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mike_ivanov

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About mike_ivanov

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    All Common Lisps can do that, though it is not a part of the standard. See e.g. (sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die)

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    Comment #49188845

    As a sign in the window of a tiny shop in my quiet suburb says "Laptop and phone repairs - Windows, Linux and MacOS". If that doesn't count, I don't know what else could.

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    Comment #49099793

    Firing a human is a form of natural selection. The unit here is a human fulfilling a position (job function) instead of an organism, and the adaptation mechanism would be memes/lor…

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    Comment #48482812

    "What one man built, another will always find a way to break"

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    Comment #47557421

    Yes. It is all about making uncertain things "certain".

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    Comment #47401898

    Bullshit. We have more words for flavors of bribery than for types of snow.

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    Comment #47355091

    Ruby is a strongly typed language. I think you are confusing strong typing with static typing.

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    Comment #46356830

    Opus Modus (mentioned there) is quite notably Common Lisp

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    Comment #46257244

    miracles happen

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    Comment #46256997

    Corporations play the role of gods in our society. edit: about the same role as Greek or Roman gods.

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    Comment #46071409

    You didn't, but you've learned.

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    Comment #46053689

    Please read the article. It literally shows pandas code as an example.

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    Comment #45969975

    New Era. A New - think about it for a sec - Era.

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    Comment #45763602

    Not the OP - I think it's the same process. The difference is in what my inner narrator is doing. When I asleep it is almost always gone, and this is when I typically see things in…

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    Comment #45738538

    I worked with a (very nice and smart) dude who would angrily shout "CRAP!" every few minutes while working on his XUL-based project. I guess, that would teach LLMs a thing or two.

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    Comment #45446306

    I'd say ROS (Robot Operating System) is the closest to this ideal.

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    Comment #45441593

    All GUI apps are different, each being unhappy in its own way. Moated fiefdoms they are, scattered within the boundaries of their operating system. CLI is a common ground, an integ…

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    Comment #45381849

    Self-care is being Karen since when?

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    Comment #44891091

    I had some success with Claude in this regard. I simply told it to be blunt or face the consequences. The tweak was that I asked another LLM to translate my prompt to the most inti…

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    Comment #44890771

    This is the Result monad in practice. It allows you to postpone error handling until the computation is done.

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    Comment #44494289

    A horse is just a bunch of chemicals in a skin sack. Gee, I understand it!