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Pascal Costanza

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I am a senior software and HPC research engineer, with a PhD in computer science, located in Belgium. I am very interested in programming languages (C, C++, Common Lisp, Go, Java, Julia, Python, Rust, Scheme, and others). I am an expert in parallel programming, metaprogramming, bioinformatics, and sparse computing. There is more information about me at http://p-cos.net

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Pascal Costanza @pascal_costanza@functional.cafe · Jul 02, 2026
Pascal Costanza
@pascal_costanza@functional.cafe

I am a senior software and HPC research engineer, with a PhD in computer science, located in Belgium. I am very interested in programming languages (C, C++, Common Lisp, Go, Java, Julia, Python, Rust, Scheme, and others). I am an expert in parallel programming, metaprogramming, bioinformatics, and sparse computing. There is more information about me at http://p-cos.net

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“One man's constant is another man's variable.” - Alan J. Perlis
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Pascal Costanza @pascal_costanza@functional.cafe · Jun 03, 2026
Pascal Costanza
@pascal_costanza@functional.cafe

I am a senior software and HPC research engineer, with a PhD in computer science, located in Belgium. I am very interested in programming languages (C, C++, Common Lisp, Go, Java, Julia, Python, Rust, Scheme, and others). I am an expert in parallel programming, metaprogramming, bioinformatics, and sparse computing. There is more information about me at http://p-cos.net

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@jackdaniel@functional.cafe Higher is better?
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Pascal Costanza @pascal_costanza@functional.cafe · May 02, 2026
Pascal Costanza
@pascal_costanza@functional.cafe

I am a senior software and HPC research engineer, with a PhD in computer science, located in Belgium. I am very interested in programming languages (C, C++, Common Lisp, Go, Java, Julia, Python, Rust, Scheme, and others). I am an expert in parallel programming, metaprogramming, bioinformatics, and sparse computing. There is more information about me at http://p-cos.net

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@jesse @hanshuebner How sure are you that it will never happen again in the future?
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Pascal Costanza @pascal_costanza@functional.cafe · May 01, 2026
Pascal Costanza
@pascal_costanza@functional.cafe

I am a senior software and HPC research engineer, with a PhD in computer science, located in Belgium. I am very interested in programming languages (C, C++, Common Lisp, Go, Java, Julia, Python, Rust, Scheme, and others). I am an expert in parallel programming, metaprogramming, bioinformatics, and sparse computing. There is more information about me at http://p-cos.net

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@jesse @hanshuebner Wow, this sounds annoying…
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Pascal Costanza @pascal_costanza@functional.cafe · Apr 23, 2026
Pascal Costanza
@pascal_costanza@functional.cafe

I am a senior software and HPC research engineer, with a PhD in computer science, located in Belgium. I am very interested in programming languages (C, C++, Common Lisp, Go, Java, Julia, Python, Rust, Scheme, and others). I am an expert in parallel programming, metaprogramming, bioinformatics, and sparse computing. There is more information about me at http://p-cos.net

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @janneke@todon.nl @vnikolov@ieji.de @spook@pleroma.m68k.church Sounds like you haven’t programmed much in Common Lisp…
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Pascal Costanza @pascal_costanza@functional.cafe · Mar 13, 2026
Pascal Costanza
@pascal_costanza@functional.cafe

I am a senior software and HPC research engineer, with a PhD in computer science, located in Belgium. I am very interested in programming languages (C, C++, Common Lisp, Go, Java, Julia, Python, Rust, Scheme, and others). I am an expert in parallel programming, metaprogramming, bioinformatics, and sparse computing. There is more information about me at http://p-cos.net

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I have now seen this a few times in mailing lists: There is some discussion with an explicit or implicit question, somebody asks some random LLM and then posts its answer into the discussion, without double-checking it. Then somebody else double-checks it, shows that it's wrong, or at least in need of some correction. All of this is a waste of bandwidth, and frankly speaking just impolite. No matter what your stance on LLMs is, anybody can ask an LLMs themselves, there is no added value whatsoever in posting an unfiltered LLM answer to a public discussion. There should be an etiquette on banning this kind of behavior. I assume that people who do this act in good faith and believe that they are helpful, so it's ok to tell them in a gentle way, but this behavior should stop IMHO.

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