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New comment by sc68cal in "We sped up bun by 100x"

sc68cal — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:38:34 +0000

So, they implemented a git client in zig, that had some significant speedups for their usecase. However:

> The git CLI test suite consists of 21,329 individual assertions for various git subcommands (that way we can be certain ziggit does suffice as a drop-in replacement for git).

> While we only got through part of the overall test suite, that's still the equivalent of a month's worth of straight developer work (again, without sleep or eating factored in).

New comment by sc68cal in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

sc68cal — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:39:53 +0000

I mean, more around the reluctance to publish any more code publicly since it just gets sucked up by companies to train their models.

New comment by sc68cal in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

sc68cal — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:43:10 +0000

I have been struggling with this, myself. I used to push everything to GitHub, but a couple months ago I switched over to using my small low-power home server as a Git host. I used to really enjoy the feeling of pushing commits up to GitHub, and that little dopamine rush hasn't really transferred to my home machine yet.

It's a shame. The people who control the money successfully committed enshittification against open source.

New comment by sc68cal in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

sc68cal — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:25:18 +0000

My $JOB ended up giving up on GHES and migrating to GHEC because of these exact issues.

New comment by sc68cal in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

sc68cal — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:22:48 +0000

As someone who was impacted by GitHub's git outage in late February, which caused us to cancel a feature release, I am more sensitive to the availability of their git service, than their chatbot.

New comment by sc68cal in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

sc68cal — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:52:51 +0000

Spamhaus only has this power because administrators opt-in to their service. It is useful, so people use it.

New comment by sc68cal in "UBI as a productivity dividend"

sc68cal — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:14:40 +0000

Imagine posting how unions are bad on a Saturday in your leisure time

New comment by sc68cal in "Sunsetting Jazzband"

sc68cal — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:31:13 +0000

Jazzband maintained some incredible Django packages and tools that made it possible for me to build a system at my $JOB that would have been impossible to do on my own. It is a true tragedy of the commons situation where I was expected do more with less, and I didn't have the ability to contribute back/donate anywhere near the value that these projects provided to $JOB or myself. I did contribute personally, but it's very clear how all of this value has been extracted and used by large companies to build higher and higher walls for themselves, and none of the people that actually make any of this work get more than crumbs.

New comment by sc68cal in "Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human"

sc68cal — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:49:29 +0000

I think this reveals a great deal about the thinking of the ruling elites.

The K shaped recovery phenomenon demonstrated that the economy can continue to thrive, when consumption by the lowest earners is replaced and concentrated by earners at the top. This demonstrated to the elites that actually, we don't need as many consumers to grow the economy, and that it's possible to redistribute wealth upward without losing growth.

These public comments just show that the elites are more and more comfortable making it explicit that there are too many "useless eaters" in their opinion, and that the change has been from considering just the Third World to be where these "useless eaters" are while still preserving an imperial core, to now considering everyone that isn't them, regardless of First or Third world, to be a useless eater.

Very dangerous thinking, but at least it's out in the open now.

They want to capture the entire value of everyone's labor and hoard it for themselves, and discard the people that produced it.

New comment by sc68cal in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

sc68cal — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:13:13 +0000

That's a great question. I would also love to know that answer. I agree with you that they're not going to share the refund if the importer was the middleman in the supply chain, and same thing if the importer was also the seller.

New comment by sc68cal in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

sc68cal — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:51:23 +0000

The importer pays the tax and passes it on as higher prices to the consumer. So the importers are the one that had the tax collected from them and would be getting the refund.

The importer CAN be the seller, but other times the importer is a middleman in the supply chain.

New comment by sc68cal in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

sc68cal — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:48:36 +0000

The Lutnick sons were also probably betting on the outcome of the case on Kalshi

New comment by sc68cal in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

sc68cal — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:10:43 +0000

Jobs are the only way that you survive in this society (food, shelter). Look how we treat unhoused people without jobs. AI is taking jobs away and that is putting people's survival at risk.

New comment by sc68cal in "An Update on Heroku"

sc68cal — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:58:21 +0000

It's such a shame, because they had one of the best services out there. Being able to push via Git and end up with a running deployment was a killer feature. It may not have been the first (Elastic Beanstalk was way older but when it first came out it was Java only iirc, ick) but it was incredibly popular.

Seeing them now chasing AI as a "me too" after being acquired by Salesforce just shows that huge companies will acquire something then sit on it for years and let it rot.

New comment by sc68cal in "No More Hidden Changes: How MySQL 9.6 Transforms Foreign Key Management"

sc68cal — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:54:12 +0000

I think it's a good idea, as a decades long user of InnoDB. I hope that the work can be shared with other forks of MySQL

New comment by sc68cal in "Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations"

sc68cal — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:28:33 +0000

Great article, shows a lot of interesting PostgreSQL features. I have used PostgreSQL and MySQL for decades, and this article showed me that I have barely scratched the surface of what is possible.

New comment by sc68cal in "The suck is why we're here"

sc68cal — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:47:56 +0000

"AI might be destroying knowledge, causing harm to society, and making people intellectually lazy but it benefits me for a small period of time!"

New comment by sc68cal in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

sc68cal — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:14:10 +0000

Socialized losses, private profits

New comment by sc68cal in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

sc68cal — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:00:24 +0000

You completely missed the point of that quote. The point of the quote is to highlight the fact that automated systems are amoral, meaning that they do not know good or evil and cannot make judgements that require knowing what good and evil mean.

New comment by sc68cal in "'It's surreal': How US sanctions lock ICC judges out of daily life"

sc68cal — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:31:33 +0000

They are on a international body that is investigating allegations of war crimes and genocide that the United States and Israel have committed in Gaza