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I remember Google+ had groups called "circles" which could be used to choose with whom you share a post; it is a very common sense feature which I haven't seen since. And your reas…

There is an interesting technical reason why its a challenge (and they can't just swap in a supported library): > What makes the “simulate inputs” approach work is that the engine …

It doesn’t have to be the leading countries, if the EU allows it, it is good enough to create a market for distilled models

It is! And also it has inspired a few other clojure datalog databases, so there is much more choice: * https://github.com/datalevin/datalevin * https://github.com/replikativ/datahi…

Data oriented in clojure slang means modeling things in data structures like hashmaps and clojure sets as opposed to defining classes and types. The language encourages you to do i…

I'm an employed emacs user and more than half of my team also uses emacs

Indeed! I went back just to mention it owes its incredible UX to the transient package, I am going to look up more uses for it. Do recommend more if you can, please!

I think Emacs still does all of this; the argument the author makes is that it is "arcane", it just uses conventions he is not used to. It is however fully self-documented and inte…

30s might be the threshold for me; any more than that it is distracting; since this is a laptop I might open it just to check my email for example

How quickly does your laptop start? I like this idea a lot, I am now going down the rabbithole of finding which distributions boot the fastest (I remember this mattered a lot to li…

Can you give an example? I can't speak for all possible lisps but Common Lisp and clojure have great string built-ins: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/strings.html https…

Nothing relaxes me like throwing tanks and helicopters into the fire in Warno - a Cold War Combined Arms Real-Time Tactics game

And yet people write a ton of XML, JSON or YAML by hand.

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It is as complicated as you want or need it to be. You can avoid any magic and stick to a subset that is easy to reason about and brings the most value in your context. For our tea…

I have a Boox Note Air 4C so here is the good: * I can comfortably read any PDF; I don't think the font is too tiny. This is the main reason I bought it for. * Android means great …

Well you can make the case that people don't have to dress a certain way because we are much better insulated (metaphorically and literally) from the environment. And there are of …

Datomic Pro doesn't need AWS, I don't see what complications it can cause. It has some helpers for running it in AWS (like a bucket to export to CloudWatch), but none of them are m…

This phenomenon needs a term, how about Premature Architecture?

They are seen as unfortunate cost centers. They don't add new features that are sold to clients. They don't even fix the bugs the clients care about. Making the others more efficie…

you're going to be the "ops bitch" for the "real" programmers Rachel is spot on about what is often wrong with IT culture; "typecasting" people for someone's convenience or to get …

Let's see the features used in that snippet: * The cond macro which works similarly to C switch * Hashmap functions like merge and merge-with * Destructuring * The for macro which …

Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb Casablanca The first Sean Connery James Bond films, Casino Royale with Daniel Craig The Matrix Django Unchained …