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New comment by soerxpso in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

soerxpso — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:08:28 +0000

> I can see why that might feel like an existential attack on Zig even if starts with a bit about how great Zig is.

The original post explicitly praised Zig, and seemed to be arguing more that Zig was a great tool for the initial version of Bun, but that Rust was better for their needs as Bun grew to a larger project with a larger contribution team.

That seems completely in line with what Zig claims its strengths are. Zig's response to "but memory bugs" has basically always been "Zig is not a language for a big tumultuous project that you're going to throw interns at."

New comment by soerxpso in "Steam Machine launches today"

soerxpso — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:41:06 +0000

I would be careful granting that s is less than g. There are lots of incentives other than scalping for people to create extra illegitimate accounts on Steam, and one individual can often control hundreds of bots, whereas a legitimate user almost never has more than one or two accounts.

New comment by soerxpso in "Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them"

soerxpso — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:17:03 +0000

Anthropic has alleged that this model is much more dangerous than other currently available models. Their CEO has said so publicly multiple times. It's like asking why cesium isn't banned if nuclear missiles are banned.

(whether Mythos is actually that dangerous is beside the point; considering that Anthropic claims that it is, it makes sense to regulate it)

New comment by soerxpso in "How to earn a billion dollars"

soerxpso — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:14:38 +0000

The entity you're implicitly proposing should take the money doesn't have a good track record of spending it wisely. I'd much rather let the startup founders keep their money and build rockets with it, than spend another few trillion on building 100 meters of high-speed rail.

New comment by soerxpso in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

soerxpso — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:08:38 +0000

Is the "meddling" just running campaign ads? I don't really see how an election where voters' brains were hijacked by tiktok ads funded by foreign governments is less legitimate than one where voters' brains were hijacked by tiktok ads funded by local organizations.

New comment by soerxpso in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

soerxpso — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:09:32 +0000

If the commit was prompted by a core developer, the developer knows what the prompt was. If it was prompted by a stranger, the core developer reviewing it does not know what the prompt was. The review attention required is completely different, because with an untrusted submitter you have to meticulously hunt down intentional security vulnerabilities obfuscated in the PR.

New comment by soerxpso in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

soerxpso — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:43:30 +0000

I don't see what the core complaint is then. The guy the public voted for can refuse to spend public funding on a particular grant. There's no reason that it's somehow more pure to have the public vote for someone who appoints someone who appoints someone.

New comment by soerxpso in "They’re made out of weights"

soerxpso — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:09:22 +0000

> I'm not gonna read something somebody didn't put in the effort to write on their own

Then don't. Nobody asked you to. Why do you people feel the need to angrily announce every time you don't read something?

New comment by soerxpso in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

soerxpso — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:31:09 +0000

You're giving a lot of credit to the human alternative, especially considering that the attacker only needs to find one lazy human.

New comment by soerxpso in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

soerxpso — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:09:31 +0000

It's useful progress. Decent-fidelity local-scale inference means that you can create a product that generates throwaway images frequently without worrying about cost. Thus far every product I've seen that generates images is metered, which severely limits the value. I don't know if this is actually at the "decent fidelity" point yet.

New comment by soerxpso in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

soerxpso — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:56:15 +0000

If you think you're owed a salary to do something that a simple machine can do, I have a field for you to plow by hand.

New comment by soerxpso in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

soerxpso — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:54:21 +0000

Bugs exist in human code too. The AI derangement crowd pounces on any small bug as evidence that AI is a trebuchet, and thinks that if only we didn't use AI there would never be any bugs (like five years ago when all software was perfect, was not being enshittified, and had 0 bugs).

New comment by soerxpso in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

soerxpso — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:47:30 +0000

Why do we need any tools at all? Software worked perfectly fine when people were editing code with `ed`, so I'm going to go open timewasting issues complaining about FOSS devs using an IDE.

New comment by soerxpso in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

soerxpso — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:33:56 +0000

"Science" can do as much science as it wants on its own dime then. Public funding should be guided by public oversight, not career bureaucrats.

New comment by soerxpso in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

soerxpso — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:36:56 +0000

My understanding of caching with most models/providers is that a prefix substring of the context has to be reused for a cache hit, but not necessarily the whole entire context window. So if you prune tool calls from the history, you're going to get one cache miss on the newly-pruned history, and then you're going to be getting cache hits on every subsequent turn, with a lower number of input tokens. If you prune subsequent tool calls after that, you would still get a cache hit for the already-pruned portion of the context, just not the full context.

New comment by soerxpso in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

soerxpso — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:20:25 +0000

> It’s like if I go to Golden Gate Park and pick one flower, I shouldn’t do that, but no one cares. But if I build a machine to automatically cut every flower in the park because I want to sell them, that’s different.

It's not like that, because flowers are a physical object and moving them to one place deprives their original location of the flowers. When an LLM learns something from a webpage, the webpage is still there. Whatever 'theft' you perceive is entirely in your head; you were deprived of nothing by someone else making a copy of your thing.

New comment by soerxpso in "Googlebook"

soerxpso — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:33:55 +0000

It's really not uncommon for me to speak to someone who actively doesn't want any sort of adblock on their computer. I would say maybe 5% of people, anecdotally, just don't want it, even when you're in front of their computer at that very moment, and offer, and insist that it would take 30 seconds to install. It's not a majority, but I found it surprising.

New comment by soerxpso in "People Hate AI Art"

soerxpso — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:09:30 +0000

Half of his recommendations for alternatives take less time to make. You (and the author) are making assumptions about what "people in general" think without any data to back it up. What you've experienced anecdotally in your social circle doesn't necessarily apply everywhere.

New comment by soerxpso in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

soerxpso — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:58:02 +0000

How is this at my expense? It's at the expense of the hedge fund they bought the oil futures from before the price went up. I don't see why I should assume that some hedge fund manager is more on my side than some insider trader.

New comment by soerxpso in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

soerxpso — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:26:42 +0000

Some providers are based in the US or EU and would face legal repercussions for lying about what they do with your data. It's a bit more than "trust me bro". Off the top of my head, you can use Fireworks, for example, which is based in California and would face the same consequences for lying about their data policy as OpenAI or Anthropic would.