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New comment by PantaloonFlames in "XML is a cheap DSL"

PantaloonFlames — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:58:43 +0000

Your first counterpoint seems unnecessarily picky.

> So while it is a suitable DSL for many things (it is also seeing new life in web components definition), we are mostly only talking about XML-lookalike language, and not XML proper. If you go XML proper, you need to throw "cheap" out the window.

But the TWE did not embrace all that stuff. It’s not required for its purpose. And to call it “xml lookalike” on that basis seems odd. It’s objectively XML. It doesn’t use every xml feature, but it’s still XML.

It’s as if you’re saying, a school bus isn’t a bus, it’s just a bus-lookalike. Buses can have cup holders and school buses lack cup holders. Therefore a school bus is not really a bus.

I don’t see the validity or the relevance.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

PantaloonFlames — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:20:57 +0000

Can you give specifics on what Claude code built for you, in the way of missing features ?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Steel Bank Common Lisp"

PantaloonFlames — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:19:37 +0000

Yes and

Carnegie Technical Schools was founded in 1900 based on a $1m donation from Andrew Carnegie,

Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was originally founded in 1913 by Andrew and Richard Mellon.

Carnegie Mellon was created by combining the two institutions in 1967.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Hugging Face Skills"

PantaloonFlames — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:12:42 +0000

Wait - how are skills dependent on python?

Isn’t python just an option ?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Hugging Face Skills"

PantaloonFlames — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:11:36 +0000

You can publish scripts with skills you author, right? With carefully constructed markdown that should allow the agent to call tools the right way.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

PantaloonFlames — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:46:53 +0000

I don’t understand how “running it in a vm” Or a docker image, prevents the majority of problems. It’s an agent interacting with your bank, your calendar, your email, your home security system, and every subscription you have - DoorDash, Spotify, Netflix, etc. maybe your BTC wallet.

What protection is offered by running it in a docker container? Ok, It won’t overwrite local files. Is that the major concern?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

PantaloonFlames — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:29:45 +0000

“AI changes everything!”

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

PantaloonFlames — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:26:30 +0000

Cmon man. “Consumers” in aggregate. Not “every consumer”. But you knew that.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Facebook is cooked"

PantaloonFlames — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:48:27 +0000

It's literally why Leon bought Twitter. A Mass influence vehicle.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

PantaloonFlames — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:30:31 +0000

It used to be that the common model in the USA for tv was, one cable bundle with 500 channels. That has now evolved to a combination of

- cable bundles

- aggregate streams (Netflix, Prime, Apple TV)

- pay per view (Prime or YT TV)

And somehow all of these models now coexist.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Open source is not about you (2018)"

PantaloonFlames — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:42:33 +0000

Yes and if you have o(1000) prs or issues in a single day, I guess you have a different scale of problem and will need to automate triage and management, probably through an ai-powered tool.

Even if it is 0.01% per day it’s still a very high volume. At that point it’s not a hobby. Millions of users maybe would point toward a more formal management and governance approach.

See Gemini-cli for example. Or a bunch of Microsoft projects. They use ai to triage and respond to tickets. (And they pocket veto many of them)

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Show HN: CEL by Example"

PantaloonFlames — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:32:30 +0000

I did not know that. Path expressions for access control?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

PantaloonFlames — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:18:21 +0000

You can invest a lot and get minimal results, OR, it’s possible they invested in 71-odd tools and only 17% produced results, but those results were as desired or expected so they didn’t actually need the other 83% of the tools they tried.

The number of tools that were deemed effective is not proportional to the “the effect”.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Building a TUI is easy now"

PantaloonFlames — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:30:06 +0000

That’s helpful information but it doesn’t mean the use of Gemini is unwelcome. A human could have rendered the initial analysis too, and then you could have just replied to the human, correcting him or her. Why is the source of the analysis such an issue?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Open source is not about you (2018)"

PantaloonFlames — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:51:48 +0000

I don’t know you but I like you.

Courtesy costs very little.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

PantaloonFlames — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:30:28 +0000

This is what I come here for. Terrific.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

PantaloonFlames — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:56:06 +0000

You’ve sidestepped the important part of the question.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

PantaloonFlames — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:54:43 +0000

And for sure the DOJ knows this, or can know it if they want.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "The Great Unwind"

PantaloonFlames — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:43:57 +0000

> If you’re really interested in learning about the unwinding of the yen carry trade, there’s plenty of information from actual experts to read about,

Ok I’ll bite. Where ?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "I miss thinking hard"

PantaloonFlames — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:20:10 +0000

I became an auto mechanic because I love machining heads, and dropping oil pans to inspect, and fitting crankshafts in just right, and checking fuel filters, and adjusting alternators.

If I wanted to work on electric power systems I would have become an electrician.

(The transition is happening.)