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lgas··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
This is just anecdotal and I might be doing it wrong but I made jev and laya versions of a simple semantic grep tool (https://github.com/lgastako/jevplay) and played with them a bit, and at first it seemed like laya was comparable (eg on queries like "this is a mans name" or "this is a womans name" on names.txt) but the more I played with it, eg. "this is a vegetable" on foods.txt the further the gap widened in favor of jev. Then I started trying variations of the query eg simply "mans name" and for the most part laya just fell apart and didn't return anything useful for a lot of stuff. I was hoping to find that laya was competitive because it's much faster to have the model running locally but it's just not, yet.
lgas··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python
I guess repeating a mistake helps make it more obvious too.
lgas··on A Few Good Ideas in Programming Languages
I've never used D, but it appears to be valid syntax. https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#postconditions
lgas··on An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations
Yes.
lgas··on Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means
I live in DC, on the other side of the country and I've heard about him, so I think you are underestimating his renown.
lgas··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
The same understanding still exists, from https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/wiki/detailed_rul...:

> The purpose of this subreddit is to simplify complex concepts in a way that is accessible for laypeople.

> The first thing to note about this is that this forum is not literally meant for 5-year-olds. Do not post questions that an actual 5-year-old would ask, and do not respond as though you're talking to a child.

lgas··on An agent in 100 lines of Lisp
I'm not saying you should, I'm saying you shouldn't clutter up every thread with this type of useless comment. It just detracts from the people that do want to engage with it.
lgas··on An agent in 100 lines of Lisp
This doesn't need to be posted on every post. Everyone that cares is well aware. It's like saying "this was written in english" on every post.
lgas··on A road to Lisp: Why Lisp
Looks fine to me in Chrome on Mac.
lgas··on A road to Lisp: Why Lisp
It may very well be the case that it makes trade-offs that turn of lots of programmers but I don't think it's popularity directly implies it by definition, rather just that it implies there's something about it that prevents lots of programmers from taking it up en masse, and I think that's perhaps just the fact that it is so different from what everyone's used to and it takes some time to adapt to it enough to be able to appreciate the tradeoffs.
lgas··on A road to Lisp: Why Lisp
> But again, I suppose all the Lisp forms return values, and quibbling about the declarative : imperative :: expressions : statements mapping is just petty semantics

I would argue that it's very much not just semantics, or at the very least it's certainly not petty. The distinction has a noticeable effect on what the experience of writing code and on the reliability and related properties of the written code.

lgas··on Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler
DuckDB is in-process though?
lgas··on How to corrupt an SQLite database file
Odd. I've never heard it pronounced in any other way than "Sequel-lite".
lgas··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
This is likely true for the majority of humans too.
lgas··on Charity – Categorical programming language (1998)
It looks like what you would get if python and ocaml had a baby.
lgas··on Cursor Camp
Could just include the badge names both unencoded and encoded to get the best of both worlds.
lgas··on I still prefer MCP over skills
I still prefer windshield wipers over turn signals.
lgas··on Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents
What is there not to understand? AI is booming right now. People are trying to get in on the gold rush and/or trying to sell pick axes to the miners. There is a ton of fertile ground for anyone that wants to try something, so it's being explored.
lgas··on Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands
Is there a demo somewhere? It seems like the perfect thing to put in the center of that page.

Edit: I found https://sanderdesnaijer.github.io/map-gesture-controls/examp...

lgas··on What does it mean to “write like you talk”?
> I wonder if there’s a way to train that ability.

I have to imagine it comes down to study and practice, just like everything else.

lgas··on Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?
Arbitrary and random are basically the same in this context. The person you're replying to is pointing out they are specific keys for specific reasons because those specific keys can be used to figure out which kind of keyboard it is, they are not random or arbitrary, they are chosen with a specific reason in mind. If they were really chosen arbitrarily, they would not be able to accomplish the goal.
lgas··on Good software knows when to stop
If they did they learned writing from an LLM first.
lgas··on What AI coding costs you
It seems to do this kind of stuff more when you're not looking too. Like I'll be approving edits all day without any problem then the second I set it to auto it gets a lint error about dead code and adds a pragma to allow the dead code instead of removing it, etc.
lgas··on The Om Programming Language
Turned them into quotation marks?
lgas··on HackMyClaw
Why do you keep referring to them as "inyections"?
lgas··on Visual introduction to PyTorch
You can print to PDF from your browser. It ends up looking nice.
lgas··on Claude Opus 4.6
Well, if there are papers that match your criteria, it's hallucinating the "no".
lgas··on Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP
why would that matter?
lgas··on Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
That's a software watchdog. The comment you're replying to is talking about hardware watchdogs.
lgas··on Go away Python
What about it?
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