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New comment by ShinTakuya in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

ShinTakuya — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:58:55 +0000

Rewriting it in Rust isn't automatically faster and more importantly Eve's gameplay is constantly being iterated on and Rust has proven to be bad for that.

Moreover, most of Eve's bottleneck isn't single server speed, it's mostly network IO and database queries and latency. The big TiDi skirnishes in particular are slow due to this.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Elevated Errors for Opus 5"

ShinTakuya — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:10:15 +0000

I think it's not out of bounds to expect a company to go a little further to compensate for an issue. A prorated 1 hour refund doesn't reflect the reality that maybe that hour was more important to the customer because it was their only free time in the week. A free week is way too much but a free day sounds appropriate.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

ShinTakuya — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:30:38 +0000

Well that would explain why you wouldn't need a git history.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

ShinTakuya — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:02:06 +0000

I'm tempted to suggest you have encountered the issue but your team mates are shielding you from the consequences (with or without their knowledge).

New comment by ShinTakuya in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

ShinTakuya — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:48:51 +0000

Yeah I never get the "we knew about it internally" excuse. I can understand if another reporter got to it on the same day and they were in the process of mitigating, but even then they should have to prove it somehow.

I'm sure someone will tell me why I'm wrong but it feels like they're just dodging payouts. Reduces trust and motivation to report it.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "pgrust passes 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ShinTakuya — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:37:11 +0000

I don't support this idea of rewriting everything in Rust but the answer to your question should be fairly obvious. Rust that compiles will generally be stable assuming you don't do a bunch of unwraps and panics. C that compiles can seem fine until it isn't.

LLMs still aren't as good at detecting C memory management issues as an experienced developer. With Rust, that doesn't matter as much because generally the compiler will tell the LLM when it's wrong.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ShinTakuya — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:01:03 +0000

This is all well and good in theory, but the number of times I've seen tests that don't actually test what they say they're testing is hard to count. Yes even when you encourage the developers to ensure the test fails first and do TDD. Tests help you ship with confidence but there's usually at least a few that are just passing by pure luck.

So no, I wouldn't judge a rewrite as being equal just because it passes the tests. That said, I don't think that means you shouldn't do it. You just have to be pragmatic about it.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16"

ShinTakuya — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:04:15 +0000

Except all major social media sites are also corporations with their own interests. I'd rather the business model of traditional media that rides on journalistic reputation to a recommendation feed where the only job of it is to keep you on the site, especially when said feed can easily be manipulated.

No media organisation is perfect but your description of social media as some nirvana of decentralised truth is very questionable.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died"

ShinTakuya — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:09:50 +0000

For what it's worth, this is commonplace in Australia too. I feel like you're describing a general safe country thing. I've lived in Japan so I know it's probably one of the safest places in the world, but I feel like what this thread describes is more US/Canada/some Euro countries being particularly dangerous, and not Japan being uniquely safe.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

ShinTakuya — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:18:52 +0000

I think the main reason more time might be spent thinking is because there's relatively less training data on Haskell out in the wild, meaning an agent may have to check back and forth with static analysis to figure out what's valid.

Compact syntax is generally only a good thing for LLMs because it saves context windows and tokens.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "XS Programming Language"

ShinTakuya — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:29:13 +0000

Plenty of valid reasons to pick C, memory safety isn't a reason to trade off all other possible benefits. One big reason is portability, you can't compile Rust for example for certain targets.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

ShinTakuya — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:39:22 +0000

Do you need a reliable edge or just a slightly better than average edge?

New comment by ShinTakuya in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

ShinTakuya — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:14:18 +0000

I mean, supply chain attacks are a thing that could have happened even in the earlier days. Linux almost got backdoored in 2003.

Also with the number of remote code execution exploits that have occurred in Web browsers over the years it's hard to know for sure if what you installed hasn't been hijacked unless you spent all your time on gnu.org

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

ShinTakuya — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:08:19 +0000

No, there was a big internal project (which they communicated publicly about - search for the blogs relating to it) to address it that involved roughly a year of effort from a big chunk of the developers.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

ShinTakuya — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:03:02 +0000

Rovo is backed by the typical LLM providers in general, Atlassian isn't training its own models.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

ShinTakuya — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:03:07 +0000

If you're experiencing this you're either a very junior dev or you're not as senior as your title might suggest...

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

ShinTakuya — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:16:00 +0000

You're assuming performance has been the core priority, or even a priority at all, and I think this is a bad assumption to make. I would estimate a much smaller number of people-months of work if I were you.

Dev users assume the only problem a product can solve is performance, when there is a lot more than that in reality.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

ShinTakuya — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:06:45 +0000

Or, you know, most steam deck users aren't using them constantly and so they don't get picked up in the survey.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

ShinTakuya — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:04:37 +0000

The average Linux gamer is likely to have a very different setup to the average Linux user in general. It's a subset of a subset.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Zoxide: A Better CD Command"

ShinTakuya — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 07:07:00 +0000

As far as I'm aware it keeps a history of the frequency you visit each directory so yes it will select the one you've visited more often (assuming you don't always start at the base one and work your way down).