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This is magnificent! Gave me roller-coaster ride across 40 years of gathering knowledge about computers and networks. I'm very jealous of whoever created that. Well done!

Oh we know. That's why static types are a la carte in Clojure. You can have them if you really really want them.

It'll take a while but now other programming languages look alien to me. Once you've adopted s-expressions it is hard to go back.

Wow, this was a cherry-picking peace of misinformation, conveniently ignoring the actual counts of people affected by Chernobyl. There's no safe dose of radiation, there's only sta…

Good thing you have a variety of those nowadays. Clojure runs in the browser, Node.js, cross-compiles to Dart, works stand-alone via babashka and has a brand new C++ interfacing im…

Nobody should take the Pope seriously or the Vatican. An organization that - for centuries - has actively protected child molesters, has sat on billions of dollars, has sided with …

I think you highlight one of the problems with users of LLMs: You can't tell anymore if it is BS or not. I caught Claude the other day hallucinating code that was not only wrong, b…

Thank you for putting it so succinctly. I keep explaining to my peers, friends and family that what actually is happening inside an LLM has nothing to do with conscience or agency …

My employer is trying to convince us to embrace spec-kit. But we are a Clojure shop: we iterate fast and produce results. We don't sit around and write specs and then hope working …

> Define the contract before writing a single line of implementation. Specs are the source of truth. There is only one source of truth and that is the source code. To define and ch…

As someone who is roughly in the same age group as the author and who was running a BBS, has witnessed the rise of IP4 networks, HTTP, Mosaic etc. let me provide a counter-point. T…

The reason they are on Bluesky is that it just works, its client just works and the barrier of entry is low. Oh, and others they want to follow are on there. That's it. No regular …

It's sad how many people are falling for the narrative that there's more at play here than predict-next-token and some kind of emergent intelligence is happening. No, that is just …

This never-ending whining about oooh but my data ... for a service that you can use for free is nauseating. This is a for-profit company running this service. It ain't free to oper…

How can light "bounce off" something if it doesn't have mass?

Has anyone confirmed the solution is not in the training data? Otherwise it is just a bit information retrieval LLM style. No intelligence necessary.

It is enabled by default so you can enjoy the snowflakes.

While the author mentions that he just doesn't have the time to look at all the databases, none of the reviews of the last few years mention immutable and/or bi-temporal databases.…

Most of the musings on enforcing invalid states with ADTs are impractical when working with real data that needs runtime validation when it enters the system. Using a schema/spec/t…

Can someone who's adapted HTMX for a larger app report about front-end-server costs? HTMX serves fully baked HTML that needs to be created on the back-end (or front-end-facing serv…

AI - as a discipline - has been around forever (1956), essentially since the birth of Lisp - both with staggering successes as well as spectacular failures that ushered in 2(3?) so…

One could get the impression that the only really really important non-functional requirement for such a thing is to absolutely ensure that you can only call the "good" functions w…

Know the consumer of your API. If that is just your team, use whatever tech gets you there quick. However, if you need to provide some guarantees to a second or third party with yo…

This is the first wave of a new generation of Apps which has the potential to replace/enhance the majority of e-commerce websites. I wouldn't underestimate it - it's the hammer can…