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anewhnaccount2··on Val Town is winding down
I think that's what's he's cooking now: https://github.com/mech-lang I still keep checking on it. There were a lot of great ideas in Eve.
anewhnaccount2··on Formalizing CPython
One advantage of this approach is that it can be done both on the C implementation code and the Python standard library. It's a bit approximate -- automatic retrofitting of formal specification maybe it helps to think of it as a stepping stone for simple automated testing and property based testing.
anewhnaccount2··on Formalizing CPython
Same approach for Julias stdlib: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/formalizing-julia-in-lean-...
anewhnaccount2··on Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi
There is no stick unlike Anthropic (along with insisting on signing commits and "don't abuse the robot" the reason I started to use OpenAI instead of Anthropic --- not that I am under the illusion they are any less evil overall) but I think now there is starting to be a carrot towards Codex usage since there sessions are "cached forever". I assume if you use Pi you get 12 hours of cache instead.
anewhnaccount2··on What do the next 4000 emoji look like?
Yes but we used to call them emoticons which was a bit clunky to pronounce so it's probably a form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching
anewhnaccount2··on V100 SXM2 pinout and NVLink reference
What rumtime are you using?
anewhnaccount2··on Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics
Homophobia
anewhnaccount2··on The Experiment review – easily the most disturbing thing on British TV
That's not what the article was about. Read it again.
anewhnaccount2··on Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center
The assessment exists for a reason. There are other issues like runoff for example.
anewhnaccount2··on Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center
The assessment also concerns assessing for example runoff into rivers and neighbouring areas which include natural peatland. The culture in Finland respects the rule of law and people are often quite informed and detail oriented about matters of land management. The process exists for a reason and if people try to shortcut it the land should be forfitted although clearly there is so much money involved that it won't be. If they don't send a string message now, it errodes people's trust in the law and society which as said is very important in Finland. It keeps things working well.
anewhnaccount2··on Railpass
For many the route to the airport includes the train from Tampere to Tikkurila where there is a change to suburban rail. These cities are on that line so it's not so odd. Okay it's a bit odd to name it after the airport but it was someone's airport journey I suppose.
anewhnaccount2··on The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend
The original designs had boarding at the back. Don't even have to stop people can just leap on.
anewhnaccount2··on Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making
Yes this is the reason. Transformations like quantisation preserve the rank of outcomes much better than probability mass.
anewhnaccount2··on Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat
The main link is available internationally.
anewhnaccount2··on There are no "rogue" AI agents
There are different laws depending on your class. The laws are enforced by people who identify with those of their class and are deferential to those with of superior standing. This is why wage theft, for example is tolerated while actual theft, even in cases where it might be for basic sustenance, is not.
anewhnaccount2··on Claude Opus 5.5
Deepseek on high reminds me of Opus 4.x which was quite good for a lot of tasks.
anewhnaccount2··on Transit rewards
Infrastructure for cars is massively subsidised too. Since tansport is infrastructure it it interacts with everything else (eg less cars in the city => less spending on car infra) and has a lot of positive externalities. The investment pays back in positive outcomes which can also be quantified in terms of money of you like. It's like you've got a balance sheet but you're filtering it to only look at two items.
anewhnaccount2··on U.S. Small Biz Can't Ship to the EU Anymore
Exactly. I live in Finland bought an educational English grammar for kids book for my son 2nd hand from a private seller for 4 euros with 4 euros shipping from the UK. The final cost after all fees was was around 25 euros. It's not just for junk it's for everything. It's an Amazon subsidy (should have used amazon.de).
anewhnaccount2··on Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance
It's true you can. Just as you can say that you can enumerate all memory states in a real computer so it can be modelled as a finite state machine. These asymptotic models aren't real (our world as we experience it is finite and bounded) and exist as models from which to gain insights which we can transfer back. I love this argument BTW a classic that usually comes up in these discussions.
anewhnaccount2··on The Highest Point in the Netherlands
I thought it was relatively balanced. "It happened to work for me this time but it could have gone horribly wrong." That's the truth of psychedelics as a theraputic tool.
anewhnaccount2··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
The solution is that many goods have labels in many languages in tiny text. Almost unreadable for me!
anewhnaccount2··on Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
Care to share some ratios? Where you get the minerals from? Electrolite mix? Won't it explode everywhere if you shake after carbonation?
anewhnaccount2··on Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)
Exactly! It's only $0.0008T. Pocket change really...
anewhnaccount2··on 30 Years of HPC: many hardware advances, little adoption of new languages
How should it be better? Most environments offer Apptainer which can import Docker containers. Plus a lot of theae languages like Julia and Chapel are pretty self contained and programmed against eg ancient libc for these very reasons.
anewhnaccount2··on What Claude Code's Source Revealed About AI Engineering Culture
People notice the jank, and it's affecting CC's reputatio That's not easy to come back from.
anewhnaccount2··on Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel
The needle is beginning to move on this I believe: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00321-5
anewhnaccount2··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
Except Phillip K Dick calls the murder bots in Second Variety claws already so there's prior art right from the master of cyberpunk.
anewhnaccount2··on UN chief's last annual speech slams world leaders for lack of cooperation
The US is part of the world.
anewhnaccount2··on Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB
There is something like this but twice the prive in Finland https://www.moi.fi/laitenetti . Can't make outgoing calls but there are pay as you internet call out services for that occaddional use case.
anewhnaccount2··on Remove Black Color with Shaders
Looks like it's an extension offered by this https://css-doodle.com/
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