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Yes, I've also found llms can generate working common lisp code quite well, albeit I've only been solving simple problems. I haven't tried integrating it into a repl or even comman…

Maybe so you can communicate with it via tools like iMessage? Not so it can impersonate you. People will 100% be doing both though, security be damned.

I think there was a phase of repeated breakages a while back, but things seem to have stabilised. Fixes are released quickly ime too.

For a good intro the Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast radio is well worth listening to. Also their write up on how and why they produce the broadcast is really interesting.

Check out chorded keyboards. They've been a thing for a very long time. At least since early 00s or 90s when I saw them first. They are held one handed have 5 keys and you get diff…

I also eat those yes. Something I don't see mentioned for a high protein diet often is gram flour. 22g protein per 100g and can be made into socca very quickly and easily with just…

Sorry yes, I'm in the UK and lentils/beans commonly come pre-cooked in 400g cans which usually equates to around 240g drained weight. E.g. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/pro…

But in practice don't most people mean tofu when talking about soy beans for protein? That tends to come out at 10-13g per 100g. Same for cooked cans of soy/edamme beans and most o…

Has anyone invited an LLM inside their lisp process that can be accessed from the repl? Being able to empower an LLM to be able to affect the running lisp image (compile functions …

I have a feeling that Le Guin didn't speak or read Chinese when creating her version, I think she outlines the process in the preface. That might explain the similarities you've no…

Nowt is used in the north of England to mean nothing.

Skipping tracks on vinyl is super easy, especially compared to fast-forward or rewind on casette. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF5toXl3H3c

Yes things that were broken for me by default are explorer, notepad (using it with files over a network), calendar pop up, and start menu. And don't get me started on the UI of the…

Oh wow, the wiki / project looks fantastically interesting. I've bookmarked it for a deeper read in the future. Yes I did mean reversed.

I think the only viable option to read pdfs on the subway would be a tablet. Text to speech might be more pleasant than the zoom/scrolling you're talking about but I've never tried…

My mental model was always that the order of keywords mirrored the order the database engine applied them. So WHERE is processed first and SELECT last.

I'm not addressing your point on fairness but I've been working on a similar program but instead of taking locks out on the queue table I maintain a consumers position for locked a…

From the summary this was certainly a surprise: >> A more recent study shows that toxoplasma infection prevalence was a consistent, positive predictor of entrepreneurial activity. …

>> President Reagan ordered an unencrypted version of GPS to be made available to the public so that civilian aircraft would have a reliable form of navigation. At the time, no one…

Yep I've been bitten by this. Very frustrating. I went back to a usb stick containing the video and subtitle file stuck in the back of the projector.

If you're wondering what to click and not from the UK: Paddington (busy station): https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/blob/main/image/P/... Penzance (rural endpoint): https:/…

Like another comment pointed out they seem to store pins as a JSON blob in a single column anyway. They probably should've used Drupal. Really, this is pinterest. They store 'board…

Yes I think in the end I'll likely go for an GUID Id column, an integer InsertOrder column, and a timestamp which is non-essential meta-data.

I ran into a fun bug last week. I wrote a piece of .Net Core software that accepts a batch of transactions. The transactions are shovelled into Sql Server without much processing. …

I've used mechanical switch keyboards in the past. I can't be sure whether the tendonosis I suffered from was caused by the keyboards or something else, but after cutting out other…