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For sure.

You can either have it display from a Google Photos photo album, and get the version of the interface which constantly displays ads to you, or you can switch the interface to "apps…

Don't bring monads into this

This would be terrifying if LLMs were actually useful for anything.

I'm not sure that Shakespeare really had a concept of beyond young infatuation like we have today I'm not sure what you mean, but if you mean that he mostly thought of love as chil…

See also the Birthday Clown Consortium Price Guide: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-birthday-clown-conso...

My intuition is that in the case of audiobook narrators who adopt different voices for different characters, VALL-E would struggle to identify which character is speaking and thus …

Juxt had a recent blog post covering the new Clojure (iteration) function in depth, which is useful for abstracting over sequences that require some state management to access, suc…

Charitably, the author doesn't mention Aronofsky also ripping off Pi from Tetsuo: the Iron Man .

One or two examples exist. The venerable MetaFilter is heavily moderated ans charges $5 for a (lifetime) membership, which tends to keep out drive-by commenting.

Yeah, I've long thought a diff tool that works on s-exprs instead of lines would be invaluable for Lisp programming. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to write, either, alt…

That's... kind of a rubbish summary, but I'm not sure what I'd want a ~700-word summary of The Great Gatsby to look like.

Indeed, looks like it's got 989 days remaining. http://stadiacountdown.com/

Wait - it looks like you have to use Fn-Q or Fn-` for ESC?

Any Portland residents want to comment on the state of the Portland tech scene there? The Oregonian article makes it sound slightly dire... No big new tech company has emerged in O…

Any US citizen can get a USAA checking account, and it's quite usable with a decent Android app and the ability to easily transfer money around from different banks. Some of their …

People will be mortgaging their homes to buy one As long as they didn't watch the entire movie!

The immutable database Datomic (from Rich Hickey, inventor of Clojure) is all based on datalog, and is fairly popular in the nichey world of Clojure development; there are several …

Choosing to encode the representation of pi as a base-10 decimal number to get the source data is pretty arbitrary, too.

That's true, although as someone commented in the github thread, SVG diagrams are very much XML, with a namespace and everything.

Yeah, among other things Lisp isn't big on labels and GOTO (but BASIC is).

I agree completely on masks being preferable to this, but I wonder whether it may have some utility anyways, because even if it does not catch many asymptomatic people, if it is wi…

Nubank did a presentation on their approach to testing at the Clojure/NYC meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dW4V3stFX0

Thanks!

I sympathize with what you're saying, but any broad survey of an incredibly complex subject like this is necessarily going to need to simplify some aspects of it. I definitely agre…