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Talking to the person who gave it to you, in my experience. In my own testing, Pangram is excellent at detecting the default output styles of LLMs. If you tell the LLM to change it…

I’ve seen the original repo, I mean Godier’s. A name clash is the least damning evidence in my opinion. Last year my previous employer asked us for suggestions for naming an AI age…

I’d love to see the other repo, and the prompts that led to both. Did Godier copy the other guy’s repo, name and all, and try to pass it off as his own work? That seems like the ob…

Probably this? “Concurrency Oriented Programming in Termite Scheme”: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/09-germain.pdf Implemented in Gambit Scheme: https://github.com/FredericHamel…

I was curious so I asked Claude how it would do that: https://gist.github.com/waddie/b26166eec6cf675c044c09a95a754... I thought this bit was interesting: > TE has no register for h…

You almost can, with Jackson: jshell> new ObjectMapper().valueToTree(Map.of("providers", List.of("SUN", "SunRsaSign", "SunEC"))); $4 ==> {"providers":["SUN","SunRsaSign","SunEC"]} …

It looks like that was added in Java SE 6, and doesn’t materially change the underlying problem. Have there been more recent developments?

My understanding was the biggest issue has always been that javac is a poor foundation for any kind of live tooling like LSPs? It’s less “make me a Java LSP” than “rewrite javac ar…

> I've found LLMs to be bad at balancing parenthesis. I think that was true last year. In my experience, it’s no longer the case with Claude Code or Codex.

Last year, I thought it was awful. Even Opus would reliably unbalance parentheses on practically every edit and then enter a doom spiral of making things worse as it tried to figur…

I can believe it’s much improved and I wouldn’t look down on anyone for using it. But it’s still never going to be a language I like , and I’m yet to encounter any of these modern …

> Eh? That's completely lifted from CL. Clojure’s abstraction is a bit more far-reaching than Common Lisp’s SEQUENCE, implemented as interfaces rather than types. A Clojure sequenc…

Short answer: “a type system centered on the use of set-theoretic types (unions, intersections, negations) that satisfy the commutativity and distributivity properties of the corre…

FYI, that’s currently available in a Humble Bundle with 16 other PragProg functional programming books: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/ultimate-functional-progr...

I think describing Kakoune/Helix as vi-inspired with “slightly different keybindings” is rather missing the point. The most important difference is that they invert the editing mod…

Last week I actually did dig out my UK launch PSP-1000 from 2005 (a gift from Games Workshop for being Design Studio Employee of the Year, I think to the bafflement of almost every…

It’s trivially easy to do in Clojure (literally one line of code to start an nREPL server, after deps/requires), and often very useful in dev and personal, local projects. In pract…

Maybe Subscribe with Reeder[0], 1Password[1], Userscripts[2]. The RSS and HTML icons are obviously fairly generic, so not 100% sure. [0]: https://reederapp.com [1]: https://1passwo…

Their video on YouTube, in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vW12gQ4Klc

More than two, e.g. there’s also the Inline Images Protocol supported by iTerm2 and WezTerm. Kovid documented his rationale at some length here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty…

Definitely S01E01, @ ~55-58 minutes. I just watched it.

I mean, 25 years and 27 inches later, and only reappearing after the queen Hudson served had died, with no tale of exactly where he’d been or how he got back… the cynical explanati…

These have been available since mid-2022: :insert-output Run shell command, inserting output before each selection. :append-output Run shell command, appending output after each se…

Cmd + click places multiple carets on macOS. Apparently – I never touch the mouse when I’m editing in Helix. I don’t know which modifier it is on other platforms. I’m not sure if r…

It uses old style figures rather than lining, if that’s what you mean by “higgledy-piggledy”. See https://practicaltypography.com/alternate-figures.html#oldst...