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thomasdziedzic··on It's time to stop doing code reviews
> If I were looking for work as an IC, I would avoid orgs that still practice this as a kind of make-work nearly as offensive as gratuitous meetings.

Would you get on a plane knowing its systems weren't code reviewed by humans?

thomasdziedzic··on Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
> it is not really a good fit due to concurrency.

I would split out read & write concurrency. With SQLite's WAL mode it supports many readers and one writer. Lobste.rs is a read heavy site so I think SQLite was a good call, especially since now that production is running on SQLite, the proof is in production. If the site was heavy on writes, I would agree with you.

As to why not postgresql or another database, SQLite was as simple as you could get on one box. It is simply a library call rather than a separate process that lives outside of your web application. https://lobste.rs/s/ko1ji1/lobste_rs_is_now_running_on_sqlit...

thomasdziedzic··on Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
> I'm confused why there's a udf for 'if' but it'd be trivial to build as C module, but I agree it's best to patch over this sort of thing separately from the migration, so perhaps limited benefit.

There's actually a built in if to sqlite: https://sqlite.org/lang_corefunc.html#iif

The only reason why I built it as a UDF was because I originally didn't find an if function. Though I'm not sure how I accomplished that thinking back :)

thomasdziedzic··on Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
Caddy does cache a portion of the traffic, and what it can't cache makes its way to rails.
thomasdziedzic··on Health insurance claim denial rates range from 13% to 35% by insurer
Reagan hasn't been president for close to 40 years and died more than 20 years ago. At what point do we accept responsibility for this instead of blaming dead presidents?
thomasdziedzic··on WSL 3 gives developers a compelling reason to stick with Microsoft
Why would I use Linux on Windows when I can just use Linux?

I switched from Windows 10 to Debian a year ago (didn't even bother with windows 11 with how much anti-consumer features it had).

Everything works for me on Debian, with the additional bonus that my operating system is no longer spying on me.

thomasdziedzic··on Artemis II is competency porn
> I don't understand why

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis/

tldr: for science and a stepping stone towards a crewed mission to Mars

thomasdziedzic··on Artemis II is competency porn
> under trump feels like celebrating the olympics in the dawn of the german reich

Godwin's law...

> it cannot be taken for what it is. It does not matter what we feel, what we want to feel, we can enjoy it for a second and then swallow it down and not write an article like that.

As an American, I felt extremely proud seeing 4 astronauts (3 Americans, 1 Canadian) come back after 10 days in space and the amount of coordination it takes, regardless of politics.

thomasdziedzic··on IPv6 is the only way forward
2026:

  $ ping6 github.com
  ping6: github.com: Address family for hostname not supported
thomasdziedzic··on IPv6 is the only way forward
IPv6 feels like we just can't admit to ourselves that it has been a failed transition. What would it take to come up with IPv7 which takes in the lessons of IPv6 and produces something better that we can all agree is worth transitioning to over IPv4.
thomasdziedzic··on Grub 2.14 Released
Since I didn't see the changes in the announcement, here is a copy pasted changelog from the NEWS file:

New in 2.14:

  * libgcrypt 1.11.
  * LVM LV integrity and cachevol support.
  * EROFS support.
  * GRUB environment block inside the Btrfs header support.
  * NX support for EFI platforms.
  * shim loader protocol support.
  * BLS and UKI support.
  * Argon2 KDF support.
  * TPM2 key protector support.
  * Appended Signature Secure Boot Support for PowerPC.
  * New option to block command line interface.
  * Support dates outside of 1901..2038 range.
  * zstdio decompression support.
  * EFI code improvements and fixes.
  * TPM driver fixes.
  * Filesystems fixes.
  * CVE and Coverity fixes.
  * Tests improvements.
  * Documentation improvements.
  * ... and tons of other fixes and cleanups...
thomasdziedzic··on GLX: A Bash Replacement–Oriented Programming Language for System Scripting
you already posted this 11 minutes prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46554223
thomasdziedzic··on GLX: A New Programming Language, Replacement for Bash and Other Shell
> GLX is open source and still evolving

The only thing I see are some docs and a binary, no source.

thomasdziedzic··on Apex Programming Language – Fancy syntax, easy and fast
There's already an apex programming language from salesforce: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexcode.m...
thomasdziedzic··on GitHub Actions keeps timing out after 24 hours
What did github support say?
thomasdziedzic··on Trump Is Doubling Down on His Disastrous A.I. Chip Policy
https://archive.is/B0NVI
thomasdziedzic··on Adobe Photoshop 1.0 source code now available (2013)
Link to Computer History Museum blog post: https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code...

Link to source code: https://computerhistory.org/blogs/photoshop-software-license...

thomasdziedzic··on Why AGI Will Not Happen
Which part of his reasoning do you find alien?
thomasdziedzic··on Tragic Algebra of Stock-Based Compensation
"This post is for paid subscribers"
thomasdziedzic··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
> stop repeating that. first, it isn't true that intelligence is barely defined. https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3639

I don't think he should stop, because I think he's right. We lack a definition of intelligence that doesn't do a lot of hand waving.

You linked to a paper with 18 collective definitions, 35 psychologist definitions, and 18 ai researcher definitions of intelligence. And the conclusion of the paper was that they came up with their own definition of intelligence. That is not a definition in my book.

> second a definition is obviously not a prerequisite as evidenced by natural selection

right, we just need a universe, several billions of years and sprinkle some evolution and we'll also get intelligence, maybe.

thomasdziedzic··on Mr Michio Kaku Game over the Electron Mass Emerges from First Principles
Why is the author listed as Mehrdad Ghasemizadeh in researchgate but the author is listed as M. Pajuhaan on the paper?
thomasdziedzic··on The King of Chicago Trading Wants to Build a GPU Market Bigger Than Oil
https://archive.is/Bh2kY
thomasdziedzic··on Fake research is doubling every 1.5 years
> So what comes next?

Since you provided a source for your numbers, I'll bite. Formalize results into mechanical proofs that can be verified by computers so that we build a library of computer proofs. You can't bullshit a computer.

I'm not sure how it would work for statistical results, but defining a formalized standard might be a good first step for deriving numbers from raw data instead of relying on the authors to calculate the statistics themselves.

thomasdziedzic··on Fake research is doubling every 1.5 years
Not that I disagree with your numbers, but do you have any sources for your numbers of paper mills doubling output every 1.5 years vs real research doubling every 15 years?
thomasdziedzic··on I don't want AI agents controlling my laptop
What makes you pretty sure he's sarcastic?
thomasdziedzic··on Happy 70th Birthday, Artificial Intelligence [pdf]
Yesterday, I read a shortened version of this paper at http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/viewFil... because I couldn't find the full one. Thanks for posting this!
thomasdziedzic··on Series C and scale
Their series B was in January: https://www.cursor.com/blog/series-b
thomasdziedzic··on Implementation of Dependent Types
seems like it's down, getting an ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
thomasdziedzic··on The Future of Comments Is Lies, I Guess
LLMs do seem like a major issue for spam, does hackernews deal with any of this? I presume yes but how do you deal with it if so.
thomasdziedzic··on Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search
How timely, I just finished going through a tutorial that builds a text editor like kilo from scratch: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/index.html

Would highly recommend the tutorial as it is really well done.

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