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True. But it's also an illustration of how relying on an OS' native sandboxing capabilities is nicely composable with other isolation techniques.

This has both features and is open-source: https://nono.sh/ It's an OS-level sandbox, though. It doesn't launch VMs or containers for sandboxing purposes; it uses whatever sandboxi…

`find` isn't a Bash built-in and has basically nothing to do with Bash as a language. Not knowing `find` is a basic Unix literacy issue, not a Bash language footgun. You're right t…

> I plan to build bootable images and boot the kernel on Apple M1 GuixSD with GNU Hurd would be a really fun way to repurpose an old MBP.

The stakes ("nature"-as-hobby vs. navigating the built environment that 99.999% of people depend on for survival) are very different, and they're also very different from the stake…

The word "capitalism" is originally a pejorative epithet, coined by critics of capitalism.

Uh, how big would such a flag have to be?

Thanks!

Although you mention cost, I don't see task cost or total evaluation cost per model in your data. Am I just missing it?

A nitpick: > the only cOmMuNiTy [most free software projects] have around them are the users requesting features or reporting bugs while most of the time not contributing in any fo…

The dream is something batteries-included but still radically hackable. Emacs is slowly making this feasible via smaller and smaller "starter kits" as it adds new features. It's no…

Same, from beginning to end! This week I had an LLM help me debug and resolve a subtle issue with Magit via TRAMP on macOS targets, and resolve it, plus a bunch of other small enha…

When I worked as a Scala developer years ago, I still used JetBrains IDEs for some things but I did most of my work in Emacs using ENSIME and ggtags/xref as a fallback. I ended up …

There's a language called "Nickel" which grew (eventually! it took a long time) out of efforts to add a type system to Nix. It's still early days in that it's under very active dev…

Nix isn't a scripting language in the sense you seem to have in mind. The snippets you saw that looked like Bash most likely were literally Bash, embedded as multiline strings in N…

It's in the opening chapter, when the narrator talks about her experience working on a software system for AIDS patients and their medical care providers. The critique is not just …

It's worth noting because the redirections and their syntax are nonetheless otherwise shared. I don't think POSIX compatibility for shells is that important tbf. The heart of a Uni…

Configurable peripherals should store their configurations entirely on-board, and they should be configurable using a well-understood protocol. Users can then use either the vendor…

And they need to support prompt caching, or customers stuck on Bedrock will still find the very expensive models from OpenAI and Anthropic prics-competitive with the Chinese ones.

All of this depends on your specific shell and its parser. Fish doesn't let you put redirections at the beginning like that (though I wish it did), while GNU Bash does.

Things like this are (sadly) common (and age-old) problems with automation and computerization. (For a vivid account of this phenomenon, check out the novel _Close to the Machine_,…

There's a book about doing this with Git. I wonder how much of the content is cribbed from sources like that, laundered through LLMs. https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

> it's almost a programming language It is a programming language. That thing you write between single quotation marks when you invoke jq is a program . (And like with other progra…

What about the job is so good as to make you tolerate this?

> At least before it would listen to instructions like this. Would it actually follow them? IME LLMs are incapable of estimating the length of their own output, the total length of…