The other day I had an agent write a parser for a niche query language which I will not name. There are a few open source implementations of this language on github, but none of them are in my target language and none of them are PEGs. The agent wrote a near perfect implementation of this query language in a PEG. I know that it looked at the implementations that were on github, because I told it to, yet the result is nothing like them. It just used them as a reference. Would and should this be a licensing issue (if they weren't MIT)?

Yeah, yay works until it doesn't anymore, because the pacman library dependency it uses was updated but yay was not... and then you need to recompile yay manually. I mean, I'll still use it (or rather paru, which works basically the same way), but it's very annoying, when it happens every few months.

> Unfortunately, Go’s library doesn’t get updated every time Unicode does. As of now, January 2026, it’s still stuck at Unicode 15.0.0, which dates to September 2023; the latest version is 17.0.0, last September. Which means there are plenty of Unicode characters Go doesn’t know about, and I didn’t want Quamina to settle for that.

I have to say I am surprised about that. Does anyone have any context or guesses as to why this is the case?

EDIT: Go's unicode was actually updated to v17 yesterday:

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/dd39dfb534d2badf1bb2d72d...

I look forward to crypto libraries not openssl that can provide support for ED25519 and ED448, as well as a wide range of EC keys.

These are requirements for my current work, and OpenSSL 3+ was the only crypto library that delivered.

Sure, but this only works as advice for people who you can talk to, such as me. I'm not trying to solve my loneliness, my own personal goal is to find ways to reach out to people who sit alone all day, and are dying from loneliness, and the only way to reach them is to catch them as they walk on the way to the grocery store, and hold up a sign that they can read. The question in my mind is, what next? So far, I've only been doing surveys[1], but I'm looking for the next step.

Piggybacking off your suggestion, I like the idea of holding up a sign advertising a free activity that anyone can join, located in a very public space, with zero committment, so they can both show up and walk away at the drop of a hat. Whether it's an ad hoc organized chess tournament, or D&D game, or "one word story" or literally anything. That will have to wait until nicer weather, though, to avoid having to rent a place.

[1] https://chicagosignguy.com

>That's what's covered by the "assuming you have formalized the statement correctly" parenthetical.

Sure. But it's fair to ask how to validate that assumption.

It works, but the best in me I cannot explain fully first 3 symbols. /*?sr/bin/env finds /usr by expanding *? to a first matching directory. But why not just /*usr/ instead?

When setting up root-on-ZFS on FreeBSD, it's worth knowing about boot environments (a concept originally from Solaris):

* https://klarasystems.com/articles/managing-boot-environments...

* https://wiki.freebsd.org/BootEnvironments

* https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bectl

* https://dan.langille.org/category/open-source/freebsd/bectl/

* https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/03/14/zfs-boot-environme...

It lets you patch/upgrade an isolated environment without touching the running bits, reboot into that environment, and if things aren't working well boot back into the last known-good one.