I'd prefer we instead all use Non-violent Communication. No need for permission. The world would be more beautiful place if we all had giraffe ears.
Readit Newsbarelysapient commented on I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me lr0.org/blog/p/crocker/... · Posted by u/ghd_
The big players are just awful at marketing; too many SKUs and models - it takes a paragraph to figure out how 2 Dell laptops from the same release year differ.
Just hired a new colleague who prefers Windows. Dell seemed like a reasonable option for a good laptop. Here is Dell's current lineup:
- Dell Laptop (with 14, 15, 16 inch variants)
- Dell Plus (with 14, 15, and 16 inch variants)
- Dell XPS (with 13, 14, and 16 inch variants)
- Dell Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)
- Dell Pro Essential (with 14 and 15 inch variants)
- Dell Pro (with 14 and 16 inch variants)
- Dell Pro Plus (with 14 and 16 inch variants)
- Dell Pro Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)
- Dell Pro Max (with 14 and 16 inch variants)
- Dell Pro Max Plus (with 14, 16, and 18 inch variants)
- Dell Pro Max Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)
It's maddening trying to sift through the differences at this level. Then when you select a model, there can upwards of 8 different pre-built options to review.
I had the same experience looking at thinkpads a few years ago. I finally just gave up and bought a macbook.
barelysapient commented on Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02... · Posted by u/mikece
Wow. We need this so bad.
> I was fired for following HR’s own verbal instructions.
This is why, even when there are verbal instructions, politely request that they give you something in writing; you know, for your reference, just in case you forget ;-)
Or send your own email recapping the conversation.
Love SQLC, this looks good too. Syntax is almost identical.
Cantor Fitzgerald, formerly led by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and is now run by his son, went to various companies that were affected by tariffs and bought the rights to their potential tariff refunds for 20% of the value on the expectation that it'd be struck down by the courts.
Now they stand to make huge returns of 3 to 5x for being correct on that bet, while, of course, consumers get nothing. Now if this isn't insider trading (by the literal Commerce Secretary), I don't know what is.
This assumes companies would have refunded consumers.
Obviously if a company did this, refunding consumers was the last thing on their mind.
barelysapient commented on I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen... · Posted by u/devinitely
The more things change the more they stay the same.
barelysapient commented on A case for Go as the best language for AI agents getbruin.com/blog/go-is-t... · Posted by u/karakanb
Completely agree with this take.
I've started what I'm calling an agent first framework written in Go.
Its just too easy to get great outputs with Go and Codex.
https://github.com/swetjen/virtuous
The key is blending human observability with agent ergonomics.
Go got a ton right. Especially for being almost 20 years old. But errors is one thing that needs a v2. I love Zig's enumerable errors and deferErr function.
barelysapient commented on Go-Native Durable Execution dbos.dev/blog/how-we-buil... · Posted by u/hmaxdml
After spending way too much time debugging runtime problems with python based workflow tools, I’ve been implementing something very similar: DagGo.
DagGo is a type based workflow tool with observably written in Go. Jobs are compile time safe. I’m planning to bring it to feature parity with tools like Dagster over the next few months.