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fritolaidon Beware of Bun.js

The thing about Bun that turns me off is around the OS-specific system call optimizations (using different optimizations for different platforms) which means that each new feature they add to bun that uses any system calls must be done 3 times for the 3 major platforms (MacOS, Windows, Linux)

Another thing is I believe Deno supports WebGPU and Node supports WebGL via Angle etc (for e.g. running Tensorflow with GPU support)but Bun not only has no story there but its author has refused to provide any info about their intent aroundGPU support.

fritolaidon How to prove you know a secret without giving it away

you said "analgrams"

fritolaidon Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage

Ah. I see.

fritolaidon The Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System

the metadata can be versioned and you can lookup by version, so names of stored file can be changed but every time there is a change to any of the metadata the version is updated too

fritolaidon Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage

I did not expect anyone on HN suggesting sticking it deep into the luggage so it's out of range.

fritolaidon The non-linear workdays changing the shape of productivity

in tech, we don't really have 40hr/wk. It's more like 80hr/wk. And work on weekends. If you have a position that requires 40hrs/wk or less and no work on weekends whatsoever, consider yourself lucky. I hear stories about colleagues being overworked on continuous basis.

fritolaidon “Rust is safe” is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety

What if the task was invoked asynchronously (and maybe it keeps happening.) What does async stack unwinding entail in Rust? Is there a parent-child relationship between invoker and invokee? async scopes (https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/roadmap/scopes.h...) ? I've not touched Rust at all.

fritolaidon A Eulogy for Bitcoin

No, not the thing itself. Humans are fixated on the thing itself. I couldn't care less about the Dorkchain, but what role it plays in the greater scheme of things. Be it bad or good from your individual perspective.

fritolaidon “Rust is safe” is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety

Unless it was holding a welding gun and stopped on one spot with the welding flame turned on instead of gracefully turning off the flame and backing away.

Never used Rust before but is there a way to supply some default code to run in such a situation instead of just not carrying out the bad operation?

fritolaidon A Eulogy for Bitcoin

The way our brain is equipped to process concepts is an over-simplification and confusing of what some refer to as the deeper reality or simply the reality that our mind obfuscates. It's worse than Plato's Cave.

It's futile to opine on things that we don't yet fully comprehend in the greater scheme of things. We don't even know (yet we think we do) what we're opining about.

Good luck with all such feeble attempts at deciphering reality.

No, this was not written by a bot, and I am talking about Bitcoin.

But I mean in general...

fritolaidon Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recording

Not a finite set of concepts per se, but a finite set of patterns that hides behind the near infinite set of all possible concepts.

fritolaidon Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar

In Arabic, Sunday is Ahad (first) Monday is Ithnain (second) and so on until Friday which is Jum’a (gathering) and Sabit (comes from Sabbath I think?) as Saturday.

So the US is not the only country that considers Sunday to be the first day, etymologically speaking. I think the first day in the Middle East is Saturday because people work on that day (on Friday is a day off, unless things changed since the 70s)

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