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> For the person who only wants the notes, the sampler wins the job outright, completely. It will never play the wrong thing or at the wrong moment. For the person playing, it fail…

Probably made worse by the fact that _every_ VW brand car I’ve driven has read about 10% high on the speedometer. I think I’m going 100 kph, but timing using the km markers on the …

It all sounds great until someone writes nested list comprehensions. They are the recommended, idiomatic way to things most sane people would use ‘map’, ‘filter’, and ‘reduce’ chai…

This is really cool, and definitely needed. Do you do any tracking of resource consumption over the runtime of a job? We have many jobs that use the requested memory only for a por…

> Binary computers have two states: on and off. Every value, every decision, every process is either 1 or 0. I’m not sure what this means. Computers are based on binary, but not ev…

The “programming is an act of externalizing a mental model” vs “a code review is reverse engineering the model, then verifying its reasoning” really hit home. Even before AI code r…

> the concept of getting a good grade on a test as a happier concept than kissing a girl for the first time. Were the concepts weighted by response counts? I’d imagine a good grade…

This is amazing, such a nice presentation. It reminds me of the Neural Network Zoo [1], which was also a nice visualization of different architectures. [1] https://www.asimovinstit…

That’s true, but the travel distance of the braces or the double quotes from the home row is much less than the travel distance from the parentheses. Just using shift isn’t the pro…

For people that use Lisp extensively, do you find the chording requirements of parentheses (shift-9 or shift-0) annoying? It feels like very bad ergonomics, considering how frequen…

+1 for vim slime. It’s not only amazing for programming in REPL languages. Since you can send anything from the buffer to another pane, it can be used to execute commands (send som…

I think this case was the browser was active, but not the tab, so the browser reports that. Many, many telemetry metrics have been added in the name of power and efficiency. If a p…

I suspect the author is assuming that users don’t want to have to learn a substantially different way to manage their code. Fossil and pijul are both interesting alternatives, but …

I don’t think coding is dead, but I do find AI deeply demotivating. It feels like continuing to play a game after the cheat codes have been enabled. You could be an amazing player,…

The Children of (insert adjective) series by Adrian Tchaikovsky is really, really good, especially the second in the series. Good science fiction where the aliens are very alien ar…

This was a great read, and perfectly conveyed the combination of passion and anger of every WH player I’ve ever met has had. Given the time, it’s hard not to view this same argumen…

It sounds, as you point out, that he is aware of the tendency to typos and has an idea on how to guard against it. I’ve built up a similar portfolio of techniques and best practice…

Congrats on the progress thus far! I love aspirational languages, so please keep going. That being said, as someone who struggles with maintaining large amounts of context when I’m…

Except function colouring is a symptom of two languages masquerading as one. You have to choose async or sync. Mixing them is dangerous. It’s not possible to call an async function…

It looks interesting, a lot like cellular automata (game of life), but focusing on structures rather than individual cells.

I still subscribe to Linux and Admin magazines, and look forward to getting them. They are nostalgic while still filled with genuinely useful information. There is something catego…

I wasn’t aware of effects until I read the article, but I like the idea. The example you have is just an interface. Effects work a bit like boundary hooks. A pure function only wor…

Seems like a perfectly cromulent solution.

The J language actually provides a lot of the niceties of the core Q / kdb functionality. It even has Jd, which is an on-disk columnar database. I don’t know if it counts as being …