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rienbdj··on We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
The Dutch are masters at making high density places liveable.
rienbdj··on Go Concurrency Distilled
Is a Go channel equivalent to a Haskell tvar ?
rienbdj··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
Currencies are established by force (taxation backed by militaries and police)

Sure, the government could force a format change if they really want to.

rienbdj··on We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
Great but you will no longer be paid to do what you love.
rienbdj··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
Sure they can make a mandate but the grunts on ground will still get sent pptx files by their vendors.
rienbdj··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
The challenge is engaging with external orgs. They will send you office docs and it creates friction when they cannot be reliably edited and returned. Even just opening them can be unreliable.
rienbdj··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
Bazel can even skip the final artefact!
rienbdj··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
Most PRs only touch a handful of targets so cache hits are extremely high in practice.
rienbdj··on Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
If runtime performance is the goal it’s easier to port the required libraries to another language at this point.
rienbdj··on Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
So rather than provide a runtime or compiler optimization, we force the programmer to do it by hand. This is why I don’t like Python philosophically.
rienbdj··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
This API may turn out to be manipulating humans via email.
rienbdj··on Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework
If you like building but have no capital you might release something like this that works.
rienbdj··on Analyzing student votes across AI models for college essay help
Students? The couldn’t even write the essay!
rienbdj··on Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs
It’s harder and less lucrative than short social media spots.
rienbdj··on Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?
What’s wrong with node? Genuine question
rienbdj··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
It’s easier to imagine a super power than the end of capitalism, apparently.
rienbdj··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
This blog post annoys me a little. Not the post itself - it’s great - but how it has been used to prop up thousands of lazy arguments against innovations over the years.
rienbdj··on Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices
The noise pollution can be awful.

If you’re not going so far, can an eMTB be even more practical?

rienbdj··on Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors
This sounds like a similar approach to OxCaml
rienbdj··on Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language
F# is good because it can easily fetch and import third party dependencies in a script.
rienbdj··on Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History
Flying is usually the cheapest and quickest option. Madness!
rienbdj··on How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?
Anyone know why? Can’t CC run on any JS runtime?
rienbdj··on 98.css
I’ve always found this style ugly but so much clearer than modern UIs!
rienbdj··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
And now letterboxed is eating their lunch.
rienbdj··on How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
OCaml already starts form a memory safe base being GCd?
rienbdj··on How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
Can selectively turn off the borrow check for dev builds?
rienbdj··on How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
Seems like Rust unsafe could be improved without changing the language design.
rienbdj··on Job queues are deceptively tricky
Anyone know a good into to queuing theory?
rienbdj··on Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
Masters programs are much less competitive than undergrad. It’ll still be there.
rienbdj··on Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
Take the job. You can do the masters after. The job offer might not still be there.
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