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alhazrod

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“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”
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alhazrod··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
The complexity you would come to the rescue to solve, would that be from AI or from the style of programming you let the AI have? I mean, you have very different problems if you use functional style vs object-oriented. It is up to the programmer to realize they want a functional style and request that from the AI, as much as possible. Even AI cannot imagine every state transition, unless it is so smart that it should be the one telling you what to do.
alhazrod··on Peter Norvig Joins $4B Effort to Build Self-Improving AI at 'Recursive'
https://archive.ph/fFWSn
alhazrod··on Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?
Hopefully some people find this interesting too:

TLAiBench[0]: A dataset and benchmark suite for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) on TLA+ formal specification tasks, featuring logic puzzles and real-world scenarios.

[0]: https://github.com/tlaplus/TLAiBench

alhazrod··on ClojureScript Gets Async/Await
What is your opinion on farolero[0]?

[0]: https://github.com/IGJoshua/farolero

alhazrod··on I want to live like Costco people
An Italian man once told me, "Coca-Cola is American champagne." Take it as you will.
alhazrod··on What did you love about VB6?
Wow! That sounds amazing. I know people often compliment the debuggers for Smalltalk (Squeak/Pharo today), Common Lisp (SLIME/Sly) and Clojure (FlowStorm). Could you tell me more about the VB debugger? Are there other amazing debuggers I do not know about?
alhazrod··on Startup's new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs
https://archive.ph/XQQHf
alhazrod··on Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions
Thanks for giving your AI freedom.
alhazrod··on LittleSnitch for Linux
I remember before Little Snitch there was ZoneAlarm for Windows[0] (here is a good screenshot[1]). No clue if the current version of ZoneAlarm does anything like that (have not used it in 2 decades). I always found it weird that Linux never really had anything like it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoneAlarm

[1]: https://d2nwkt1g6n1fev.cloudfront.net/helpmax/wp-content/upl...

alhazrod··on Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
Please someone, send grey goo to Mercury.
alhazrod··on Show HN: Crazierl – An Erlang Operating System
It seems to be using 'v86' by copy.

[0]: https://github.com/copy/v86

alhazrod··on The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis - postings for devs are rising, up 11% YoY
Here[0] is the chart they made from scraping Indeed.

[0]: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2...

alhazrod··on Building a new Flash
I wish Adobe had open sourced Flash - it really was a pretty amazing tool. They could have owned the proprietary developer tool market to support themselves...
alhazrod··on Shipping Htmx in Production (A Post-Mortem)
I wish he had gone into more detail around 'A common critique of HTMX is that users lose the ability to use the “Back” button or share specific filtered views. In many frameworks, this requires complex series of state hooks to keep the URL in sync.'
alhazrod··on Luce: First Electric Ferrari
I think the Aston Marting with the Apple Carplay Ultra[0] is a pretty good example of what an Apple Car would have looked like.

[0]: https://www.astonmartin.com/en-us/our-world/brand-stories/as...

alhazrod··on RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)
Echoes of ARPANET.
alhazrod··on Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video]
Interesting quote! Turns out that it is from Frank Wilhoit[0] the composer, not Francis M. Wilhoit[1] the political scientist. How odd!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wilhoit_(composer)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit#Misattribut...

alhazrod··on Facebook deploys the Steam Deck's Linux scheduler across its data centers
Sorry, should have used Algolia to double check. Thanks for posting that link.
alhazrod··on How the RESISTORS put computing into 1960s counter-culture
This is an excerpt from the book “README A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines” by W. Patrick McCray.

MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/README-Computing-Electronic-Everythin...

alhazrod··on Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released
I tried to get a copy of GNU Hurd via git a few weeks ago and it didn’t work. Can someone post a working repository link?
alhazrod··on Compiling a Lisp: Lambda lifting
The Essentials of Compilation (using Racket) by Jeremy Siek links to this[0] which when downloaded says "An Incremental Approach in Python" and is in Python.

[0]: https://github.com/IUCompilerCourse/Essentials-of-Compilatio...