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by Jach 5mo ago
Being paused in the debugger is per-thread. If the server's using a thread-per-request model, and you're stopped in the request, then other requests can proceed just fine. If some of those requests also trigger the debugger, they&
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by Jach 5mo ago
What makes you think it falls flat in a team setting? There are plenty of N-pizza-sized teams successfully using Lisp to this day and you're probably aware of many teams successfully using Lisp in the past, too. There's also the s
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by Jach 5mo ago
I've frequently said that Java + JRebel gets the closest to the Common Lisp + slime experience (closer than Python) but as you say the Lisp experience is still superior, the Java ecosystem has yet to close the gap*. The widest part of
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by Jach 6mo ago
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903173 (I submitted this the day before but I guess this is HN's second-chance feature kicking in.)
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by Jach 6mo ago
Yeah, I mean there is some support for various editors ( https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... ) including VS Code ( https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/vscode-alive
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by Jach 6mo ago
A lot of businesses can get by just fine with making it one person's responsibility to maintain a spreadsheet for this. It can be fragile though as the company grows and/or the number of items increases, and you have to make sure
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by Jach 6mo ago
It's an important concern for those footing the bill, but I expect companies really in the face of being impacted by it to be able to do a cost-benefit calculation and use a mix of models. For the sorts of things GP described (iptables
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by Jach 6mo ago
Are you able to describe any of those internal tools in more detail? How important are they on average? (For example, at a prior job I spent a bit of time creating a slackbot command "/wtf acronym" which would query our compa
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Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE(coalton-lang.github.io)
112 points by Jach 6mo ago|6 comments
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by Jach 6mo ago
Many open source projects accept donations. There's also explicitly paid-for software. What exactly do you wish for that you can't do right now?
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by Jach 6mo ago
In the US, Aleve is the name-brand pill for naproxen, available in grocery stores next to everything else. I have a bottle of 160 gelcaps. Each pill is 220mg naproxen sodium or in parentheses 200 mg of naproxen. The advertised effect is 12
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by Jach 6mo ago
Do you have any of these presentations available publicly? I'm always amused by the glitch names people come up with (force quit wrong warps, skirtless parry-walks...) and it'd be fun to see them in a TLA+ context.
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by Jach 6mo ago
This used to be true, but one trip to any modern e-store front should dispell the notion. So much slop. Even for arguable non-slop, so much that just rapidly crashes and is unplayable. The extent of platform certifying these days for most t
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by Jach 6mo ago
It's more depressing if you work in a big organization where decisions come down from on-high instead of letting teams decide what's best. (Especially if one of those decisions is so-called Agile practices which were about empower
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by Jach 6mo ago
If it's so easy, all the better. You can learn to build great architecture, optimize resources, and create a creative game all while also using Unity. There are additional bonuses to this beyond the pure knowledge too.
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by Jach 6mo ago
This is part of a 2 year Masters program focused on Game Design, Development & Innovation, costing a student $113,000 to pursue. If a student enrolls in it without already having learned how to think, this is not the program that is goi
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by Jach 6mo ago
I've thought something like a software archeology class would be really fun as an elective. I agree that it can make sense to use intentionally limited things especially if something is hard to teach otherwise. e.g. Learning to parse d
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by Jach 6mo ago
That's the intention, sure, and as long as prospective Masters students know that's what they're getting into and paying for, and are looking forward to it, then it's fine or whatever. But it still strikes me as a silly
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by Jach 6mo ago
For a Masters program it's pretty weird but I assume prospective students will be aware, and they move on to learning Unreal, so... It's always struck me as a bit silly how so many schools use some very niche tooling as part of &q
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by Jach 6mo ago
I love Anna but it's also a poor school that doesn't have its own library that has at least a few copies of every textbook used by classes + inter-library loans. Can be a nice way to make friends by sharing a physical book to stud
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by Jach 6mo ago
I agree the slogan isn't very true. It's similar to another line of commentary that would suggest soft skills are more important than the hard skills of actually being able to program, i.e. the primary service being paid for. Ther
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by Jach 6mo ago
I think part of it is that some of us are not used to reading (or writing) praise, apart from seeing the over-praising of LLMs, such that seeing praise in the wild makes us think of LLMs. This being used to lack of praise is partly reinforc
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by Jach 6mo ago
> why can't AI write lisp, then? Contrary to the blog author I don't really believe this. > How does traditional human use the REPL impact AIs ability to use one language over the other? I don't think it does very much
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by Jach 6mo ago
I've generally preferred AppImages because they're just a single-file (in appearance) binary I can put in a ~/bin folder and run. Flatpaks require using an external tool to run them, and update them, and there's confusio
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by Jach 6mo ago
I'll keep using Gentoo, sorry not sorry. I agree that if my goal is to ship something like a game it needs to be easy to run or people won't play it, chucking an ebuild at them would not be helpful.
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by Jach 6mo ago
Pedantic but Lisp is not "untyped". (Neither are JS or Python.) All data has a type you can query with the type-of function. The typing is strong, you'll get a type-error if you try to add an integer to a string. Types can be
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by Jach 6mo ago
> Python doesn't have a REPL? Not really in the Lisp sense. If you consider how people typically develop and modify Python code (edit file -> run from beginning -> observe effects -> start over) and how people typically dev
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Black Hat USA 2025 – HTTP/1.1 Must Die the Desync Endgame [video](youtube.com)
3 points by Jach 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Jach 6mo ago
I think the prestige, overpopulation, and pollution arguments all suck. The important differences are that the poles are not political free-for-alls that people can just colonize, and everything is still 1g vs. Mars' 0.38g.
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by Jach 6mo ago
> the bluetooth connection on my PC was so bad that I had to stay within 3 feet lest the controller disconnects Did you remember to screw in the antennas to the motherboard?

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