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New comment by faitswulff in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

faitswulff — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:02:52 +0000

Another reason this may be true, selling hardware may be the only durable moat after a while

New comment by faitswulff in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

faitswulff — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:29:54 +0000

It’s also a flywheel for China’s homegrown chips industry.

New comment by faitswulff in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

faitswulff — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:49:43 +0000

Nationalism is a cancer

New comment by faitswulff in "Typing Speed Test, but for Developers"

faitswulff — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:58:02 +0000

I wish this had some code or pseudo-code tests!

New comment by faitswulff in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

faitswulff — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:49:30 +0000

That simplistic characterization is still essentially "China-bad." The CCP is the same government responsible for lifting historically unprecedented numbers of people out of abject poverty. Does it make up for other human rights violations? No. But "CCP bad" flattens a complex and powerful political organization into a fairy tale boogeyman.

New comment by faitswulff in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

faitswulff — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:10:34 +0000

> Didn't they bring hundreds of millions out of poverty, and built amazing cities and facilities in the past 30 years?

Yes, but China-bad ideology demands that we ask ”at what cost?”

New comment by faitswulff in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

faitswulff — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:32:25 +0000

> I can’t conceive of the leadership of the Python or Rust or any other community I’ve ever worked with doing something like that.

At least for Rust, part of this is because there is no BDFL, by design. Python has moved away from the BDFL model as well, IIRC. Individual contributors can get mad and write angry personal attacks, but there’s no face of the language like there is with Zig.

New comment by faitswulff in "We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps"

faitswulff — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:13:31 +0000

Also throw in GLM 5.2 for good measure

New comment by faitswulff in "CarPlay Is Additive"

faitswulff — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:44:28 +0000

> That depends on if car was originally made for left-hand or right-hand traffic

I was referring to i.e. Arabic vs English

New comment by faitswulff in "CarPlay Is Additive"

faitswulff — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:58:36 +0000

Surprised no one's mentioned it so far, but CarPlay / Android Auto aren't just features, they're consistency. Across makes, models, years. I know what I'm getting when I connect my phone - and if anyone uses my car with their own device, they get their own dashboard, as well. One interesting use case I saw was a couple where one used a left-to-right interface and the other a right-to-left UI. CarPlay makes this easy, because the interface is linked to your own personal device.

New comment by faitswulff in "The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain"

faitswulff — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:54:09 +0000

Code review isn’t a singular thing. There are many reasons for code review, like knowledge sharing, liability laundering, code quality, regulatory compliance, etc. As usual, what purpose it serves depend on your use case.

New comment by faitswulff in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

faitswulff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:03:37 +0000

There's another end to test, yet!

New comment by faitswulff in "Waymo Premier"

faitswulff — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:07:08 +0000

Waymo Premier soon to be followed by Waymo Mythos and finally Waymo: Tokyo Drift

New comment by faitswulff in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

faitswulff — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:04:10 +0000

> The analysis uses a single metric: bugs per 10 commits (bugs/10c).

Bugs per commit as a metric papers over severity, both in terms of security severity as well as the effect on the user. A mislabeled button has the same weight as the entire app crashing in this framework.

New comment by faitswulff in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

faitswulff — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:37:25 +0000

Also see: the entire history of America

New comment by faitswulff in "Is Python Becoming Pinyin?"

faitswulff — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:50:15 +0000

Sort of, but the amnesia typically applies to writing characters, rather than reading them.

New comment by faitswulff in "Is Python Becoming Pinyin?"

faitswulff — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:02:27 +0000

Pinyin is widely used, but pinyin’s primacy is oversold. Chinese texts start with teaching Chinese characters - many are recognizable to children from daily exposure to begin with, so they don’t need the pinyin. Pinyin only comes in when the character is genuinely unknown.

New comment by faitswulff in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

faitswulff — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:40:26 +0000

I get 24 hour access through my local library. Here, have a gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-ci...

New comment by faitswulff in "Xiaomi MiMo Token Plan is Now Globally Available"

faitswulff — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:35:43 +0000

This runs counter to the last 50 years of American propaganda espousing the inefficiency of government. If the Chinese government can just throw money at industries and have them flourish, why can't other governments?

New comment by faitswulff in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 price drops 99% – AI pricing war"

faitswulff — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:22:41 +0000

I wonder how much of DeepSeek and Xiaomi's pricing cuts can be traced back to cheap energy in China.