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New comment by fasterthanlime in "Claude Opus 4.7"

fasterthanlime — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:34:15 +0000

I don't think it ever has. For a very long time now, the reasoning of Claude has been summarized by Haiku. You can tell because a lot of the times it fails, saying, "I don't see any thought needing to be summarised."

New comment by fasterthanlime in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

fasterthanlime — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:54:32 +0000

Funny, I have the exact opposite experience! I use Claude to fix Gemini’s mess.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "The Promise of Rust"

fasterthanlime — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:49:41 +0000

Yes, and the video is available in full right now. That’s my current business model. (I’m the author but I didn’t post the article here — I would expect older articles to show up)

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Zlib-rs is faster than C"

fasterthanlime — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 04:59:12 +0000

True! Only, Good C programmers don’t exist.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)"

fasterthanlime — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:46:10 +0000

(author here) in which ways does Gleam come short of that? Because I'm also looking for that middle ground and I was very curious to get a look at Gleam.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Small Strings in Rust: smolstr vs. smartstring (2020)"

fasterthanlime — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 14:31:51 +0000

That’s amazing! I’m so glad you did :)

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Small Strings in Rust: smolstr vs. smartstring (2020)"

fasterthanlime — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:15:55 +0000

Thanks for the heads up!

I fixed the SVG graphs and made a couple layout updates based on the feedback here and some earlier feedback from my subreddit, see the before-after here.[1]

I've been mostly focused on function lately, the redesign is, let's say, a work in progress.

(Oh also, I use they/them pronouns these days [2])

[1] https://imgur.com/a/before-after-2024-08-24-PAmeHFX [2] https://fasterthanli.me/articles/state-of-the-fasterthanlime...

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Just paying Figma because nothing else works"

fasterthanlime — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:27:22 +0000

I mean it's right there in the tags.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Just paying Figma because nothing else works"

fasterthanlime — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:25:21 +0000

Yes, PDF is what I really want, but apparently it didn't get the " tag treatment" so, we have to leave with "SVG with text as paths, and perfect layout" or "SVG with embedded fonts (a subset if you're brave), and selectable text".

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Just paying Figma because nothing else works"

fasterthanlime — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:23:48 +0000

I love that take on it, thanks for reconciling me with this saying.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Just paying Figma because nothing else works"

fasterthanlime — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:22:52 +0000

It hasn't been finalized yet, I link to a bloomberg piece in the article from 10 days ago that says it _looks_ like they're going to go back on it but nothing confirmed afaict.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Just paying Figma because nothing else works"

fasterthanlime — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:21:47 +0000

Right, I forgot to mention that — I bought Affinity Designer 2, and I'm really with it, but diagramming in it is an absolute chore. Two completely separate usecases for me.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Cracking Electron Apps Open"

fasterthanlime — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:11:02 +0000

Ok I know I shouldn't let that get to me, but, re: "Was expecting a lousy post due to some typos in the text"

A) that's... rude/gatekeepy? B) what typos? I simply cannot find what you're talking about

Stylistic choices are not typos, I wonder if there hasn't been some mixup there? Folks usually use the feedback system to report typos, which then get fixed. You're probably not gonna see this so shrug, but, for the record: not cool.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

fasterthanlime — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:46:36 +0000

https://fasterthanli.me/

Infamous for discussions of Go.. (vs Rust..) but mostly it's me getting excited about learning & teaching computery stuff like:

ICMP in Making our own ping: https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-ping ELF in Making our own executable packer: https://fasterthanli.me/series/making-our-own-executable-pac... HTTP 1&2: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-http-crash-course-nobod...

Anyway yeah! Some folks hate it some folks love it, we need stuff for everyone.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Cracking Electron Apps Open"

fasterthanlime — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 17:03:19 +0000

Yes (more like squashfs, which is what AppImage is, I forgot to mention that), although honestly the border between "filesystem images" and "archives" is tenuous.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "A terminal case of Linux"

fasterthanlime — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:24:26 +0000

> Is there something better than just screen-shotting your terminal window and making PNGs or GIFs for stuff like this?

There is and it's been on my TODO list forever. In fact, the article you just read (congrats on getting through my narrative devices) was written /while tackling that/.

https://asciinema.org does it for "moving pictures", it shouldn't be too hard to do it for stills.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "A terminal case of Linux"

fasterthanlime — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:21:23 +0000

I mean it's a perfectly fine hill to die on, but I think "memoization for n=0 arguments" is cromulent. Or even "memoization for n=1 argument, which only has one possible value" (like a unit enum in Rust). I could see both positions being justifiable tbqh.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Rust: The wrong people are resigning"

fasterthanlime — Mon, 29 May 2023 11:37:00 +0000

> you try to help fix it. Sure if that doesn't work resign

Why wouldn’t you generously assumed this is exactly what JT has done? Because from what I know, that’s exactly what JT has done.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Rust: The wrong people are resigning"

fasterthanlime — Mon, 29 May 2023 11:30:11 +0000

Then tell the cynic in you that Prime and I are happily coexisting in the same space with different styles. I had issues with how he commented on the trademark stuff months ago, which resulted in harassment of friends of mine.

Things have gotten better since, Prime and I have talked yesterday and we’re good.

New comment by fasterthanlime in "Rust: The wrong people are resigning"

fasterthanlime — Mon, 29 May 2023 11:22:10 +0000

When I say “I wish they could have (engaged in a more constructive way)” it’s an indictment of the lack of avenues through which one can constructively engage with the project.

I feel like the fork was exploitative, but I also feel like there isn’t a lot else they could’ve done, even if they wanted to. It’s sadness all around, right now.