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abc42··on Crystal 1.22
They have an interactive mode right now (crystal i), but it's not very comprehensive. You cannot use certain libraries with it etc.

Shouldn't be terribly hard to make it good though. Some time ago, I added a JIT REPL in a few afternoons with Claude, ending up with roughly the same performance as their compiler, and with it working reliably with all the libraries I tested. But since they don't want LLM contributions in Crystal, I just left it as an interesting experiment and started working on my own language instead.

abc42··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
>PHP is no more vulnerable than those languages.

In theory, perhaps not. In practice, much more vulnerable.

abc42··on PHP 8.2.35
Sure, but this particular vulnerability could not have happened in a language like Rust.
abc42··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
That's a false dichotomy. PHP is mainly used in creating web pages, and a scripting language is not a requirement there.

If you compare it with production languages, PHP looks pretty weak.

abc42··on Bitbucket Is Down!
Atlassian stuff is Java, I believe.
abc42··on PHP 8.2.35
That's how 90+% of script kiddy -type hackings happen, isn't it. That or publically available databases without a password.

AI is gonna make our stuff pretty robust, eventually. The transition phase might hurt a bit.

abc42··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
>And China is not really supporting Russia

Yes, yes they are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_the_Russo-Ukrainian_...

abc42··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
I support people making choices with full knowledge of what they are doing and what the consequences are, as much as it is possible. What I oppose is making choices without such knowledge.
abc42··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Have security companies considered that these open models could be used as sleeper agents even when they're deployed outside of China? Is that a serious attack vector or more like science fiction?
abc42··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Sure. Can you tell me why that means that it's ok for Chinese big tech to capture all our data?
abc42··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Valid question. I have no 100% factual answers and neither does anyone else here.

So I go with feeling, and that feeling says that China is worse. The feeling is partially supported by the fact that China is softly backing Russia in its attack against the west.

Trump's USA is obviously completely horrible, but he is also in large part a product of Russian influence, which again is part of the larger block in which China resides.

abc42··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Note that opencode routes deepseek requests to China.
abc42··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
No need to use a chinese provider, in case that's an issue for you. https://fireworks.ai provides this model for an ok price.
abc42··on Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
>I could care less

borderline murderous eyetwitch

abc42··on Apple HomeView
That's..... not a bad idea! Too bad I've exited the Apple ecosystem but if I hadn't I'd probably find plenty of uses for this.
abc42··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
Nice! This is much more interesting to me that BAR, which is just a multiplayer game.
abc42··on RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine
Obvious troll is obvious.
abc42··on RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine
LLM use is normalized in just about every other area except in very fringe nerd groups who oppose it like it was an interdimensional threat.

No reason to mention using it any more than disclosing the text editor they used.

abc42··on Zig v0.17.0
It looks like they're spending 5 months what should be a 1 month job these days.
abc42··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
https://x.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425
abc42··on Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"
Ignorance is bliss.
abc42··on Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series
LLM these days should make it easy for Qualcomm to add such support.
abc42··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Yeah, that's why Tesla, Polestar and even BYD work so well.
abc42··on Maki, the efficient coder
TUI application written in Rust, maki has some interesting token-saving mechanisms
abc42··on Google Rolls Out $899-Plus 'Ai laptops'
Perhaps you can install a real Linux on this one. Probably not though.
abc42··on Apple Watch Series 12
Why did you downgrade from your 13 mini? It's supported until 2030.
abc42··on Apple Watch Series 12
Some clothes have this technology called "pockets".
abc42··on Roomy Is Generally Available
Roomy is an atproto-based groupchat platform.
abc42··on Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Another take from David Lynch: https://www.amazon.com/Catching-Big-Fish-Meditation-Consciou...

> Ideas are like fish.

> If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.

> Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.

Even though he liberally sprinkled pseudoscientificism into his metacognition, the older I get, the more I think he really got it.

abc42··on I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)
Seems like a wireguard port in would be a simpler solution, at least superficially. If somebody manages to break both wireguard and ssh security, they probably had access to my laptop anyway so I've lost already.
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