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by Decabytes 8d ago
So what is the sentiment on Mistral? Does it get the same hate as other AI companies? Or does its European and open focus make people give it some slack? It doesn’t really seem like anti AI people care if something was AI generated with Mis
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by Decabytes 10d ago
I feel like setting up the social media is a solved problem. And while getting users is hard, if you hook up to the fediverse, you can piggy back off other Platforms. I think the harder problem is making it profitable
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by Decabytes 13d ago
Laughs in small local model
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by Decabytes 19d ago
I moved to KDE from Gnome for a variety of reasons, but I genuinely miss Gnome and Native GTK apps. They weren't as customizable, but the features you did get work so well. One of my main issues with KDE is that the default keybindings
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by Decabytes 26d ago
Isn’t the GUI version of a TUI just an Electron app?
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by Decabytes 1mo ago
One think I think is strange about the m programming world we live in now is the mythologization of pre llm code. As if people weren’t copying code from stack overflow, auto completing their way through APIs using intellisense, intellicode,
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by Decabytes 1mo ago
Can someone help me understand the advantage of no hidden control in this context? Are people really optimizingI/O interfaces such that they need an api that is verbose just for the sake of having no hidden flow? It feels to me that mo
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by Decabytes 1mo ago
As expected Google completely forgets about it’s other language, Dart
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by Decabytes 1mo ago
One of the most frustrating things in my opinion about new systems languages, is that they refuse to have a stable ability to, so everything has to pretend to be C at the boundaries.
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by Decabytes 1mo ago
Why do people use chicken over gambit? Is it due to chicken’s larger ego system and eggs, or is there more?
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by Decabytes 1mo ago
one thing I love about Smalltalk is being able to inspect the code as it's running. Especially from the GUI. You can just be like Oh I wonder where the code for this button is from, inspect it, and it takes you right to the code. It&#x
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by Decabytes 1mo ago
It is very common in Japan to have to pay key money when moving in, which is typically 1-2 months of rent. This isn’t like a security deposit as it is non refundable and is basically a “thank you for letting me live here” Also if you are ac
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by Decabytes 1mo ago
There was a post on here awhile ago from Jeffrey Snovers blog about how Microsoft screwed this up as well. Given how many people have moved to electron, and how big companies don’t seem to be able to handle native GUI’s anymore, have we jus
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by Decabytes 2mo ago
Has anyone ever done a comparison between the smaller models like Luna, against the previous GPT 5 frontier models? Have we gotten to the point where the small models are as good as the frontier models of the past, or is there still a way t
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by Decabytes 2mo ago
As someone who didn’t play many of the point and click adventures growing up, thimbleweed park was a lot of fun. I also like the genre more than visual novels. I kind of felt like the dialogue was supposed to be cheesy so I just rolled with
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by Decabytes 2mo ago
Glad to see work on Hurd pick up more this past few years. I doubt it will ever be mainstream, but I’ve always found the concept interesting
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by Decabytes 2mo ago
I feel like SIMD has been around for decades. Why has it taken this long to catch on? I feel like I have been hearing it a lot through the past few years. It feels like it’s talked about like some programming silver bullet
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by Decabytes 2mo ago
I feel like the only real answer is "we just don't know". But in an attempt to actually answer this, I think the breaking point are different for different groups of people. If you are struggling to pay the bills, you probabl
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by Decabytes 2mo ago
Software quality is tied to the market incentives and always has been. AI isn’t going to make someone care about writing robust software and that is why we don’t see better software all of a sudden. The market doesn’t rewards apps that don’
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by Decabytes 2mo ago
I did this with a python languah
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by Decabytes 2mo ago
I had never seen the music video until the news started playing it. Super funny
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by Decabytes 2mo ago
While I agree that the Zig code in Bun could be better, and that the Silicon Valley pressure to move fast and break things prevented a lot of suggested improvements, this feels like the same argument as people who write C or C++ where peopl
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by Decabytes 2mo ago
It’s interesting to see how llms have turned the concept of rewrite it in rust, from an impossibility for some projects (code is too large and complicated, it will take too much time) to a real possibility for even large projects.
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Rhombus Language 1.0(blog.racket-lang.org)
234 points by Decabytes 3mo ago|113 comments
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by Decabytes 3mo ago
I'm curious to hear from people if anyone who uses Bun after this changed has noticed any day to day differences with the rust version over the zig version
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by Decabytes 3mo ago
I wonder how useful this could be as a generalized version control for regular user systems, as a way to rollback, or scrub through history. Presumably if this is designed to work at Epic and Big Game studio scale, it should work at home co
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by Decabytes 3mo ago
Bjarne Stroustrup was recently interviewed by Ryan Peterman^1 1. https://youtu.be/U46fJ2bJ-co?t=2780 and Ryan asked Bjarne about memory safety. Bjarne brushes it off and says that in almost all cases where we see memory saf
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by Decabytes 3mo ago
For clarity in this dual programming language scenario I'm talking about, I'm writing a user facing app that's mostly a lot of business logic. It's running slow so I profile it and I see my math function in pure Dart (or
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by Decabytes 3mo ago
> Why have operators at all? I mean as an avid Lisp fan, I feel like Lisp basically answers the question of how much syntax you need in a langauge. I must admit though, not having to deal with operators precedence is really nice (mod
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by Decabytes 3mo ago
Here is where I think Zig shines. When you are a high level programmer that needs to drop down to a low level programming language for performance reasons. The issue with doing that as a high level programmer is that you don't do a lot

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