fvdessen

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by fvdessen 2mo ago
That's not true at all, for example in Belgium, any book that discredits genocide, incites to racial hatred, or shows sex with minors is banned from sale and/or possession. Then there's also moral rights infringement, such as
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by fvdessen 3mo ago
The whole avoid floats thing just isn't true. I have 20years experience in fintech and most of it used doubles. Excel uses doubles. Your frontend will use doubles. All your db supports doubles. Your stdlib knows how to parse doubles. J
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by fvdessen 3mo ago
Your mindset is why we got rid out of nuclear energy. Nuclear lobby bad, consumer lobby good. Consumer lobby didn't care that what they wanted was impossible (risk free free, carbon free, cheap energy) and angrily demanded by law thing
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by fvdessen 3mo ago
> In most EU countries if your company went bankrupt, you are not allowed to open another one. Think about that for a little bit. That's just completely false but ok. There's even a EU regulation to ensure the exact opposite:
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by fvdessen 3mo ago
These stories about regulation preventing EU frontier models are frankly complete bullshit. The real reason is much simpler, but also harder to fix. To build frontier models you need VC money. There’s no VC money because VC believe that the
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by fvdessen 3mo ago
You mean you rewrote the nginx test suite with smaller leaner tests ? How did you bootstrap that ? How do you know the leaner tests are equivalent to the real ones ?
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by fvdessen 3mo ago
Mistral is against these EU regulations. I bought a printed version of the AI act, it's 600 pages of absolute nonsense, with 5 mandatory committees on national, eu, company level; 12 steps 6 months processes to release a new features;
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by fvdessen 4mo ago
I do some work in Africa and that's not what i've seen. The NGOs have their own separate supply chains and are quite resistant to corrupt officials and local criminals. The problem with NGOs is that they're mostly regular bus
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by fvdessen 4mo ago
What I mean is that they should use the standard commercial channels and use their economical and political channels to make sure they work well so that everyone would profit from having working import systems.
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by fvdessen 4mo ago
I help a good friend run a small business in Africa, and this story is exactly why, every time I go visit, I fill my luggage with stuff she needs. Laptops, car engine turbos, espresso machines, fryers, bottles of shampoo, printers, anything
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by fvdessen 5mo ago
That's why the SWIFT backup data centers in Belgium are camouflaged as posh villas (or so i've heard)
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by fvdessen 7mo ago
I think the best place to put barriers in place is at the mcp / tool layer. The email inbox mcp should have guardrails to prevent damage. Those guardrails could be fine grained permissions, but could also be an adversarial model dedica
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by fvdessen 7mo ago
maybe you're a pro vector artist but I couldn't create such a cool one myself in illustrator tbh
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by fvdessen 7mo ago
The architectural patterns are similar in go. The part of the prompt that contains the refactoring concerns that I wanted to fix are specific to this go project. You can very well add what you just explained and not only will it follow it,
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by fvdessen 7mo ago
That's the point of the loop, (the prompt is in another comment) start with a fresh context at every step, read the whole code base, and do one thing at a time. Two important part that has been left out from the article is 1) service c
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by fvdessen 7mo ago
Opus 4.6 is smart enough to run the tests without being told to do so, that's why it isn't in the prompt
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by fvdessen 7mo ago
The TASKS.md file will be created and filled by the model. The prompt needs to be run repeatedly in a loop until it decides there's nothing to be done anymore. The service was in go, but this doesn't matter.
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by fvdessen 7mo ago
Unfortunately not, it's private company code. But I can share the prompt I used for the refactoring: - 1. Read the whole code of the repository. - 2. Read the TASKS.md file if it exists. - 2.1. If it exists and is not empty
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by fvdessen 7mo ago
Yes, someone still has to orchestrate but it's going to be fewer people with higher level of responsibilities.
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by fvdessen 8mo ago
> How should they know your project is worth investing 500k? I heard they've got 3x8M, per year I presume, so 500k is a huge chunk of that. Everyone thinks their project is worth 500k, what makes yours different from the rest? Well
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by fvdessen 8mo ago
It is extremely exhausting, but it's also the biggest change in tech since the invention of the internet. It don't think it can be ignored.
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by fvdessen 8mo ago
> Looking at the talk lineup of a LLM related devroom, it sound forward looking to me: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/ai/ It doesn't to me at all, it is mainly focused on self hosting llm
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by fvdessen 8mo ago
Yes, maybe I should.
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by fvdessen 8mo ago
OSS original point wasn't just to have fun among nerds, but to have a real impact on the world. Fun and curiosity is fine, but there's a line where it becomes a tech themed larp event, and FOSDEM is trending towards the later. Cor
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by fvdessen 8mo ago
Have an AI track focused on how to use AI to improve OSS software instead of how to run LLama on RISC-V. Invite the open source developpers behind popular OSS AI frameworks such as opencode, etc. Invite talkers from large companies that pro
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by fvdessen 8mo ago
I for one found this event really sad. It's like the OSS community has rejected the past 5 years of software and technological changes and now choses to live in a retro computing bubble. We're in 2026, hardware is made in dark fac
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by fvdessen 11mo ago
FYI I just migrated from Netlify to Cloudflare pages and Cloudflare is massively faster across all metrics.
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by fvdessen 11mo ago
I think it would be more interesting if the prompt was not leading to the expected answer, but would be completely unrelated: > Human: Claude, How big is a banana ? > Claude: Hey are you doing something with my thoughts, all I can thi
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by fvdessen 11mo ago
Just to say I appreciate all the criticism, it's good food for thought
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by fvdessen 11mo ago
Unfortunately the AI Slop is probably the most effective way to fund AI research right now

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