2025-11-04 15:56:16
This is what JD Vance wrote in his bestselling memoir:
“ I spent much of my time terrorizing the Appalachian fauna:
No turtle, snake, frog, fish, or squirrel was safe.”
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spent some time looking at rust html5ever and the vibe-translated python justhtml and its vibe-translated js, ocaml, swift descendants.
there are some weird things going on.
tokenization in the html spec is a well-defined state machine. one state is Data, which is normal chars between tags. it's a small, simple state.
the vibe-translated Data states are all different, unrelated implementations, clearly not derived from their example code. they're hallucinated from a…