Right now the comments that upset me the most are LLM TMI-style comments that break encapsulation by talking about the behavior of specific current callers of a function right above the function definition.
I recently reacted angrily in a PR review comment after encountering one for the umpteenth time... that caught me off guard. I didn't know I was capable of that.
I'm getting to the point that I almost have a physical feeling of revulsion/nausea when I read something outside an open Claude Code session that is written in an AI voice.
I'm so sick of that voice -- word choice, phrasing, style... it's hard to define and frustrating because it's both pervasive, influential on human writers including myself (I found myself using the phrase "doing a lot of work" in a Slack message about a word someone chose to use :grimace:), and presumably compounding on future LLMs.
Some kinds of brains must just not be good at this kind of game.
I used to win spelling bees in school, but I played the entire archive on this game and my highest score was 6/18.
Maybe it has to do with the balance between audio and visual learning. Spelling bees are spoken words in, letters out -- not letters in, words out. When trying to solve these, I kept trying to sound out different orderings of letters, maybe that's not how good players do it?
It appears macOS native containers runs a separate Linux VM per container.
OrbStack's claim to fame is that all containers run in a single Linux VM, with lots of optimizations on both sides of the VM boundary (including use of a sparse image file for disk storage, which saves a lot of space on the macOS side).
If you run more than 4-5 containers on macOS, the performance and resource usage savings of OrbStack really starts to add up quickly.
> He is a PHP developer from the early '00s who got lucky with Facebook
Nice summary of a good hacker's viewpoint. All his money, power, and other non-technical signals don't really give him the technical authority to weigh on what really makes a technical difference.
That being said, depending on how good information-sharing is at the company, he might have a valuable perspective. But given that morale is low, it's doubtful that engineers feel free to tell the straight unvarnished truth without fear. And in typical large-company fashion, managers above them likely spin things positively as much as possible.
It's concerning to me how the author generated AI images and gave them captions as if they are real depictions.
If I'm going to read an article about something real in society, I'm only interested in images that are true depictions of reality. They may not so perfectly capture what the author is envisioning, but the gap between "perfect for this article" and "real" is what makes a real picture interesting.
1Password checks all these boxes and hasn't yet had a data breach.
Their biggest security hole is probably somewhere in the operational pipeline between 1P browser client developers and the static file servers hosting them.
Optionality. The power available to any one person to do anything in society is directly proportional to their genuine connections to others, even if brief.
Meetups in person with real connections happening (even if brief) create so many new possibilities for those in attendance.
The disappearance of in-person meetups (especially among developers) in the US after Covid is a tragedy - so much could be happening that is not.
The Manifesto for Agile Software Development only happened because a group of developers met up in person. They disagreed about nearly everything, but what they agreed about changed the industry.
WASM is literally a direct replacement for asm.js. In fact, for a long time emscripten supported both simultaneously - both as outputs from the same tool chain.
They have a lot in common. So it's not at all wrong to say WASM fulfills the prophecy. It's an iteration of the concept that resulted in JS as a compile target and later asm.js.
What about food produced in Europe? We have an Italian restaurant in my Tennessee town that imports all of its ingredients from Italy.
I know several people who are otherwise gluten-intolerant but can eat anything there with no trouble.
All of the food issues we're suffering from in the US -- celiac's disease, food allergies, gluten intolerance, dairy intolerance -- are relatively rare in Europe.
There's an "ape loader" that speeds up loading the executable on various platforms -- that will guarantee it continues to work, as it can evolve with the platform to continue support for binary format.
At some point, lack of security becomes a feature. A fully secure, locked-down, T2 attested macOS is able to be controlled not just by Apple, but by increasingly evil governments, with no recourse available to users.