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It was ridiculous. He got it less than a year into his presidency.

Oh neat, I've been working with claude on an NES emulator in Racket using an SDL3 wrapper also written mostly by Claude.

"I feel uneasy about design patterns. On the one hand, my university class on design patterns revived my interest in programming. On the other hand, I find most patterns in the Gan…

Not just dirt cheap, the turn around time to manufacture was significantly lower. Sony had an existing CD manufacturing business and could produce runs of discs in the span of a we…

Yea, people generally don't think about these things. People were genuinely surprised to find out that 70% of our expenses as a software business were... salaries. The next largest…

I just bought a house this year, the previous owners lived in it for about 2 years from brand new. Thankfully it has an ethernet drop to every room upstairs, and in reasonable plac…

Have you used the 7900XT with LLMs at all?

I do wonder how much of an impact the PS5 and Xbox Series have on this though since they both have RDNA2 GPUs. Consoles tend to face higher optimization pressure, especially as the…

Like, SBCL compiles and assembles directly to machine code, that's very much the Lisp way. But SBCL has a lot of C that's involved in getting the SBCL image running and interacting…

It's more that it's easier to use C for two reasons. The first is that C is really popular and therefore pretty portable. It's a lingua franca. The other is that because the hosts …

CL is the x86 of the Lisps. Successful because of backwards compatibility, but also ugly because of it.

I know. I've been spending a lot of time with CL, Scheme, and Clojure the past few years, and the ideal Lisp is some combination of them all. There are aspects of each that I miss …

What do you mean "factorial in recursive style"? Like recursive with an accumulator?

Nope. Nothing. I’ve been waiting since they released it. Part of me thinks it might be because I responded yes to “Outside of the US”.

My understanding is that that's a non-trivial problem. You'd likely need some sort of AI system to do it, since the perception of colour isn't something that can be simply modelled…

Yep, it's saved me a lot of time on data transformation tasks. For instance, I wanted to convert the colors in Tailwind to CSS variables. I had the JSON listing all of the names an…

I’ve been very happy with mine playing games of all vintages and development budgets. Just this weekend I was playing Far Cry 4 and The Division 2 quite smoothly.

This is one of those problems that Tail Call Elimination cleanly addresses. The "obvious" approach to writing an FSM does exactly what you'd expect.

Yea. The last half of season 1 it starts to become more just Star Trek. Season 2 and 3 are straight Star Trek. I really enjoyed them.

My impression was more that he just wanted to do Star Trek but the studios were like "it'll be funny right???". And so he went along with it at first, but dropped it as time went o…

It's easy to forget nearly 10 years on, but React came out when Backbone.js with mustache templates was rather common, and React was a LOT easier to manage. The other popular frame…

With the caveat that you don't literally follow Lisp by having a #. reader macro.

Yea, I was playing Wolfenstein New Order on it and was shocked at how well it ran. Easily made 60fps with battery life projected at well over 3hrs. Setting the refresh rate to 40hz…

I used to have two otherwise identical displays, but it still does it for me now that all of my displays are different. Notably, I think this stuff happens more when you have 3+ mo…

Interesting you say that about the Airpods. In my experience I've found that Airpods work extremely well so long as they're only paired with your Apple devices. Once I paired them …