justarandomname (u/justarandomname)

justarandomname commented on Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release reuters.com/business/vide... · Posted by u/speckx

swarnie · 10 days ago

Vocal gamers care, majority market gamers dont.

They will continue to buy three reskinned Ubisoft sandboxes a year and two seasonal sports releases.

The industry is already forfeit.

justarandomname · 10 days ago

Also children probably don't care.

justarandomname commented on Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in mcsweeneys.net/articles/p... · Posted by u/randycupertino

quantum_state · 12 days ago

Viewed from historical perspective, big tech is really reaping the benefits of the intellectual wealth accumulated over many thousands of years by humanity collectively. This should be recognized to find a better path forward.

justarandomname · 12 days ago

yeah, but zero chance of that happening unfortunately.

justarandomname commented on Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be avraam.dev/blog/system-la... · Posted by u/almonerthis

PaulHoule · 13 days ago

I think he smokes more weed than I ever did.

justarandomname · 12 days ago

Now that I've read that link (well... a bit, I just couldn't at a certain point) I totally understand this comment.

justarandomname commented on Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be avraam.dev/blog/system-la... · Posted by u/almonerthis

PaulHoule · 14 days ago

I can believe LLM generated after being cut up into small slices that are carefully reviewed.

But to have 20 copies of Claude Code running simultaneously and the code works so well you don't need testers == high on your own supply.

justarandomname · 14 days ago

Sadly, I'm seeing a LOT of this kinda of usage. So much so, I know a couple people that brag about how many they have running at time same time, pretty much all the time.

justarandomname commented on Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be avraam.dev/blog/system-la... · Posted by u/almonerthis

PeterWhittaker · 14 days ago

While I still struggle to think in Rust after years of thinking in C, it is NEVER the borrow checker or lifetimes that trip me, it's the level of abstraction, in that C forced me low level, building my own abstractions, while Rust allows me to think in abstractions first and muse over how to implement those idiomatically.

What did it for me was thinking through how mutable==exclusive, non-mutable==shared, and getting my head around Send and Sync (not quite there yet).

AI helps me with boiler plate, but not with understanding, and if I don't understand I cannot validate what AI produces.

Rust is worth the effort.

justarandomname · 14 days ago

THIS, I can barely remember a time with lifetimes or the borrow checker caused me undue suffering but can recall countless times that abstractions (often in the async world) did and sometimes still do.

justarandomname commented on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

justarandomname · a month ago

Hell yes, I love this and bandcamp so much more for this stance!

So many creator platforms are becoming slop factories.

justarandomname commented on Changes to Android Open Source Project source.android.com/... · Posted by u/TechTechTech

shevy-java · a month ago

We simply can not trust Google. It kind of became the Microsoft of the 1990s now.

justarandomname · a month ago

Insert: "You were supposed to defeat the Sith, not join them!" meme here...

justarandomname commented on NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens socket.dev/blog/npm-to-im... · Posted by u/feross

fergie · a month ago

In all of this, people forget that NPM packages are largely maintained by volunteers. If you are going to put up hurdles and give us extra jobs, you need to start paying us. Open source licenses explicitly state some variation of "use at your own risk". A big motivation for most maintainers is that we can create without being told what to do.

I had 25 million downloads on NPM last year. Not a huge amount compared to the big libs, but OTOH, people actually use my stuff. For this I have received exactly $0 (if they were Spotify or YouTube streams I would realistically be looking at ~$100,000).

I propose that we have two NPMs. A non-commercial NPM that is 100% use at your own risk, and a commerical NPM that has various guarantees that authors and maintainers are paid to uphold.

justarandomname · a month ago

I agree with you here, it feels like management said: "well, we have to do SOMETHING!" and this is what they chose: push more of the burden on to the developers giving away stuff for free when the burden should be on the developers and companies consuming the stuff for free.

justarandomname commented on Ask HN: If you use Obsidian with Claude Code, why and what is your workflow? · Posted by u/kepano

justarandomname · a month ago

I used Codex and Claude with Obsidian recently for two tasks:

1. To migrate my hand-rolled HTML site over so I could publish it with Quartz.

2. To research a large multi-hundred git repo code base and build up personal. internal documentation I can search and reference.

justarandomname commented on Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star phys.org/news/2025-12-ein... · Posted by u/wglb

ralfhn · a month ago

For a second I was really confused about what Epstein had to do with x-rays

justarandomname · a month ago

SAME, I thought there was a bit flip in the files or something.