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A computer scientist-novelist reflects on AI and our understanding of maths(scroll.in)
2 points by adityaathalye 5d ago|1 comments
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by adityaathalye 5d ago
He wanted to go with "Stoked on Navier-Stokes" but editors thought otherwise.
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by adityaathalye 6d ago
IMO, a scripting language is the lesser contributor to the power of shell scripting. My ranked-order is: 1. Universal Inter-Process Interface: Arbitrary program composition via the Standard Input / Output / Error interface, and
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by adityaathalye 7d ago
As a Lisp-affine person, I could not agree more.
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by adityaathalye 7d ago
So much this. It was a great piece of software that was once super useful to me... 'twas circa 2010. I was a wee project manager at a small marketing + design agency in Goa---emailing "big" files (via relatively anaemic bro
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by adityaathalye 7d ago
(2023) @signa11, thanks for sharing it here :) Happy to answer any questions here or over email (ref: HN profile). Also, another earlier non-self-submit! Thanks @celadevra_ :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41398006
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by adityaathalye 18d ago
Holy Batman... You folks are all, literally XKCD 297! https://xkcd.com/297/ (Lisp Cycles)
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by adityaathalye 18d ago
Every Emacs user eventually finds their rock bottom, er, Bedrock :D Kidding kidding... Cool project, thanks for sharing and kind of validating the stuff I ended up doing [0]. Hooray, use-package! That meandering (floundering?) culminated in
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by adityaathalye 18d ago
The post is mixing up a lot of stuff because of a category error: conflating system design (pipelines) with language design (Clojure and Bash). The Unix pipeline and the similar-looking Clojure expression are entirely different in how the
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Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers (v1.0)(refactoringenglish.com)
2 points by adityaathalye 21d ago|0 comments
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by adityaathalye 1mo ago
Summary reflection: As a happy user of UPI, I think is incredible. I want it to be more resilient, from our national economic standpoint. A (small as possible) fee, judiciously applied, will hopefully create generally constructive back-pres
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by adityaathalye 1mo ago
Old skool is best skool... There is wisdom in keeping these decoupled: - 1. your central code review (and hosting), which is the critical choke-point on team collaboration. versus - 2. the ever-expanding ick of testing, building, deployin
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Not while I've my keys mapped as the Lords of Lisp intended. Thumbs are always on the `Ctrl`s... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
As an Emacs using degenerate, `M-.` is my friend. `!` is too awkward on the keyboard.
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Well, Emacs shenanigans are why I use Bash. Also, I last had a day job five years ago, I don't have anything that looks like a career, and well you're right about some of the family and friends. You are a soothsayer!
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
I've been following my curiosity to see if I can find "ten (or twenty) year projects", as part of my "second life"; the first was before turning 40-ish, the second is now. I think I have found three, and they will k
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
_for-sale baby-shoes never-used
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Hah, indeed! "I must not complect. Complexity is the mind-killer. Complexity is the little-death that brings obliteration. I will face complexity and I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone pas
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
My 0.0000002 BTC... But first, hang in there, and please try to not be alone in this. Let your people help, or at least be there in spirit (share your feelings with them). Please read the Following as sharing, not advice (how could I, a tot
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Your stats sent me into sobering-thoughts-mode... More sobering thought: conviction rates are typically a small percentage of the people who do the foul deed. The definition of "arsonist", for example. What if someone started &quo
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Oi! What kind of an LLM downvotes an HTTP joke?
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
How it really feels to be hella ADHD.
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
I see you. Well done. A marquee remark.
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Cameron's World(cameronsworld.net)
2 points by adityaathalye 2mo ago|0 comments
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 187 or something like that <html> <head> <title>Payment Required</title> </head> <bod
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Snagged PDF from the Interwebs, posted obligatory Wikipedia to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106609 Weekend reading is going to be good :)
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Siri: brb, asking my agents... Hold my beer.
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Friend! Alas, having died on that hill one too many times, I can be with you in solidarity, but not on the hill. No, not again.
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Plot twist: Newly-hired head honcho of software was going to fix it all with Kubernetes. Peak transaction volumes of about ten per minute. Once the project ended, I never looked back and wiped all but the essential lessons from memory. I ca
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by adityaathalye 2mo ago
Some are dumpster fires inside oil spill fires on top of a lethally radioactive surface. Once I had such a client from the depths of hell. Handling lower/middle-income people's wealth. Doing money math with floating point arithmet

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