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Comment #47724965
(although: 1. not really 2. kind of a nightmare 3. conservatives and liberals are two sides of the whig hegelian dialect 4. plz make it stop 5. can we all just be normal)
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Comment #47724893
thats fair, it's dark but it is kind of funny
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Comment #47724856
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Comment #47706328
100,000 people joined the catholic church in america this week. At this point I don't think anything other than the church retains the ability to present a coherent moral or metaph…
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Comment #47706097
well, ~21% of americans are catholic
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Comment #47382446
yeah, making a whole language is way more impressive! anecdotally it is also interesting to use with ai because apparently it is "harder to be on autopilot" based on a huge pre-exi…
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Comment #47382348
fun fact, you can easily write c in any language you want through the power of macros https://github.com/farant/rhubarb/blob/main/include/latina.h edit: oh, maybe you can’t do full…
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Comment #47377810
So somewhere here there is a 2x2 or something based on these factors: 1. Programmers viewing programming through career and job security lens 2. Programmers who love the experience…
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Comment #47370093
step one: have you ever heard of a guy named Aristotle
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Comment #47294342
Sorry it is a little buggy sometimes! You can see the first step of the idea here: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/eec07cc4-e8fa-4350-a496-a... And the second step here: https:/…
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Comment #47283178
don't forget VRML there are dozens of us
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Comment #46519658
I think we underestimate the creative downside of forcing responsive design on everything
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Comment #46276640
I am slowly learning bits of latin doing this. And Claude does say that it makes it read the code less on “autopilot” because it has to stop and translate the code. Don’t know how …
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Comment #46276616
Wow! That sounds amazing. I did experiment with using non latin characters for conventions like mu but I think I ran into some suprising rough edges working with claude that made m…
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Comment #46276564
I started aquinas first, that was a very interesting learning experience! Not as hard to get stuff on the screen targeting an emulator as your “machine” as I would have thought.
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Comment #46276549
I am experimenting with show bible as an “advanced vibe coding technique” for documenting modules, maybe an episode per module? Claude seems to respond positively! You can always c…
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Comment #46276506
I think talking to AI in XML is very promising! It is kind of like moving from a 1d semantic plane to a 2d semantic plane. I think it could be a cool way to work around some of the…
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Comment #46276478
Relax is a “conlang” I invented to prime conversations with Claude. Working with its alignment training is sometimes like talking to someone who is very polite and you both know wh…
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Comment #46090287
Well, it's still AI slop but it's fun to make! I wouldn't necessarily recommend the latin part to everyone but I think writing your own standard libraries in C is a lot more access…
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Show HN: Rhubarb – C89 Libraries in Latin
Considering all the supply chain dependencies lately I've been building a collection of C89 libraries to make zero dependency stuff. For fun I have also been programming it in lati…
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Comment #44176815
Yeah, figuring out a good structure really helped! The basic insight is that you can iterate like this without losing coherence and starting to generate artifacts from feedback loo…