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lamuswawir··on Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic
Linuxulator feels like magic for most things, until said thing works with systemd.
lamuswawir··on What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
Thanks.
lamuswawir··on Slow
Thank you.
lamuswawir··on Slow
Thank you.
lamuswawir··on First malaria treatment for babies approved for use
This particular one is mostly about dosing, the available medicines were weight based, with lowest dosages in the 5-15kg range. This brings dosages lower allowing more precise dosing for the lighter babies.

Edit: it's a very welcome addition. Limits side effects.

lamuswawir··on ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure
I am a simple man, I see AI2, I upvote.
lamuswawir··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
I am working on an app to detect tooth problems. I envision it as something you can use for a quick check for the large majority who don't have regular dental care. It will be late detection but a good alternative to doing nothing.

I am experimenting with the current SOTA multimodal LLMs, but performance is still not yet there, they still hallucinate non-existent teeth. (As an aside, I have found a simple but very telling test, I have an image with only 4 teeth visible up and 10 down, so I prompt the modal to count, non have been able to, but Gemini 2.5 pro is the closest of the lot, performance is worse in the description when the counting test fails).

I am going to try segmenting the image to see if I will have better results by prompting to describe segment by segment.

lamuswawir··on LLMs pose an interesting problem for DSL designers
I now put documentation of my DSLs and macros in a folder in the repo. I give the agent an instruction about consulting the documentation and it is working so far, but not that well. I am considering switching to all generics.
lamuswawir··on Why I wrote the BEAM book
The official documentation explains things a little, but only a little.
lamuswawir··on Why I wrote the BEAM book
Fullstops.
lamuswawir··on Why I wrote the BEAM book
Foundationdb also has it's own C++ actor framework.
lamuswawir··on Why I wrote the BEAM book
The binary interface makes interop easier with other langauges. A note of incompatibility in versions after OTP-24 with those before.
lamuswawir··on Why I wrote the BEAM book
There have been multiple attempts in various languages to implement Erlang-like processes and claims of parity, Erlang processes remain unbeaten at what they do.
lamuswawir··on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
Thank you internet stranger. I like having termux running on my phone, just in case. I will definitely try this out.
lamuswawir··on Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023)
It's not false, Erlang was indeed banned at Ericsson, which caused Joe Armstrong to leave. They later reversed course and brought him, together with the language back. This is a well documented fact in the history of the language.
lamuswawir··on Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU
New term, "God's advocate"!
lamuswawir··on Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator
This community provides the most informational value to me. Thank you people and long live.
lamuswawir··on Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
Try exp-1206. That thing works on large context.
lamuswawir··on Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
Dreamweaver!
lamuswawir··on Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
Flash Lite is the least bad.
lamuswawir··on Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
Google's results from the AIStudio are really good results. Everything there is good. Probably because the studio has better models than are currently being used for general search.
lamuswawir··on Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)
Erlang is built for reliability. They're chasing nine nines. Everything about the BEAM is built to emphasize that, the design choices, the documentation, the recommended practices.

Erlang is not very fast, but that's not what it was built for.

lamuswawir··on Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)
Came here to say this. In Lisp, you can just compile a function, or load a file and it just works. It's not even sold as a hot feature, not the way Erlang sells it. It's just a feature.

I manage a few websites written in Lisp, and updating them is as simple as push code, recompile and it works.

lamuswawir··on Zigler: Zig NIFs in Elixir
Erlang is not very backward compatible. At least not at OTP 22.
lamuswawir··on Writes and Write-Nots
I have found journalling to be pretty effective about anything. Most times when I meet a block, I write about it. Doesn't require tons of experience to journal about stuff.
lamuswawir··on Mount Unix system into Common Lisp image
Cloning into ~/common-lisp/ also works great.
lamuswawir··on In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)
Having a reflex and breastfeeding are two different things. The baby can have the reflex, but the mother has no milk or the latching technique is poor (as mentioned elsewhere in these comments). So the child not breastfeeding doesn't mean there is no reflex. And yes, the process can be painful and stressful to many mothers most especially first timers (experience also counts).
lamuswawir··on In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)
Newborns don't have to learn how to suckle. It's a reflex, called a suckling reflex. Lacking a suckling reflex is an indicator of disease. Basically a newborn suckles everything that goes into the mouth, nipple or not.
lamuswawir··on Htmx: Simplicity in an Age of Complicated Solutions
I really loved the ideas of HTMX but when I finally used it in a project, it was still overly complicated for my needs and yet in some areas underfeatured. Vanilla Websockets + insertAdjacentHTML works pretty well for me.
lamuswawir··on One Million Checkboxes
CHILL LOL.
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