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Comment · 3 months ago
Brief, an experimental declarative language built around contract-enforced state transitions.

The language models programs as transactions with preconditions and postconditions. Instead of writing control flow directly, you describe valid state transitions, and the compiler is supposed to verify that the transaction satisfies its contract.

It also has, among other variants, an "Embedded Brief" variant, for embedded systems. Which in a lot of cases are state machines, so it seems like a nice fit on the surface.

Comment · 7 months ago
I pay my internet bills for this
Comment · 1 year ago
And soon enough it would need a project manager and HR to keep all the agents in line.
Comment · 1 year ago
title: "how X will improve Y"

article: "x + gen AI = more/better/cheaper Y"

Comment · 1 year ago
I went into the article expecting to find useful insights on swarm robotics.

I found nothing but a bunch of buzzwords and a sense that the author doesn't know a thing about swarms OR robotics.

Comment · 1 year ago
> The continued shortage of software engineers, coupled with research showing that AI tools are particularly beneficial for junior developers...

I stopped reading after this.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Up to 23x faster than fastest Intel‑based MacBook Air

Comparing it to a 6 year old laptop.

> Up to 2x faster than MacBook Air (M1)

Comparing it to a 5 year old laptop.

Love these comparisons.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is SO much better than Windows explorer! And I'm more than happy to pay for it.

The only issue I have noticed is that the context menu takes a while to open, and it is made worse because of the opening and closing animation. It keeps bugging me because I feel like the context menu of Windows explorer is a bit snappier than this.

I might be wrong but that's what it feels like.

Comment · 1 year ago
I was just thinking about this while checking out the Seedlabs page.

Because now it is somewhat commercially available, and a lot of people (including myself) that previously weren't thinking of having this just because of the hasstle of assembling it themselves, can now consider buying a pre-made unit and play around with it.

I was thinking that it'd be REALLY GREAT if there was an easy way of making "apps" for this smart knob. Kind of like watchfaces or pebble apps. Anything to make it easier for people to play around with this. Maybe a lightweight SDK or something.

I'd be more than happy to contribute to such a thing, but doing this alone is too daunting of a task.

Side note, the 245 EUR price by Seedlabs is equally daunting :(

Comment · 1 year ago
Real
Comment · 1 year ago
If you want reassurance, a guy commented "The Trump example on the homepage sounds nothing like Trump."
Comment · 1 year ago
Underrated reference
Comment · 2 years ago
ThePrimeagen punching air rn
Comment · 2 years ago
LOVE IT

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