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NeutralForest

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    Comment #49088065

    I have a todo list longer than the Tour de France I want to tackle first!

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    Comment #49087793

    Great to see the project is still going strong, I kinda want to try CL but I always feel like I don't have a great use-case.

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    Comment #49082222

    Really interesting follow-up to the "parse dont validate" article and how to understand the trade-off between very specific typing or not.

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    Comment #48996737

    Uh sorry I mistook this for the 3.15 profiler announcement, thanks for the correction!

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    Comment #48995406

    The man himself, thank you for the articles =)

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    Comment #48994817

    Yes indeed! Mostly don't put changing data in the beginning or prepend.

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    Comment #48994534

    Anything Sam Rose is worth reading: https://ngrok.com/blog/prompt-caching but the implementation will be up to your provider and harness, for deepseek, they expose some numbers: ht…

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    Comment #48994409

    Here are explanation on how to use it from one of the people working on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x4X83CDSA and the chunky docs that go with it in the beta of 3.15: htt…

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    Comment #48959862

    Wasting Orval is the biggest sin of all.

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    Comment #48797992

    Interesting article, wonder where we're going with this though, I find it's very difficult to keep LLMs on track and critical enough to be useful. Just want to say that: >In our de…

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    Comment #48721485

    I can only recommend looking at all the Decker author's projects. He's done work on APL languages, GUIs, interactive programming, etc. https://beyondloom.com/things/index.html A co…

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    Comment #48675408

    The only thing I got from the presentation is that I still underrate geese, gotta put some respect on their feathered name.

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    Comment #48525791

    > My experience with Python is a really bad one for professional work: it's chaotic and slow, and has by far the worst versioning and packaging story of any mainstream language, ye…

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    Comment #48518928

    I think this article: https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-... was the most exhaustive review of accessibility that I know of.

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    Comment #48396197

    It's exciting to see those developments in what is a language with already great economics. I'm sad there's pretty much no market for it in western Europe aside from maybe Germany.…

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    Comment #48106881

    Software design/architecture is a strange beast. It feels that if you want to learn it, you should spend time in legacy systems and large codebases of rewrite a project 3 times to …

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    Comment #47963481

    Thanks, I'll leave it as sucky markdown :D

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    Comment #47963171

    That's fair, I have plenty of international coworkers and I think (and from what I hear from them), that Belgium is decently welcoming, at least in large cities. I do take the trai…

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    Comment #47962393

    I'm not disagreeing

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    Comment #47962151

    > Having kids is a financial and ecological disaster. As an outside observer it's remarkable to me people are still having any kids at all, which speaks to the strong subjective fa…

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    Comment #47962110

    Depending on the country's situation, you might have to use fossil fuels during the transition, that's alright. But the transition is non-negotiable at this point.

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    Comment #47962043

    I just want Belgium to go all-in on renewables, we [already have a pretty good electricity production make-up]( https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/energy/electricity-product... ) bu…

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    Comment #47961987

    It's fine to shit on things but I have service almost everywhere and I take the train often with usually few issues aside from works on the tracks. Let's not blow up issues, it tak…