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jeltzon SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

Yes, but getting an exception approved can be a huge pain in some places.

jeltzon Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability

Many large organizations like banks have requirements like this and they solve it through a mix of automatic scanners, e.g. Trivvy, and self-deception as not all systems are actually scanned in any sufficiently large org.

jeltzon Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

This is not about an aspiring painter though. This method is intended for an already accomplished painter. Not saying how effective it is but your comparison is not relevant.

jeltzon Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

Maybe it matters if you do not have the right to push to the main repo but still want both your PRs to live there. Is there a way to do that without stacked PRs?

jeltzon Our position on open-weights models

The Northern Alliance contain some people who are probably even worse than the Taliban so while you are technically right I am not sure it matters.

jeltzon Our position on open-weights models

Something which Trump wants to change. Trump has already done a lot of silence critical media and he wants to do more.

jeltzon Our position on open-weights models

We do well enough. It either happened naturally, or less likely due to a lab accident. If there is a cover up it is to hide incompetence.

jeltzon How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?

Given their history with previous other marketing stunts I do not expect any retrospective. The technology is real but I have little faith in open and honest communication from Anthropic.

jeltzon How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?

They bought the maintainers, not the code.

jeltzon How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?

It was expected. These LLM rewrites seem to work amazingly at first and then you realize there is a ton of work remaining.

jeltzon Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake

> Tesla is the only Western electric car company in the top 20

WV is number 6 in the top 20, and BMW is number 10. And while Tesla has good sales now their lack of innovation is a huge risk.

https://www.blackridgeresearch.com/blog/list-of-global-top-e...

jeltzon Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake

Exactly. Tesla is way behind the competition.

jeltzon Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59

There are some really bad linters out there like Rubocop so if they have had experience with those I get it.

jeltzon Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16

Probably, because in my 20 year career I have encountered it plenty except back the first couple of years as a junior developer when I did not know my tools and did not know that I should do this.

jeltzon Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16

I still would want the history easy to reach because when I find weird code I almost always reach directly to git log.

jeltzon Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16

Yeah, and of they want to only keep history for the subset thet are interested in there is always git filter-branch.

jeltzon EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

Not even that, it is just an off-topic rant about government censorship.

jeltzon Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

Pretty sure you could have said the same in 1986 and I know for sure you could have in 2006. Not sure why you think people having different tastes is new.

jeltzon Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

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jeltzon Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

Ok ... you know PostgreSQL supports hash tables in shared memory, right? PostgreSQL could in theory share those if we wanted to. The issue is just that coding anything which uses shared memory is a lot of work.

Additionally the reasons PostgreSQL does not offer Clickhouse performance has very little to do with parallelism. PostgreSQL plans to move to threading but the efforts around imporving OLAP performance are almost entirely unrelated.

jeltzon Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

I strongly disagree. The easiest way to shut down your business is to insist on being 100% secure because the only way to have perfect security is to do nothing.

Security is always about tradeoffs.

jeltzon Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

Funny story but in my experience hardware engineers produce some of the worst software of the industry. Of course there must be some hardware engineers out there who do hood software but generally what they build are disasters.

jeltzon Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

Some, but not that much. Switching PostgreSQL to a threaded model will not magically make spawning connections fast. PostgreSQL connections are quite heavyweight.

The reason to use threads is almost entirely about ease of development, not about performance. If you use shrared memory like PostgreSQL does you need to write your own allocators, etc. So much you get for free if you use threads.

jeltzon Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

Threads does not offer any major performance advantage, performance of processes vs threads is virtually the same. The reason the PostgreSQL project is moving towards threads is to make development easier.

jeltzon Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

They would need to be rewritten as there is no formal extension API. Extensions can call into almost any part of PostgreSQL.

jeltzon Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

It is not a requirement the PostgreSQL project wants to have. It would be a heavy burden and mostly pointless.

jeltzon Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

PostgreSQL's tests are mostly integration tests.

jeltzon Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

I think Opus 8.4 is a below average developer, but maybe I have just worked with good developers and have a skewed perspective of what the average is.

jeltzon Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages

It is not like you typically can just ignore a court order so Google will need to convince Klarna that they have changed something or Klarna can just go back to the court.

jeltzon Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

Because if we don't then the rich can divide and conquer. We need to stand united, even with the Meta techbros.