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New comment by AgentME in "Abandoned Quake 4 expansion finished by modders and now playable"

AgentME — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 23:38:50 +0000

I watched a playthrough of the expansion and it was a bit more forgettable than Quake 4 itself. It didn't do much of anything new that the main game didn't.

New comment by AgentME in "Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible"

AgentME — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:45:47 +0000

I believe that's usually caused by a lot of random software deciding to hook the Windows Explorer right-click menu so it can decide whether to add menu items to it, possibly doing slow file IO and running serially with every other hook. (I blame Windows for allowing this and not making it more apparent to users what software is slowing it down.)

New comment by AgentME in "Twelve years of distributed SQLite"

AgentME — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 11:56:07 +0000

It's loaded with it to my eyes. (Pangram also agrees and flags the whole post as AI generated.)

  # 2014: rqlite
  The need was concrete.

  # Before 2014, and alongside it
  Two things deserve mention for honesty’s sake.

(the above line is extremely typical of Claude Opus 4.8 and 5.0)

  [...] and the main difference is of one of packaging:

  # What the twelve years show
  Three things, I think.
  The core was right. [...] Nobody has found a reason to stop doing it.
  The design space has three corners, and they appeared in order.

(What order? The corners of this design space, which aren't spelled out until the following sentence, don't have any other natural ordering. This type of misapplied flourish feels very typical of LLMs.)

New comment by AgentME in "Twelve years of distributed SQLite"

AgentME — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:40:17 +0000

The comparisons between various projects, including between rqlite and Litestream, were interesting. (rqlite uses a consensus algorithm between nodes to keep them synced and allow changing the primary node, while Litestream just syncs itself to S3 so another node could take over with the data from there.)

I fully expected the article to get into D1 shortly and mention how that's about the same relationship between Cloudflare Durable Objects (which D1 is based on) and celld, an open source reimplementation of Cloudflare Durable Objects which writes to S3. But then the article treats D1 with a very sudden snarky disinterest, and then the final section feels very awkwardly defensive of rqlite and defeatist.

New comment by AgentME in "The Mathocalypse"

AgentME — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:34:30 +0000

I don't think Aaronson's post is swiping at AI doomers at all. The post's one use of "doom" is to call the position that math doesn't matter and that AI will never breach the realm of true human creativity as a "doomed worldview". The post later praises Scott Alexander's argument (for taking AI x-risk seriously, a position associated with "AI doomers") against Pinker.

New comment by AgentME in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"

AgentME — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:14:44 +0000

While I'm at it, I forgot to mention the built-in formatter (deno fmt) is great too. I use Prettier in other projects and it's also great in those projects, but it's tiring that it's yet another dependency to remember to add and configure in a new node project.

New comment by AgentME in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"

AgentME — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:30:38 +0000

Deno is still an easy pick for me because of its built-in test-runner (deno test), linter (deno lint), and type checker (deno check). I've used many different npm packages for these things in previous projects and I have no idea what the new hotness and proper configuration is for all of these things in a new node project, so I really value the simplicity of Deno for it all. Also JSR and Deno for publishing Typescript libraries is still so much easier than setting up a Typescript node project and configuring it to publish compiled code, and it gets you documentation pages generated from your tsdoc comments too, which I never knew how to do outside of JSR.

New comment by AgentME in "Memory-Safe WebP Decoding"

AgentME — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:40:30 +0000

That would likely require copying the image data in and out of the wasm instance's memory, while a pure Rust solution could have safety with less overhead.

New comment by AgentME in "Claude Opus 5.5"

AgentME — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:05:18 +0000

If they think they might be better than alignment than others and everyone else isn't stopping, then continuing makes sense.

New comment by AgentME in "Java 27"

AgentME — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:52:07 +0000

That's about letting you do Expression, not about removing type erasure or otherwise allowing overloads based on type parameters.

New comment by AgentME in "We must pace the frontier"

AgentME — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:12:52 +0000

Today we prompt software developers to "think about ways to improve AI's architecture" and it results in AI getting better. AI over the last year has made very rapid gains in filling the role of a software developer.

New comment by AgentME in "The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead"

AgentME — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:58:26 +0000

> 4. After knowing that the server was hacked, the internal team finds the message board and does nothing with the information. They caught their AIs swarming and did not even inform management.

I believe Sam Altman or someone else from OpenAI clarified on Twitter that they did not find the message board at this time. When the artifactory server stopped working, they archived its contents, reset it, resumed training, and only later noticed that it had been used as a message board after they finally discovered the hacking going on.

New comment by AgentME in "Black hole singularity is a surface not a point"

AgentME — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:05:05 +0000

If outside observers could watch the astronaut clearly, the astronaut would look like they're slowing down to a stop at the event horizon. The astronaut would not see themselves freezing in time, but they would see everything outside of the black hole speed up.

You could travel arbitrarily far into the future by getting close to a black hole's event horizon for a while without crossing it and then leaving, assuming you had the energy for it and you didn't get obliterated by all the mass and energy falling into the black hole in that timeframe.

New comment by AgentME in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

AgentME — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:41:06 +0000

Is non-self-hosting available for all of those things on Tangled? I don't want to run my own CI but I do want CI. I couldn't figure out if it was available last time I looked at Tangled.

New comment by AgentME in "Gloomberb"

AgentME — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:34:08 +0000

A command line tool in a non-compiled language is still much better than an network-connected tool in a non-memory-safe language.

New comment by AgentME in "Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities"

AgentME — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:32:34 +0000

This argument also proves that climate change and nuclear war aren't possible existential issues.

New comment by AgentME in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

AgentME — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:54:54 +0000

>PROTIP: Install the Kex-engine remaster, but then

You should rephrase this as just "Install Quake on Steam, but then" for newcomers who need this advice to be able to understand it.

New comment by AgentME in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

AgentME — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:53:47 +0000

They need changes to support it, but I don't expect it to take long. Both vkQuake and IronWail work well with the previous new official episode (Dimension of the Machine) and the remastered models after they were updated for that.

New comment by AgentME in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

AgentME — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:45:48 +0000

It's for people who own the original game on Steam or one of the other supported digital storefronts.

New comment by AgentME in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

AgentME — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:15:42 +0000

This is exciting! I've loved the idea of Durable Objects but I've disliked that there's no existing way to use them while scaling to multiple machines outside of Cloudflare.