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Ambition is still a human characteristic.

I'm don't care. If it's good, it's good.

What an ambitious and impressive project! I'm going to try it. One note: The home page says "Nothing phones home," but the Bento files I've examined include a cloudflareinsights.co…

Eddie Murphy had a great comedy bit based on that car.

I don't understand this comment. They wrote SICP.

Sussman and Abelson are great at teaching.

Schools should forbid grading on a curve. MIT does, for example. Standards should be absolute.

Why is anyone using anything else?

“You may note however that the university has not issued any statement refuting the information reported in the press.”

For a side project, I used Iroh to give my web server in the cloud the ability to print directly to my label printer at home. The API is simple and easy to use. It took no time to …

So much work is done for HIPAA compliance, and then the only authentication required is a birth date.

If you're interested in efforts to catalog and even deflect asteroids that might hit Earth: https://b612.ai/ The ".ai" stands for "Asteroid Institute." It was started by two former…

Actually, they do have an incentive to let you turn off ads. If they don't, many users will turn off notifications entirely. At least if they categorize them, some users will just …

I have the poster on my wall. It's beautiful. I highly recommend it.

I second your recommendation. I watched it last night, and loved it. It was beautiful to see the level of competence and devotion of the tiny group running the spacecraft.

Andy gave a nice talk on the implementation of Chez Scheme, an optimizing compiler, at the Scheme Workshop in Berlin in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_-enNCZxaU

Absolutely. I do all my LLM-assisted work inside Emacs using Agent Shell and Emacs skills: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell https://github.com/xenodium/emacs-skills

Here's Pixie Scheme, which is an interesting implementation for the iPad: https://jayreynoldsfreeman.com/My/Wraith_Scheme_(64-bit_vers...

This makes me nostalgic for my 4K TRS-80 Model I with cassette tape. There was something beautiful about having control over everything, and even the tight constraints were sometim…

I love Waymo. Using the word "impact" is unfortunate.

Thank you for saying that. I regularly attend the International Conference on Functional Programming, which grew out of the LISP and Functional Programming conference. Except for t…

Yes, especially in a city like San Francisco where so many cultures come together: the Prius culture, the BMW culture, the Subaru culture, etc.

There are situations where it is allowed: https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/vehicle-code/veh-sect-25251/

Me, too. I like masonry layout too much to wait for CSS to solve the problem, so I've been waiting to remove the last 1.3KB of Javascript from my home page since 2019. Thank you to…