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coffeeindex··on AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
They aren’t attempting to self-regulate. On the contrary, it seems like they’re doing whatever they can to bring about any possible threat as fast as possible in order to get legislation. Regulatory capture is what everybody is saying is their goal and I think that’s easier to believe
coffeeindex··on Fine, I'll build my own text editor
Casey Muratori has an interesting talk about how that narrative (“premature optimization is the root of all evil”) came to the mainstream narrative

https://youtu.be/hpj6r6CjJf8

coffeeindex··on Oh-my-pi – The Harness Playbook
From what I’ve read/heard, a lot of the power of Pi is its extensibility but it’s a hard sell for me to try it out just because I can extend it. How is it out of the box?
coffeeindex··on The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
1 more data point - it's very slow on my desktop which has relatively high performance as well. Using Brave if that matters.
coffeeindex··on Writing by hand is good for your brain
Agreed. The important thing is to find something that works perfectly for you. Oftentimes I think people find their own perfect system and conflate it with being the perfect system.
coffeeindex··on Miss the old web? Join us haywood.computer
They were clearly just having some fun with the site..
coffeeindex··on How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
Didn’t know Roc was still being worked on. I think it’s an interesting concept for a language that I personally haven’t seen elsewhere
coffeeindex··on Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty
Just commenting to say I've had the same experience. Been using Ghostty since (I was aware of) its release and it has been buttery smooth ever since. I occasionally see people talking about crashing or other issues they've had with Ghostty but I've not seen anything of the sort.
coffeeindex··on NixOS 26.05
Anecdote: I was trying out a new editor at some point that had just had a huge update. I installed it on NixOS and noticed the new update had not been pushed onto NixPkgs. I went through their contribution guide and found how to update the package. I opened a PR and immediately a couple previous contributors & a specific maintainer were on the PR and left me some helpful comments and questions and I got it merged a few days later.

And I was someone who hadn’t been active in NixPkgs at all. The community reviewing these small package updates are active and really care which is how the number of commits can explode

coffeeindex··on NixOS 26.05
devenv is essentially a convenience wrapper around nix shell with some nice tooling
coffeeindex··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
You can accomplish this with web without much issue.
coffeeindex··on Review of the MoErgo Glove80 Keyboard (2024)
Also went from a Glove80 to a Dygma Defy and not looking back. It’s a really cozy keyboard
coffeeindex··on Valve raises Steam Deck prices
Doesn’t help that prices are skyrocketing because of circular investing and spending between companies trying to amass as many data centers as possible to cash in on AI hype. These same companies keep pushing this idea that everything you know and do is worthless in the face of prompt-fu and that you have to use these platforms they’re pushing or you’re NGMI.
coffeeindex··on Aether: High-performance, formally-verified storage engine written in Rust
> no sane person would have been able to write such complex piece of software in the pre-AI era.

Insane take

coffeeindex··on Raylib v6.0
What’s special about Odin when it comes to Raylib? (Genuinely curious)
coffeeindex··on Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental?
(Did not read the article, can’t speak to the exact argument the OP made)

I like this argument in the sense that JavaScript & HTML were/are awesome because you can learn from websites that you like the look of. You can just pop open inspect and directly see how to do something.

Modern frameworks have largely broken this to the point that it’s pretty difficult to understand what’s going on on a lot of pages

coffeeindex··on The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life
I’m going to need a source on that
coffeeindex··on ChatGPT Pulse
> you can’t say certain things

So he sees it as another form of censorship

coffeeindex··on Zig 0.15.1
Seems like a lot of changes to be a .1 release, no?

Really excited for I/O as an interface!

coffeeindex··on Why Elixir? Common misconceptions
Seems a bit strange to posit fault tolerance as an alternative to a type system. Personally, I view type systems as a bonus to DX more than something strictly designed to prevent errors
coffeeindex··on Helix Editor 25.07
If you narrow it down to that minority that fundamentally changes how you interact with text, then I think the answer is a pretty easy "Yes".
coffeeindex··on Helix Editor 25.07
> do you also not use any plugins just because they aren't available on another machine?

The vast majority of plugins don't fundamentally change how you interact with text.

coffeeindex··on WASM 2.0
Or you could use Wasm
coffeeindex··on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
I recall seeing some discussion about the UI density Japanese websites (specifically Japanese news sites). For example: https://www.asahi.com/ Now that I think about it, news sites in general have fairly high density UIs, not that I consider them to be shining examples of great UIs. https://www.yahoo.com https://www.bloomberg.com/
coffeeindex··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
Sounds like you're required to be online during 1PM - 6PM, probably for communication purposes. It's really not that bad at all.
coffeeindex··on Gaining Years of Experience in a Few Months
> Seems like most people really overvalue pressure and long hours I think it’s likely just a difference in personality for people. Some people thrive in that environment and thus believe that it’s the “best way”. Others thrive in a more laid back environment and think the same
coffeeindex··on Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
If you’re using WSL, why use Cygwin?
coffeeindex··on Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
Is the “foo.fish” name required? Could I have “bar.fish” with “function foo…” inside and still autoload function foo?
coffeeindex··on What it takes to be "financially successful" by generation
Worth taking into account that a lot of Gen Z responding here are probably not very far in their career. It would be interesting to see how the other generations would have answered if they were at similar points in their life
coffeeindex··on David Heinemeier Hansson joins Shopify's board
Obviously?
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