Andrey Listopadov

Categories / random-thoughts

Recently I had a discussion on the topic of trust and it got me thinking about large language models. I will come back to LLMs shortly, but imagine the situation: You ask a real person for some bit of information, and the information they’ve provided to you is false but you don’t know it yet.
I like playing games, but I was always interested in making games too. Recently a Lisp game jam ended, and there are a lot of cool entries, and its a shame I wasn’t able to participate, as I was traveling. And last year I participated in the Fennel Game Jam 1, which was my first game jam, and while the game I made wasn’t anything special, it was a really fun experience.
Note: I’m not an expert in type systems, and my knowledge of compilers is limited. This is more of an actual random thought I had for some time, and I’ve just decided to capture it here, not to be used as an argument on static vs dynamic types.
Another year ends, so it’s time to gather my thoughts together and reflect on everything that happened this year. This was a decent year, despite all the bad things that have happened around the world. And it was a very loud year too - one event after another without any breaks, all of which are covered in all of the media.
I have a somewhat weird tradition if it can be called like that - I’m revisiting job pre-interview tasks after a certain amount of time I’ve spent working in the company that gave the task. It’s an interesting thing to do, and I think more people should do it on a more regular basis.
When it comes to software I prefer things that are simple and small, even though I’m using Emacs. This is mainly the reason why my favorite languages are Clojure and Fennel. However, it doesn’t end on programming languages themselves, I like small tools in general.
I’ve been a GNOME Shell user for many years now - I’ve started using it pretty much since its initial release in 2011. I’m using GNU/Linux as my main operating system since 2008, and I started with Ubuntu, as many did back then, and what I liked about Ubuntu was its desktop environment, or DE for short.
I often hear this phrase: “programmers are counting from zero”. Not so long ago I actually decided to check if it is true and asked some programmers I know to count to ten out loud. None of them counted from zero. Well, this phrase is usually brought up when discussing various programming languages, which share the common idiom - zero-based array indexing.
Quite recently a Fennel game jam happened on itch.io and I’ve decided to participate. I’ve been part of the Fennel community for some years, and every once in a while a lot of people from this community participated in a lisp game jam, but I’ve never made a game before, so I’ve skipped these events.

…kinda.

I think that the only acceptable test coverage percentage is about 100%. And in this post, I’ll try to explain why I choose to believe it.

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