iLemming

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by iLemming 2mo ago
Darn it, how the fuck software development turned into hostage negotiation? Every passing week there's something - if it's not another npm disaster, then it's GitHub, or Claude, or AWS, or Slack, or Jira, or whatever...
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by iLemming 2mo ago
> you're comparing ... to the literal largest bank in the world. Well, Nubank is literally the largest digital bank in the world, by customer count & valuation. I'm baffled as to what you're trying to prove. It's
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by iLemming 2mo ago
You probably won't believe it, it's crazy, I swear, but can you imagine? Turns out it's possible to re-map any key in Emacs. How the fuck only a few people know about this? It's unbelievable. Some kind of Emacs conspirac
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by iLemming 2mo ago
> There's not much correlation In this specific case it is. There is a direct correlation. One simply needs to do fifteen seconds of research into it - Datomic was the single strategic multiplier that enabled Nubank's success.
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by iLemming 2mo ago
/r/emacs discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1vpufnu/the_emacs_ca...
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Emacs canvas patch is on master(debbugs.gnu.org)
39 points by iLemming 2mo ago|4 comments
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by iLemming 2mo ago
Announcement¹ What it is: a new image type, canvas, backed by an in-memory ARGB32 pixel buffer. Why it's a big deal: the old way to get pixels on screen was render -> encode to PPM/PNG -> allocate a unibyte Lisp string (or w
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by iLemming 2mo ago
LLMs are surprisingly good with Lisp dialects. With a caveat - when you give them actual (homoiconic) REPL. It makes little sense treating a Lisp just like any other language, which is roughly the Unix/pipe model - batch-style. Agent s
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by iLemming 2mo ago
Install Doom, understand the "vocabulary" - learn what constitutes a "module", what a "package" is; go through the list of modules, enable only those that look immediately useful, leave most of them commented.
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by iLemming 2mo ago
> It is impossible to duplicate results with an LLM But that's the fundamental property of it - it is stochastic by nature. The skill is to learn how to sandwich deterministic logic between layers of randomness. Determinism doesn&#x
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by iLemming 2mo ago
I don't think Paul ever envisioned Lisp evolving into something like Clojure, where macros indeed are a bit less than a first-class citizen. And I think the whole adage of "First rule of macro club - don't write macros. Secon
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by iLemming 2mo ago
Yup. When you give an LLM a "true" REPL, it stops guessing and starts empirically assessing the situation and achieves results faster, costing you far less tokens. And when you have something like Emacs - a malleable substrate you
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by iLemming 2mo ago
That is badly generalized proverb. Clojure has unhygienic macros, no expander extension points, and no error-message layer, so "don't" is a rational default there. Yet, for example Racket writes macros that write macros as a
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by iLemming 2mo ago
Gracias, Fidel!
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by iLemming 2mo ago
Thanks, I already have Emacs.
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by iLemming 2mo ago
Ah, so you're saying my Mazda that's manufactured has little (or no) value because it wasn't hand-crafted like a Bugatti? I suppose I should be ashamed to even call it "a vehicle". What a shame - assembled by a bunc
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by iLemming 2mo ago
This is such a disingenuous, childish, immature and ignorant take - I can't even remain calm without getting angry. Have you ever, kids, tried building anything useful? Anything practical, anything that actually works, anything benefic
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by iLemming 2mo ago
LLMs are not only OpenAI and Anthropic. Some of us liberally use local models as well. You can't just portray the entire chunk of innovation as "trash". It's like calling the invention of plastics as such. Even though it
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by iLemming 2mo ago
> I don’t know much about it or its creator The guy literally has published book(s) on Clojure - not some random, unknown, AI-wielding teenager from somewhere in Nebraska. I'm pretty sure they know what they're doing. But of co
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by iLemming 2mo ago
Why the fuck people keep using Reddit (including myself) I still can't fathom. Maybe the lack of alternatives? Reddit is actively trying to "kill the Internet" turning itself into a garbage pile of short window relevance. Wha
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by iLemming 2mo ago
Lisp is not "forgotten". It's quite alive, kicking and running [big] circles. Nubank (the largest digital bank in the world) using Clojure as their primary driver grew from ~12M customers in 2019 to 131M in 2025 - almost 1000
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ChainDrop NPM supply-chain attack infects packages(bleepingcomputer.com)
3 points by iLemming 2mo ago|1 comments
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by iLemming 2mo ago
> Haskell people smart, other people dumb? Da hell you're talking about, friend? I said nothing about "people", or them being smart or dumb; just a difference in cultural stereotypes. Now you're ironically "prov
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by iLemming 2mo ago
> I would have to make a trip just for the food Totally. There are too many dishes to count that don't exist and unlikely ever will outside of that country. Traditional sausage Qazi is a must try; Naryin is a dish with customs tied
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by iLemming 2mo ago
Okay, but what that has to do with preferring strong CS theoretical grounds vs. cutting corners to get-the-shit-done? My initial point was about cultures - Haskelites are typically very smart, extremely mathy, and they'd often choose c
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by iLemming 2mo ago
Are you using a 42 year old book to find flaws in my argumentation? Let's talk real, contemporary numbers. NuBank: from ~12M customers in 2019, grown to 25M in a year, then to 48M at IPO a year later, then to 114M in 2024, to 131M in 2
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by iLemming 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097840 > Clojure is actually an interesting case here, because it is hosted. So, you can write a Clojurescript macro that runs at compile time on the JVM, but emits code that runs a
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by iLemming 2mo ago
Honest answer? This is not simple, because to authentically bake that kind of bread, you'd need the "tandir". No, it's not like Punjabi or Indian traditional tandoors, those are similar yet different. Uzbek one's pr
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Uzbek cuisine is a fascinating phenomenon because its traditions were shaped by interesting geography, climate and history. It is a double-land-locked country, therefore the lack of seafood and saltwater plants forced them to get inventive.
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by iLemming 2mo ago
No, in Uzbek it is actually "non" and not "naan", "palov" and not "pilav", "somsa" and not "samosa", "tandir" and not "tandoor".

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