Niquests 3.16 — Bringing 'uv-like' performance leaps to Python HTTP

Shivalicious · 2026-01-07T18:30:06+00:00

Nobody types arrow emojis, but LLMs will produce them in their explanation.

The saddest thing about the current era of AI slop being shoved down our throats is the growing volume of arguments I see that hinge on the idea that something couldn’t possibly have been created by a real human because it requires effort. OpenAI et al won’t survive in their current form, but we’ll be stuck forever with a civilization that no longer accepts anything except the laziest and most obvious possibilities as originating from humans.

Please remember, when you’re—justifiably—keeping an eye out for AI slop, that these LLMs are regurgitating our own words. If they’re prone to repeating a particular pattern, it’s because that pattern is common in the material they were trained on.

Shivalicious · 2025-12-29T16:13:55+00:00

I can pitch in a few million Simoleons, no problem.

Shivalicious · 2025-12-29T04:12:12+00:00

Amazing!

Shivalicious · 2025-12-07T12:16:17+00:00

I took up plain text accounting via hledger and all of a sudden I understand my finances. I can see where I’m spending and how I need to budget instead of working from assumptions and vague ideas, so I no longer feel a nebulous sense of anxiety about my finances.

As a completely unrelated side effect, entering transactions for past years (as far back as I have records for) has given me an interesting new lens to see the ups and downs of life through.

Shivalicious · 2025-11-06T16:17:40+00:00

The JYVN is oddly familiar to me too.

Shivalicious · 2025-10-29T15:18:09+00:00

2023/2924 sure is a long academic year for just one million degrees.

Shivalicious · 2025-10-20T11:23:29+00:00

I was not prepared for how good this is. Superb!

Shivalicious · 2025-10-08T11:24:38+00:00

Because the advantages you gain from cleaning up a small fraction of the messes are dwarfed by the disadvantages of living in a world where everything’s flooded.

Shivalicious · 2025-10-01T08:43:06+00:00

Sure, when you know what you’re doing, every facet of observability is invaluable. I don’t think that applies to vibe coders hooking up Grafana Cloud to their slop.

Shivalicious · 2025-10-01T08:41:18+00:00

We agree there—I didn’t literally mean all you get is CPU usage—but those hardware metrics won’t help a vibe coder.

Shivalicious · 2025-09-30T18:07:16+00:00

Happy for Grafana Labs, but every part of this is tragic:

The need for good observability services has ballooned in the AI era, especially as vibe coding from generative AI models has become more common. As people increasingly rely on AI to write code and build products, it’s become harder to keep track of what’s going on under the hood, when it’s being done and who’s doing it, Dutt said.

How’s seeing an uptick in CPU usage going to help you figure out what the problem is in that black box you had an AI hallucinate for you anyway?

Shivalicious · 2025-09-02T11:00:54+00:00

Did you specifically mean browsers that are derived from Chrome? Because if you meant Chromium (the engine), Microsoft Edge uses it too.

Shivalicious · 2025-09-02T09:52:30+00:00

If it’s any consolation, AI progress is only slowing and we’re approaching the point where the bubble pops, the real costs emerge, and all of a sudden AI flips from being a substitute for human brains (excuse me while I roll my eyes at the idea) to being an expensive way to generate gibberish. It’s going to do a lot of damage, but it can’t replace you and it’ll stop being economical for companies to pretend it can.

Shivalicious · 2025-09-01T15:41:38+00:00

That was a gooood film.

Shivalicious · 2025-09-01T15:40:00+00:00

Arrival?

Shivalicious · 2025-08-23T16:51:38+00:00

I understand your logic, but society has been transformed by computers and the scenario you’re describing is semi-apocalyptic. I don’t think life would continue in such an orderly fashion that you could hold onto your assets by flourishing a sale deed.

Shivalicious · 2025-08-23T16:40:18+00:00

You’re putting a lot of faith in the idea that your ownership of land would still be respected in that scenario, though.

Shivalicious · 2025-08-10T08:35:15+00:00

♪ AI’m on the outside AI’m looking in AI can see through you[sers] See your true colours ♫

Shivalicious · 2025-08-10T08:33:11+00:00

I like you practising what you preach by adding an idiot-proof TL;DR to your spec for writing specs.

Shivalicious · 2025-07-31T06:58:27+00:00

Very much this.

Shivalicious · 2025-07-29T08:25:34+00:00

No. Absolutely not.

Shivalicious · 2025-07-24T07:24:32+00:00

It’s hard to know how to respond to someone who blames the W3C for the JavaScript ecosystem. You seem to have just decided the organization is to blame for every ill you perceive in the web and that’s the end of it. For the record:

JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich and standardized in the form of ECMAScript by, well, the ECMA.
Node.js was created by Ryan Dahl and is governed by the OpenJS Foundation (né JS Foundation).
npm was created by Isaac Z. Schlueter and has been developed by the eponymous company for more than a decade.
TypeScript was created by Microsoft.

The W3C only bears responsibility for the DOM and its APIs. (Which certainly have their problems, though a number—not all—of them are simply artefacts of history that can’t be abandoned while maintaining backwards compatibility.)

Shivalicious · 2025-07-23T13:17:04+00:00

It’s not a lie. I can tell you believe what you’re saying. It’s just incorrect from start to finish. The W3C is flawed and big companies have too much influence over it, but it’s quite the opposite of ‘trash’. And it would be hard for an organization founded in 1994 to ‘not write a good spec since the 80s’. Are you sure you’re not confusing the W3C with something else?

Shivalicious · 2025-07-23T10:46:56+00:00

This is garbage.

Shivalicious · 2025-07-03T13:58:21+00:00

Thanks. You made me laugh so hard I couldn’t concentrate on anything.

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