ruther4d

25 karma · joined October 31, 2017

ruther4d··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

Sure jan, the country with an all time low in trust for institutions and academia ruled by an strongman-loving, education-bashing fascist is secretly funding meritocracies around the world…

ruther4d··on Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude

> Six Generate scientists used Claude Code to propose new designs for this part

“Generate scientist” … is that a real job like “prompt engineer”

ruther4d··on Twelve years of distributed SQLite

Not anymore, see celld https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50020200

ruther4d··on Twelve years of distributed SQLite

D1 also gives read replication and point in time recovery, but my biggest issue with it is you can’t create D1 dbs dynamically like you can with durable objects so things like tenancy are harder

ruther4d··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

They say the point in the article - WASM

ruther4d··on 'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

With a name like J.J. Harder he was destined to schlinger der viener

ruther4d··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

The problem is skilled artisans like musicians and programmers used to be _neccessary_ for the work to be done, now technology means in many cases the practical approach will use machines instead of humans for the majority of cases. handcrafted is better but a luxury. The enjoyment of being needed is what’s lost.