mahmoudimus

They charge a surcharge when you pay by card, don't they?

2 months agodiscuss

can knowledge then be queried via tool? :)

2 months agodiscuss

works for me:

input: i need to contact my boss i will be late. output: [{"name":"send_email","arguments":{"to":"[email protected]","subject":"Running late","body":"I will be late for the meeting."}}]

it did have the send_email tool on the left hand side though

mahmoudimus

3 months agodiscuss

oh fascinating. i just finished reverse engineering Aegis and now working on their newest Eidolon. pretty cool technology.

mahmoudimus

4 months agodiscuss

Seconding Mullvad. I am paranoid and I think they're trustworthy

mahmoudimus

5 months agodiscuss

I see the vision here. I think this is extremely needed.

mahmoudimus

5 months agodiscuss

I think you're referring to this one: https://github.com/jhjourdan/C11parser

mahmoudimus

7 months agodiscuss

Windows ARM builds are available on their CDN.

mahmoudimus

2 years agodiscuss

We solved this by introducing a Result library.

  load("@.../result", result=result)

  
  def throw(arg):
      return 1/0
  if result.Result(throw).map(arg).is_ok:
     # proceed
  else:
     fail("...")

mahmoudimus

2 years agodiscuss

https://github.com/mahmoudimus/py2star

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2 years agodiscuss

I love Starlark. I was a major implementor of it at VGS (the repo is open: https://github.com/verygoodsecurity/starlarky). It had unique distinct features that made it much easier to control and sandbox than many other languages out there.

I even built a codemod library that does a very basic python -> starlark so that one can develop using python ecosystem libraries and just copy & paste into a secure execution environment. It was a huge success at my last company.

I'm very thankful to Laurent Le-brun and Alan Donovan -- both of whom are exceptional engineers that I learned so much from. I thought I was skilled but both of those individuals are just on another level.

mahmoudimus

2 years agodiscuss

Saw him and Conrad sometime back. RIP MC Conrad. Was bonkers. Great ch00ns :) have fun!

mahmoudimus

2 years agodiscuss

Actually, PCI Compliance is largely a solved problem. Use something like https://verygoodsecurity.com and wrap the proxy around Lago and your self hosting will qualify you for the easiest PCI compliance tier.

(Disclosure: I founded Very Good Security & was the CEO for 8 years).

mahmoudimus

3 years agodiscuss

Yeah that part is not great. OTOH, I know exactly what it does :)

mahmoudimus

3 years agodiscuss

In 2010, I think arguing that relying on the JVM would be an acceptable gripe. However, it is 2023, almost all of your stated issues have been (IMHO quite elegantly) addressed WITH the added benefit (or maybe detriment?) of backwards compatibility in modern versions of Java and the _incredible_ engineering behind the JVM.

I would actually argue the inverse. Between the two languages, Go would be my second choice precisely because it does NOT have the JVM. Even though I have used GraalVM for AOT, with Docker / containerd, I would take the JVM any day. It's just night & day when operating something in production.

That being said, Go still has a lighter resource footprint but I found Go to be a better Python alternative than Java.

Here are some IMHO acceptable gripes with Java:

- Java represents strings using UTF-16 (although there are optimizations introduced in Java9+ already to use LATIN1 / ascii encoding if you don't need to use Unicode)

- Java makes it difficult to have steady state memory consumption (by design)

- Java's escape analysis is primitive

- Java is missing value types (coming soon!)

I think Go is great, but IMHO modern Java is just better at building backend systems.

mahmoudimus

7 years agodiscuss

Why can't you just charge the card directly?

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