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New comment by conartist6 in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

conartist6 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:43:18 +0000

I have respect for past you, whose accomplishments are incredible. Current you I think of like a circus performer. I trust you to get ooohs and aaahs from the AI-race spectators who don't know any better. I don't want someone who is primarily in showbiz within 10 fucking miles of my infrastructure though

New comment by conartist6 in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

conartist6 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:41:31 +0000

I ran your proposed changes by TC39 and their initial reaction was simply "no".

Is Bun the new IE6, then?

New comment by conartist6 in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

conartist6 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:37:16 +0000

Thanks to free speech, telling people to go fuck themselves is protected expression in the US. I took the liberty.

New comment by conartist6 in "The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory"

conartist6 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:35:16 +0000

My personal favorite of the sub movies is Phantom with Ed Harris, and it gets a little more philosophical. Basically in these kinds of dramas, escalation itself is the enemy: the move that triggers the countermove that triggers the countermove that triggers the war that ends the world

New comment by conartist6 in "The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory"

conartist6 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:05:53 +0000

I have no idea. The more I hear the more I think the movie was referencing more real happenings than I had understood. Very early in the movie Seaman Jones (the golden ear) and rookie Beaumont are at the sonar station and Jones pulls a little training stunt. He chides the Beaumont: "like Beethoven on the computer, you have labored to produce... a biologic. ... ... A whale, Beaumont, a whale, a marine mammal that knows a hell of a lot more about sonar than you do."

New comment by conartist6 in "The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory"

conartist6 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:47:14 +0000

I think his friend may have been known as "seaman Beaumont" https://clip.cafe/the-hunt-red-october-1990/seaman-beaumont/

New comment by conartist6 in "Fable Converted Pylint to Rust"

conartist6 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:48:59 +0000

I like the other commenter's information here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597915. It confirms what i suspected: the source of the 2000x slowdown is very much fixable in Python.

It's not a huge error, it just speaks to the people doing the work not having a solid footing in the concepts

New comment by conartist6 in "Fable Converted Pylint to Rust"

conartist6 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:19:39 +0000

You can't get 2000x faster without actually eliminating some large percentage of the work, you just cannot. You have to find some way to get rid of 99.95% of the work you were doing.

Usually those inflated numbers come from single-thread to multi-thread comparisons, where you can fudge as much as you want by adding more cores. They claim this is a single-core to single-core comparison, so basically that means they had a heinous performance bug hidden in their code, almost certainly an n^2 behavior. If this is true 2000x is not the limit of what they could have claimed as speedup. Why not 10,000x? Why not 10,000,000x? All are equally true, and none of them could be fixed by a faithful port of the codebase from one language to another.

So I kinda read it as them being confidently, arrogantly stupid, waving around a result without seemingly having thought about what it means. I think it means they could get most of the speed without ever having had to leave Python if they just fixed one bug...

New comment by conartist6 in "Fable Converted Pylint to Rust"

conartist6 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:07:02 +0000

/loop make people respect me for being competent and trustworthy

New comment by conartist6 in "Show HN: Gerrymandle - Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral districts"

conartist6 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:19:17 +0000

I LOVE that people are creating things like this. The best way to complain is to make things. More power to you!

New comment by conartist6 in "If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)"

conartist6 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:14:49 +0000

Maybe, but you can't count how many times I see it happen in reverse too. Without saying it directly, a person reveals that they believe there is nothing left to invent or that whatever is currently best established can never ever be replicated or (gasp) beaten.

New comment by conartist6 in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

conartist6 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:07:24 +0000

... ... all i learned is that eventually Alberta will have rats, and that nowhere else can ever replicate their success. Thank you, next

New comment by conartist6 in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

conartist6 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:17:03 +0000

That last truck really shows off the engineering work

New comment by conartist6 in "The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)"

conartist6 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:09:03 +0000

is there nobody else who thinks "A Whole New World" was the best one?

New comment by conartist6 in "Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation"

conartist6 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:05:20 +0000

I find it hard to imagine that no AI was involved. The people who know how it happened aren't interested in saying.

At very least it comes from AI-like thinking. A human life has no value to an AI

New comment by conartist6 in "Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance"

conartist6 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:31:29 +0000

My problem is that this happened after Trump repeatedly and emphatically threatened to target civilian infrastructure. It could be an accident, or it could be exactly what he said he would do.

New comment by conartist6 in "Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance"

conartist6 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:55:08 +0000

If it was targeted, my understanding is that that action would fit the technical definition of a war crime

New comment by conartist6 in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

conartist6 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:44:11 +0000

The longer I live the more evidence I see the barrier between humans and other animals is thinner than we would like to imagine.

So I counter you with a practical question: can a crow commit a social transgression that will result in punishment by other crows? My strong suspicion is that the answer is yes, though I would love documentation as it would suggest a crow-cultural definition of morality

New comment by conartist6 in "Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance"

conartist6 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:24:16 +0000

I just want to confirm that people don't think hitting civilian drinking water as retaliation for a military helicopter is normal or ok

New comment by conartist6 in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

conartist6 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:25:47 +0000

You know I think if you'd just committed to clean rooming it you'd be fine, but you didn't.

Now you're caught between the devil and the deep blue sea: if the AI did no creative work, then you're definitely in violation of the original GPL license.

If the AI did do creative work that breaks GPL, you still didn't, which leaves you with the problem that you cannot in good faith license a thing which you don't own. No creative work? No ownership claim. There's precious little (if any) of your creativity in copy pasting 4000 tests and a link to the original source code and saying "copy this in Rust".

The flagrant display of cynicism you make in arguing that the ends justify the means (even if a result is the wholesale looting of open source) disgusts me, and if I could communicate to you only one thing it should be that you should not be surprised that other people are also disgusted by behavior like that even when it falls within the letter of the law (a claim I have not yet seen you rigorously defend).