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Damn I got rekt, crazy to read all the regulations and neighbors just dog walking me :'(
Re:Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime on Saturday August 22, 2026 @07:13AM (#49398534)
very cool, thanks for making this!
Re:Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @02:35PM (#49088065)
I have a todo list longer than the Tour de France I want to tackle first!
Re:Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @02:15PM (#49087793)
Great to see the project is still going strong, I kinda want to try CL but I always feel like I don't have a great use-case.
Really interesting follow-up to the "parse dont validate" article and how to understand the trade-off between very specific typing or not.
Uh sorry I mistook this for the 3.15 profiler announcement, thanks for the correction!
Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @01:27PM (#48995406)
The man himself, thank you for the articles =)
Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @12:46PM (#48994817)
Yes indeed! Mostly don't put changing data in the beginning or prepend.
Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @12:27PM (#48994534)
Anything Sam Rose is worth reading: https://ngrok.com/blog/prompt-caching

but the implementation will be up to your provider and harness, for deepseek, they expose some numbers: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/kv_cache/ and Anthropic has a list of actions invalidating your cache: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

Basically, you avoid anything dynamic: model change, tool change, etc it's also important that your system prompt or main prompt doesn't have non-static data like the date/time/place or someone's name (the person you interact with in a chatbot for example). That should be left to tool call or search.

Here are explanation on how to use it from one of the people working on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x4X83CDSA and the chunky docs that go with it in the beta of 3.15: https://docs.python.org/3.15/library/profiling.sampling.html
Re:If You Build It, They Will Come on Saturday July 18, 2026 @12:59PM (#48959862)
Wasting Orval is the biggest sin of all.
Interesting article, wonder where we're going with this though, I find it's very difficult to keep LLMs on track and critical enough to be useful.

Just want to say that:

>In our deployment, student-reported reading completion baselines for MATH 010 were approximately 15%, with instructors estimating 10%. Individual student reports of reading compliance ranged from "literally no one does that" to "is this being recorded?"

is hilarious

Re:Decker Fantasy Camp 2026 on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:38PM (#48721485)
I can only recommend looking at all the Decker author's projects. He's done work on APL languages, GUIs, interactive programming, etc. https://beyondloom.com/things/index.html

A cool person making cool things!

Re:SoftBank 2026 AGM [pdf] on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:02PM (#48675408)
The only thing I got from the presentation is that I still underrate geese, gotta put some respect on their feathered name.
Re:Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole on Sunday June 14, 2026 @06:08AM (#48525791)
> My experience with Python is a really bad one for professional work: it's chaotic and slow, and has by far the worst versioning and packaging story of any mainstream language, yet its proponents keep praising it in denial.

Some people just don't have the experience you do, "its proponent keep praising it in denial", can we have a better level of debate, come on now.

Re:The state of building user interfaces in Rust on Saturday June 13, 2026 @12:41PM (#48518928)
I think this article: https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-... was the most exhaustive review of accessibility that I know of.
Re:Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language on Thursday June 04, 2026 @05:27AM (#48396197)
It's exciting to see those developments in what is a language with already great economics. I'm sad there's pretty much no market for it in western Europe aside from maybe Germany.
Re:Learning Software Architecture on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @07:44AM (#48106881)
Software design/architecture is a strange beast. It feels that if you want to learn it, you should spend time in legacy systems and large codebases of rewrite a project 3 times to explore counterfactuals. A lot of books on the subjects are abstract and give such simple examples, they are useless.
Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:54AM (#47963481)
Thanks, I'll leave it as sucky markdown :D
Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:34AM (#47963171)
That's fair, I have plenty of international coworkers and I think (and from what I hear from them), that Belgium is decently welcoming, at least in large cities.

I do take the train quite often as I said, anything on large axes is usually fine (Brussels - Charleroi, Brussels - Antwerp, etc) but yeah smaller lines are usually struggling some more.

I wish we had more ambitious governments in general, not only in terms of energy but also in the (bio)tech scene, which used to be touted as our great strength (we do have a lot of pharma companies though).

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:45AM (#47962393)
I'm not disagreeing
Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:30AM (#47962151)
> Having kids is a financial and ecological disaster. As an outside observer it's remarkable to me people are still having any kids at all, which speaks to the strong subjective factors overpowering whatever objective considerations one might have about it.

Absolutely insane take imo. You do you man.

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:27AM (#47962110)
Depending on the country's situation, you might have to use fossil fuels during the transition, that's alright. But the transition is non-negotiable at this point.
Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:22AM (#47962043)
I just want Belgium to go all-in on renewables, we [already have a pretty good electricity production make-up](https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/energy/electricity-product...) but we're still [too dependent on oil](https://www.iea.org/countries/belgium/energy-mix).

Hopefully the current energy crisis is a wake up call.

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants on Thursday April 30, 2026 @09:18AM (#47961987)
It's fine to shit on things but I have service almost everywhere and I take the train often with usually few issues aside from works on the tracks. Let's not blow up issues, it takes away from what we should focus on.
Re:Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video] on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:55PM (#47592602)
Fair enough!
Re:Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video] on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @01:16PM (#47590532)
Why did you move from it if I may ask?

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