NeutralForest
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Damn I got rekt, crazy to read all the regulations and neighbors just dog walking me :'(
very cool, thanks for making this!
Posted by
NeutralForest on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:16AM
from the engineering.zalando.com dept.
Posted by
NeutralForest on Saturday August 01, 2026 @07:04AM
from the fightforthehuman.com dept.
I have a todo list longer than the Tour de France I want to tackle first!
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!
The man himself, thank you for the articles =)
Yes indeed! Mostly don't put changing data in the beginning or prepend.
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
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.htmlA cool person making cool things!
Posted by
NeutralForest on Sunday June 28, 2026 @10:40AM
from the patrick-breyer.de dept.
The only thing I got from the presentation is that I still underrate geese, gotta put some respect on their feathered name.
> 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.
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.
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.
Thanks, I'll leave it as sucky markdown :D
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).
> 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.
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.
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.
Why did you move from it if I may ask?