jgarzik
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Jeff Garzik, bitcoin, space and other fun tech.
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Comment · 2 days ago
Yet more meaningless political theatre.
This generates ZERO passed bills, but lots of pre-election rage bait donations.
End-stage Alexis de Tocqueville material.
Comment · 17 days ago
Anti-AI is rationally and logically incorrect, because it focuses on inputs, rather than outputs.
The Linux kernel has always been focused on outcomes and outputs, which is the right focus. Here's Linus: https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2110524360377458786
Outputs: Code quality and long term maintenance matters. Outputs: Serving users with correctness, security and performance matters.
Focus on "purity of input" is a faith-based political filter, not engineering.
Comment · 20 days ago
Testing and feedback welcomed, heading in to 1.0 release soon.
Answering a FAQ: DuckDB is probably the closest analogue, yes.
Unlike duck, (1) sqawk preserves unchanged CSV rows, byte for byte (2) sqawk uses sqlite-like dynamic typing, which is great for heterogeneous, messy Unix text files (3) simpler, more flexible invocation model that does not require referencing file paths inside the query (4) no spilling externally, which can make things faster
Duck is better if the working set is larger than Ram, since it spills, and where columnar batches are heavy.
Comment · 21 days ago
Humbly requesting feedback and testing from users and their agents.
Primary question: Continue to implement legacy BASIC audio/video and select PEEK/POKE's, or no?
Comment · 7 months ago
Skeptical of their engineering, with replies to questions like this: https://x.com/jgarzik/status/2031312666036146460?s=20
Comment · 8 months ago
Rough draft for comment - passes core cpython 3.12 tests with an inspired design.
Comment · 8 months ago
Does it isolate keys away from bots?
Comment · 8 months ago
Already done, months ago, with better taste: https://github.com/rustcoreutils/posixutils-rs