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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).

New comment by ShinTakuya in "What to do with C++ modules?"

ShinTakuya — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:44:35 +0000

There's nothing inherent about C++ that makes it more suited than Rust for game engines though, Rust supports careful management of memory too. Of course, nothing besides inertia (i.e. Libs, existing code, etc.). And that of course is more than big enough of a reason to stick with it.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "The largest map of the universe reveals over 800k galaxies"

ShinTakuya — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:25:44 +0000

There are. The count is gotten by extrapolating from randomly selected areas of sky. This is more like another detailed picture of a small patch of sky.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web"

ShinTakuya — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 02:10:09 +0000

I can't reply further to this thread without this devolving into a flame war so I'll just observe that you've moved the goal posts claiming you were just joking, and refuse to engage further until you acknowledge you're either getting defensive for no reason or arguing in bad faith.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web"

ShinTakuya — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:13:21 +0000

While I agree they shouldn't be putting their money towards political causes, the scrutiny of the budget is also political in nature. Of the $400 million in expenses, only around $15 million went to executives, and around $1 million went to the DEI stuff. The rest was split evenly between developing and marketing Firefox, which is basically what you were criticising them on not doing.

If they got rid of all the executives and DEI, they could increase the other budgets by 2%. There is 0 chance that the 2% extra budget could help the market share and development in any significant way.

And if you don't pay executives enough, you get worse executives who make worse decisions because the good ones will go to other companies. So you'll be complaining even more if the $15 million executive pay got dropped.

So in short: I agree Mozilla shouldn't get involved in politics. Despite this, no reasonable person could look at the numbers and conclude it's having a material effect on the destiny of Firefox.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web"

ShinTakuya — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:08:43 +0000

Is it that surprising that Edge is surpassing Firefox given Firefox doesn't have the onboarding ramp of Microsoft and Google? Microsoft shoves Edge in your face every chance it gets, as does Google. What can Mozilla do to compete against that? Unfair to use market share as an argument.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web"

ShinTakuya — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:28:13 +0000

Can I inquire as to why you feel so negatively about Firefox?

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This JWS Telescope discovery"

ShinTakuya — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 04:11:49 +0000

Keep in mind that my own knowledge of physics is very rusty, so some of this is definitely making bad assumptions.

The density in the singularity (centre) of the black hole is in theory infinite. But the event horizon (the part where light no longer escapes) is not the singularity, it's simply where the gravity becomes so strong that light can't escape.

Think of it as the sun vs the planets - we're not in the sun, but we still feel its effects. The density of the solar system isn't the same as the density of the sun. This is bad analogy because the same mathematics/physics doesn't apply, but it should help you get the general picture based on your original assumption.

In general, the heavier the black hole, the less dense it is when measured from the event horizon. So in theory, it's possible to have a black hole so heavy that the event horizon contains the entire universe. In fact, the known universe is heavy enough to be a black hole 3 times the known radius of the universe. But as we know from stars that turn into black holes, just because something is heavy enough to be a black hole, doesn't mean it is one yet.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This JWS Telescope discovery"

ShinTakuya — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:14:48 +0000

Black holes need not be dense. The black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 has the density of air in our atmosphere. The larger the black hole, the less dense it is. So that alone doesn't preclude us existing inside of one.

New comment by ShinTakuya in "James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died"

ShinTakuya — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 07:02:51 +0000

That's the case in Australia too although the quality of the food varies.