can't handle my ai. you'd better go to a seller that sells misaligned ai

youre a rascal, ai seller. a rascal with no respect for national security, no respect for anything except your p(doom)

27.02.2026 04:04 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

what terrible discourse have i missed out on??

27.02.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

is mongoDB still webscale?

27.02.2026 01:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

cocaine motorcycle helicopter time

22.02.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

how was it? how early did they mention breaking the toe?

21.02.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder how different the world would be if they had given ipv4 addresses 8 bytes from the start in 1982. Possibly one of the most economically significant trivial design decisions of all time.

21.02.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Huge pet peeve: No, β€œHarvard University” didn’t publish a study, and nor is it proper to say that it is β€œaccording to Nature.”

Universities don’t publish studies, professors do. And unless it’s an editorial, journals don’t say things eitherβ€”authors do.

20.02.2026 04:37 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

kinda fucked up that scala, kotlin and clojure all have entirely unrelated javascript backends lol.

20.02.2026 00:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

need to put my makeup on, fix my hair up pretty. that would fix me (tonight in atlantic city).

18.02.2026 12:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A #skirt was the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covered a person from the waist downwards.

18.02.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

go’s commitment to making good, self-serve analysis tooling is truly inspiring and i wish rust would do more of this.

17.02.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

haskell’s gone too mainstream, gotta be agda or lean4 surely? [/hj]

17.02.2026 14:39 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

says a lot about society that they trained an AI on all of GitHub and this is how it behaves

12.02.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0