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New comment by zeroCalories in "Rust Style Guide"

zeroCalories — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:32:10 +0000

Those are horrible cases if you're anything more than a hobbyist.

I don't want to update every place someone matches on my enum, when it's something not even in my project, just to get my PR to merge. Three teams use it? Fine. Ten? More? Not fine. You are adding cases into someone else's code just to unblock your own work.

The second case is actually not the same at all. Realistically, they will just pin your dependency to an older version. Now they can't benefit from new features and security fixes without going in and adding in a new case. Massive waste of time for them.

And of course I'm not just taking whatever Google says at face value. I read their justification, and it makes total sense for anyone that works on a non-trivial project. It follows how any stable public API is supposed to be designed.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Rust Style Guide"

zeroCalories — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:50:33 +0000

Why? Their justification seems reasonable to me. If other teams depend on your enum then you could end up in two really bad cases. First is that you end up having to fix a ton of code just to update your enum, which has it's own headaches. Second is another team's build starts to fail when they update dependencies. Horrible churn to cause for your org. Better to just have them design around non_exhaustive.

New comment by zeroCalories in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

zeroCalories — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:03:32 +0000

The only greater evil in this world than mass adoption of AI will have been the normalization of hour long commutes.

New comment by zeroCalories in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

zeroCalories — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:54:27 +0000

A wheelchair is also a tool! A very efficient one too! People claim they've 2x'd their energy efficiency by not ever walking or standing, and they are much more happy now that they don't need to suffer the pain of walking! I'm thinking of amputating my feet just to make footoids seethe more!

New comment by zeroCalories in "Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat"

zeroCalories — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:06:35 +0000

Should have vented to your Chinese chat bot

New comment by zeroCalories in "Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms"

zeroCalories — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:04:16 +0000

I've always been more afraid of these types of models than LLMs. These are what enable mass surveillance at scale and autonomous real time combat drones. Now they are spreading and being optimized. Gg.

New comment by zeroCalories in "GPT-6 Astra"

zeroCalories — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:45:58 +0000

Can it? Last I checked, all my free software operating systems and browsers were still hacked together trash. I can't wait for AI to actually be good so I can spam a bunch of AGPL code with it.

New comment by zeroCalories in "If You Build It, They Will Come"

zeroCalories — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:50:07 +0000

The stigma is pure cope. Most nerdy types I know wasted a ton of time on some stupid hobby. If not video games, it was some other dumb geek thing like anime, comic books, or furries.

New comment by zeroCalories in "If You Build It, They Will Come"

zeroCalories — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:41:34 +0000

That's the cost of doing business. Luckily, you can't go bankrupt from hurt feelings....

New comment by zeroCalories in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

zeroCalories — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:23:12 +0000

Lol this feels trite to say, but tech bros are not ideologically homogenous. You and the author are mixing up different people commonly identified as tech bros.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise"

zeroCalories — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:53:22 +0000

These are not mere personal goals, they provide value back to society, which in turn helps others to achieve these goals. That's why we are concerned with them. We have a generation of leeches and losers that are only concerned with maximizing their consumption, not leaving behind a legacy.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

zeroCalories — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:00:59 +0000

Hi can you please delete my account? I'm trying to quit posting on social media

New comment by zeroCalories in "Ask HN: How do you effectively communicate or present?"

zeroCalories — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:19:16 +0000

I'm a horrible communicator, but these are some tips that have helped me:

1. Give the conclusion first, ramble the details after so people don't get lost.

2. Only share something if it impacts decision making, otherwise it's just noise.

3. Prefer arguments based on facts, because "I don't like it" is too vague for others to make decisions on.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Bun has been converted to rust. Now what?"

zeroCalories — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:08:44 +0000

Then you would expect to see several related CVEs and outages related to this? How many? Would you be willing to bet on it?

New comment by zeroCalories in "Bun has been converted to rust. Now what?"

zeroCalories — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:13:55 +0000

To be fair, who cares about ai slop websites? To be honest, they're often better than the average webdev garbage. Language runtimes are held to a much, much, higher standard.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?"

zeroCalories — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:09:39 +0000

I would trust a zig -> rust translation far less if it didn't make liberal use of unsafe, because that implies an order of magnitude more aggressive refactoring

New comment by zeroCalories in "Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What?"

zeroCalories — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:05:43 +0000

Depends on who vibe codes it. At the end of the day the Bun developers are the ones responsible for the quality of their software. If they've reviewed the code closely, tested it, and eat their own dog food, then I don't see why I should treat it any different from any other untrusted 3p dependency.

IMO, the main problem with vibe coding is that it empowers reckless behavior at companies like Microsoft, and that people with no serious investment in outcomes are empowered to make things. Does that apply to Anthropic? The Bun team? It's not 100% clear yet.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

zeroCalories — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:51:47 +0000

Sometimes you gotta let people know how awesome you are. The real question is if you're misrepresenting yourself(all marketing, no substance).

New comment by zeroCalories in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

zeroCalories — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:08:20 +0000

What you mean is that you can't have everything you want on minimum wage

New comment by zeroCalories in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

zeroCalories — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:32:58 +0000

Maybe you need to watch more Clavicular streams