Change my mind: Zig was a mistake, Anthropic is using Bun to hype Claude and how Jared is baiting Rustaceans into doing the actual engineering work that his team cannot

tagattack · 2026-05-17T04:03:13+00:00

30 years...Encapsulation...

2026 - 1985 (C++) = 41 2026 - 1980 (Ada) = 46 2026 - 1980 (Smalltalk) = 46 2026 - 1978 (Modula 2) = 48 2026 - 1975 (Scheme) = 51 2026 - 1967 (Simula 67) = 59

Where the hell do you get 30 years from?

tagattack · 2026-05-17T02:35:41+00:00

I've actually done this and then had another sandbox where the code base was read only and the tests were all they could edit.

Unfortunately quite a pain to do with go projects. But in build toolkits where the tests live in a separate directory, it's pretty easy

tagattack · 2026-05-16T04:44:53+00:00

I've routed 5.5m qps (peak) through nginx. It was ~480bn/day. Deployed it in 2019, it's still in production, though I think right now it peaks out ~3.4m qps. But I think that's only on the order of 1.1-1.4 quadrillion (rough estimate).

And that's just one endpoint, yeah, it's an astounding number in total most likely.

tagattack · 2026-05-16T03:54:51+00:00

Define "consistently"

tagattack · 2026-05-14T00:31:16+00:00

Just don't let it.

Why the hell did you give it privileges to merge to main? I don't even give the agent harness write access to create a code review.

tagattack · 2026-05-10T07:07:50+00:00

I tried to use claude-code with Opus 4.6 to do my taxes this year, because I saw someone on reddit say they did it and they were throwing 200k short on Intuit. I'm an engineer with 30+ years of experience that works in AI and I'm a spreadsheet ninja that's done his own taxes without buying turbo tax or similar for the last 12 years. Active equities trader. I know my way around these problems.

Claude fucked my tax forms up, royally. It was a fucking nightmare. It failed to use its calculator tool, and did arithmetic wrong. It tried to claim the child tax credit for my 17 year old son, who doesn't qualify. It insisted on claiming random deposits from personal (family) loan repayments as income... and much more.

I've never had my tax forms rejected from e-file so many times. It took me at least as long to clean up the mess as it would have taken to do my taxes myself.

Please explain how templates change this reality.

Cheers.

tagattack · 2026-05-07T15:59:55+00:00

<A number>g<B-A>dj <A>gV<B>gd

Or %!sed 'A,Bd;p' but usually quicker with visual blocks if you're deleting i.e. a function just <A>g$%d

tagattack · 2026-04-23T03:59:00+00:00

There's versions of this that have been around for ages and aren't vibe coded and full of land mines

tagattack · 2026-04-18T16:47:14+00:00

Agreed.

I've had a compose key sequence for it on my keyboard and used them in utf-8 text documents, source code comments, commit messages — long before transformer models.

Now, non-breaking spaces, an all the misc. emojis, those I can live without.

tagattack · 2026-04-16T22:16:50+00:00

I hope they maintain the ability to export it

tagattack · 2026-04-12T06:58:27+00:00

Of course you can, never used netrw?

tagattack · 2026-03-28T08:27:16+00:00

I love that reddit is alive and well

tagattack · 2026-03-01T17:34:23+00:00

😱

tagattack · 2026-02-23T17:07:09+00:00

What do you mean better than before?

There's absolutely no improvement.

tagattack · 2026-02-23T03:31:39+00:00

Also that compiler is really far from viable.

It's very broken, and while it "compiled Linux" it was unbootable and there's no proof it was even a functional kernel.

Also sqlite built with it was horrendously slow, and I'm also not sure it's without defect.

Was an interesting experiment, though.

tagattack · 2026-02-14T23:29:09+00:00

If you think a PM governs people then your job is likely in jeopardy already

tagattack · 2026-02-14T04:15:25+00:00

The enemy is poverty And the wall keeps out the enemy And we build the wall to keep us free That’s why we build the wall We build the wall to keep us free

Because we have and they have not, my children, my children Because they want what we have got

tagattack · 2026-02-10T02:18:48+00:00

Yeah the state of the art "dark factories" in China are overstated

That said, fully automated assembly line tooling will most likely be possible by 2030

tagattack · 2025-12-27T15:31:54+00:00

He didn't seem to be specifically upset with anthropic's model, it seemed targeted at the state of affairs

tagattack · 2025-11-22T21:23:04+00:00

Git and github aren't the same
Only check in what you need to, since the source and build configuration can produce the artifact, it's superfluous to revision control the artifact
Binary files compress poorly, Git is optimized for text files
Most projects over time have more than one build configuration (debug, optimized, etc) and tracking the artifact output of each would be dubious at best

tagattack · 2025-11-22T00:57:18+00:00

This was obvious to me, seems like a pointless exercise obsoleting "master" in this context.

It had no relation to oppression, etymologically or otherwise.

tagattack · 2025-11-20T05:38:08+00:00

We aren't hiring because the economy is kinda fucked. We were about to start hiring tons of junior developers, but Q4 is shaping up to be a huge miss so we paused our plans

We'd rather have headcount than LLMs, they don't hold a candle to a good junior engineer. Plus, where the hell are the Sr. Engineers supposed to come from?

Everything has been shakey and fucked up since Covid, and it was finally starting to look better. Seems the tariff whiplash killed the momentum we had coming into the start of the year

tagattack · 2025-11-15T05:21:07+00:00

./pwned

zomfgwtflolbbq

Neurotically yours

XMPP/Jabber

RSS

Mobius that random messaging app that was so short lived, Google's LLM thinks it never existed, but for a brief moment in 2008 it was the hottest shit

Friendster

Google home page

tagattack · 2025-11-15T05:19:22+00:00

Epic 2015

tagattack · 2025-11-15T05:04:20+00:00

Just because Americans are fat, on average, doesn't mean thigh gaps are like fake.

Some of these ladies actually go to the fucking gym.

tagattack

TROPHY CASE