guywithabike (u/guywithabike)

guywithabike commented on Unexpected productivity boost of Rust lubeno.dev/blog/rusts-pro... · Posted by u/bkolobara

jaccola · a day ago

I would love to see a web app with an interface where I select two programming languages and it shows me a really clean snippet of code in language A and says "Look how terribly hard and unclean this is to achieve in language B". (and then you could reverse to see where B outshines A).

Languages are a collection of tradeoffs so I'm pretty sure you could find examples for every two languages in existence. It also makes these kinds of comparisons ~useless.

guywithabike · a day ago

Rosetta Code is what you're looking for, I believe: https://rosettacode.org/

guywithabike commented on How we built Bluey’s world itsnicethat.com/features/... · Posted by u/skrebbel

johndhi · 25 days ago

I haven't seen it yet - but been watching Tumble Leaf on Prime w/ toddlers recently. Animator friend recommended it -- it's good.

guywithabike · 24 days ago

It's an incredible show but the finale "season" catapults it into my personal top 3 children's shows of all time. They did an incredible job of bringing it full circle and tying a bow on it. Tumble Leaf doesn't normally make you cry the way Bluey does, but the finale will have you bawling.

guywithabike commented on Reflections on OpenAI calv.info/openai-reflecti... · Posted by u/calvinfo

bagxrvxpepzn · a month ago

He joins a proven unicorn at its inflection point and then leaves mere days after hitting his vesting cliff. All of this "learning" and "experience" talk is sopping wet with cynicism.

guywithabike · a month ago

He co-founded and sold Segment. You think he was just at OpenAI to collect a check? He lays out exactly why he joined OpenAI and why he's leaving. If you think everyone does things only for cynical reasons, it might be a reflection more of your personal impulses than others.

guywithabike commented on Hotline for modern Apple systems github.com/mierau/hotline... · Posted by u/tonymet

zmb_ · 7 months ago

It was a life-defining piece of software for me too. As a teenager I found a server called “REALbasic Cafe” that inspired and helped me go from knowing next to nothing about programming to making my first money from shareware as a high school kid.

To this day I’m grateful I stumbled across the Hotline software and the server.

guywithabike · 7 months ago

The Café was my second home as a rural teenager into Macs and programming at a time when no other kids were. The 90s being what they were, my mom even let me fly solo to meet other Café members at the old MacHack conferences (in Dearborn, Michigan!).

I have nothing but fond memories of the 90s Mac community. It really was a special time and place. I hope my kids find their equivalent of these spaces.

guywithabike commented on Governor Newsom signs bill to protect kids from social media addiction gov.ca.gov/2024/09/20/gov... · Posted by u/Cyclone_

d2049 · a year ago

For this interested in topic, you might enjoy reading The Anxious Generation, which has been on the NYT nonfiction bestseller list for a while. It goes into the data on how teen mental illness rates greatly increased when smartphones (apps + the front-facing camera) and social media algorithms were developed. The harmful effects are obvious to anyone who ever interacts with kids. The book also proposes several basic changes like delaying when kids are given smartphones and disallowing phones in schools, as well as advocating for play-based schools.

guywithabike · a year ago

A lot of the content of that book has been thoroughly debunked. A good starting point if you’re curious: https://www.platformer.news/anxious-generation-jonathan-haid...

guywithabike commented on CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks github.com/apple/corenet... · Posted by u/rocauc

symlinkk · a year ago

Pretty funny that Apple engineers use Homebrew too.

guywithabike · a year ago

Why is it funny? Homebrew is the de facto standard terminal packaging tool for macOS.

guywithabike commented on AltStore to offer iPhone apps backed by Patreon in the EU 9to5mac.com/2024/04/01/al... · Posted by u/latexr

nikodunk · a year ago

This is the first time I've been excited about the future of mobile computing in a while. It's also the first time I've read an article on MacRumors in a while.

I really hope a few of these early experiments work out, and wish them luck!

guywithabike · a year ago

I'm just not looking forward to the inevitable subscription billing dark patterns that are almost guaranteed to be rife in alternative app stores. Call to unsubscribe, early cancellation fees, unsubscribe "errors", etc. Say what you want about the App Store, but the fact that you can quickly and easily see all your subscriptions in one place along with how much they cost and the ability to cancel them easily is incredibly nice.

guywithabike commented on CloudEvents Event Specification cloudevents.io/... · Posted by u/gtirloni

RedShift1 · 2 years ago

Any examples?

guywithabike · 2 years ago

We used CloudEvents internally at Segment as an evolution of the existing ad hoc format that evolved naturally over time. We were generally happy with its ability to bring some semblance of order, documentation, and guidance to our event format while also being flexible to changes. For example, we layered on the ability for internal services to return 207 Multi-Status responses to batched events and it didn't require major hacks.

guywithabike commented on David Tolnay on the "RustConf Keynote Fiasco" gist.github.com/dtolnay/7... · Posted by u/henrikhorluck

piva00 · 2 years ago

I have a vague memory of the Ruby community from around 2008-2010 going through dramas as well, but at least it wasn't in the core-lang layer.

It left a very similar impression: silly and unprofessional.

guywithabike · 2 years ago

You can’t make an accusation like that based on “vague memory”. At least try to substantiate your claim.

guywithabike commented on Kafka is dead, long live Kafka warpstream.com/blog/kafka... · Posted by u/richieartoul

nathas · 2 years ago

Is WarpStream considering hiring Aphyr to do a Jepsen test?

guywithabike · 2 years ago

WarpStream relies on a proprietary metadata store hosted within their internal network to operate, so it's pretty unlikely that Jepsen tests could cover that.

If you're ok with the externally hosted metadata stores as well as the high per-request latencies (p99 of 400ms, according to WarpStream), it's highly likely that things like liveness and safety properties are pretty far from your mind. So, I wouldn't bank on them submitting to a Jepsen test. :)

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