tim

I'm a simple man. I see AI, I unfollow.

Honnold does it again

I see this argument floated around way too much

"this code sucks but it makes money"

as if that justifies shit, untested code

can you prove your code makes the money? will it make the money when it crashes the server and effs up the payment calc?

looks interesting! maybe only my machine, but screenshot link in GH repo README appears to be broken link?

some people like to talk shit more than writing actual code....

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

wth did I just read

the funniest part of modern HN comments is reading all the AI apologists

> article shows failure of LLMs
> yeah but that's because it's not mature yet, just you wait

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

brb gonna quit my job and study Old English instead

500K words, 8 days, and way more emotions

Tom's Crossing.

Great yarn.

web dev is where programmers go to die

the amount of inane discussion over color and text...

goddamn *amazing

fucking yoshi

what a goddamn pitcher.

way to shatter our dreams

agree, Sub should have been Diff or something. But backwards compat....

Add makes sense though to handle both forward and back

maybe I'm misunderstanding your use case

that's the whole point of the getter, to return something with your intended scope

I agree, some work is required, at the expense of a simpler compiler and probably faster build time (generalizing)

add getters for the private fields?

immutability would reduce boilerplate, but adds complexity to the compiler and runtime.

what's wrong with encapsulating in package and making all fields unexported?

been firing up python again and started using docs.astral.sh/ty/

the #astral.sh team does it again

func name should be UUID, aughhhh

compared to what language?

I made a thing

pkg.go.dev/github.com/t...

Terence
Crawford

Wow.

github.com/ttzhou/setroot

11 years later... man, still can't believe people are using this

my God gradle is so f***ing annoying to work with in a big java codebase

how the hell do people get anything done without a dedicated build team or living in their own service

you only live long enough to realize tech orgs are mostly filled with middle managers and overly complex architectures that last 3 months before the effort is scrapped for another shiny new feature

I'm deep in the rabbit hole now - starting to suspect the JSON Unicode CLDR version is using fallbacks slightly wrong for standard currency formats

just realized I was wearing my white t shirt inside out the whole day

my kid has been up sick all night for three days, for context

AMA

Just spent 30 minutes debugging why my Golang script to print localized numbers in arabic right to left, even though I clearly construct it correctly as left to right.

turns out kitty terminal seems to reverse it automatically at render. if I use ghostty, things print as expected.

unreal. wow.

Spent way too much time trying to figure out the golang x Unicode CLDR library

ended up just writing type assertions and a shit ton of JSON unmarshaling into map[string]any with the JSON version of CLDR

it's wild how arcane this cornerstone of the internet is

kinda wish golang x currency package was more fleshed out

I like the number package, but currency feels unfinished, eg lacking symbol positioning customization, etc.