Thanks, Don. That's a lot of great history to start chewing on.
Wait, you created April, one of the most amazing hosted languages on Lisp just to learn Lisp? Wow! And here I am toiling over a simple CRUD library management app trying to figure out CLOS and it's not even going well.…
Memex as a name for a "vibe coding" platform is just trolling.
hand-wringing
A sentence is not a paragraph.
...
Tyrian purple can and should be extracted from live snails not crushed dead ones. You pluck them off a rock, poke them with a stick, they spit dye on to your skein, and you put them back, annoyed, but ready to make…
Fewer
Common Lisp, XMPP, HTML/HTTP, DITA, XML, Git, ssh, Rsync, Nginx, Firefox, GIMP, Debian, EXTFS, HP-GL, bash, Emacs, TeX, PDF, Bittorrent.
It's good when people act based on morality and encourage others to do so.
What are the best general products (i.e. you ask for the topic and it teaches vs. specialized) that can teach you about a topic using AI
I'm always baffled by hate for DSLs until I realize that what people are criticizing aren't DSLs, but DSLs you have to write from scratch. If you host your DSL on Lisp, then all you have to write is your domain logic,…
And don't miss Sonja Keene's book "Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp" and Kiczales' "The Art of the Meta-Object Protocol". If you don't reach enlightenment after those, Libgen will refund your money.
I thought so too, until I realized that if atheists see God as a deep aspect of the human mind, that evolved that way for reasons, then we don't miss much of the Judeo-Christian story. I stopped by a local church for…
On food stamps now, and totally agree. I don't need the government to pay for Coke or booze. I need food and appreciate the program greatly.
Sockpuppet created for this comment.
Delicious Chocolate Cheesecake When I think of Delicious Chocolate Cheesecake, I’m instantly transported to the glow of my grandmother’s kitchen—a warm, bustling space filled with the scent of melting chocolate and the…
I love the information architecture of this site. You jump right in to demonstration code and a reference and only later the marketing text. So refreshing. I can see at a glance what the project is and what makes it…
Blue pigments were just rare. There are very few natural ones and historically the synthetics have been costly and hard to produce, Han blue, Egyptian blue, Fra Angelico blue from lapiz... The later was so expensive it…
DSLs are not a new or a bad thing. We use them everyday. SQL, HTML, CSS, JSON, Postscript, Markdown, YAML, Latex, and GNU make are all DSLs. The job of a programmer is to come up with thoughtful composable abstractions,…
It's not that hard to stop most bad actors on social networks. The key is wanting to. When volume of engagement matters more than quality, then you get what we have. Strong moderation and terms of service enforcement…
Seriously. This thread is a bunch of people who have never been homeless, who never bothered once to learn anything about the mechanics of homelessness, yet feel compelled to share their utterly wrong opinions anyway.…
The overwhelming majority of homeless people in CA are homeless near where they were last housed. The program you're remembering was called Care NOT Cash. Nothing you said was true. Why not?
But you already learned the web stack--school kids haven't. Your mental model is what prepared you to use LLMs well to solve a problem. So if they're going to do as you did, they need to learn the subject first and then…
Right? Or a domain specific language for law: https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala I get that dislodging docx is an impossible job, but since docx is a terrible format for anything, it needs to be done for all the…
Thanks, Don. That's a lot of great history to start chewing on.
Wait, you created April, one of the most amazing hosted languages on Lisp just to learn Lisp? Wow! And here I am toiling over a simple CRUD library management app trying to figure out CLOS and it's not even going well.…
Memex as a name for a "vibe coding" platform is just trolling.
hand-wringing
A sentence is not a paragraph.
...
Tyrian purple can and should be extracted from live snails not crushed dead ones. You pluck them off a rock, poke them with a stick, they spit dye on to your skein, and you put them back, annoyed, but ready to make…
Fewer
Common Lisp, XMPP, HTML/HTTP, DITA, XML, Git, ssh, Rsync, Nginx, Firefox, GIMP, Debian, EXTFS, HP-GL, bash, Emacs, TeX, PDF, Bittorrent.
It's good when people act based on morality and encourage others to do so.
What are the best general products (i.e. you ask for the topic and it teaches vs. specialized) that can teach you about a topic using AI
I'm always baffled by hate for DSLs until I realize that what people are criticizing aren't DSLs, but DSLs you have to write from scratch. If you host your DSL on Lisp, then all you have to write is your domain logic,…
And don't miss Sonja Keene's book "Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp" and Kiczales' "The Art of the Meta-Object Protocol". If you don't reach enlightenment after those, Libgen will refund your money.
I thought so too, until I realized that if atheists see God as a deep aspect of the human mind, that evolved that way for reasons, then we don't miss much of the Judeo-Christian story. I stopped by a local church for…
On food stamps now, and totally agree. I don't need the government to pay for Coke or booze. I need food and appreciate the program greatly.
Sockpuppet created for this comment.
Delicious Chocolate Cheesecake When I think of Delicious Chocolate Cheesecake, I’m instantly transported to the glow of my grandmother’s kitchen—a warm, bustling space filled with the scent of melting chocolate and the…
I love the information architecture of this site. You jump right in to demonstration code and a reference and only later the marketing text. So refreshing. I can see at a glance what the project is and what makes it…
Blue pigments were just rare. There are very few natural ones and historically the synthetics have been costly and hard to produce, Han blue, Egyptian blue, Fra Angelico blue from lapiz... The later was so expensive it…
DSLs are not a new or a bad thing. We use them everyday. SQL, HTML, CSS, JSON, Postscript, Markdown, YAML, Latex, and GNU make are all DSLs. The job of a programmer is to come up with thoughtful composable abstractions,…
It's not that hard to stop most bad actors on social networks. The key is wanting to. When volume of engagement matters more than quality, then you get what we have. Strong moderation and terms of service enforcement…
Seriously. This thread is a bunch of people who have never been homeless, who never bothered once to learn anything about the mechanics of homelessness, yet feel compelled to share their utterly wrong opinions anyway.…
The overwhelming majority of homeless people in CA are homeless near where they were last housed. The program you're remembering was called Care NOT Cash. Nothing you said was true. Why not?
But you already learned the web stack--school kids haven't. Your mental model is what prepared you to use LLMs well to solve a problem. So if they're going to do as you did, they need to learn the subject first and then…
Right? Or a domain specific language for law: https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala I get that dislodging docx is an impossible job, but since docx is a terrible format for anything, it needs to be done for all the…