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Re:Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:59PM (#49554957)
Ut oh, might be down: "Unable to connect to the server. Please check your connection and try again." when sending a message to Qwen 3.8 27B.
Re:Monads in C# (Part 2): Result on Monday January 05, 2026 @12:02PM (#46501391)
Hi, author here. Thanks for the feedback! I'll take a look at the article tonight and go through the comments and update the post based on the comments.
Re:Monads in C# (Part 2): Result on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:18PM (#46471216)
Thanks for sharing! Appreciate the OSS work. Is it ok if I reference that repo in my article?
It’s much more difficult to tell if someone bypassed the lock if they picked it (and relocked it), as opposed to cutting it off completely
Re:A List Is a Monad on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @04:39PM (#44448576)
Thanks for the feedback! I'll likely be editing part 1 to include the feedback so far from the commenters as well. If there's a specific statement or analogy that felt especially confusing, please point it out and I'll clarify it in the post.
Re:A List Is a Monad on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @04:30PM (#44448492)
Thanks for the feedback, I totally agree that monads are not containers. From an OOP perspective, they have some properties that make them, in some sense, sorta like containers, e.g., they contain a value like the Maybe monad. I still agree that they are not simply containers. I can clarify this in a revision to part 1 soon.
Re:A List Is a Monad on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @04:24PM (#44448413)
Thanks for the feedback! I didn't expect my post to garner a lot of attention. I am totally ok with rewriting part 1, potentially to make it more concise to prevent confusion (wow, this post is super long, monads must be complex!) is what I'd like to avoid.

I can reproduce the double line issue in part 2, this was my mistake and I missed it as part of my editing process. I'll delete part 2 while I make the corrections.

Re:A List Is a Monad on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @04:16PM (#44448322)
Thanks for the feedback! I can definitely rename the post soon as a first step, although this may require rewriting a chunk of the article to more accurately reflect the fact that List is a monad, and not "a" list.

I could make this distinction in part 3 (not written yet) although I want to balance not misleading readers, but not overcomplicating it too early on.

Re:A List Is a Monad on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @04:11PM (#44448276)
Hi, I completely agree. A list isn't inherently a monad, and that is where my metaphor starts to fall apart a bit (my post title furthers this issue.)

I can clarify this earlier in part 1 or 2 instead of in to-be-written part 3.

Re:Relive the 90s: Weather Channel Simulator on Thursday May 29, 2025 @04:47PM (#44130255)
Not sure how they're going to go around that corner with that vehicle
Re:I assume I'm below average (2010) on Monday May 26, 2025 @08:13PM (#44102826)
If we have these test scores: 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, the mean is 0.8 and thus 80% are above average.
Re:Good Writing on Saturday May 24, 2025 @11:09PM (#44085238)
If someone wants to find the original quote, https://salvatoreloleggio.blogspot.com/2014/10/borges-dove-i... says, translated:

> One part of that part was published as a preview in a "Domenica" of "Il sole 24 ore".

Perhaps it is in the June 21 2009 issue.

> provide a JSON schema

Is this when using structured outputs?

Title is slightly misleading, it is not leaving behind 486 types of CPUs individually, but the "486 CPU".
I decided to do that, and made Paper2Code2Code: https://github.com/alexyorke/Paper2Code2Code/tree/main
Re:A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @11:12PM (#43701051)
Reminds me of the JetBrains installer--not a bad reminder, I like the animations.
Re:When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @03:24PM (#43697321)
I also wonder if "Kitty Litter/Zeolite" was read without context in the white-paper, i.e., any type of kitty litter rather than specifically the inorganic kind.
Re:Local CI. Sign off on your own work on Sunday April 13, 2025 @11:47PM (#43677881)
I could _maybe, maybe_ see self-hosted GitHub runners inside of VMs running on developer machines. The VMs would have to be re-created after every request however.

I don't think this is a great idea, however, as now CI is dependent on my flaky laptop's wifi/internet connection/IP address, has the potential to be contaminated by something running on my machine, build logs can be modified, environment shape/architectures are all different and can't be easily controlled, etc.

Re:A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @01:35PM (#43559159)
Would dev containers solve this issue?
How much better is the turn taking relative to two humans, when, for example, ordering a pizza? Human to human interaction has a non-zero false turn taking false positive score in my experience.
Re:Tracing the thoughts of a large language model on Friday March 28, 2025 @05:15PM (#43509868)
My prompt was pretty short, I think it was "Make these tests pass". Having said that, I wouldn't mind if it asked me for clarification before proceeding.
Re:I tried making artificial sunlight at home on Thursday March 27, 2025 @05:18PM (#43498303)
Very cool! I'd be curious to see an HDR version of it using bracketed exposures--it might give a better sense of how it actually looks in person. It seems really bright in the photos, so the shortest exposure would probably need to be very low to capture a good dynamic range for the HDR.

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