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gchamonlive

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Check out my projects at <gitlab.com/users/gabriel.chamon/projects>

Check out my blog at <xd1.dev>

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Email: gchamon@gmail.com

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gchamonlive··on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Would also like a write-up. People assume it's just because of GitHub outages, but GitHub is slightly worse in every aspect, so for big projects and organisations it compounds to being quite messy to manage and operate.

GitLab is thought-out to support larger groups with more complex pipelines, and while it's got it's own set of quirks, it doesn't begin to compare, GitHub in contrast seems like a toy forge for toy projects.

gchamonlive··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
By this definition if they could instead buffer recent facts and then offload to their weights reliably and efficiently they would be able to accrue knowledge despite their substrate.
gchamonlive··on Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages
Yes but can you plan anything properly in advance? How many unknown unknowns aren't being accounted for? Maybe it's best to plan for improper planning. What to do when (not if) critical decisions start falling apart?
gchamonlive··on Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'
Yes but it's very hard when those that make the rules are the same as those benefiting from them, as it's the case in olygarchies.
gchamonlive··on Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'
Apart from the fact that Meta admitted to it (https://www.brasil247.com/brasil/meta-admite-restricoes-a-co...) there is always the practical experiment anyone could have done at the time that meta's AI would deny making an image of Lula but would gladly create one of Bolsonaro (https://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2026/10/14/ia-da-met...)

That and the fact that US is actively putting money into favouring the candidate that's offering them access to Brazilian rare earth reserves (https://valorinternational.globo.com/politics/news/2026/09/3..., https://amadomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/memorando-... and https://youtu.be/xPlKzqiYH5c?si=Cw4YGXU8B2Xb2EHY) we are looking at a direct attack against Brazil's right to self determination by the US and its corporations.

gchamonlive··on Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake
If they have obvious similarities, they aren't randomly distributed data
gchamonlive··on Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft

  Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that". 
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
gchamonlive··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
The urban lifestyle is also to blame when it demands a lot of time for work and commute, leaving the individual with little time for self improvement and free time. It deteriorates the third place by not allowing time to dedicate to it.

These however are all effects of a larger mentality of hyper-individualism and hyper-productivity, symptoms of late-stage capitalism.

gchamonlive··on Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
"Going rogue" and "skipping basics" all assume lack of intentionality. Is it known that they didn't really architect these hacks just to feed a hype?
gchamonlive··on Worlds more habitable than Earth?
Sure you are
gchamonlive··on Worlds more habitable than Earth?
Nobody understands Brazilian politics as of now, and if anybody tells you they do they're lying. We're living in unprecedented times, literally.
gchamonlive··on Worlds more habitable than Earth?
Only if you don't really understand ethics.
gchamonlive··on Worlds more habitable than Earth?
We're considering these implications right now, so yeah it's preposterous, but you'd be surprised (or maybe not) with the number of people that would dismiss these considerations as pointlessly delaying progress.
gchamonlive··on Worlds more habitable than Earth?
I'm Brazilian, I'm feeling the world ending effects of colonization today with the US actively sabotaging our democratic election process, so you bet I do, but anyone with a bit of humanity would also feel the same way.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/trump-state-...

gchamonlive··on Worlds more habitable than Earth?
If these worlds had biomes it would be imoral to colonize, because for the indigenous population already living there our arriving could mean a world-ending event for them. We have to be very careful these are sterile worlds before sending missions.
gchamonlive··on 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
It's important to separate the community ethos and the rust core dev team policies, because I'd be surprised if the official stance of the rust team would be condescending to other technologies.
gchamonlive··on AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
There are many ways to say the same thing, that code throughput wasn't the only bottleneck, communication is by far the hardest, most brittle and time consuming part of software production.

We need to start becoming better writers, capable of expressing complex thoughts concisely and with technical precision. Software production has become a sibling field to linguistics, more than it already was.

gchamonlive··on Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster
Care to say why my interpretation is wrong other than lack of subscription, because from where I'm standing, I'm the only one weaving any form of logical interpretation while your argument is basically "what a loser"
gchamonlive··on Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
Is this really the case? Because GitHub availability has been going downhill since way before models hit that critical mass of quality end of last year.
gchamonlive··on Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs
There ain't no free lunch, but real progress rarely depend on it. It's usually lunch we weren't eating before, or a different way to eat the same lunch but with much more satisfaction.
gchamonlive··on Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil
I agree there's less delegating now in these areas, but these are mostly topics of the past. Which half truths are we swallowing now, unknowingly most of the time, spoonfed by corp propaganda?
gchamonlive··on Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil
Lest you make them martys. Much better if we somehow turned them, used the one ring against them.
gchamonlive··on Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil
Never I think, it's time we started choosing not to.

Remember what is need not necessarily continue being so.

gchamonlive··on Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil
More importantly, when will the common folk stop delegating critical thinking to these corporations?

It's really important uphold the law, but nothing really happens if the collective attitude won't change.

gchamonlive··on WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload
Yeah, but this is like, your opinion man
gchamonlive··on AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people
How do you handle false positives in the detector?
gchamonlive··on Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes
Aren't diffusion models token-free?
gchamonlive··on Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster
Wouldn't feel the need to if folks would follows the community guidelines and stopped feeding the hysteria
gchamonlive··on Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
This is Microsoft scale, I'd be surprised if it made any difference these labs. It's more likely it's plain managerial mishandling of the infra in chasing new profit heights.
gchamonlive··on A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
I remember before COVID I was debating with a friend of mine whether or not private property is justifiable and it's ironic that the discussion was made obsolete by nobody being able to afford private property anymore
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