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If you're actually planning on reading any of the essay, "The Poisoned Chalice" is the section most likely to be of interest to this audience, especially this bit: > Big AI essen­t…

The sketch here would be that Lisps used to be exceptionally resource-intensive, allowing closer-to-metal languages to proliferate and become the default. But nowadays even Common …

I'll mention the recent Second Act as an excellent survey of the phenomenon of the late bloomer: https://www.henry-oliver.co.uk/home .

Tim Cain on YouTube has been posting some technical details of the original Fallout implementation.

If you just do C-x C-f, M-n to get the "next completion" gives you the file at point.

"Over time, this shaped a deep biological aversion to unnecessary exertion." This is both ahistorical - dancing and athletic competition are effectively human universals - and abio…

For forcing colorized output: I personally prefer pipetty (from the colorized-logs package on Debian) to unbuffer, since unbuffer merges stdout and stdin.

I'd replace the underlying data structure used to represent buffers ( https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bu... ) with something more sophisticated, like rope…

The Dark Reader browser extension works for HN.

The history here is that Common Lisp gets reduce from APL ( https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Reduce ). It's not an attempt an ML-style fold, but a different formalism from a different line…

It's true there's often a tenuous relationship between blurbs and books, but setting up reviews as the more reliable alternative to blurbs is untenable. Most reviews I read, especi…

Personally I feel about Scheme's distinction between false and the empty list the way Schemers feel about CL's distinction between variables and functions.

DDisasm ("a fast disassembler which is accurate enough for the resulting assembly code to be reassembled") uses Souffle: https://grammatech.github.io/prj/ddisasm/

Resolve is another tree-sitter based tool that does this: https://github.com/grammatech/resolve

I have a project to do that, https://github.com/ruricolist/vernacular , although I'm not working on it right now.

The CL convention would be to have a function called bar that converts whatever its argument into an instance of bar. Make it generic and new libraries can easily add their own con…

Related, for C++: https://cpp-rust-assisted-migration.gitlab.io

There is a fair amount of academic work on bidirectional tree transformation with lenses, e.g. https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/papers/lenses.pdf >. It breaks down to proving t…

I hated the spring-loaded spouts until I learned the trick: you have to actuate them once to release gas before you actually starting pouring. Haven't spilled a drop since.

That novella sounds fun.

I mean distinguishing between `null`, `false`, and `[]` on the JSON side. Most JSON libraries for CL by default parse them all as `nil`. (ST-JSON excepted.)

I like the way CL does things but it makes dealing with JSON occasionally annoying.