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That's not true at all, for example in Belgium, any book that discredits genocide, incites to racial hatred, or shows sex with minors is banned from sale and/or possession. Then th…

The whole avoid floats thing just isn't true. I have 20years experience in fintech and most of it used doubles. Excel uses doubles. Your frontend will use doubles. All your db supp…

Your mindset is why we got rid out of nuclear energy. Nuclear lobby bad, consumer lobby good. Consumer lobby didn't care that what they wanted was impossible (risk free free, carbo…

> In most EU countries if your company went bankrupt, you are not allowed to open another one. Think about that for a little bit. That's just completely false but ok. There's even …

These stories about regulation preventing EU frontier models are frankly complete bullshit. The real reason is much simpler, but also harder to fix. To build frontier models you ne…

You mean you rewrote the nginx test suite with smaller leaner tests ? How did you bootstrap that ? How do you know the leaner tests are equivalent to the real ones ?

Mistral is against these EU regulations. I bought a printed version of the AI act, it's 600 pages of absolute nonsense, with 5 mandatory committees on national, eu, company level; …

I do some work in Africa and that's not what i've seen. The NGOs have their own separate supply chains and are quite resistant to corrupt officials and local criminals. The problem…

What I mean is that they should use the standard commercial channels and use their economical and political channels to make sure they work well so that everyone would profit from …

I help a good friend run a small business in Africa, and this story is exactly why, every time I go visit, I fill my luggage with stuff she needs. Laptops, car engine turbos, espre…

That's why the SWIFT backup data centers in Belgium are camouflaged as posh villas (or so i've heard)

I think the best place to put barriers in place is at the mcp / tool layer. The email inbox mcp should have guardrails to prevent damage. Those guardrails could be fine grained per…

maybe you're a pro vector artist but I couldn't create such a cool one myself in illustrator tbh

The architectural patterns are similar in go. The part of the prompt that contains the refactoring concerns that I wanted to fix are specific to this go project. You can very well …

That's the point of the loop, (the prompt is in another comment) start with a fresh context at every step, read the whole code base, and do one thing at a time. Two important part …

Opus 4.6 is smart enough to run the tests without being told to do so, that's why it isn't in the prompt

The TASKS.md file will be created and filled by the model. The prompt needs to be run repeatedly in a loop until it decides there's nothing to be done anymore. The service was in g…

Unfortunately not, it's private company code. But I can share the prompt I used for the refactoring: - 1. Read the whole code of the repository. - 2. Read the TASKS.md file if it e…

Yes, someone still has to orchestrate but it's going to be fewer people with higher level of responsibilities.

> How should they know your project is worth investing 500k? I heard they've got 3x8M, per year I presume, so 500k is a huge chunk of that. Everyone thinks their project is worth 5…

It is extremely exhausting, but it's also the biggest change in tech since the invention of the internet. It don't think it can be ignored.

> Looking at the talk lineup of a LLM related devroom, it sound forward looking to me: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/ai/ It doesn't to me at all, it is mainly focused on s…

Yes, maybe I should.

OSS original point wasn't just to have fun among nerds, but to have a real impact on the world. Fun and curiosity is fine, but there's a line where it becomes a tech themed larp ev…