Thomas Hunter II

@tlhunter
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I came here to kick ass, build web applications, and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum. Author of Distributed Systems with Node.js and Multithreaded JavaScript.
GitHubhttps://github.com/tlhunter
Bloghttps://thomashunter.name
Show threadThomas Hunter II7h ago
@raymaccarthy @robpike is there a comparable all-in-one PC?
Show threadThomas Hunter II8h ago
@robpike on the bright side, the secondary market for high quality x86 laptops is about to drop in price
Show threadThomas Hunter IIMay 29
@george that does sound like naughtiness
Show threadThomas Hunter IIMay 29
@george sadly that's sometimes the cheapest way for the author to procure a copy...
Show threadThomas Hunter IIMay 28
@bart one could always sprinkle a little chaos into their queries for artisanal results:
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE field < RAND()
Thomas Hunter IIMay 28
An LLM is basically a big database that's slow and expensive to query. The code it produces is just a query result. If you publish a library made up of LLM-produced code then that library is just a cache.
Thomas Hunter IIMay 27
zipMay 27
Sauron's rings of power are changing the face of governance. A ring of power is capable of doing work that used to take hours and dozens of labourers. Don't get left behind. A ring of power isn't just a time saver — it's revolution in how we do things. And that's precious.
Thomas Hunter IIMay 25
https://thomashunter.name/photos/2026-05-24-sf-carnaval-2026
2026 San Francisco Carnaval Parade

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Hanno ZullaMay 23
A cartoon by Kevin Maher and Joe Dator for New Yorker Magazine.
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Paul CantrellMay 20

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072

Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because

and •only because•

they send people to our sites. •Our• sites, our words, with our design, with our links, with our context and our aesthetics, shared the way we want to share them.

Google is announcing — unambiguously and with great fanfare — that they are now fully breaking that already-ragged contract. We should reciprocate.

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