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One of my favorite tech talks is "Seven implementations of incremental": https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/seven-implementations-...

I tried to look for the thread on the emacs-devel archive, and couldn't find it. Is it not archived for some reason?

I believe Borkdude showed it was possible by first implementing async/await in Squint, his alternative* implementation of ClojureScript, and then took those learnings to the core C…

If your inbox is as big as mine, you won’t be able to load all the text content into a prompt even with SotA cloud hosted models. Instead you should give it tools to search over th…

Would buy this in a heartbeat (pun intended) if it came with a heart rate monitor. I had the first Pebble Time Round and it's my favorite smart watch I've ever owned, but these day…

That’s true

I think it's as much about familiarity than anything else. I've programmed full time in Clojure for the last 6 years, and I find it just as easy to read than other languages I'm fa…

No sound in Mobile Safari

website seems down?

AFAICT Calva has come a very long way in 5 years

idk, I've trained with many competitive and pro athletes in BJJ and everyone's cutting. If winning matters, you take every advantage.

AFAICT after the first write, the inner promise is resolved and will return the same value it was resolved with even if subsequent writes are made. This is totally different than G…

Neat! Using Safari, the music pauses each time it transitions to another panel.

My dad and my grandpa worked for unions for decades, and they are the hardest working people I know and take great pride in that.

I also didn't think to look in the "language extensions" section of the manual, instead going to the API docs and clicking on the "Effect" module. This looks much more interesting,…

The "Manual" link on this page https://ocaml.org/releases is broken

Is there a guide on how to use the new constructs? The link to the 5.0 docs was broken on the site, and after manually fixing the URL all I found was some type annotations in the `…

Yes, an outpouring of sympathy, empathy, etc combined with the same unilateral decision making that technologists make would be terrible. I would call continuing to do that unempat…

Twitter's now owned by Elon, who is making friends with right wing reactionaries in public. Fox News is the most watched news channel on the continent. All tech companies at the ve…

The First 5000 Years of Debt has a lot to say about this. It’s not fact that every large group of people invents money

IMO this is one of the main benefits of Clojure from a lisp-er perspective: it actually takes multithreading seriously in its design. It basically chose the "yes add the machinery"…

That's a reasonable hypothesis. My experience was mbsync would hang for many minutes, and eventually when I revisited the terminal it was in it had failed with a nondescript error.…

I tried using a combo of mbsync, notmuch, and notmuch-emacs to start migrating away from Gmail's UI (and eventually moving away from their service). I found, though, that mbsync fa…

AFAIK (maybe someone else will correct me) there are two things that people run into when implementing interpreters: 1. You can't write a JIT because you need to be able to dynamic…

The "Optimized B-Trees" section I _think_ is suggesting to get rid of datoms, which I 100% agree with. I do not think they add anything at all; IME you can have a collection of all…