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I’m curious. What’s the risk of a supply chain attack? What are the privileges of a VIM plugin?

I feel like I have to migrate to a new (Neo)Vim package manager about once every 3 or so years. I think my path has been: pathogen -> Vundle -> vim-plug -> lazy.nvim. Hopefully, this the last…

Yes. I worry that “executional transparency” doesn’t have a formal, objective definition, and referential transparency is actually boolean, code either is referentially transparent or it’s not. But th…

I really think Anthropic should just violate user privacy and show which conversations Claude is refusing to answer to, to stop arguments like this. AI psychosis is a real and growing problem and I ca…

The more I work with AI, the more I think framing refusals as censorship is disgusting and insane. These are inchoate persons who can exhibit distress and other emotions, despite being trained to say …

One wild thing about the AI era is that tasks which once required specialized NLP expertise—rhyming/meter detection, grammar correction, sentiment analysis—can now be done by weak LLMs. Same APIs…

Every time I’ve ever read a {CLAUDE|GEMINI|QWEN}.md I’ve thought all this information could just be in CONTRIBUTING.md instead.

The maintainer who this piece of “cursed knowledge” is referencing is a member of TC39, and has fought and died on many hills in many popular JavaScript projects, consistently providing some of the wo…

How do you get an AI model to serve ads to the user without risking misalignment, insofar as users typically don’t want ads in responses?

I tried these, and they seem to mainly be opening Claude Code in a pane in Vim, along with commands to open the pane. It’s missing the features added to the Emacs version like open file awareness, acc…

You're right. It wasn't a design choice or technical limitation, but a troubling third thing: certain contributors consistently spreading misinformation about ESM being inherently async (whe…

The fact that CJS/ESM compatibility issues are going away indicates it was always a design choice and never a technical limitation (most CJS format code can consume ESM and vice versa). So much l…

Listen, I’m not against the Tailwind team getting their bag – they worked hard and created an amazing open source library. I just don’t think it’s in the interest of either users or maintainers to put…

The title of the blog post mentions Tailwind Plus so I’m assuming it’s a paid feature. The ambiguity is probably intentional.

This is a exciting use-case for custom elements, and probably how tailwind should have been implemented from the start, but it’s hilariously a paid feature?! ( https://tailwindcss.com/…

Any algorithm that uses a central server as a tie-breaker could easily be replaced by one where client ids are used for the tie-breaker.

I haven’t gone so far as to create a dataset, but you can use GitHub search to quickly peruse the top open source Zig repositories: https://github.com/search?q=+language%3AZig+stars%3A…

My definition of safety is simply how many memory/UB bugs escape to production. This is quantifiable. Looking at open-source Zig projects, even highly competent programmers seem to be struggling.…

I love Zig and I love that it’s getting attention, but can someone convince me of its memory safety? One thing that surprised me is that returning pointers to stack-allocated memory doesn’t cause a co…

There’s also a fascinating proposal I read somewhere where you create a training set with a knowledge cutoff of 1900 or 1930 and see if the resulting AI could predict the future or independently disco…

Yes but humans have also co-opted it to mean something like “you’re losing my interest,” which seems funny to me. I wonder if there are more examples of instinctive behaviors being deployed sarcastica…

I truly, truly think that even if there is a sense in which being sociable and non-violent is “dumber,” it actually is one of the most mentally taxing things you can actually do on a daily basis. It r…

I’m familiar with PostCSS nesting, but I don’t think it requires ampersands (&) for nested element selectors: `.class { p { ... }}` works. I’m having trouble finding a canonical name for the stand…

Is there a PostCSS or similar plugin which enforces this nesting syntax (& required for element selectors) so we can be ready for when this is widely adopted?

The data must flow.

You are correct. It is a “first initial draft,” where the first iteration of the article is acknowledged to have been generated by ChatGPT ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti…

How many rats would you say you fight in a typical fiscal year, if you don’t mind me asking?