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New comment by king_geedorah in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

king_geedorah — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:13:28 +0000

They’re likely referring to his post / thoughts on the bun rust rewrite and specifically those he shared about the lead developer of the bun project and the bun project at large.

I would not characterize what he shared as vitriolic, but from the comments when the post was submitted one would get the impression that is not a majority opinion here.

https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.ht...

New comment by king_geedorah in "Can we have the day off?"

king_geedorah — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:29:11 +0000

Is bottom decile consumption a good measure of economic health? In a way it seems it could signal the opposite, ie in the past the bottom decile was saving that money in an effort to change their economic conditions vs spending it now could indicate a lack of hope for upward mobility.

To your example it seems worth noting that the quality of the air travel experience appears to decline over time as well.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says"

king_geedorah — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:16:16 +0000

The original complaint cites no minimum land ownership requirement and the judgement does not seem to make specific disagreement with this fact as best I can tell, so that is my understanding as well.

New comment by king_geedorah in "C constructs that still don't work in C++"

king_geedorah — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:44:45 +0000

Is there some kind of ambiguity inherent in designated initializers such that the field ordering requirement is necessary for C++ or is it rather just a quirk of the compiler authors’ choices?

New comment by king_geedorah in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

king_geedorah — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:56:41 +0000

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New comment by king_geedorah in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

king_geedorah — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:15:04 +0000

If I give you a piece of titanium and tell you a piece of lead with equivalent volume would have greater mass I have in no way said the density of titanium is zero.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

king_geedorah — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:36:04 +0000

I agree that not engaging would have been preferable and is going forward.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

king_geedorah — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:09:43 +0000

What you infer from reading the text is your problem, not mine. My follow up comment articulates exactly my position.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

king_geedorah — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:05:21 +0000

I don’t doubt that people feel this way. I doubt that every new account inflating the apparent consensus is genuine.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

king_geedorah — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:54:43 +0000

There is no insinuation. The astroturfing objectively occurs and that it does so is an inherent strain on the credibility of engagement like that of the GP.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Childhood Computing"

king_geedorah — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:45:41 +0000

It's striking how concise the program in the first video is. Also I had no idea "Digger" existed. I've only ever known Dig Dug in that style.

New comment by king_geedorah in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"

king_geedorah — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:22:07 +0000

The section with heading "Be Extremely Portable" seems relatively clear to me, but perhaps that is just because I already understand host vs target compatibility.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Don't Roll Your Own"

king_geedorah — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:06:14 +0000

Nobody “needed” the web to do these things. We decided that the effort and cost of making native applications was too great. I’d argue we went the wrong way given that even the same browser will exhibit slightly different behavior depending upon the underlying platform upon which it runs.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Don't Roll Your Own"

king_geedorah — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:42:26 +0000

I just went and confirmed this because it’s not something I’ve really looked at and I agree. The date picker you get from a straight up on iOS webkit is pretty nice.

The one in webkit on macOS isn’t quite as good, but is better than the one in firefox if only because firefox closes the picker when you type a year in to move far through time. Good thing firefox is open source.

New comment by king_geedorah in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"

king_geedorah — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:27:02 +0000

Portability across compilers is orthogonal to portability across target architectures.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Don't just paste the AI at me"

king_geedorah — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:17:51 +0000

Typing “I don’t know” saves you more time than asking the AI and pasting the answer.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

king_geedorah — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:41 +0000

I’d say the increased scrutiny has merely exposed the difference in care between the different groups in the industry. Seems to explain pretty well why both sides are equally confounded by the other’s expectations.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

king_geedorah — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:35:29 +0000

“... it seems unlikely he would ship this rewrite if it didn’t meet his quality bar” is every bit as vibes-based as the decision you are critiquing.

New comment by king_geedorah in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

king_geedorah — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:49:08 +0000

It depends upon what you mean. A dream is a stream of unconscious ideas in a way. One could also look at Jungian psychology and point to the ideas your conscious mind rejects by projecting onto others as unconscious ones, with the idea being that we refuse to face them in ourselves and so must put them outward.

New comment by king_geedorah in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

king_geedorah — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:39:26 +0000

Thanks ChatGPT.