kennykartman

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by kennykartman 2mo ago
> I really don’t see how you could find the community toxic unless you take everything they want to do differently from other languages (which may come along with some criticism - explicit or implicit) as some kind of toxic negativity? Y
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by kennykartman 2mo ago
IIUC Fil-C does not allow to freely write safe assembly language as well, right? From the inlineasm page, they say > Parsing and analyzing the assembly. If it contains memory accesses, control flow, or anything we don't recognize, w
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by kennykartman 2mo ago
By the way > Zig will become one of the only toolchains capable of producing actually memory safe executables there's a whole class of GC languages that can do that
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by kennykartman 2mo ago
Sure, the point makes sense but if that's the sole point I think communication is quite bad. Fil-C is memory-safe only if the whole stack is compiled with Fil-C: this does not hold for Rust which does not require to recompile every dep
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by kennykartman 2mo ago
Zig main dev proposes to introduce a Fil-C like compilation mode to make zig safe: it's only natural to mention how that's different from Rust, right? What about all the other languages, Andrew? I'm tired to see zig head peop
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by kennykartman 2mo ago
Typically I just want to isolate the agent disallowing it from accessing other parts of the filesystem. Using a different user might be enough, but I typically use [bubblewrap]( https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap )
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
Honestly, I don't think the EU problem is taxation. Really, there's a long list of things that have higher precedence over that, for example, not being so immigration-adverse.
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
Ah, sorry if "parents spending more time with their kids" is a too extreme and communist view.
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
Ok with that. So yes, I stand by my stance: looking at test is enough. We can debate whether when tests can be considered complete enough.
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
I think you and I don't share what is a "test". Are you thinking about unit tests? I'm thinking about unit tests, smoke tests, integration tests, e2e tests, functional tests, manual QA tests and probably even "the-p
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
I don't think that from my comment anyone can infer that I'm opposed to reducing general taxation. I'm, in fact, in favor in increasing taxes for who owns too much, not against reducing taxes to population with lower income.
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
If any EU government people are reading this, I'd like to send you a short message: Please stop thinking about the kids on the internet. But here's a brief list of things you must work on with higher urgency: - taxing more large c
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
I'm so happy about this. Really. I cannot overstate how much important the internet archive is for all of us.
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
That's a fun point. I honestly don't think it will happen in 3 years, but I think it will surely doable in 10. More interestingly: will we need to care about the code at all, at that point?
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
One should care about tests more than how code was coded. If I had a codebase with lots of tests and asked someone else to rewrite it to another language passing the same test suite, I honestly wouldn't expect a great quality job. I sa
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
Sadly, yes. I feel too much "violence" on both parts. Honestly, Zig community seems the most bitter for whatever reason, while on the Rust side it seems to me that are simply overstating how great the language is and are pushy in
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
Nobody knows. Here's my two cents. Zig is a very interesting LOW level language, but honestly I think it should be considered for what it is: a better C. I don't think it fits for anything that someone would have written in C++, J
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
Honestly, I don't know. I think it's because of frustration, but the community attitude is part of it. I experienced first hand people frustrated with Rust moving to Zig and finding other people to pick onto Rust and finding ferti
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by kennykartman 4mo ago
Thank you, Jarred, for your work. It’s unfortunate to see so much backlash toward legitimate research. Bun is often seen by some as “the flagship project for zig” - especially among those frustrated with rust who want zig to "win over
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by kennykartman 5mo ago
They're banning all AI though, so it looks pretty much anti-AI to me.
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by kennykartman 5mo ago
Nice. This is the kind of technology we need when we'll have to fight back against AI overlords.
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by kennykartman 5mo ago
Yep, war is the shittiest of things and rarely it is described completely for what it is. Humans following orders are well known to be ruthless and humans in power places are known to abuse their power. Add this to brainwashing and religiou
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by kennykartman 5mo ago
Be careful with difftastic, because it has at least one severe bug involving python that has been present for a long time: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/issues/587
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by kennykartman 6mo ago
I dream of the day in which there is no need to pass by JS and Wasm can do all the job by itself. Meanwhile, we are stuck.
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by kennykartman 7mo ago
> dozens of heavily armed settlers under the protection of the police and the army invaded Ras al-‘Ain and stole at least a thousand, and possibly as many as 1,500, of the villagers’ sheep and goats This is the issue: Israeli settlers ar
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by kennykartman 7mo ago
Because Zig is the future, Rust has clearly failed and C is simply obsolete in 2026. The rest doesn't even matter.
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by kennykartman 8mo ago
That's true! But I was amazed to see makepad.nl's performances. That's written in Rust and I saw one of the authors, Rik, explain how they make it so fast to build. Praiseworthy job that shows that with care one can go far.
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by kennykartman 8mo ago
Sure, I agree! I did not mean to see better results because LLMs improved significantly in their visual-spatial reasoning, but simply because I expected more people drawing SVGs of pelicans on bikes and having more LLMs ingesting them. This
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by kennykartman 8mo ago
Ah ah I was curious about that! I wonder if (when? if not already) some company is using some version of this in their training set. I'm still impressed by the fact that this benchmark has been out for so long and yet produce this kind
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by kennykartman 8mo ago
Again, just for the sake of the discussion: Iran banned starlink, people are getting terminals (BTW, I'm happy they managed to). Starlink is still providing the service in the area although they are aware it's illegal and people c

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