vander_elst

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Comment · 14 days ago
Is be very surprised if there is any other action other than some statements condemning the attack. I wonder what's the line that needs to be crossed before some actions are taken against the government of Israel, which constantly allows this. My guess is that even killing some (<10) Europeans still would not cut it.
Comment · 16 days ago
Any dentists here that can share some thoughts?
Comment · 18 days ago
300 bucks seems a lot.

Nowadays with ~100 bucks you can an amd64 box and a CEC adapter, which allows to use the default remote of your tv. Then you can install on it whatever you want, customize it however you prefer and have all the privacy you decide. No lock-in. As much AI as you like, zero is a valid option.

Comment · 1 month ago
Great project I was thinking about doing *exactly* the same. Do you mind sharing your stack?
Comment · 1 month ago
> deserve at least a living wage for their time and efforts

I agree with the sentiment

However,

> $24000 in the bank

I assume there are multiple developers. If the developers are based on North America or Europe that money does not guarantee a living wage for more than.. some months?

Comment · 2 months ago
Genuinely interested in understanding why you need this level of precision. To me it would seem you are removing some abstraction and getting to the details. If this something common in your line of work? E.g. in your peers? If that's the case, would you mind sharing the field you're active in? Do you have a hunch why you would need this level of detail e.g. Education, culture?
Comment · 2 months ago
That would also just work with D E and F. Or am I missing something?
Comment · 2 months ago
Very curious to understand the thinking behind this, why should the weekend be E and A? My first approach would be to have the weekend on D and E which would seem to be the end of the week.
Comment · 2 months ago
Does this consistently work for you? I have something like this plus some commands that are explicitly in a deny list in the harness. Roughly twice a week, the model manages to run the deny listed commands, that I need afterwards to manually revert.
Comment · 3 months ago
I find it so sad that people wasted millions of hours and lines of code rewriting over and over basic constructs that should have been on the language in the first place. How many years before we finally get sum types?
Comment · 3 months ago
Some source or citation or context is needed here, is this the work of a 2 person no profit or a trillion valued pre IPO company?
Comment · 3 months ago
We can have the same argument about memory unsafe languages: "it should be the programmer that checks that the memory it's accessed in a safe way and not the machine"... and yet after many years and legions of programmers not being able to stop themselves creating memory leaks, we created memory safe languages and we advocate for their usage.

I hope it's clear that what was proposed above is just a toy problem to show the issue. In complex parts of the code, unfortunately, these errors sometimes happen. That's a fact.

A programming language should actually try to protect you from some logic errors. This is why have we programming languages in the first place. Otherwise why bother with garbage collection, types etc? Should we just use assembly then for maximal flexibilty and putting all the burden on the programmer?

Comment · 3 months ago
I think that the best feature that go was able to create is a very strong community around the language, where practices are as important as the language itself. Maybe these practices are what makes the community strong?
Comment · 3 months ago
If you have

``` a, err := f() b, err := g() if err != nil {} c:=a+b ```

The language will happily build and run, even though it should prevent to let you shoot in the foot.

Comment · 4 months ago
We did this by using the ASTs you can go quite far without embeddings and the result is easier to debug and follow what's going on.

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