lukaslalinsky

5 ms·

1.
by lukaslalinsky 5d ago
It takes 10+ years for any storage engine to iron out all the wrinkles, get it to a state where it's both fast enough, and you can trust it to not lose data. It's stupid to throw it away once it reaches that point.
2.
by lukaslalinsky 6d ago
I've been using ZFS on my Linux servers for years and have pretty good experience with it. I've not been following Linux development too much. Is bcachefs usable/stable/reliable enough to replace it?
3.
by lukaslalinsky 6d ago
The main advantage of Zig for me and many other programmers, is the simple mental model you need to keep while reading the code. All control flow is expressed by keywords, never symbols. That along makes code much more readable. There is no
4.
by lukaslalinsky 26d ago
The concept of winter pretty much stopped existing where I live. It's just colder autumn. The ground doesn't freeze. Snow doesn't accumulate. No amount of meandering is going to compensate for the fact that the mountains do n
5.
by lukaslalinsky 27d ago
I had a similar observation this year. In 2015, I was in California, was doing some hiking on the weekends, and I found it very unnatural how all the grasses were dry, trails dusty, on the hills/mountains. I came back to Slovakia, and
6.
by lukaslalinsky 27d ago
People are not scared of individual droughts. They are scared of the patterns. Here in Slovakia, the last real winter with proper snow depths we had was in 2018, if I remember correctly. There is pretty much no snow anymore. All the water c
7.
by lukaslalinsky 1mo ago
Programming asynchronous code is hard. Execution is split up, you have extra state machine to handle, extra resources to manage that need to survive across async boundaries. And by asynchronous, I mean either callbacks or manually checked c
8.
by lukaslalinsky 1mo ago
If you are comparing to overlapped I/O, you should use io_uring as reference and cancellation in io_uring is fairly simple.
9.
by lukaslalinsky 1mo ago
One problem is that a large part of Europe doesn't understand the concept of public domain. I'm not legally allowed to not own my creation, except by transferring it to someone else. That's why licences like CC0 exist.
10.
by lukaslalinsky 2mo ago
I run this on a side of the Claude Pro subscription that I use for other purposes. My main motivation was root cause analysis of production issues. I have a solo project and unfortunately my mental state has been degrading over the last yea
11.
by lukaslalinsky 2mo ago
This is is already possible with Claude Code. I use a setup where I have one instance monitoring a local queue, I have a web app for receiving webhooks from various sources and pushing them to the queue. Plus email for things that don'
12.
by lukaslalinsky 2mo ago
Of course they do. They have such a huge parameter maps. You need to be able to guide it through the map, so it starts making the right connections. Even in the Sonnet 3.7 days, it became clear to me, that if I have want efficient code out
13.
by lukaslalinsky 3mo ago
That was their headline for Opus 4.8, I guess the invested into some post-training to get them to write this, and I like it, it's a great way to identify AI posts from Claude. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-
14.
by lukaslalinsky 3mo ago
God I hate reading these LLM-written articles. It also feels like it was one-shotted by Claude, not just the kernel.
15.
by lukaslalinsky 3mo ago
If I had coworkers with the ability to program like Sonnet 3.7 did, I'd be extremely happy. In reality, I can probably count 1-3 people like that, out of many over the years. Honestly, pair programming with Opus is better than any pair
16.
by lukaslalinsky 3mo ago
As much as I hate to say this, I think it is an user error. Fable is very to the point, much more so than any other Anthropic model. I found it to be cheaper to use Fable, than using Opus for same task, but in order to achieve that, it need
17.
by lukaslalinsky 3mo ago
My hope is that Opus 5 will be released soon, basically a rebranded Fable.
18.
by lukaslalinsky 3mo ago
I'll have to try it. I was using earlier GLM models, incluing 5.1, and was always disappointed.
19.
by lukaslalinsky 3mo ago
I considered Opus 4.5 to be the peak for a while. Opus 4.6 tended to over think, and generally get lost in thinking. I asked something and Claude Code would just spin for 15 minutes. And it was not the harness, if I changed the model to 4.5
20.
by lukaslalinsky 3mo ago
Zig has multiple issues, but syntax is definitely not it. It might take a little bit of time getting used to, if you are coming from another language, but it's one of the most readable languages I've ever worked with.
21.
by lukaslalinsky 3mo ago
I was never able to get these models to collaborate with me the way Opus does. I'm probably an outliner, I don't one-shot projects, I don't vibe code. I basically use LLMs are if I was working with a coworker, fairly smart on
22.
by lukaslalinsky 4mo ago
I don't have an example, but I know the pattern. You are working on your software, security researcher finds a bug, it's in your project, for you it's just another bug, but for them it's a point on their CV, so they make
23.
by lukaslalinsky 4mo ago
I feel that Zig will stay a niche language. In this world, there is no reason for corporations to use anything but Rust for this kind of code. And without the corporate push, it will probably still exist for a long time, but the D trajector
24.
by lukaslalinsky 4mo ago
With the amount of problems I had using Redis Sentinel, I really wish there was another way. On multiple occasions, with completely different deployments, it got itself into a non-repairable state where the only option was to drop it and se
25.
by lukaslalinsky 4mo ago
I've switched to Valkey and I'm not really looking back. I'm much more comfortable with those people maintaining the software.
26.
by lukaslalinsky 4mo ago
Well, I'm just an extremely happy user. I've honestly tried to find an alternative, and couldn't. I'm using it in the context of solo developer and it provides a huge value to me.
27.
by lukaslalinsky 4mo ago
It's actually common, many companies develop their products this way. The source is available, you can see the VCS, but you can't participate in the development. That's why I see this as signal that it's going to turn in
28.
by lukaslalinsky 4mo ago
What made open source great, is the fact that if you find a problem, you can patch it. It's what motivated me, anyway. Ladybird is not SQLite, it's under development and very likely will be forever. To me it looks like they are tr
29.
by lukaslalinsky 4mo ago
Indeed, while there is communication that the situation with merging external pull requests should improve, the reality is that it's easier to land a patch in Linux, than in Zig.
30.
by lukaslalinsky 4mo ago
I wonder how can a new browser engine survive with the source available model. Like, why would anyone support this, unless they have business association with the Ladybird developers?

More ›