Alex Danilo

@geoffswan @GnosisWolf You just stick it under the joists to push them up into the saddles

@alexanderdanilo @GnosisWolf Is the anti-gravity machine itself affected by gravity it goes it just float away?

Any construction advice for neighbor?

@geoffswan @GnosisWolf Or get an anti-gravity machine

@GnosisWolf Watch a different YouTube tutorial…

@stevesi Great piece - reminds me why I think Gil Amelio acquiring the bones of OS X was greatly underrated. Mac would be a toy without that move

Unpopular opinion: over 3 decades ago - 1997 Deep Blue beats Kasparov in chess, yet state of the art LLMs can't beat an Atari 2600 chess program. AI does not have consciousness, let alone general abilities, but it does have good marketing. Keep innovating coders

@nicbarkeragain empty struct is de-struct

so that's what they meant by C++

@dalmaer Just a small hallucination of the track energy

“Hey Claude, can you Mae the tires not lock like that?”

@filpizlo @JamesWard Without the exceptions

@JamesWard Yeah then you gotta have C++

Programming language doesn’t matter until you need to: - have actual parallelism - scale horizontally - scale vertically - compile 1m LoC - incrementally compile 1m LOC - refactor without breaking anything - review a large diff - validate a change - detect and remove dead code - maintain backwards compatibility - get a large team working efficiently - onboard new hires - validate the security of a system - invent custom abstractions to reduce duplication - work around abstractions someone else invented - troubleshoot production issues at 2am - be operationally efficient - deploy on Friday - deploy 100 times a day - handle time & timezones correctly - handle currency correctly - eliminate null pointer exceptions - depend on libraries that are maintained & secure ​​- produce something of more value than a tweet

@pmarca Plan 9

Dozen most important post-punch-card software? AT&T/BSD/Linux Unix kernel GNU suite/GCC VisiCalc WordPerfect MacOS/iOS GL/Doom/Quake JavaScript PageRank/Backrub/Google GPT 1/2/3/4/5 GPT O1/Deepseek R1 OpenClaw/Pi Anything missing?

@ns123abc BCD, that's it for the modernisation

🚨 BREAKING: IBM stock down 13% after Anthropic announced that Claude can streamline COBOL code IBM’s entire business model: >maintaining legacy COBOL nobody understands >claude: “I can read it” >IBM stock immediately drops -13% >$40B market cap EVAPORATED Dario strikes again 💀

@MIT_CSAIL WebAssembly isn't a programming language folks

When programming languages were released: 1957: Fortran 1958: Lisp 1959: COBOL 1964: BASIC 1970: Pascal 1972: C 1978: SQL 1985: C++ 1991: Python 1993: R 1995: PHP, Java, & JavaScript 2001: C# 2009: Go 2012: Julia 2014: Swift 2015: Rust 2016: Kotlin 2017: WebAssembly 2023: Mojo

@geoffswan Can't be perfect then I guess...

@alexanderdanilo Norway is also almost 100% EV now.

It's amazing being an Aussie, a country rich in natural resources yet doing so poorly. Norway invests its riches into funds for the people, yet here we get more tax money from people drinking beer than from the massive gas exports we have. Astounding! news.com.au/finance/econom…

Just spent over 2 hours trying to get Gemini 3 Pro to debug a gradient rendering test case, it failed. I guess it just doesn't have enough fixed point graphics rendering code in its training set. One day...

@Love2Code @jfbastien @chris_j_paxton

@jfbastien @chris_j_paxton ... And look cool doing it

Buy a robot that will fold your laundry for $10k

@unconed @msimoni Browsers sniff, you can never trust the Content-Type

Yet mime types are still playing second fiddle to file extensions. macOS has had the ability to associate files with types regardless of extension, but they never managed to make that the default. Mime is also wildly inconsistent: mp4 is video/mp4 (not mpeg4), but jpg is image/jpeg. Mkv is video/x-matroska, excel is application/vnd.ms-excel. What they should've done is adopt the canonical file extension as the second part. e.g. video/mkv, image/jpg, application/xls, ... That way software can map automatically between file extension and mime with some degree of confidence. And in practice users only are able to practically use one extension for one purpose anyway.

One of the biggest improvements of the WWW over filesystems is the Content-Type header.

@chatgpt21 2 weeks, 16 agents? JavaScript was written in 10 days by one person.

Anthropic had 16 AI agents build a C compiler from scratch. 100k lines, compiles the Linux kernel, $20k, 2 weeks. To put that in perspective GCC took thousands of engineers over 37 years to build. (Granted from 1987 - however) One researcher and 16 AI agents just built a compiler that passes 99% of GCC's own torture test suite, compiles FFmpeg, Redis, PostgreSQL, QEMU and runs Doom. They say they "(mostly) walked away." But that "mostly" is doing heavy lifting. No human wrote code but the researcher constantly redesigned tests, built CI pipelines when agents broke each other's work, and created workarounds when all 16 agents got stuck on the same bug. The human role didn't disappear. It shifted from writing code to engineering the environment that lets AI write code. I don’t know how you could make the point AI is hitting a wall.

@mrdoob Click bait

Eventually, everything will be JavaScript.

@Love2Code @CryptoCyberia Well OS X was way later, I can't say MacOS was any more stable at the time, truly. As for Linux, it's day in the sun as a great user experience is coming any day now

@CryptoCyberia Microsoft happened to Microsoft. Windows 9x looked better but it was an unstable pile of shit.

Look how quickly Word loads in Windows 98. Electron app H1B vibe coded React slop Windows was an absolute travesty. This thing has fucking a 400mhz Pentium II processor for Christ's sake. What the fuck happened to Microsoft?

@jfbastien Yes, Andreas Intelligence, cc: @awesomekling

I saw this prediction that AI will enable someone to write a browser from scratch. Got me thinking: I bet we’ll see custom compilers for odd architectures and languages, from scratch, thanks to AI. 🤖

@BrendanEich @daniel_carvalho @webbieguy @rebron Which compiler are you using? dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35… 😅

@daniel_carvalho @webbieguy @rebron Brave would not wave the white flag over this or any _a priori_ hypothetical thrown at us. If a "Google ID tracking embedded through obfuscated code threaded throughout Chromium" change hit the whole codebase, we'd have to hard-fork, but so would many others. New "Crom" project.

@BrendanEich please can we be able to just set a local html file as the new tab page, kinda hard to believe this option isn’t available.