catwell

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Software @ Finegrain.ai. Before: inch.fr (acquired by Septeo), eFounders (Hexa), Lima, Moodstocks (acquired by Google).

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Comment · 2 months ago
No company is going to be acquired for their software alone with multi-billion valuations ever again. It should be clear by now that code alone is not where the value is anymore, if it ever was.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
You are most likely confusing OpenClaw with Moltbook, which is the project that had the most glaring vulnerabilities. But even if OpenClaw was full of holes it would not matter.

Peter is not just a random "vibe coder" and he does not need to be hired by OpenAI to achieve "success". Before this he founded and sold a company that raised €100M. It is not his first project in the space either (see VibeTunnel for instance).

OpenAI is not hiring him for his code quality. They are hiring him because he proved consistently that he had a vision in the space.

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
You probably know but others might not: they have the same author.
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Most people don't use the standard library to make a HTTP request in Python either...

I agree with the sentiment though, I even gave a talk about this at Lua Workshop 2013 (https://www.lua.org/wshop13/Chapuis.pdf) around that issue. There are good reasons why several important but OS-specific features are not included in the core language. Discussion around a "blessed" extended standard library module arise from time to time but never lead anywhere.

The Lua community - at least the one around PUC Lua - is reasonably small and you can typically look at what active popular projects use to figure out the best libraries. The LuaRocks download count can be an indicator as well. But I agree this is still a problem.

Comment · 11 months ago
Their Granite family of models is actually pretty good! They just aren't working on the mainstream large LLMs that capture all the attention.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you're looking for something light, self-hostable and a bit more "social" (i.e. with pull requests and bug creation from the web) I recommend looking at https://tangled.org It doesn't render perfectly in Dillo but basic features appear to work.

However I really like what you've done here for Dillo as well.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's way more complicated than this.

First, this is mostly about things that happened before his election.

The tribunal ruled he did not personally benefit, and he did not directly solicit money to finance his campaign either.

However, some of his closest allies (who would become his ministers later) did the latter. The tribunal could not find any direct proof he was involved but ruled there were enough "converging indications" that he knew and did nothing to stop it.

Comment · 1 year ago
No, he means most NVIDIA-related software assumes a x86 CPU whereas this one is ARM.
Comment · 1 year ago
You can use a remote FS but it is nowhere close to the experience VSCode gives you. For instance, running code will run it locally, not on the remote machine.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hey! I'm a Sublime Text user since ST2 in 2011.

I love ST (my last blog post is https://blog.separateconcerns.com/2025-01-04-teal-lsp-sublim...) and I think the main thing lacking compared to the competition is the remote development experience.

I work in AI so we typically work over SSH on machines with big GPUs. Most of my colleagues use VSCode because it has a very good Remote Development extension.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, if you assume some of the clients go away indefinitely without giving their share back and you don't have a solution to deal with this, it's a problem.

Solutions are relatively easy on a client-server model (but do you really need something like ITC with a server...?) For instance the server could delegate its part of the interval with a timeout and claim it back once it expires.

If you know you have this model you can find a different way to split the interval to avoid the issue of the linear number of bits. Nodes can split their interval however they want.

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