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This is true even with the SOTA models. Making LLMs ask questions and giving answers is always a good idea. Almost every prompt I write ends with something like this: Unless undoubtedly clear, every decision and action must come from mutual agreement.

> Zero is aiming for a language an agent can learn while working: regular syntax, few special cases, and compiler feedback that points toward the next edit.

Why? Why should an agent learn while working when there are already-familiar languages with most of the logics embedded in the model and with much better ecosystem?


At the moment Zero doesn't look compelling enough to use it over other more familiar languages. They need benchmarks to show that it has a substantial advantage over other languages (10x more performant, 10x less security vulnerabilities, 10x more maintainable, etc) because at the moment to main sell is that it slightly reduces token consumption and makes the error output slightly nicer.

I wonder much time did the author actually spent vibe coding this. I bet 90% of the time were spent on subscription payment processing.

It's also 28 times more expensive than V4 pro and 111 times than V4 Flash.

This is something that non-techsavvy users would go nuts over how it seemlessly and easily works.

> A virtual display can now be made flex using --flex-display (or -x), meaning it can be resized dynamically along with the client window.

Amazing.


Yep. And the author of scrcpy is also one of the developers of VLC media player - another piece of software that just works.

scrcpy is amazing software something other people might not have realised you could possibly get Dex on some unsupported devices. I got it working on my Galaxy Z Flip 5 using scrcpy --new-display=1920x1080/284

This thing also helps capture images from stupid crap apps that prohibit screenshots. On my rooted phone with a disable-flag-secure module installed, adb screenshots are still black.

Recording a video via scrcpy works on the other hand. Amazing, agreed.


Genuinely curious what makes you say that. Haven't used Chrome for a really long time and not once I've missed it.


This is an extreme level of pedantry(forgive me), but there is a subtle difference between "DC" and "할인" (and also "세일").

"할인" refers to a wide variety of discounts: it may have a few conditions (minimum quantity, membership, etc.), be available only for a certain period of time, or be a fixed amount or percentage.

"세일" is pretty much the same, although it puts a tiny bit more focus on being a limited-time offer and being percentage-based.

"DC" almost always refers only to a simple, percentage-based discount or rounding down the price. It also sounds much more spontaneous and less formal.


No need for forgiveness, I appreciate the pedantry and explanations. Personal grips aside, I'm forever a student of the language.


Imo as a Korean speaker, the thing about North Korean Korean is that it sounds much more aggressive, from the words to the general tone. They’re also usually much more direct, and in a lot of North Korean defector stories I’ve read, that has been a common pain point for them.


Is that something new (divergence since the political split), or an older regional dialect thing that is now more obvious due to the political situation?


Communist governments often prefer to use expressions that are more down-to-earth and colloquial, due to their populist root.

It could be related to that, or just a matter of North-South dialectal differences I guess.


I've never asked LLMs to build a whole app without detailed directions. I've done giving it a general data flow, structs and methods..etc

Are frontier models capable of building something only with general directions now?


Since about Jan of this year, yes


Why is this not written in German, I'm afraid to ask?


Why is it not written in French? Or Italian? Or Romansh? Because Switzerland has four official languages and English makes it easier for everyone


Not really. It's because the target audience is more academic/scientific rather than the Swiss population at large. In the latter case, it would be in the local languages. The law is relatively clear for this. English is not accepted in Switzerland as a replacement language for the "local" ones, although many people can speak or at least understand some English.


heavy sigh I'm Swiss. I know. What I meant to say is that German is not the default language in Switzerland.


Most researchers in Switzerland are non-Swiss, and many institutes have English as language of business


Staff nationality of Swiss higher education institutions:

- Universities: 55% Swiss, 45% foreign - Universities of applied sciences: 75% Swiss, 25% foreign - Universities of teacher education: 87% Swiss, 13% foreign - Professors: 49% Swiss, 51% foreign - PhDs/scientific collaborators: 30% Swiss, 70% foreign - Professors of ETH Zurich: 31% Swiss, 69% foreign


english is the lingua franca


Why it has to be german?


What if I told you there’s this thing in 2026 called an LLM that can translate between any two languages with high fidelity for free, and you just clicked a single button in your browser to use it


It's a university in a French speaking region for one.


Not quite: it's a collab between both ETHZ (Zürich, German speaking) and EPFL (Lausanne, French speaking). According to the website, the actual hardware is distributed all over the country (including in the Italian part).


because the brits won the language wars.


And the other wars ;)


Because german is hard.


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