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An extensible LLM agent (such as https://pi.dev/ or maybe hermes) written in common lisp could be interesting. Conditions and restarts and general debugging and repair of the live …

If you have it enabled, and you're in custody or at a border or similar, and have biometric auth enabled on your phone/computer, they can hold it up to your face or force you to pu…

Any word on when some of project amber features will come out of preview? I get excited each JVM release for some of those features, but it seems like most of the releases the prev…

The book "How to Measure Anything" by Douglas W. Hubbard has a chapter on using Monte Carlo simulations to do project planning and gather estimates. It's successfully been used for…

> it's hard to find a project from years ago which doesn't "just work" with `go run` That's not been my experience. On a team I was on, even code from six months prior would someti…

They had the limbo language in plan9, which has similar features and quirks. It seems most probable that the outcome of the 45 minute conversation wasn't "let's build a language fr…

Verbosity of code is more of a go thing these days: hasThing := false for _, v := range stuff { if checkForThing(v) { hasThing = true break } } if !hasThing { return false } Java: …

+ By declaring a field/variable []Thing vs []*Thing you get different for loop semantics. Way to easy to think your mutating the array item, but only mutating a local copy or vice …

By productive you mean having developers repeatedly manually create loops that are the poor and verbose equivalents of map(), filter(), and reduce()? Out of go, scala, c++, java, p…

My understanding is with EKS or similar you still have to manually size your kubernetes cluster, that is you have to make sure there's enough hardware instances in your kubernetes …

Kotlin, java has been adding functional features

https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/1004.pdf

- Software Engineering Daily: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/podcast/ - Changelog: https://changelog.com/podcast - Functional Geekery: https://www.functionalgeekery.…

Language wise scala.js[1] with cats[2] or scalaz[3]. The FRP story there is unfortunately more complicated. 1| https://www.scala-js.org/ 2| http://typelevel.org/cats/ 3| http://sca…

Are future versions of cats going to require the typelevel scala?

http://bdr-project.org/docs/stable/index.html

I also don't have a lot of need for scientific computing; Julia has the potential to be a really compelling replacement for Python for general purpose scripting.

Not a book, but scipy had a two-part introduction to Julia talk that's worth watching: part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkgEddb4-A part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I…

That's great to see. It's sometimes hard to keep up with everything that's going on. Incidentally I really got a kick out of the recent s/Uint/UInt/ rename ( https://github.com/Jul…

* lack of threads: they do support multiple processes which can be useful for splitting up work for large computation, but not a substitute for threads * module compilation is not …

With the title I was expecting that people were finally fed up with getters/setters and all the other ceremonial bloat that's associated with java. Maybe tomorrow.

I'd recommend "C++ Primer". It's been updated for C++11, and is written in precise and clear language. As a C programmer, I find understanding details are important; Accelerated C+…

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Knuth

It's not uncommon for languages and libraries to assume that millis are the smallest resolution. Java is getting better, but is still pretty hit or miss. But if you're writing perf…

The name made me hope that it would let you communicate from python with akka actors. Apparently not.