New comment by zambal in "Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5"

zambal — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:41:05 +0000

According to https://docs.typesafe.ai/legal they do offer ZDR for enterprise customers.

New comment by zambal in "Flix – A powerful effect-oriented programming language"

zambal — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:43:04 +0000

I could be wrong, but the sentence "Flix precisely tracks the purity of every expression in a program." together with some examples of function definitions without the purity/impurity annotation, gave me the impression it's optional, because the compiler can infer it on its own most of the time.

New comment by zambal in "Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage"

zambal — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:21:05 +0000

I don't think it's actually a problem. Taste can guide the direction skill needs to go.

New comment by zambal in "Touring the Zig-EM code-scape (2024)"

zambal — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:52:53 +0000

If you fail to see the difference, maybe study the subject matter a little more?

New comment by zambal in "How fast are Linux pipes anyway?"

zambal — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:35:02 +0000

Indeed, if I'm not mistaken Netflix at least used to use (and commit to kernel) FreeBSD on content servers because of its superior sendfile performance

New comment by zambal in "LLMs are cheap"

zambal — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:37:18 +0000

But in that case it's hard to argue that llm's are cheap in comparison to search (the premise of the article)

New comment by zambal in " and (2020)"

zambal — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:26:34 +0000

Don't know if it was intentional, but your ramble reminded me of the lyrics of Losing my edge by LCD Soundsystem. However, as someone who also experienced most of this stuff, it was a fun read either way :)

New comment by zambal in "AMD's CPU sales are miles better than Intel"

zambal — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:27:28 +0000

This comment is very misplaced. I'm Dutch and I wrote my comment not because the retailer is German, but because it are desktop CPU sales figures from a single retailer whose customers seem to be primarily gamers.

New comment by zambal in "AMD's CPU sales are miles better than Intel"

zambal — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:10:13 +0000

Yeah, the title feels a bit misleading, because it's only true in a very narrow context.

New comment by zambal in "Every map of China is wrong"

zambal — Fri, 03 May 2024 15:45:48 +0000

The subject is the ability to make accurate up to date maps out of satellite imaginary. I fail to see how this is a counter argument against that.

New comment by zambal in "Raspberry Pi 5"

zambal — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 08:11:19 +0000

Peak power draw is 12W, not 27W for the Rpi5 though.

New comment by zambal in "TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe"

zambal — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 14:13:46 +0000

> Germany, which a lot of Europeans don't have a positive opinion on (to put it mildly)

Do you have a source for that, because that's not the impression I, as a non German European, have.

New comment by zambal in "Elixir for cynical curmudgeons"

zambal — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:45:15 +0000

A bit pedantic I guess, but that still uses some syntactic sugar (optional brackets and keyword syntax). Removing all syntactic sugar would look like this:

    defmodule(Foo, [{:do, def(:bar, [{:do, "baz"}])}])

Even aliases (like Foo) are also a kind of syntactic sugar for a specific type of atom (Foo is actually the atom :"Elixir.Foo")

New comment by zambal in "X to Close – The origins of the use of [x] in UI design. (2014)"

zambal — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:36:58 +0000

Yes, using I/O as on/off, especially on power switches, for sure predates PlayStations.

New comment by zambal in "MSX-DOS"

zambal — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 12:34:50 +0000

So many memories playing around with a Spectra Video MSX as a kid. Mostly playing games, occasionally trying to draw stuf or making sounds using Basic. Some programs could only be started from msx dos.

Later, when most households in the Netherlands where start getting PCs (80286/386/486 era), I felt right at home using msdos.

Nowadays I really appreciate vaporwave aesthetics and I'm sure it's because of being absorbed in the world of msx computers, including reading magazines and such, as a kid.

New comment by zambal in "Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share"

zambal — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:34:31 +0000

> Incidentally this is public facing Internet servers. The % -inside- enterprises us much much higher.

I can believe private enterprise usage is higher, but I imagine FAANG and similar companies also have quite a lot non public Linux servers. Not trying to rebut your overall point, but I'm not sure the total non public % is much different.

New comment by zambal in "Vaporwave and Unicode Analysis"

zambal — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:27:49 +0000

Thanks a lot, that's quite the list and a good reminder to spend some more time browsing the Internet Archive!

New comment by zambal in "Immutable Data (2015)"

zambal — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:57:31 +0000

I'm not OP, but I can at least give an argument against using a timestamp for sorting versions: for various reasons system time is not guaranteed to be monotonic, which can result in cases where newer versions would be sorted before older versions.

See https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/time_correction.html#in... for more info. It's about time handling in the Erlang run-time system, but the issue it describes is universal.

And having an Erlang background, I would say timestamps are also tricky in the context of distributed systems.

New comment by zambal in "Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune"

zambal — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 12:15:56 +0000

> If anyone has experience with remote editing in a terminal editor, but not through an ssh shell (ie, the traditional way), I'm very interested in hearing your experience.

As usual, emacs has a mode for everything:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode

New comment by zambal in "The real lesson of The Truman Show"

zambal — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 12:13:59 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, never seen the movie!

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