stevedekorte

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Comment · 3 months ago
Coroutines elegantly solve these problems.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've found this handy for repairing AI generated JSON.
Comment · 1 year ago
Io (http://iolanguage.org) can work this way, as the message tree (maybe including comments - I don't recall) is what the interpreter used to evaluate the code and is accessible at runtime. However, it didn't store the choice of terminator (newline vs return) or indentation info (though it would be easy to add), so the pretty print of the message tree might look different depending on the source conventions.
Comment · 1 year ago
But street lights don't have to use harsh 3000 kelvin LEDs, there are warm light LEDs (2400-2700 kelvin). For example, these lights are widely available for home, yet most people just buy the 3000K LED bulbs because (IME) it doesn't occur to them that there is a strong aesthetic (and health) difference between these colors. i.e. They don't care.
Comment · 1 year ago
Looks useful and powerful. Nice work!
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s great that this can run on a laptop but FWIW, llama 70B model is no where near “GPT-4 class” in my own use cases. 405B might be, though I haven’t tested it.
Comment · 2 years ago
How are state changes consistently tracked?
Comment · 2 years ago
Congrats! I have strong nostalgia for the ones I worked on and owned in the 90s. Using those machines felt more like living in the future than any tech I've experienced since, including the iPhone.
Comment · 2 years ago
"In JavaScript, neither weak references... is generally available". I think that was true with the old weak collation classes, but doesn't the newer JS WeakRef provide proper weak references?
Comment · 2 years ago
Great to see work like this being done. Javascript is often a "good enough" language, but an efficient Smalltalk (or Self) language with support for things like system images, become:, coroutines, and other advanced features would open up a lot of advanced programming techniques like fast portable images, transparent futures, cooperative concurrency without async/await on every call, etc.
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Comment · 3 years ago
I've run into many of the problems mentioned with Apple Feedback and gave up on using them many years ago. It's pretty disheartening when you spend a bunch of time getting an OS crashing bug to reproduce in a small amount of code to submit in a bug report for them to neither confirm that they can repeat it, or consider it worth fixing.
Comment · 3 years ago
Can it be used via an API?
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
That might be right, but I'm not familiar enough with early Smalltalk to say. Self was a bigger inspiration than Smalltalk.

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