I want extern “fil-C”

Rust’s C FFI gives us access to decades of useful software, but the bargain is backwards. We use Rust to prove memory safety at compile time. Then we cross anunsafeboundary and trust the C library to respect a contract that neither language can enforce. The legacy code remains the cheap path, while rewriting it is … Devamını oku

DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update

We’re launching DeepSeek-V4-Pro today! 🚀 🔷 Major Agent upgrades with strong production gains! 🔷 Flexiblereasoning effortfor V4-Pro & V4-Flash: low for simple tasks, high for daily Agent workflows, max for complex tasks. 🔷 Native OpenAI Responses API support, optimized forCodexwith one-click setup. V4 Pro is now available on app/web. Try it via “Expert Mode”. V4 … Devamını oku

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

In my opinion and that of the colleagues I’ve spoken with, working with Opus 5 feels like a downgrade compared to Opus 4.7, Opus 4.8, and Fable. I’m not claiming a step backwards in capabilities – itisa more capable model than Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.8 and even rivals Fable in benchmarks, yet these other … Devamını oku

Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun

On a pris en photo l’éclipse avec quatre smartphones différentspour savoir lequel était le meilleur. Dans le lot se trouvait leXiaomi 17 Ultraet il s’est particulièrement démarqué, mais malheureusement pas dans le bon sens du terme. En analysant nos photos de l’éclipse prises avec les différents smartphones, on a constaté que l’un des clichés du … Devamını oku

Why Books Don’t Work: Constructivism over Transmissionism (2021)

It took me over a year to finish reading this article. Why?Incremental Reading In summary: lectures don’t work because the medium lacks a functioning cognitive model. It’s (implicitly) built on a faulty idea about how people learn—transmissionism—which we can caricaturize as “lecturer says words describing an idea; students hear words; then they understand.” – Andy … Devamını oku

SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles

Volunteers point a spare phone at a street. It reads the vehicles that go past, keeps the government ones, anddestroys everything else on the device, before anything is sent anywhere. Open the live mapAdd a cameraDriving mode The photo and the plate are kept, and they become the public record. Public money, public roads, public … Devamını oku

Bluesky Protocol Services

Today we’re launchingBluesky Protocol Services: a new brand, and a new website, for the public infrastructure Bluesky operates on theAT Protocolnetwork. Bluesky has always run more than the Bluesky app. We operate Jetstream instances, relays, and the Bluesky API endpoints built on atproto. But if you were a developer trying to build on that infrastructure, … Devamını oku

NP-Overrated

If you learned about NP-hard problems in university, your takeaway was probably this: NP-hard problems are solvable in theory but it’s hopelessly expensive in practice. It’sbasicallyproven that no good algorithms exist. At least that’s what I took away. And almost everyone I’ve talked to. And many people online. I keep seeing”No you can’t do it. … Devamını oku

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

DONKEY.BASshipped with early IBM PC DOS as a demo of color graphics and sound in BASICA. It was written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Neil Konzen in 1981 (version 1.10 in 1982). You only switch lanes — avoid the donkey, or BOOM. This page recreates the original CGA gameplay in JavaScript with some liberties. … Devamını oku

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having hadKellanplaced in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great dealfromthis, but I also learned a great deal as aresultof this. I would not have been free to … Devamını oku