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> A simple recursive-descent parser is easy to write by hand and runs in linear time. Recursive descenrs parsers are not linear. They are generally O(n^2) and can even can go expon…

I can relate: My son is born at 02h30 right DST change time. It tooks 3 f*cking days to get his birth registered in the Hospital new birth registration system. The hospital (at the…

> I had a NAO robot (from another great French company) and it walked to employees to motivate them to do some movements. One Toyota research center where I worked had robots that …

> It also found the bug that Leanstral 1.5 found and the authors highlighted This is a little bit like someone pointing the moon and you look at the finger. The formal proof domain…

I played with Qwen few months ago, I do prefer Mistral vibe for everyday usage (significantly faster if not self hosted).

> Your reason can't be cost because there are superior models that are cheaper than Mistral models Nope. This is not my experience. Public pricing in token/$ is only part of the eq…

> Mistral because it performs the best, by whatever secular metric of your choosing? I am. I use them primarily through their vibe CLI. Reason is simple: They are cheaper (by almos…

> This thing told me Gemini is closest to Anthony Albanese, the current Australian Prime Minister. Is this a geolocation thing I mean: do not take this thing too seriously. It also…

> My theory is that they raised too much money too soon. That's also my feeling. And that's the curse of many VC funded companies. And they are not even in the classical state of e…

> sorry for rambling. You're right to ramble. I also believe that the world need a high level language fitting for accelerators that is not Python. However developing something lik…

> Swift for Tensorflow, the project hardly survived one year after the public announcement. This was doom to fail from the beginning. Swift will always have the image of an Apple p…

> American expats also pay American taxes unless they give up US citizenship. Practically, they barely pay anything significant. The lower net salary in Europe / Asia associated wi…

> being contradicted by another minister or by an official from a Canton. Then you are misinformed. Because it happens continuously . Canton executive argumenting again "conseil fé…

Unpopular opinion: They can not and they should not. We live in a world where free open weight-models become competitive with frontier model within a year or two. It is much more l…

> And what good does it do? The EU cannot speak in a single voice - there is no foreign minister, no defense minister, no whatever minister. Nor can Switzerland. And still it is on…

> maintenance problems” pretty much sums up a lot of older Renaults. It was in the 2000s but not anymore. If you go to eastern Europe, specially in the Balkans, you will see a lot …

> such motors require frequent maintenance for changing the brushes. "Frequent" is all relative. The Renault Zoe, 10y ago, was already using a synchronous engine with wired rotor. …

This post post is honestly speaking a bag of garbage and ill advises: > Some good old habit from C can still be positively used in C++, like the void* pointer and the size paramete…

> My credit cards protect me from fraud. Your credit card protect you against nothing. Reimbursement in case of fraud is not fraud protection, it is just bare minimal customer serv…

> Doing it right is exactly the thing that makes this impossible. [...] do you really think that database will never be breached? It would become the prime target for all attackers…

> Identify theft is annoying, but it rarely has severe effects. I disagree. It has already severe effects. - The fact we are facing so many data leaks made easy for malicious agent…

> . I don't create new accounts, I never cross-login with my email address I honestly tend to think this is the only viable long term strategy. Let's face it: In a truly global int…

A few historical additions for anybody interest: - CASTOR at CERN had also its disk centric derivative named DPM (Disk pool manager) that helped to power the LHC computing grid for…

> through a combination of gestures and sketches, managed to buy a box of rapid-acting insulin at full price (around €30–40). Quick tip for people that might encounter such situati…

Not even close by 3 order of magnitude. Falcon has an accident rate of 2/640. Airlines are about ~1.3 / 10^6