julenx
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Comment · 9 hours ago
Great job! As a little suggestion, it'd be great if this could also process non-English Wikipedia articles, because some niche (usually culture-specific) topics do not exist in English Wikipedia, and I believe there is quite a bit of value in exposing these.
Comment · 6 days ago
> About 20 years ago the Basque government began giving txoko societies money – but only if they allowed women. They are now allowed. They just aren’t allowed to cook.
Every society (another name given to txokos) has its own rules which are agreed upon by their members. There might be a vanishingly small number of societies where women are still not allowed to cook, but this an extremely rare exception rather than a widespread fact.
> sang a traditional Basque song called Hegoak (The Wings)
Note the name of the poem and later popular song is "Txoria txori"[1] (the bird is bird), which was written by Joxan Artze. The most well-known sung version is by Mikel Laboa[2].
Comment · 1 month ago
Exactly this.
On top of that, when catching up it's great to have an indication of _when_ to start watching a race. For that I've been using the info provided on the HowFarOut[1] Twitter account.
Comment · 1 month ago
> a) Try to find ones with a pulsating mode, blinding other road users by shining bright rapidly blinking lights into their eyes is not good, actually.
Comment · 1 month ago
Their origins are in C++, which is what SerenityOS has used. They've never done zig. They explored using Swift as a C++ successor language for the project[1], but seeing the platform support out of Apple was lacking, they gave up and made the bet on Rust[2].
The motivation to use a memory safe language as the alpha approaches sounds more of a longer term bet [3].
[1] https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2024-11-30/#swift-language-a...
[2] https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/
[3] https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/
Comment · 1 month ago
The privacy policy for Smart Window[1] indicates that prompts are not only sent to an LLM provider (Mistral in this case), but also to Mozilla servers first.
> The assistant sends the full prompt (including your query, any relevant Memories, and any additional relevant browsing context) to a Mozilla server.
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> Upon receipt, Mozilla forwards the request to a third-party large language model (LLM) on your behalf. The LLM receives the request from Mozilla, not directly from you, and sees a Mozilla IP address rather than your own. The request includes only the information needed to generate a response or perform the requested action.
> When you submit a query in the Smart Bar, the assistant uses a local (on-device) intent classification model to determine whether the query is best addressed by a chat or a search.
Comment · 2 months ago
From the release video, something catching my attention:
> In Bun 1.4, I rewrote Bun in Rust. [...] I did it in 11 days, using Claude Code, and wrote about how, in our blog.
Everything else in the video is phrased as "we", and even the section in the blog post is "We rewrote Bun in Rust"[1].
There's no question Jarred did the work and deserves enormous credit for it. I just found the contrast interesting, because the video explicitly frames the rewrite as "I", whereas the rest of the release frames it as "we".
Comment · 5 months ago
Additional context on the kernel guidelines:
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
Comment · 5 months ago
Got the same email. After reading the subject, plus the first paragraph:
> I'm writing to you as the founder and strategic director of Infomaniak because something important has just happened, and it concerns you directly.
All in all the final message is great but the way it was communicated not so much.
Comment · 5 months ago
In Mac I use:
defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true
Comment · 6 months ago
The article explains Zig's stance in further detail, but the quoted part on its own caught my attention because my reading of it is rather "pro human communication" instead of "anti-AI".
Comment · 7 months ago
I believe the detachment gets exacerbated by the fact that others are simultaneously modifying the codebase at speeds that doesn't allow you to keep up. Depending on how the codebase boundaries and ownership are defined, this directly impacts your ability to reason about the whole system and therefore influence direction.
Comment · 7 months ago
Code quality aside (n.b. there exist many bad quality codebases before AI), a risk I perceive as an industry is we are making the logic of our businesses dependent on a few big players.
Given the output speed, it's practically impossible for developers to keep up, which directly impacts maintenance: the knowledge that would previously reside in-house, now is becoming dependent on having codebases pre-processed by LLMs.
I hope in the near future local LLMs will gain traction and provide an alternative, otherwise we are in the risky path where businesses are over-reliant on a few big companies.
Comment · 7 months ago
The same people that pursue economic incentives are who I hear speaking about number of lines produced by developers as a useful metric. I sense a worrying trend toward more is better with respect to output, when the north star IMHO should be to make something only as complex as necessary, but as simple as possible. The best code is no code at all.
Comment · 7 months ago
Some employees in the company might understand the emotional impact, but companies themselves would only look for certainty in protecting what belongs to them, which will hardly align with fairness or emotions towards employees in a situation like this.