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by brabel 1mo ago
This project was only possible due to AI helping the author with the toil, as mentioned in the docs.
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by brabel 1mo ago
Isn’t this similar to what Redbean does (which inspired this queriable executable idea), except that in Redbean the application is web server based?
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by brabel 1mo ago
The whole embedding thing which converts “tokens” to vectors, which you then store in a vector database so that you can later query by vector distance, seems to be LLM specific technology, no? As far as I know the vectors look a lot like th
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by brabel 1mo ago
At 30 you have nothing to lose or even if you do you have decades ahead to turn things around. Despite what I said I wish you and other young people luck, enjoy your life doing what you love before you get old and grumpy.
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by brabel 1mo ago
The programming Reddit forbade AI posts. Unfortunately the result is NOT better level posts, but a wasteland instead.
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by brabel 1mo ago
The local ai is used by Apple services, mostly. Though there is a Swift SDK to access it, apparently.
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by brabel 1mo ago
The post mentioned so many things and went into lots of interesting discussions about the new stuff . I find it amusing you think it’s ok to criticize the author for not trying things out and not mentioning your favorite topics. Here’s an i
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by brabel 1mo ago
I thought the same, but later on in the article they go into more details and explain that lisp files under that directory will be auto loaded and commands they add should just work! Really good stuff.
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by brabel 1mo ago
> And quite a few find success. I guess the question is what percentage do. And what percentage tries and go completely broke before going back to a 9 to 5 job.
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by brabel 1mo ago
Read the code in the post. Everything is written in unsafe Rust. The assembly itself knows no memory safety at all and is completely up to the programmer skill whether it can be trusted to not mess up.
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by brabel 2mo ago
I can answer that for Common Lisp, specifically the SBCL implementation (there's several others). It compiles every function to native code (you can even inspect the assembly with `disassemble`). Macros are executed before code is comp
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by brabel 2mo ago
In IntelliJ you can look at local history of a file and see that the ide remembers your changes for a long time. It seems to take a snapshot on actions like test runs, build complete, or maybe every few minutes. This is on top of auto savin
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by brabel 2mo ago
It blows my mind how fast models are getting better and this is the first article I’ve seen that shows just that and leaves almost no room for disagreement. Well done.
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by brabel 2mo ago
I’ve known them for months, the product was available for at least that much time. I guess this is just a funding announcement, not a launch from nothing.
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by brabel 2mo ago
You believe they are wrong so strongly you are willing to be out of a job rather than let them play the game which just happens to make your job easier and see what happens? I don’t understand that attitude. Couldn’t you just do as you were
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by brabel 2mo ago
For comparison, I publish a CLI tool written in Dart, can compile to native anything including Wasm , the Linux binary is around 5MB and it does quite a lot.
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by brabel 2mo ago
The latter sounds about as attractive to me as the former, actually more because my customers are mostly hoping for their bugs to be fixed , not for the latest novel feature.
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by brabel 2mo ago
This is a terrible topic, but if you can’t understand where the Nazi reference comes from with regards to the Ukrainian conflict, you need to read some history books. Start with Stepan Bandera who is still considered an idol by many in the
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by brabel 2mo ago
Hi I am a human for sure and I can say we humans like to point out USA hypocrisy every time others are accused of doing things the US has done countless times while pretending to be on a moral high ground. Please don’t be offended by that.
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by brabel 2mo ago
You just gave me an idea to fix lots of little annoyances in my old Linux laptop that had been retired because of those! Maybe the old little laptop can still give me a few more years of fun.
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by brabel 2mo ago
Tiny batteries that can power laptops, drones, cars etc for hours.
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by brabel 2mo ago
Last time I saw it was a guy bringing a VR headset to the office. Some 8 years ago.
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by brabel 2mo ago
> As a teenager it seemed like family and loved ones were just there and part of the normal background. So true. I even thought family was annoying. Now that most are gone ( some dead, some barely keeping in touch ) I understand, too lat
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by brabel 2mo ago
Yes that is the way to do it, in Spock that’s what @Stepwise does.
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by brabel 2mo ago
> The serfs don't get any real say in this model I am a programmer but also in management, and if I knew my team thought like that I would be horrified. We absolutely care about what the team members want , like, hate etc. I for onc
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by brabel 2mo ago
> Making software debuggable, maintainable, layered, and composable – that’s still quite a trick. Quite a lot of that work requires extensive, thoughtful reasoning. And that’s where the LLM’s today, even the leading edge of the “capabili
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by brabel 2mo ago
Walter Bright is against adding macros to D but D already has really advanced metaprogramming in other shapes: https://dlang.org/spec/template-mixin.html https://dlang.org/spec/traits.html
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by brabel 2mo ago
Yes, the D language has that as a feature in function arguments! https://dlang.org/articles/lazy-evaluation.html It makes it hard to know when things run. In Lisp you also have that problem everywhere, of course. As th
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by brabel 2mo ago
Wow thanks for letting me know. Sorry for misreporting, it is true in Java but I didn’t double check for Dart, my bad.
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by brabel 2mo ago
> OSGi Yep sounds just like the Eclipse IDE plugin system indeed. Nice example of things being rediscovered every generation I suppose.

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