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New comment by lgas in "Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models"

lgas — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:32:27 +0000

This is just anecdotal and I might be doing it wrong but I made jev and laya versions of a simple semantic grep tool (https://github.com/lgastako/jevplay) and played with them a bit, and at first it seemed like laya was comparable (eg on queries like "this is a mans name" or "this is a womans name" on names.txt) but the more I played with it, eg. "this is a vegetable" on foods.txt the further the gap widened in favor of jev. Then I started trying variations of the query eg simply "mans name" and for the most part laya just fell apart and didn't return anything useful for a lot of stuff. I was hoping to find that laya was competitive because it's much faster to have the model running locally but it's just not, yet.

New comment by lgas in "Jev in 25 Lines of Python"

lgas — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:04:46 +0000

I guess repeating a mistake helps make it more obvious too.

New comment by lgas in "A Few Good Ideas in Programming Languages"

lgas — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:58:48 +0000

I've never used D, but it appears to be valid syntax. https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#postconditions

New comment by lgas in "An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations"

lgas — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:13:57 +0000

Yes.

New comment by lgas in "Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means"

lgas — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:42:48 +0000

I live in DC, on the other side of the country and I've heard about him, so I think you are underestimating his renown.

New comment by lgas in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

lgas — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:42:44 +0000

The same understanding still exists, from https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/wiki/detailed_rul...:

> The purpose of this subreddit is to simplify complex concepts in a way that is accessible for laypeople.

> The first thing to note about this is that this forum is not literally meant for 5-year-olds. Do not post questions that an actual 5-year-old would ask, and do not respond as though you're talking to a child.

New comment by lgas in "An agent in 100 lines of Lisp"

lgas — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:31:32 +0000

I'm not saying you should, I'm saying you shouldn't clutter up every thread with this type of useless comment. It just detracts from the people that do want to engage with it.

New comment by lgas in "An agent in 100 lines of Lisp"

lgas — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:19:08 +0000

This doesn't need to be posted on every post. Everyone that cares is well aware. It's like saying "this was written in english" on every post.

New comment by lgas in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

lgas — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:11:57 +0000

Looks fine to me in Chrome on Mac.

New comment by lgas in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

lgas — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:10:38 +0000

It may very well be the case that it makes trade-offs that turn of lots of programmers but I don't think it's popularity directly implies it by definition, rather just that it implies there's something about it that prevents lots of programmers from taking it up en masse, and I think that's perhaps just the fact that it is so different from what everyone's used to and it takes some time to adapt to it enough to be able to appreciate the tradeoffs.

New comment by lgas in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

lgas — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:05:09 +0000

> But again, I suppose all the Lisp forms return values, and quibbling about the declarative : imperative :: expressions : statements mapping is just petty semantics

I would argue that it's very much not just semantics, or at the very least it's certainly not petty. The distinction has a noticeable effect on what the experience of writing code and on the reliability and related properties of the written code.

New comment by lgas in "Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler"

lgas — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:49:38 +0000

DuckDB is in-process though?

New comment by lgas in "How to corrupt an SQLite database file"

lgas — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:47:28 +0000

Odd. I've never heard it pronounced in any other way than "Sequel-lite".

New comment by lgas in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

lgas — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:01:52 +0000

This is likely true for the majority of humans too.

New comment by lgas in "Charity – Categorical programming language (1998)"

lgas — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:43:09 +0000

It looks like what you would get if python and ocaml had a baby.

New comment by lgas in "Cursor Camp"

lgas — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:45:28 +0000

Could just include the badge names both unencoded and encoded to get the best of both worlds.

New comment by lgas in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

lgas — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:32:39 +0000

I still prefer windshield wipers over turn signals.

New comment by lgas in "Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents"

lgas — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:05:10 +0000

What is there not to understand? AI is booming right now. People are trying to get in on the gold rush and/or trying to sell pick axes to the miners. There is a ton of fertile ground for anyone that wants to try something, so it's being explored.

New comment by lgas in "Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands"

lgas — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:29:21 +0000

Is there a demo somewhere? It seems like the perfect thing to put in the center of that page.

Edit: I found https://sanderdesnaijer.github.io/map-gesture-controls/examp...

New comment by lgas in "What does it mean to “write like you talk”?"

lgas — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:13:45 +0000

> I wonder if there’s a way to train that ability.

I have to imagine it comes down to study and practice, just like everything else.