Given a choice between (spaces) and (mix of tabs and spaces) -- these being the only two options IRL -- it's not hard to see why spaces won.

Every article should include a date!

ha! that's the first such take on mythos I've seen

it'll be interesting for sure. I don't mean to be discourging- but it seems like taking a swing at an Echo is a right of passage in reverse engineering circles.

Agreed -- and, compounding the challenge, the flood of _reported_ high-sev CVEs is itself a kind of DDoS attack on maintainers.

Sort of?

The definition of "bad" from a security PoV is rapidly expanding, in light of relatively new capabilities and increasingly cheap access to exploitable vulnerabilities.

I don't think the definition of "bad" is expanding. Rather the ability to detect and exploit "bad" is.

fair point. another way of putting it might be to say that, for all extant software, much more of it is "bad" than we realized even a month or two ago -- and the cost to create and maintain "good" software is increasing (even as the naive / surface-level / apparent cost is plummeting)

Same thing happened with the growth of the internet. There was a time when there was basically no consideration of buffer overflow.

That's orthogonal; Vite (and its ecosystem) _with_ pnpm is likely the best combination avlbl.

I'm not the one you replied to, but a typical config & plugins stack for (webpack + eslint + prettier) is nearly impossible to reason about. VoidZero's tools (Vite + oxcfmt + oxclint) are radically simpler and more performant.

> a typical config & plugins stack for (webpack + eslint + prettier) is nearly impossible to reason about.

I think people just don't want to bother. They don't want to read the docs, or maybe watch a video or two (back when webpack was popular, Sean Larkin, webpack evangelist, made a number of popular courses about setting it up). Also, webpack config became easier compared to 2014/2015; I think they got to practically a zero-config by default.

I can understand that people don't want to care; but "impossible to reason about" is not it. It isn't rust, for crying out loud; nor lisp; nor haskell.

Bummer. The Vite ecosystem is fantastic, and VoidZero's tools are all world-class (vite, vitest, oxcfmt, oxclint,...), but I wish they'd remain(ed) independent.

Is a used Thinkpad really a viable part of your AI workflow? (And is that really a better solution than eg smolmachines microvms?)

but this isn't "irrational exuberance", literally everyone I know paying and kind of attention has "rational dread".

In my opinion the amount of money poured into these companies is the definition of irrational exuberance. And even if you want to call it dread, once they start to deflate people will panic and flee.

Hmm. With respect, I disagree. When the term was first coined, the broader context was "Main St" (ie, retail) investors acting with apparently excessive optimism. Whereas the unfathomable sums being poured into AI by "Wall St" arguably stem from profound but simple greed, a scheme in which the uber-rich are forcing AI and the concomitant bubble risk down the throats of the general public. "Exuberance" has a significantly positive connotation, which in this case I find completely absent.