I say mantra because there is a large amount of people just hating AI outright, without a grounded reasoning.

Granted, coding agents are insecure by default - they are built to execute remote code - but that does not mean they are generally useless/harmful/bad. I run them in a container, with access to the codebase only.

Also, they hallucinate, produce over-convoluted abstractions, do not know when to reject instead of blindly trying to find a way trough a brick wall.

But also, they can answer questions about gigantic codebases way faster than I could. They can generate tests, find missing test coverage, review code, and many other things.

We could really use a covid-style lockdown for a few years.

Well, these are some kind of lightweight container, no? But without isolating network, or /etc, /proc, /usr, /var or dbus.

I do agree that linux needs a notion of an "app" (isolated, with access only to its config and files you give it, and a small, well-designed set of APIs for interacting with the system). For coding agents, I think a better answer are development containers, because that would be needed to prevent npm/cargo/python build scripts from causing harm anyway.

It's probably something like "I've disabled agent's removeFile tool, but LLM figured out that it can use the bash tool, still".

It looks like "AI bad" or "Claude insecure" mantra.

Well, yes, but also - you don't have to pay them. There are open-weights models you can run locally that contain most of that common-wealth knowledge.

What i don't understand is how fuel efficiency does not seem to be a concern of an average buyer? It is a large factor for me, and I'm proud to have highly efficient car for its class. Are those large trucks somehow more efficient than older, smaller models? Or are average buyers just not concerned with efficiency?

Well not everyone has seen the light of factorio, so i might be over-fixating on efficiency.

Oh it would not be Polexit. There are way better names available than that. Polout, for example.

Fun fact: in rust and python, they use "selfself" instead of "meme"

Please, dont joke with things like this. Someone might take you seriously...

Have you erased the continuation of the message that is saying something about "similar names, but are actually two distinct types"?

It is a common error if you have two dependecies that export the same third dependency and your code makes an assumption that the versions of the third dep match.

All other languages either straight-up don't support multiple versions of the same dep, or throw random errors at runtime. So this message is a consequence of rust supporting things that other langs only dream of.

Linux really is the reason I dont' play anymore. Thank you linux.

If you feel any better: i think that modern requirements for games are bizarrely too high for relatively small gains over what we had 10 years ago.

Maybe checkout Pixelfed, which is (from what I gather) similar to what instagram was 10 years ago

This logic is not sound. Why couldn't be the case that only one religion is right?

Three people looking at a triangle might have different opinions about what shape it is. It is inconceivable that they are all right, but that does not imply that they are all wrong.

Power corrupts. No single country should be a global superpower

This is the way.

Almost completely pure way of storing ideas. With this I mean that you don't store unnecessary data such as "background should be white" or "left page margin is 1.3cm". It's just text. What's important is what it says + minimal markup.

Presentation is left to the reader's client. Do you want dark mode? Get a markdown editor/reader that supports it. Do you want serif font? Again, that's client's choice and not part of the document.

I wish browsers would support markdown out of the box, so you could open https://example.com/some-post.md

There are only two hard problems in computer science:

• naming things,
• cache invalidation,
• off-by-one errors.

I'm afraid you've fell victim to the problem 2.

Well, no. They are not certainly using int, they might be using a more efficient data type.

This might be for legacy reasons or it might be intentional because it might actually matter a lot. If I make up an example, chat_participant_id is definitely stored with each message and probably also in some index, so you can search the messages. Multiply this over all chats on WhatsApp, even the ones with only two people in, and the difference between u8 and u16 might matter a lot.

But I understand how a TypeScript or Java dev could think that the difference between 1 and 4 bytes is negligible.

What's DRM in this context? Surely linux kernel doesn't do digital rights management?

Bees, wasps, ok, got it.

But mosquitoes? I'be yet to find a biologist that would advocate for preservation of mosquitos. Kill them with fire.