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by catwell 21d ago
No company is going to be acquired for their software alone with multi-billion valuations ever again. It should be clear by now that code alone is not where the value is anymore, if it ever was.
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by catwell 4mo ago
This has been my Twitter / X banner for at least 10 years :) https://x.com/pchapuis/header_photo
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by catwell 7mo ago
You are most likely confusing OpenClaw with Moltbook, which is the project that had the most glaring vulnerabilities. But even if OpenClaw was full of holes it would not matter. Peter is not just a random "vibe coder" and he does
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by catwell 7mo ago
Antirez (the author of this interpreter) uses it for the Redis test suite. Personally, I know Lua and Python very well but I still used TCL a few years ago for something very specific: using ODBC on Windows. I gave more details on the Lua m
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by catwell 7mo ago
You probably know but others might not: they have the same author.
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by catwell 7mo ago
Not only that, he's very enthusiastic about AI analyzers such as ZeroPath and AISLE. He's written about it here: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/10/a-new-breed-of-analyz... and talked about
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by catwell 9mo ago
Most people don't use the standard library to make a HTTP request in Python either... I agree with the sentiment though, I even gave a talk about this at Lua Workshop 2013 ( https://www.lua.org/wshop13/Chapuis.pdf )
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by catwell 10mo ago
Their Granite family of models is actually pretty good! They just aren't working on the mainstream large LLMs that capture all the attention.
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by catwell 11mo ago
If you're looking for something light, self-hostable and a bit more "social" (i.e. with pull requests and bug creation from the web) I recommend looking at https://tangled.org It doesn't render perfectly in D
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by catwell 11mo ago
It's way more complicated than this. First, this is mostly about things that happened before his election. The tribunal ruled he did not personally benefit, and he did not directly solicit money to finance his campaign either. However,
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by catwell 11mo ago
No, he means most NVIDIA-related software assumes a x86 CPU whereas this one is ARM.
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by catwell 2y ago
You can use a remote FS but it is nowhere close to the experience VSCode gives you. For instance, running code will run it locally, not on the remote machine.
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by catwell 2y ago
Hey! I'm a Sublime Text user since ST2 in 2011. I love ST (my last blog post is https://blog.separateconcerns.com/2025-01-04-teal-lsp-sublim... ) and I think the main thing lacking compared to the competition is the rem
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by catwell 2y ago
Yes, if you assume some of the clients go away indefinitely without giving their share back and you don't have a solution to deal with this, it's a problem. Solutions are relatively easy on a client-server model (but do you really
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by catwell 2y ago
Also I had forgotten but here is a more recent follow-up to Fred Hebert's post: https://ferd.ca/a-bridge-over-a-river-never-crossed.html
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by catwell 2y ago
I don't really know what you mean regarding pathological subdivisions, but the case where nodes go offline without merging first is a real issue. There are ways to work around it but if you have to do so you lose a lot of its advantage
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by catwell 2y ago
Yes, the original link is dead, and that one doesn't work for me currently. I'll edit the post if I find a working one. EDIT: I found where the paper has moved, I have updated the article.
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by catwell 2y ago
Hello, author here. Sorry about the lack of clarity, this article is the transcript of a 5 min lightning talk and it was really hard fitting all the relevant content in that little time :) (In retrospect that was a poorly chosen topic. When
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by catwell 2y ago
Lima did not use ITC in its product anyway, we used classic version vectors. We considered them for future evolutions but never implemented it. It's funny that Fred Herbert's use case was a "peer-to-peer Dropbox", becaus
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by catwell 2y ago
There are several alternatives using Lua too, including for instance PICO-8 https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
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by catwell 2y ago
He wrote a science-fiction book, then did some things with e-ink hardware and some with AI.
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by catwell 2y ago
The best way to pull this off is to bet the tool will end up shutting down and build the replacement before it does. A good example of this is Pinboard: Maciej knew the product inside out, and he knew what being acquired by Yahoo meant. S
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by catwell 2y ago
It works properly with PyTorch. For what it's worth at $DAYJOB we switched from Poetry to Rye starting from version 0.15 (even before it supported uv) for that reason initially.
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by catwell 2y ago
Teal ( https://github.com/teal-language/tl ) is the closest we have from a "TypeScript for Lua". It is natively supported by many projects now, including game engines such as the Bevy scripting plugin and Defol
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by catwell 2y ago
Talking about bait and switch for Redis makes no sense. Redis is a 15 years old project started in 2009 by Salvatore 'Antirez' Sanfilippo. He worked on his startup, then at VMWare, them at Pivotal, and only joined Redis Labs (crea
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by catwell 3y ago
I saw a presentation about this last week at the Generative AI Paris meetup, by the team building the next generation of https://vidal.fr/ , the reference for medical data in French-speaking countries. It used to be a paper
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by catwell 3y ago
It depends a lot on the rooms you go too as well, it's a reflection of the various communities (in Europe mostly, although quite a few people come from overseas too).
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by catwell 3y ago
Not really. AFAIK there are platform doors on lines 1, 4, 14 and 13. Lines 1, 4 and 14 have rubber tyres and platform doors because they are fully automated (or in the case of line 4 in the process of being fully automated). So far Paris on
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by catwell 3y ago
It's a different sampler too.
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by catwell 3y ago
https://separateconcerns.com/ Posting occasionally since 2009.

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