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by j-pb 4mo ago
These robots operate on completely different principles. One can lift insane weights, has insane torque, and absurd precision, and can do the same movement millions of times with virtually no deviation. You program these with an exact movem
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by j-pb 5mo ago
I know these strengths, I've written Zig fulltime for ~1 year before switching to Rust, and I do miss comptime pretty much every day. Still in my experience the strengths do not outweigh the weaknesses. I'd also push back on the n
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by j-pb 5mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the three largest Zig project (by far, with a huge gap between them and the rest of the pack) are Bun, Ghostty, and TigerBeetle. A language so niche that it only has 3 major projects is a liability. Now it
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by j-pb 5mo ago
Read through the stuff yourself if you don't believe me: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20label%3...
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by j-pb 5mo ago
I'm not expecting the whole language to be stable, but I expect certain parts of it to be more stable than others. E.g. control flow vs. async. I'm not saying that they can't work that way, more power to them. But then having
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by j-pb 5mo ago
> not from the language they use for the implementation. Everybody has a plan until their compiler compiles an if-else wrong, and that's the level of instability that Zig had when I left it and Tigerbeetle committed to it. No amount
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by j-pb 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure they'll miss the full developer salary that Oven used to sponsor them, which they no longer do. I'd wager one doesn't do a rewrite like that, if you are in great personal standing with the language founda
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by j-pb 5mo ago
On one hand I kinda feel validated for having jumped ship on Zig 3+ Years ago[1] and moving everything to Rust[2], with the language simply being too unstable and unsafe in my eyes, despite my love for comptime and people arguing that Bun a
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by j-pb 5mo ago
On one hand I kinda feel validated for having jumped ship on Zig 3+ Years ago[1] and moving everything to Rust[2], with the language simply being too unstable and unsafe in my eyes, despite my love for comptime and people arguing that Bun a
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by j-pb 5mo ago
Very cool approach! We build something super similar, also going for content addressed storage and compare&swap as fundamental primitives. Also commit dag based, but we also wrote this whole knowledge graph / triple-store CRDT data
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by j-pb 6mo ago
Fair, it actually started out in JS, moved to Deno, then Zig and ended in Rust. If I ever find the time I'd like to back port what I have now, up the chain. It is supposed to be a RDF replacement so it will eventually have to happen, b
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by j-pb 6mo ago
Spot on! In one word. Simplicity! TerminusDB is a RDF database with build-in prolog, a heavy focus on succinct data structure indexes, and has a client server model. Triblespace is purposefully not RDF, because RDF has horrible DX, and it d
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by j-pb 6mo ago
Working on exactly that! We're local first, but do distributed sync with iroh. Written in rust and fully open source. Imho having a graph database that is really easy to use and write new cli applications on top of works much better. Y
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by j-pb 6mo ago
My dishes have never been cleaner and my laundry has never been more folded than since the advent of agentic AI.
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by j-pb 6mo ago
I build a bunch of tools[1] that give the agents means to communicate and coordinate between each other, with me mostly just deciding what goes into the backlog, and checking their summaries whenever they finish a task. https://g
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by j-pb 6mo ago
It's surprising to me how well these go together, the transient concept in clojure is essentially a &mut, couple that with a reference counter check and you get fast transient mutations with cheap persistent clone. All of rusts per
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by j-pb 6mo ago
The /clear nudge isn't a solution though. Compacting or clearing just means rebuilding context until Claude is actually productive again. The cost comes either way. I get that 1M context windows cost more than the flat per-token p
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by j-pb 6mo ago
In my experience a wiki can actually drastically reduce the amount of dead context. I've handed my local agents a bunch of integrated command line tools (kinda like an office suite for LLMs), including a wiki ( https://github
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by j-pb 6mo ago
As a German who is very happy with their Gambian apprentice, may I kindly ask you to go fuck yourself.
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by j-pb 7mo ago
that's what I thought.
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by j-pb 7mo ago
I got 4 more github stars and someone dropping into the tiny tiny discord just from mentioning it, why do you think that is? When was the last time you created something and put it out to the world? Your only big post on here is a lament of
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by j-pb 7mo ago
Hasn't HN been traditionally a place where makers share the experience they had with building things? Especially when you have someone working on autonomous research agents it doesn't seem that off to lament how much time you can
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by j-pb 7mo ago
Yeah you can sink a lot of time into a system like that[0]. I spend the years simplifying the custom graph database underneath it all and only recently started building it into tools that an agent can actually call[2]. But so far all the gr
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by j-pb 8mo ago
Great insights and visualisations! I build a whole database around the idea of using the smallest plausible random identifiers, because that seems to be the only "golden disk" we have for universal communication, except for maybe
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by j-pb 8mo ago
What does that have to do with the situation in the US? The situation in the middle east is completely orthogonal to that, and observing the rise of faschism there says nothing about my stance on the current german foreign policy in regards
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by j-pb 8mo ago
The number of deportations under obama was definitely higher, but he had only one concentration camp (guantanamo bay), and didn't use that for his own people. Learn about the tolerance paradoxon, there is no negotiating, nuance and rea
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by j-pb 8mo ago
Again, I have little stakes in your shitshow besides the international meddling they do with our own faschist party. This dualist thinking seems to be a particular US thing, based on your two party system. I see the erosion of the rule of l
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by j-pb 8mo ago
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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by j-pb 8mo ago
Which race?
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by j-pb 8mo ago
Which politics are you referring to? The AfD ("Alternative for Germany") who has been classified as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution? And which has heavy ti

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