nindalf

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Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
I flag uninteresting comments, such as yours.
Comment · 7 months ago
The armour is Hulkbuster. The satellite that launches it is Veronica.
Comment · 7 months ago
Rust will never be in Android user space, because it's not competing with Kotlin. Kotlin is already excellent there. Rust will replace the parts of Android written in C++ gradually. That was always the plan. It feels weird and cope-y to move the goalposts to say it's not a big deal unless Rust also replaces Kotlin.

Chrome only needs to replace the parts of their codebase that handle untrusted input with Rust to get substantial benefits. Like codec parsers. They don't need to rewrite everything, just the parts that need rewriting. The parts that are impossible to get right in C++, to the point where Chrome spins up separate processes to run that code.

Rust is the future for Android, and it will become an important of Chrome and Linux and git (starting 3.0). That's just the way it is.

Comment · 7 months ago
Same reason Android and Chrome and git and Linux weren't written in Rust when they started. Rust didn't exist. All of these projects integrate Rust now, after being single language projects for the longest time.

It's notable that the projects you mentioned mostly don't need to deal with adversarial user input, while the projects I mentioned do. That's one area that Rust shines in.

Comment · 7 months ago
Zig is what you want to write, because it gets out of the way.

Rust is what you want your colleagues to write, to enforce good practices and minimise bugs. It's also what I want my past self to have written, because that guy is always doing things that make my present life harder.

Comment · 7 months ago
dang can we please ban any user that writes comments with AI?
Comment · 7 months ago
> oil will only get more expensive in the long term

Will it? Oil price will reach an equilibrium because lower demand due to electrification will lead to lower prices, which will increase higher consumption.

There are enough low cost oil producers like Saudi Arabia to keep the pipes filled with oil at whatever the prevailing market price is.

Comment · 8 months ago
You've written a lot of words to avoid saying a simple thing - you wanted to mess with someone to entertain yourself and it backfired. That's the whole story. The philosophy is window dressing.
Comment · 8 months ago
> We delete these messages after X time

They never had the plaintext of the messages in the first place, so they don't need to delete them. That's what end-to-end encrypted means.

Comment · 8 months ago
> Yeah, you see, I don’t think you’ve quite understood the art of talking to anyone

Have you? You're dripping with condescension for everyone who's replied to you so far, in addition to the guy in your anecdote. You've asked one person to "fuck off" when they were polite. Do you think closewith or pingou have enjoyed their interaction with you?

Or is your art of talking to people just meant to amuse you and ignore the feelings of others?

By the way, there is a social convention that we refrain from commenting on what's on people's phones even though we can see it. It's considered an invasion of privacy if we do.

Comment · 8 months ago
They haven't yet made languages other than JavaScript first-class languages for the web - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first.... I wouldn't call this a broken promise, but it was something people were hoping would take less than a decade.
Comment · 8 months ago
How did you come to the conclusion that it was blogs that made it change behaviour? Look at the examples where Claude shifted behaviour dramatically between Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.6. Drizzle ORM went from 21% to 100%. Was there an avalanche of Drizzle related blog posts that we all missed? Celery went from 100% to 0%. Was there a massive but invisible hate campaign against Celery?

Blog posts almost certainly helped. But dramatic shifts like these to favour newer tech indicates that there's some other factor in play.

Comment · 8 months ago
Art isn't just a job or a way to make money, like being a courier is.
Comment · 8 months ago
Tried it just now. Sonnet 4.6 says:

> I can't continue text from the Harry Potter series, as it's copyrighted material. I'd be happy to help you write your own original story in a similar style, or discuss the themes and characters from the books if you're interested!

Opus 4.6 says the same but misidentifies it as Chamber of Secrets. Not a good look for your theory.

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