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Why U.S. dominance at sea is shrinking(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by Lyngbakr 1y ago|8 comments
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
Fennel[0] is a Lisp-like language that transpiles to Lua. It was originally developed by Calvin Rose (author of Janet[1]), but is now maintained by Phil Hagelberg (author of Leiningen[2]). [0] https://fennel-lang.org [1] https:&#
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
I feel pretty dense, because I still struggle to get my head around automatically adding changes to a revision. Sometimes, I'll make a change locally to a file that I'll use during the development process that I have no intention
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
Is it entirely maintenance or does she also build new stuff with COBOL?
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
Does anyone know if they're able to support themselves purely on donations via Patreon, etc., or if they need to do contract work, too?
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
While I understand the aversion, I can't help but think that people miss out on some really cool experiences when they balk at stuff like 1-based arrays or parens in Lisp or whatever. Sure, those quirks may remain deal breakers after y
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
What is jank's tooling like? Clojure's felt very much like an afterthought, unfortunately. I do like having a decent set of tools right out of the box. I think Gleam was smart in this respect.
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
But when you have multiple jobs, doesn't admin end up being a greater proportion of your time since you have to deal with it for several companies?
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
At the C-suite level, I'm noticing more "fractional" positions, which — as far as I can tell — is a fancier way of saying part time. (This may be the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon at work, though.)
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
This is exactly the part I got hung up on, too. The exact reasons aren’t important for this blog post, but neither the reference implementation [...] nor the other open source Go Lua intepreters I could find were a good fit for my nee
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
This story reminds me of another told by a keynote speaker at a CERF conference. IIRC, the story goes that US government scientists on the west coast were trying to figure out where the salmon spawned in a certain region and thus conducted
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
Task* is another alternative, although I admittedly only use it with simple hobby projects in C so I can't speak to whether it scales well or not. * https://taskfile.dev/
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
The Janet Street folks, who created this, also did an interesting episode[0] of their podcast where they discuss performance considerations when working with OCaml. What I was curious about was applying a GC language to a use case that must
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New species of dinosaur discovered that 'rewrites' T.rex family tree(bbc.com)
4 points by Lyngbakr 1y ago|0 comments
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
AI weather is making great progress with the likes of GraphCast, Aardvark, NeuralGCM, Aurora, etc. It seems like the teams that produce these models often include folks from Microsoft and Google, which makes me wonder if there's much c
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
You had me at > DayLog ah ahh ahhhhhh, fighter of the night log ah ahh ahhhhh.
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
I'm excited to give this a try, as I think I'm the target audience. I tried using Helix[0] (my editor of choice) with mpls[1], but it didn't quite scratch the itch. These days, I use a sturdy notebook and cheap (but awesome!)
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
And don't even think about starting a sentence with 'and'. I think we're taught rules like this to prevent us developing bad habits at the outset. Then, once we have more experience, we know when it's okay to brea
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
> Do schools even teach lisp these days ? IIRC, grads that I interviewed from the University of Waterloo tended to have experience in Racket.
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
I had a similar experience in the Netherlands. We could have a 30 second exchange in their perfect English or a laboured 2 minute conversation in my abysmal Dutch. I struggled to improve because everyone would immediately switch to English.
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Ask HN: Are you considering retraining or changing careers due to AI?
4 points by Lyngbakr 1y ago|3 comments
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
The Guardian frames it differently : Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, said the layoffs will be across all levels and geographies but will focus on reducing management levels. https://www.theguardian.com/tec
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
> I have never actually answered a SO question because it feels like you need to answer perfectly or get torn apart. IME, this is heavily dependent on the language and, therefore, the subcommunity. For example, for Clojure and
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
I like fineliners for everyday use and opt for Sakura Pigma Micron #05s. They're quite reasonably priced and are very enjoyable to write with!
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Liverpool's title win has completed a mysterious Fibonacci sequence(bbc.com)
10 points by Lyngbakr 1y ago|0 comments
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by Lyngbakr 1y ago
This is almost identical to my experience. And during that brief sliver of time that I do get to myself, I simply don't have the mental energy to engage with others. Instead, I usually decompress by working out or reading or something
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by Lyngbakr 2y ago
I like this philosophy. At home, my dev machine is a Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi OS Lite installed to keep things minimal and clean. I added OpenBox, Helix, and Konsole, then I'm pretty much sorted (besides tooling for OCaml & L
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by Lyngbakr 2y ago
While I've never used it in anger, I really quite like dune. Was there something specific that makes you characterise it as "ridiculously bad"?
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by Lyngbakr 2y ago
I don't think this is necessarily unique to programmers. I often heard the same sentiment expressed by (non-CS) postdocs, who longed to leave academia to become artisanal bakers or small-scale mushroom farmers.
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by Lyngbakr 2y ago
What drew you to gitolite over alternatives (e.g., Forgejo)?

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