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New comment by Deukhoofd in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:32:42 +0000

For what it's worth, the Dutch Central Bank argues that this is simply because it'd be easier to sell in London in a crisis situation.

They've previously stated to be far more worried about the dependency on VISA and MasterCard than the gold reserves in the US.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2560460-dnb-maakt-zich-zorgen-over-am...

New comment by Deukhoofd in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"

Deukhoofd — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:45:16 +0000

I wonder how they're doing right now with water levels reaching critical low points.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

Deukhoofd — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:44:12 +0000

It sounds neat, but I do wonder how viable this is commercially. How high do we rate the chances that governments around the world will step in before another kind of E2E is rolled out.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:09:46 +0000

I'll have to be honest here man, yeah no shit. I can't think of any good reason of why you would add something like this. A standard comment section is typically bad enough, and at least you're able to moderate that. An anonymous real-time chat embedded within your own blog? That's just asking for issues.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

Deukhoofd — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:05:42 +0000

I don't doubt that AI has benefits, but I do doubt that the major AI providers will be able to make back their investments. They've spent trillions of dollars, and yet they've barely created a moat. We're seeing open weight models being released that are only months behind them, that can run for way cheaper. This makes the future of OpenAI and Anthropic suddenly look rather bleak.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."

Deukhoofd — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:23:37 +0000

The article clearly points out that it wasn't autism for which Mei was treated, but Snijders Blok–Campeau syndrome, of which autism is just a single symptom. That goes way beyond neurodivergency.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Kimi K3 is now live"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:12:26 +0000

I feel like the quickstart is missing something. It's referring to its tech blog for actual benchmarks, but K3 isn't mentioned on there, the last thing on that blog was K2.6, 2 releases ago.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:58:45 +0000

Food tends to be a lot easier to produce, and many countries do often subsidize their food production, as well as have mercantilistic policies to ensure food production is kept locally.

Vaccines is a more interesting one, and would be something that might indeed be of interest to a nation. On the other hand I don't think many governments are that concerned about another pandemic, sometimes the discourse regarding it very much sounds like "what are the odds it'll happen again"

New comment by Deukhoofd in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:45:46 +0000

It's probably not a bad idea. Steel is one of the things that an industrialized country needs to produce to protect its own sovereignty. Letting it shut down and just hope you'll always be able to import enough steel from other countries is a bad long-term strategy. You'd be left unable to fend for yourself.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:42:25 +0000

For your first two questions, I can't recommend Crafting Interpreters enough, it's probably one of the best entry-level books that goes into that entire process.

https://craftinginterpreters.com/

New comment by Deukhoofd in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

Deukhoofd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:12:30 +0000

This entire issue is a disaster of a Github issue. It looks like its on the entirely wrong repository. I did eventually find the text in another repository; the one for the Android reference implementation: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android...

It was removed from there to clarify the entire "Hey, this application is not done yet"

It being in the reference implementation instead of the spec is a massive difference. One means that it's just there to show an example, and we should push national governments to do it better in their implementations, while the other would mean that it'd be a requirement for all implementations, which it doesn't appear to be.

It also looks like the reference implementation removed that functionality entirely several months ago: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android...

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it"

Deukhoofd — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:57:17 +0000

So it's a config setting you can change? What would you expect them to fix, that sounds like a feature?

New comment by Deukhoofd in "The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:42:23 +0000

When I last played with it checking out its capabilities, I found the thing I was mostly missing to really make use of it was the thing referenced in this article, the Component Model. Without a type model and binary specifications, interop was made a lot harder than it'd have been otherwise. Now that that's in, it becomes a lot more useful.

I was mostly looking at it for its state as being a cross-platform supported output platform of bytecode that's fairly well sandboxed. That makes it an excellent target for things like running untrusted plugins in an application in a performant manner.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

Deukhoofd — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:36:27 +0000

This rather feels like it's completely stepping away from the thing that made the community around Serenity and Ladybird so good.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:21:02 +0000

I'm going to be honest, this very much reads like an exciting new way to burn up as many tokens as possible. Large amounts of parallel agents that all have all their work double-checked by multiple other agents, and that keeps running for a longer period of time?

I feel like there are more efficient ways to tackle the issues given.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:37:25 +0000

I don't know about that. I don't think it'd have been a major issue in the country if it were a Belgian or German takeover. It may still not have been desirable, but I doubt the government would have stepped in like they did here.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

Deukhoofd — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:35:38 +0000

Can confirm that it's an extremely common verb in The Netherlands.

https://onzetaal.nl/taalloket/appen-whatsappen-vervoeging

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

Deukhoofd — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:07:42 +0000

The issue was less privacy concerns, and more "hey lets not hand over one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure to a potentially hostile state". DigID is the user authentication platform for basically every government site in The Netherlands. A foreign government could use sanctions to pressure Dutch individuals to comply by limiting access to it.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "As oceans warm, great white sharks are overheating"

Deukhoofd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:55:50 +0000

That factoid always hides the real issue. The biggest reason that that factoid is true is that the 100 biggest companies includes a large amount of the fossil fuel industry, and that that industry produces most emissions in the world. A company like Saudi Aramco produce 4% of global emissions.

We need to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels.

For full clarity, it's also not the 100 biggest corporations that produce most emissions, but the 100 biggest companies. A massive amount of the global emissions are done by state-owned companies.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

Deukhoofd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:21:22 +0000

Let's be real, a lot of organizations never actually finish that R&D phase, and just continue iterating on their prototypes, and try to untangle the spaghetti for years.

I recently had to rewrite a part of such a prototype that had 15 years of development on it, which was a massive headache. One of the most useful things I used LLMs for was asking it to compare the rewritten functionality with the old one, and find potential differences. While I was busy refactoring and redesigning the underlying architecture, I then sometimes was pinged by the LLM to investigate a potential difference. It sometimes included false positives, but it did help me spot small details that otherwise would have taken quite a while of debugging.