Readit NewsDarklang is pretty fascinating, and was brought to our attention when we started demo-ing Capela to some folks in the industry. I think where Darklang (and others like Skip [1]) falls short is that it is a new language. Capela instead leverages typed Python, an existing and pretty familiar language to most programmers (and LLMs).
[1]: https://skiplabs.io
Oh, I just realized I am guilty of the drive-by-free-association comment without actually saying anything about the subject of the post - sorry!
Very cool to see a team use Jepsen for super early pre-release testing of the system.
I wonder if you wish you had waited for the runtime to be a bit more stable, or you feel this was already well worth the effort, even with some of the identified failures being in "known incomplete" areas? (I could see either side of the argument - waiting longer might give you more valuable failures, but testing early gives you a chance to catch problems before they become baked into the foundation and become more difficult to fix...)
Another tool that feels like sci-fi to me any time I hear a mention of it, is Antithesis [1] - written by the people who built FoundationDB. Could be another interesting integration to investigate in the future to help bulletproof the language runtime?
Aside from obvious Smalltalk influence, this also brings to mind Darklang (that switched to an open-source model recently [1]).
I wonder how this will pan out... very interesting to see new approaches being explored.
aeontech commented on Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/xnx
The ending tag in the demo video is "For stories only you could imagine"
That's... uh... a pretty bold description for a tool where you are in fact outsourcing the "imagination" part to the machine.
aeontech commented on How Anthropic teams use Claude Code anthropic.com/news/how-an... · Posted by u/yurivish
At least when you tell a human the indentation is wrong, they can fix it on the first try. Watched an AI agent last night try to fix indentation by using sed for 20 minutes before I just fixed it myself after cringing.
I mean... this is a deterministic task, can just run it through autoformatter? Why ask AI to do indentation of all things?
aeontech commented on DEWLine Museum – The Distant Early Warning Radar Line dewlinemuseum.com/... · Posted by u/reaperducer
meteor scatter communications were even more crazy and impressive (still in use actually)
That sounds like stuff of science fiction, can't believe it works. The best part is that it works long distance without having to have satellites in the sky... and is probably un-jammable?
Thanks for sharing this, so cool to learn about it!
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aeontech commented on We Should Let a Lottery Decide Our Government (2019) thewalrus.ca/why-we-shoul... · Posted by u/Tomte
It was like that for 500 years:
> New regulations for the elections of the doge introduced in 1268 remained in force until the end of the republic in 1797. Their intention was to minimize the influence of individual great families, and this was effected by a complex electoral machinery. Thirty members of the Great Council, chosen by lot, were reduced by lot to nine; the nine chose forty and the forty were reduced by lot to twelve, who chose twenty-five. The twenty-five were reduced by lot to nine, and the nine elected forty-five. These forty-five were once more reduced by lot to eleven, and the eleven finally chose the forty-one who elected the doge.[31] > --wikipedia
Wow, that is a brilliant approach. Thank you for sharing. In the US we seem to be stuck in a local maximum (or local minimum) with little chance of changes to the existing system - I wonder what kind of solutions exist to transform an entrenched institutional process, barring drastic upheaval...
Or, with the subject matter being tech, most potential readers are fluent anyway?