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AI companies sell tokens to produce slops. Then they sell more tokens to shield people from those slops.

Just check with pypy and Graalpy. Both support this as well.

As far as I understand, CPython implementation is THE specification. Some billions dollar ERP system firmly rely on this behavior, btw.

I've been doing things in Python for over 20 years. Only recently I learn that I can do this.

    >>> Dog.__bases__ = (Cat,)
    >>> isinstance(dog, Dog)
    True
    >>> isinstance(dog, Cat)
    True
    >>>

Just for you.

And 5% of that loss is dedicated for the 'public good'

Lots of progress https://emdashcms.com/blog

People who care and don't want Obsidian to disappear should support them, not destroy them. They are providing fair price product.

This is an example of why I don't think we're getting anywhere near an age of abundance with AI: we're using the power we've gained in a reductive way.

Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, ...

I guess you don't have the same opinion with your vehicle.

Object Pascal has more runtime reflection features which were added to facilitate visual programming paradigm. Do you know what can be faster than sub-second incremental compilation ? Run-time/Design-time manipulation !

In the future, homework and officework will only exists to generate AI providers revenue.

> we shouldn’t anthropomorphize

Agree. We should start treating these statistical tools as tools, rather than pretending they are another kind of being.

Exactly. These people really need to get a life.

Java was designed to make manual memory management a non-concern. Yet, ironically, it's the runtime that require more explicit memory tuning than any others.

AWS name is really negative.

I trust the person leading DuckDB, nevertheless.

I learn Thinking in C++ from his book for my Master thesis work in 2004

Whoever behind the company communication have done an incredibly terrible job. They start with an extremely unnecessary polished Steve-Jobs-alike debut video when they have zero stuff to offer, while the founder name is already immensely trustworthy. Then follow with a very ugly AI-image-heavy website and blog posts, only to be reverted back to plain website later.

I'd love the language and platform be succesful, nevertheless.

Wonder if this will become common practice from now on ?

  > Pull requests are disabled. Coding agents make it too easy to send a large, 
  > low-context change that costs maintainers more time than it saves. 
  > Thoughtful contributions are welcome; please understand the code, 
  > keep the patch focused, and respect the review time you are asking for.
  > 
  > Send a git format-patch attachment to ...

Love this sentence

"The need to conform to digital designs has created an ambient expectation of human subservience. A positive spin on A.I. is that it might spell the end of this torture, if we use it well."

I just learned about Gemma4.pas at the beginning of this week. Now this. This make me wonder how can inference engines could be built that easy. I'm not knowledgeable in this, but I thought it would take very deep Mathematic and system level knowledge, ... and a lot of patience.

Claude has even more occurrences than C#. I feel very old now.

I pressed Ctrl-F and search for some programming language names. So amazed by how popular Python, Typescript, and Rust these days. The day of enterprise Java & C# domination have now gone.

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One actually exists. The other doesn't

AD is for After Deepseek

The upside is that people will no longer be obligated to struggle.

Is this Mass Surveillance or Charlatan ?

And it's amazing that they are doing very well overall without having to do too well to generate revenue.

Microsoft cannot compete in browser race and has to adopt Chromium.

Apple cannot compete in AI and has to adopt Gemini

Google is a really amazing company.