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VMG··on Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
Maybe I have this wrong, but I believe the difference is that you can create an Io instance in a function that has none
VMG··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
The name is weird
VMG··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
> This ought to be automated using AI.

...

> I'm not trying to say that this is now projects ought to work right now.

which is it?

VMG··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
I mean this with all sincerity, try doing this yourself.

The established projects are resistant to YOLOing their projects and running them on complete LLM autopilot.

You are proposing a completely different development style.

Fork Ocaml to Oca-LLM and Julia to Jul-AI and see how it goes.

VMG··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
I've seen this in other places as well.

The bottleneck is not coding or creating a PR, the bottleneck is the review.

VMG··on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
"Make product worse, get money"?

https://dynomight.net/worse/

VMG··on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
ML/AI is much less stochastic than an average human
VMG··on Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
your browser is processing my comment
VMG··on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
not necessarily, by default `Result` does not even carry a stack trace
VMG··on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
Propagating upwards a valid way of handling it and often the correct answer.

There needs to be something at the top level that can handle a crashing process.

VMG··on Show HN: Pegma, an open-source version of the classic Peg solitaire
I did not until now

infohazard!

VMG··on The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes
I am eternally grateful for the SGU.

Our escape to reality indeed

VMG··on XSLT RIP
The "References" section of the XML spec is almost longer than the JSON spec itself

> [...] serious XML implementation [...]

You are cherry-picking here

VMG··on XSLT RIP
> by the time you've written a JSON parser that beats that you could've equally produced an equally improved XML system while retaining the much greater functionality it already had.

Here is where you lose me

The JSON spec fits on two screen pages https://www.json.org/json-en.html

The XML spec is a book https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/

VMG··on Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy
> Some controllers are originally painted with a rubber-like cover that, unfortunately, degrades with time and becomes a sticky gooey. I usually deal with it with the help of Methanol. It nicely removes it.

I have some products like that and I despise them. Maybe I should try methanol.

VMG··on Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at
Perfect. This is why I visit this website
VMG··on Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
Isn't that what thinking mode is?
VMG··on YAML document from hell (2023)
What do you mean by "support"?
VMG··on CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?
This is hilarious, I have almost exactly the same prompts. Why are the LLMs so afraid of breaking changes and propagating exceptions?
VMG··on Germicidal UV could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water
There is a giant orb in the sky that emits UV and has for billions of years.

I think the microbes are still trying to figure this one out.

VMG··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
The problem here is that there might be a bug fix or even security fix that is not backported to old versions, and you suddenly have to update to a much newer version in a short time
VMG··on Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization
naive question: isn't fiber optic cables for communication a counter-example to your thesis?
VMG··on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
> It configured also non-existent drivers, and for some reason it enabled monkey test support (but not test support).

If it doesn't have the underlying base data, it tends to hallucinates. (It's getting a bit difficult to tell when it has underlying data, because some models autonomously search the web). The models are good at transforming data however, so give it access to whatever data it needs.

Also let it work in a feedback loop: tell it to compile and fix the compile errors. You have to monitor it because it will sometimes just silence warnings and use invalid casts.

> What am I doing wrong? Or is this really the state of the art?

It may sound silly, but it's simply not good at 2D

VMG··on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
crawlers can run JS, and also invest into running the Proof-Of-JS better than you can
VMG··on Study mode
I just tried this

> Me: why is madrid the capital of france?

> ChatGPT: It's not. Madrid is the capital of Spain. The capital of France is Paris.

VMG··on CARA – High precision robot dog using rope
14:00 is a Schelling point
VMG··on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic
related: googles song detection alg detects my phone vibrating as the song "Montagem Dilatação Hipnótica"
VMG··on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet
> 3. Data while processing is un-encrypted, as code need to 'see' the data

read the article again

VMG··on Bitcoin passes $120k milestone as US Congress readies for 'crypto week'
Don't feel bad. I sold my coins and now I'm glad I don't have the headache of securing it now.
VMG··on "AI discourse" is a joke
Unfortunately she is not contributing much to the discourse either. She just wants it to shift to the topics she cares about.
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