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Tay all over again.

Ha, anyone remember Microsoft's Tay?

That kind of makes sense for a lowest common denominator. Then what is it good for? Just simple apps?

I remember using pip and venv back in like 2009. Last time I checked, maybe 5 or 10 years ago, the recommendation of the community was generally to just use Docker instead of all t…

Really cool! May have to borrow this some day.

Or when you want to do logging. That's the part I was working at.

Your solution doesn't short-circuit when any of the calls fail. It relies on (error) throwing some kind of exception to interrupt control flow and prevent the following lines from …

For the nested if-let mess, I'd probably do something like this: (let-every [x (foo) err "foo failed" y (bar x) err (format "bar %s failed" x) z (goo x y) err (format "goo %s %s fa…

Yeah it's a very real form of lock-in, nothing else really compares to Emacs + Paredit + Cider for productivity. And Emacs isn't great. But when I did Clojure full time for 5 years…

After spending 50 months with Clojure, I can safely say it's my favorite server-side programming language (with Datomic as my favorite database), and the tooling (CIDER + Paredit +…

Then what about ChromeOS? Do you think they're trying to build a "full-fledged" OS for the modern era, with safety and security in mind, but not as lightweight as ChromeOS?

The memory mapping model is really interesting, since it moves a lot of that out of the kernel and into user-space, but it seems like it has more disadvantages than advantages. Wha…

This is pretty terrifying. So many "arbitrary code execution with root privileges" exploits! They may be fixed, but how many more are still only known to malicious third parties? A…

One of my favorite skills & challenges is do things as efficiency as possible, and using Electron for an app like this just strikes me as super-duper wasteful, especially for an ap…

Meh. I'd rather just continue scaling back my time spent here. It's becoming a more and more worthless site every day.

Yep done that. That's when they basically said nope too bad so sad.

It's not just joke. It's the fact that it way too closely resembled the writing style of big-city newspaper articles, trying to "subtly" play on double-meaning words. It's just so …

They never ever adjust the position or color of any comment. They used to, until the day the mods labeled my account a "troll" account a few years ago. Now my posting is rate-limit…

Man it's times like this that I wish the mods didn't turn my votes into shadow-votes (a la shadow-ban) and that my votes actually worked.

Yep. 99% of programmers use an actual computer to type their code into, rather than typing on an iPad or other touch screen. And 95% of programming still requires manipulating text…

> 100 years from now, it's highly unlikely that the screen-and-keyboard model of data ingestion will be regarded as anything but a historically important link in data evolution, ca…

But then what would the Haskell of tomorrow look like?

Language is inherently complex, there's no way to solve this in any "cleaner" way than what we already came up with. Unfortunately the best way forward is to build up what we alrea…

Are MD5 hashes that predictable that you can just make a few adjustments to a binary until it's the one you want?

Dunno why you're downvoted, you have a totally valid point. Trying to shoe-horn a hacker-friendly OS into a layman-friendly desktop/laptop experience is going to be painful. Extrem…