Hacker News: alwaysbeconsing

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

alwaysbeconsing — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:34:14 +0000

Competition. Using my open source projects directly doesn't kill my employment. AI company explicitly say they want to put me out of work, using my code aginst me.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

alwaysbeconsing — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:32:38 +0000

Problem come when a third-party code do that swizzling, looking at you every iOS analytics framework to this day.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Apple enters the generative AI race"

alwaysbeconsing — Sat, 18 May 2024 17:42:36 +0000

Siri original release came four or five years before Google assistant.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag"

alwaysbeconsing — Sat, 18 May 2024 17:31:13 +0000

If you have time, people, resources for such you might also interest in more elaborate variation, my favorite https://killerqueenarcade.com/fieldgame Three different win condition, and one player have special role as "queen bee". Myself have only played arcade version unfortunately.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Design docs at Google (2020)"

alwaysbeconsing — Tue, 07 May 2024 17:06:47 +0000

Need time and effort to ensure junior docs are thorough. Usually multiple revision in my experience. This require acceptance from management that "just write code fast" is not a success path.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering"

alwaysbeconsing — Mon, 06 May 2024 15:40:25 +0000

Not a good look. But to precise, user had already second-highest score long prior to period of posting AI work. In that case AI answers did not affect ranking.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles"

alwaysbeconsing — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:32:14 +0000

> it's on pretty much every system

Some system have GNU, some BSD.

> at least trivial to install

Then same for `just`, package manager have it.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Passkeys: A shattered dream"

alwaysbeconsing — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:12:14 +0000

Incorrect. 1P orginally offer direct LAN syncing among machines.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’"

alwaysbeconsing — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:25:59 +0000

> but in an implicit structure that 'leader' is quickly sidelined when people figure out the quality of their decisions are poor

More likely to end up in turf war unless exist legible means to transition leadership. Some members will stick with old leader for various reason, some will push for new, some will be unawares and courted to choose their side. Person in leadership does not most likely give it up quietly and immediately.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Bayer is getting rid of bosses and asking staff to ‘self-organize’"

alwaysbeconsing — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:40:54 +0000

Mashup of Dunbar's Number with "The Magical Number 7 Plus or Minus One"

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

alwaysbeconsing — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:31:46 +0000

+1 Can see from project homepage http://web.archive.org/web/20240329165859/https://xz.tukaani... they have some release responsibility from 5.2.12.

> Versions 5.2.12, 5.4.3 and later have been signed with Jia Tan's OpenPGP key . The older releases have been signed with Lasse Collin's OpenPGP key .

It must be assume that before acquiring that privilege, they also contributed code to project. Probably most was to establish respectable record. Still could be malicious code going back someways.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Programmers are bad at managing state (2020)"

alwaysbeconsing — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:49:02 +0000

Sum type is key, called "discriminated union" sometimes generally. In Rust this is an `enum`. Simulated in some languages as tuples with tag first element. Discrete number of states, attaching information only relevant to each single state. Thus, never have invalid combination of other fields.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Cwerg: C-like language that can be implemented in 10kLOC"

alwaysbeconsing — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:53:15 +0000

Precedent for Python-like but C-level language in Nim; will be interested to see how yours develops too. Good luck!

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "An alternate pattern-matching conditional for Elisp"

alwaysbeconsing — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:48:42 +0000

Agree, it is Curse of Lisp mixed in NIH syndrome. Syntax of cond* is no more straightforward than that of pcase. As was pointed out on mailing list. Awkward decision by maintainers to keep both into core.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years"

alwaysbeconsing — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 19:06:33 +0000

Looks readable with Reader Mode for me.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Don't fuck with paste"

alwaysbeconsing — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:56:58 +0000

Very frustrating that any place where I can store code has way more security than what's more important to me: place where I store my money. Financial companies still using SMS for 2FA!

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "The Tech Industry Doesn't Understand Consent – Opt-Out Is Not Consent"

alwaysbeconsing — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:51:03 +0000

> I see zero issue with AI farming Stack Overflow,

> Thought AI companies farming copyrighted work on the other hand, that's a different story.

All post on Stack Overflow are still copyright of respective posters. They are offered publicly under Creative Commons license that require attribution.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "The day I canceled my Spotify subscription"

alwaysbeconsing — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:33:17 +0000

I believe statement is about the playlist Spotify makes, not those made by user. Those called "Daily Mix", generated on user listening choices.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "The Rust project has a burnout problem"

alwaysbeconsing — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:42:35 +0000

It means they keep position as dominant Git forge, mindshare: people are most familiar with them, then think of them first for Enterprise contracts, are interested in other paid product/feature (Copilot e.g.).

Side benefit to overwhelming mindshare many people expect/require the other forge to have the Github feature: being different counts as negative. This reinforces.

New comment by alwaysbeconsing in "Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released"

alwaysbeconsing — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:13:45 +0000

Would not Ruby be the comparison to do? In which case it I think is nearly identical to the Crystal.