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New comment by felixgallo in "The Goose Programming Language"

felixgallo — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:34:19 +0000

If you think you'll be able to divine that if and only if the documentation is entirely written by a human, then I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you: no language has ever evolved strictly according to the initial plan of their authors. Nor has any author's strongly held belief about the future ever panned out the way they thought. Nor has the documentation ever held the immutable future of the language, even when fully human generated (which essentially zero languages have, even before AI).

The way to find out if a language is suitable for your needs is not to demand, in an entitled way, that the author perform an act for you. It is to (a) ask the author politely; or, failing that, (b) to examine it yourself (or ask Fable to evaluate it, using tokens you paid for).

This particular language, further, is Apache 2.0 licensed. If it's not working for you, fix it. Jesus.

New comment by felixgallo in "The Goose Programming Language"

felixgallo — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:16:00 +0000

With respect, what on earth are you talking about? The documentation is clear about what the language does. You can download it and test it out if you like, and verify if yourself if the documentation matches the feature descriptions. What the human collaborator wants is immaterial. You get the code.

The author has written that post about why the language came about. He doesn't owe you that, but he did it anyway. He doesn't owe you anything more. You can use it or not. Advising him to throw away all the documentation and rewrite it again by hand from scratch so that adastra22 can deign to examine it further is ridiculous.

If you have a question about whether or not this further iterations will fit your specific (and so far undescribed) particular use case, the correct avenue for that is to ask the author politely. Or Fable; Fable could probably tell you without having to bother the author. But holy cow, the entitlement.

New comment by felixgallo in "The Goose Programming Language"

felixgallo — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:57:56 +0000

We as a society have to cut this low effort commenting out. The documentation is perfectly comprehensible. What action would you take differently if a given feature were implemented by Claude, or a human?

New comment by felixgallo in "Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed"

felixgallo — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:00:48 +0000

Sam, I'll grant you, is probably among the top 10 most dangerous, but Dario? The only thing he's done to piss people off is to predict, correctly, that releasing too-powerful models too-quickly would cause havoc and chaos. This prediction actively hurts his company! It actively harms his chances of a huge exit! It actively raises the probability that Anthropic and OpenAI get nationalized and treated in the same way as, for instance, the nuclear program!

By comparison, do you think the Chinese models are going to be trained in such a manner that you enjoy the society that results? What makes you think that?

New comment by felixgallo in "I Did This Without Your Knowledge"

felixgallo — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:00:44 +0000

You apparently didn't watch Pluribus or read this. Pluribus is about the experience of essentially the last autonomous person on Earth. This is about the experience of the Singularity and the questions it raises.

New comment by felixgallo in "Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions"

felixgallo — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:09:28 +0000

Jack Smith, Barack Obama, and four teenagers from tiktok for supreme court additions.

New comment by felixgallo in "Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions"

felixgallo — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:06:24 +0000

Literally everyone from ICE to Kushner will be pardoned.

New comment by felixgallo in "Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional"

felixgallo — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:43:09 +0000

she 'admits to a 2 night stay in california', and that's part of your reasoning for probable cause? I feel like you shouldn't be a police officer, either.

New comment by felixgallo in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

felixgallo — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:13:59 +0000

it has to be the website to start with; if the website is hosting malware, then it's the website's problem. Soon after that's implemented, the adtech companies will begin competing to solve the website's problem by promising clean, malware free ads, and will begin aggressively vetting ads. The monetization model will be preserved and the incentives will be properly aligned.

There is no universe in which 'gosh it's just too hard' is the correct answer.

New comment by felixgallo in "Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots moved"

felixgallo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:51:10 +0000

No, it describes that Cloudflare was unable to identify that they have or haven't. The lack of evidence is not proof of absence.

New comment by felixgallo in "AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary"

felixgallo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:31:07 +0000

The speed of light and the state of the internet doesn't permit many games to be effectively streamed; even great systems like Nvidia's, optimized to within an inch of their lives, feel laggy and weird for a large chunk of users.

It is more likely that we will see a cambrian explosion of games that obviates the need for big company games in the first place. Big gaming companies are big because they need lots of developers, producers, artists, QA, and management and executive suites to manage those. You can even today get code, assets and QA for a tiny fraction of the price you have to pay humans, and that will apparently only get 'worse' for humans over time. It's going to be a very intriguing next few decades.

New comment by felixgallo in "Felix Rieseberg Homepage"

felixgallo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:34:41 +0000

I think the only controversial thing about this cute little homemade website is that he frames Electron as being a rebellion against the chaos of modern software, which, well.

New comment by felixgallo in "AWS Lambda Web Functions"

felixgallo — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:21:03 +0000

Probably because their solution is technically superior from a safety perspective?

New comment by felixgallo in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

felixgallo — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:17:47 +0000

You don't have to assume they're stupid, it's just that they're entirely surrounded by a bubble of increasingly protofascist craziness framed as reasonable opinion. Turn on Fox News sometime, or open Twitter.

New comment by felixgallo in "Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier"

felixgallo — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:50:04 +0000

That’s great! Where do I download cloudflare?

New comment by felixgallo in "In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology"

felixgallo — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:56:42 +0000

you can appreciate the work of spacex while also recognizing that Musk is one of history's greatest douchebags and civilization's worst enemies.

New comment by felixgallo in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

felixgallo — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:21:37 +0000

'gravy ingredients'

New comment by felixgallo in "OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI"

felixgallo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:18:10 +0000

I suspect an AI could design a purpose-built FPGA-like replacement that would be, for its purpose, significantly more effective than the current general-purpose FPGAs.

New comment by felixgallo in "Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)"

felixgallo — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:32:49 +0000

There's a dead comment in this thread by the fabled Don Hopkins, and the only reason I can imagine is that he commented, factually but negatively, on Elon Musk. Shameful comment-killing, just shameful.

New comment by felixgallo in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

felixgallo — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:57:57 +0000

You could just store it in a bloom filter, which would be non-public but also give you tunable accuracy. For 1 in a million false positives, a bloom filter would cost 28.8 bits per plate.