mkeeter
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Comment · 23 days ago
Quote the original OpenAI prospectus, “it would be wise to view an investment in OpenAI Global, LLC in the spirit of a donation”.
Comment · 1 month ago
Nice, I'll keep an eye on that!
Right now, I'm targeting everything (native / Firefox / Chrome / Safari), so minimizing use of extensions; this also means I get to run head-long into fun cross-platform behavior differences [1][2][3]
[1] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/issues/8785
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1870699
[3] https://github.com/mkeeter/halfspace/issues/1#issuecomment-3...
Comment · 2 months ago
For the curious, this is technically possible in Rust using a dynamically sized type [1], but in practice is difficult and doesn't really play nice with the rest of the language. The nomicon entry concludes with "Yes, custom DSTs are a largely half-baked feature for now." [2]
[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/dynamically-sized-types....
Comment · 2 months ago
Probably because this is a post about Zig’s threaded IO, and complaints about Rust syntax is two conversational leaps away from that subject!
Comment · 2 months ago
Another fun failure mode in the same vein: if you are emulating an NVMe device and declare that a write operation is successful once bytes are in memory, you will quickly find yourself buffering arbitrarily large amounts of data as "persist to disk" (SSD speed) falls behind "acknowledge writes" (RAM speed). If you do not add backpressure to your system intentionally, it will be added for you – and you may not like where it's placed!
(This also happens at the SSD level: burst writes can be very fast as data is buffered in the SSD's own RAM, then performance steady-states at the true write speed once that's saturated)
Comment · 2 months ago
Flowise was acquired by Workday in August 2025 [1].
At the time, they posted "Flowise isn’t going anywhere, we’re doubling down. In fact, we’re only just getting started!" [2]
I wonder if "keep the platform running for >= 1 year post-acquisition" was part of the terms! Ah well, another one for Our Incredible Journey [3]...
[1] https://newsroom.workday.com/2025-08-14-Workday-Acquires-Flo...
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/flowiseai_were-thrilled-to-sh...
Comment · 3 months ago
> This is a clean separation, and clean separations are worth noticing. They tend to be load-bearing.
oh hi Claude
Comment · 5 months ago
Does one also get dopamine from using LLMs to write comments on Hacker News?
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