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New comment by bfung in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

bfung — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:47:42 +0000

Meta: so many words to say - save local first & sync in background.

Feels like AI slop.

Doesn’t address the concurrent update problem except for “optimistic”. At least provide some data why that’s ok.

New comment by bfung in "They’re made out of weights"

bfung — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:09:01 +0000

How does one choose what sequence of bytes constitutes a token?

New comment by bfung in "They’re made out of weights"

bfung — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:36:39 +0000

And you know what the tokenizer is made of?

Weights.

New comment by bfung in "Backpressure is all you need"

bfung — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:34:17 +0000

Test Driven Development. There's more than several /tdd skills that are popular.

New comment by bfung in "YAML? That's Norway Problem"

bfung — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:04:10 +0000

Really? Putting quotes around strings is called escaping now?

    One workaround is to escape the string, like this:
    
    countries:
      - DE
      - FR
      - "NO"
      - PL
      - RO

Comon, it’s 2026, yeah yaml’s design can lead to odd type casts, but a whole essay on this? Keep it under 140 chars pls.

New comment by bfung in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

bfung — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:56:04 +0000

Just follow the man, not the brand. He’s still doing his thing: https://www.natesilver.net/

New comment by bfung in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

bfung — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:59:30 +0000

Just reporting what I’ve experienced. No need to go with the ad hominem attack. I happen to lead a team with a major Rust infra project and I stand by the experience with usage across all the LLM models.

New comment by bfung in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

bfung — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:47:26 +0000

1. Amount of Rust training data isn’t as much as Go.

2. Golang syntax and style is very verbose yet simple. There’s not as many options nor programming language to domain mapping needed as in Rust. Leads to needing less sophisticated LLM to spit out Golang than Rust successfully and efficiently.

New comment by bfung in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

bfung — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:59:07 +0000

One simply does not [“provision” more hardware|(reboot systems)|(redeploy software)] in space.

New comment by bfung in "Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid"

bfung — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:07:13 +0000

As a Costco member and customer, I’d actually trust the leadership more than most companies. Use the tariff money and keep that $1.50 hotdog ~ enough avg Americans can use that break for lunch, even if not the healthiest.

New comment by bfung in "GitHub Is Degraded"

bfung — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:31:26 +0000

Not purely an advertisement, it’s a real app! https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/updog-ai/

But it does help with marketing and showing off our tech.

New comment by bfung in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

bfung — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:14:45 +0000

I don’t feel that old, but I guess being 45 is ancient in tech.

The Silicon Valley tech jobs we have now has a history rooted in World War 2 and funding of it by the US gov.

https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo?si=gGza5eIv485xEKLS

I’m not saying war is good or anything, but also don't ride a high horse cause none of it would be here w/o WW2.

New comment by bfung in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

bfung — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:07:33 +0000

I’d argue it’s come full circle and it hasn’t changed a bit.

There wouldn’t be a Silicon Valley without World War 2 and US gov. funding of Stanford to develop radar basically.

The initial investment from then gave critical capital mass for Stanford, the VCs, and the tech companies of today.

https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo?si=gGza5eIv485xEKLS

New comment by bfung in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

bfung — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:18:12 +0000

When humans write the software, who verifies it?

half sarcasm, half real-talk.

TDD is nice, but human coders barely do it. At least AI can do it more!

New comment by bfung in "Sizing chaos"

bfung — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:22:53 +0000

Hot take (?):

The random sizing today is great:

* If you want a better fit, go physically to a store instead of shopping online and try them on.

* the vanity part is also fine, no need to cause outrage at raising the number and making people depressed cause they think they're even more "fat". It doesn't need to be "optimized"

* Only serves online retail to "standardize", but guess what, 15th standard also sucks... .

Enjoyed the presentation of the site. :)

New comment by bfung in "Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"

bfung — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:34:26 +0000

In the spirit of Winter Olympics, I vote “Lion on a bobsled” next bench . :)

New comment by bfung in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

bfung — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:28:51 +0000

`/init` is good enough.

Model improvements will take care of the rest.

New comment by bfung in "Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models"

bfung — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:07:00 +0000

Or the opposite, that humans are somehow super special and not as simple as a prediction feedback loop with randomizations.

New comment by bfung in "The silent death of good code"

bfung — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:03:38 +0000

If it’s easy to read and understand but doesn’t work, or is slow to execute, or costs a lot to run, is it good code?

If the function is a black box, but you’re sure the inputs produces a certain output without side effects and is fast, do you NEED “good code” inside?

After about 10yrs of coding, the next 10 of coding is pretty brainless. Better to try and solve people/tech interaction problems than plumbing up yet-another-social/mobile/gaming/crypto thing.

New comment by bfung in "The Great Unwind"

bfung — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:30:50 +0000

Dunno about the website or corp, but the occupy wall st movement was/is true. Happened right after 2008 stock market crash and people camped out on Wall Street in protest of bailing out the banks.