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For how negative the scenario is on a lot of fronts, the text devotes the most space to the rosy colored aspects. An AI getting our protagonist into shape? Rehabilitating the "finance bro"? Curing cancer? Easy on the fuckin lube dammit.

The whole piece seems like it originated when someone assumes the very specific scenarions and predictions the lesswrong crowd has as a forgone conclusion and tries to imagine the most "humane" version. This is preachy if you're one of the crowd because "rosy" and its preachy if you're not because "forgone conclusions". This annoying taste is compounded by the general lack of substance or style otherwise.

And it's boring because it focuses on the most obvious first order effects and visions of this technology directly copied from the lab blog posts.

I love reading dry scifi. They generally have one single idea worth the time contained within them so I won't hold that against it. It's just that the ideas here have these two major holes.

This is just unimaginative and simple for all the sci-fi that's covered AI takeover in the past. Boring and preachy. Thumbs down.

Is my job a joke to you??

Me and Fable when the boss starts asking why my custom handrolled data engine needs to run on m6i.16xlarge for our 100 users.

:o

My SQLite code golf project when user 11 signs up

There's a lot of sketchy things about telegram but I'm confused, what exactly in this article seems sketchy to you?

The fact of the matter is, the reason Bun chose to go with Zig in the first place was for clout and clout only. Bun is a textbook case of a wankfluencer operation: unnecessary rewrite of an existing useful project using the latest hot language or ecosystem to get lip-service by influencers and get easy VC buy in.

There's nothing wrong with chasing a little clout really but I was not surprised to hear Bun's engineering itself wasn't up to par. A single person was shipping not just a runtime but half the ecosystem/tooling justified by sketchy benchmarks? As someone very familiar with the effort it takes to ship solid code in Node and Deno and the ecosystem writ large, their early claims of performance and being production ready were very suspect and it was unfortunately proven false once it duped real projects into getting adoption.

Again, there's nothing wrong being overly ambitious and failing. But I dare anyone to refute that in Oven.sh and many other twitter first projects today (usually in the Js ecosystem), solid engineering and actual usefulness takes a backseat to being viral and being featured in some idiot's weekly roundup news segment.

If you're familiar with Kelley's and the Zig Foundation ethos, it's not surprising that there was internal clashes and drama with such a project.

I stand with Andrew.

As someone who's been following Sumner's work closely for years, Kelley's accusations are very much true even if unkind. While the results are useful and cool, it a wankfluencer op from start to finish. I dare you to refute thus.

And I say all this as someone who does agentic development 8hrs a day and someone who always pestered my team to opt for Rust and Deno instead of Node. Call a spade a spade, the rewrite was poorly justified and one in a long lines of successful psyops Dario and co. cooked and delivered.

Now, would Andrew's message have been better received if it had better "decorum"? Maybe. But I'm glad he stayed honest to himself instead and didn't have a PR team ghostwrite his thoughts. You have to appreciate that.

Is this relevant for other databases? For postgres for example, which supports concurrent writers, wouldn't sequential keys lead to contention on the page at the frontier?

The only Bun shipped product I've used in anger is OpenCode and I regularly run into segfaults on it. I doubt this is the reason for migration but every time it happens, it reminds me the real cost of unsafe code. That being said, Zig is an absolute pleasure to write and I can't wait until it has a real library ecosystem, Rust's greatest boon.

Do you mean allocate on every task?

Gmail has ads inline that are hard to distinguish from real emails. What kind of self-respecting person uses that when they have the technical knowhow to spend time on hackernews (i.e. options)?

Surprised to hear this since my understanding was that Session was run on a crypto coin based, user hosted onion routing servers. Do they mean the dev company behind Session is shutting down?

An anecdote I have: a friend once had narcotics shipped intl. through Session a few years ago.

Are you willing to put monies on that?