The official rust book (officially available free online) is the way to good. So good I purchased it when it went paperback. It's a top tier language book.
Simon did start the pelicans on bicycles as an SVG, but I think it's more of a fun goofy thing to see how the model performs at. I don't think it has a direct correlation to a model's performance though.
Without accusing anyone of anything, I do think that this coming from the head of Zig, who gets a lot of negative publicity from the Bun rewrite (unjustifiably, it's a wonderful language) makes it harder for me to take this without wondering if there's some animosity that's really the main complaint.
> Two, I actually don't have any personal criticisms of Jarred
The author says two things that really popped out to me that you could say are "professional" and not "personal" criticisms, but I think they're still rude and contrast this statement.
> Jarred was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs
> The grapevine was large and healthy and full of juicy grapes, and all those grapes contained the juice of the same message: Jarred was a stinky manager. Poor communication, unrealistic expectations, low empathy, no experience
Now, both of these may be true. I don't have any evidence though, so I don't know how to take it.
All this to say, I'll take both of these posts without a ton of salt when it comes to the non-technical parts.
Oxide and Friends has a good mix of light banter and interesting technical talk across the stack, leaning lower. They have a lot of great commentary on a range of things. Their LLM discussions are particularly interesting to me because they're very reasonable.
I remembering hearing from a former Cisco employee once that in the mid 00s this would happen to them and the knock off router manuals were literal photocopies of the Cisco ones with very half-assed attempts to block of Cisco.
I have it build self contained tools all the time and I've never had an issue getting it to let me download the standalone HTML page. Usually just a "Download" button on the artifact on the page UI screen (just confirmed with recent tool I had it build). Assuming you mean the claude.ai website interface.
Cargo itself doesn't pull the dependencies, but yes to Rust's standard library being much more lean than Go. Bring your own HTTP, text templating, and such, but core data structures are provided.
Go gives you a bunch of goodies in the standard library.
Rust provides things like your build system, testing, and package management all together, which is what I assume OP meant.
It's been about five years since I've used Flex and Bison, but if I recall I just didn't check in the generated files and had a Makefile that built everything all together.
If I'm not misremembering that case then, it sounds like this should've never been an issue (well, as long as this is after basic version control and make). Curious if I'm missing something.
The AUR is very user managed and orphaned packages can be picked up I guess to continue maintenance. Obviously, this can lead to some issues. It's one of the tradeoffs for a heavily user supplied repository of packages. You get a lot of good stuff quickly, but I personally will stick with Debian.
I want Oxide to do so well. The product is a breath of fresh air in the era of cloud providers. As an engineer, I'd kill to get to work with their hardware.
Not to mention that working at Oxide sounds like a modern Sun Microsystems with the ideology that team has. Highly recommend their podcast "Oxide and Friends", and their original "On The Metal" show.
I've attempted to apply to their company multiple times over the years, only to be stun locked by the application process. Not because it's a bad process, but because I feel I'm not up to par as an engineer. Maybe one day I'll go through with it.
I haven't heard any accounts of it doing that since Gemini 2.5, but it was pretty easy to get it to do it with a programming task back then after a few failed attempts. Very interesting to hear it'll still do it.
Seriously. I get the sibling comment seemingly from someone involved talking about eng resources being tight, but blocking it instead of just showing a desktop page feels absurd.
One can dream, but I doubt it. As for all the reasons I don't have much faith, I'd defer to the other comments.
I will say though, optimizing memory usage is easier than ever. Doing a scan of your codebase with an LLM for _large_ memory gains can probably shave a decent chunk off of any application with ease. You don't have to go down the rabbit hole, but taking the top 3 large things it catches would probably result in notable gains for minimal time usage.
Hell, I've hunted down code that was causing an OOM from a coworker that ran a regex that would have to search the entire string of a base64 payload that was often around 24MB, when it very easily could have been a basic string operation on the first 50 characters or so. I caught it myself, but went back after with an LLM about 8 months ago and it also spotted it with a vague point in the direction of where it could be.
There are probably a lot of small slip ups across a codebase that are simple fixes that add up over time, but we never catch because we're not actively profiling.
I mean, this feels exactly what had to happen after their announcement with Fable being restricted by the US government since the requirement is that they need to know you're a US citizen. You can argue this is Anthropic's fault due to their Mythos/Fable fear mongering, but at the end of the day this is a requirement by the US government to use this (and likely future models).
I expect to see this repeatedly with new powerful models from all providers.
Best I can do is root for local models (already was), but I'll keep my Anthropic subscription for their "lesser" models without an ID (for now).