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by neilv 2mo ago
> Look, I get it. It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process (sourcing ideas, creating outlines, refining prose, etc.). Sounds like this isn't everyone, but rather, it's pe
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by neilv 2mo ago
> Lisps are great for fast iteration but the syntax is a big problem because it's so sensitive to a single misplaced paren. That's more a problem for humans who have never programmed in a Lisp and are using notepad.exe.
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by neilv 2mo ago
And it's true, and one of the reasons that Racket (and other beefy Schemes) is easily tied for my favorite language. But I have to use other languages, like Python, JavaScript, and Swift, for employability and (sometimes) ecosystem&#x2
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by neilv 2mo ago
IIRC, MIT moved away from SICP, and therefore Scheme, because (something like) they saw the field for MIT EECS graduates changing -- from understanding how systems worked in detail, and being able to build from scratch, to assembling system
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by neilv 2mo ago
A funny thing was, when the rename to Racket was still fairly new, someone started looking into adopters in the finance space.
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by neilv 2mo ago
Would something like the following work (other than sounding a little self-important), or is there another concern? "Dear McMoo corporate or regional management, I've noticed an operations issue at a McMoo location, which I think
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by neilv 2mo ago
Oh yeah, that happens. Have to play it by ear. In one kind of scenario, the freeing up of the seat has to be more discreet/subtle, and if there's a likely sense you did it intentionally, then an unspoken tone of "hey, I&#x27
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by neilv 2mo ago
> The reason some pedestrians feel cyclists pose a bigger threat than drivers, is mostly due to car centric infrastructure. I'm sympathetic to criticisms of car-centric infrastructure and regulations, but the human/motor-po
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by neilv 2mo ago
I recognize some of the Cambridge and Boston streets, since I walk a few miles here daily. These bike lanes are politically-loaded, for various reasons (e.g., car drivers disliking bicyclists, brick & mortar businesses losing parking),
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by neilv 2mo ago
> Zscaler says they combine information from compromised systems with publicly available data to map reporting lines and identify the employees most likely to influence a company's response. And commercially-available data: enterp
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by neilv 2mo ago
You're imagining someone genuinely doing cosplay, not someone, who may not be a perfect actor, trying to pull that off, and also stick to experiment protocol. AFAIK, many (most?) people can pick up on subtle cues that something is of
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by neilv 2mo ago
I don't. I think some people will, depending (as I said) on the acting. The research is about how people behave.
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by neilv 2mo ago
The article mentions (in a "further research" kind of way) some of the obvious reasons that superhero associations specifically might elicit this response, when other pattern-disrupting surprises might not. But there's also
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by neilv 2mo ago
If that were true, wouldn't shadowbanning a worker, who entrusted the monopoly to be matched with job market opportunities, be arguable grounds for a lawsuit for great economic/existential harm?
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by neilv 2mo ago
I missed out on the heydey of LinkedIn tech hiring frenzy, because I was just doing my work (on a very small, super-effective team), and didn't want to be on sketchy LinkedIn. Then an SF colleague told me what I had been missing out o
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by neilv 2mo ago
Is Palantir getting access to any data it didn't already have about the newspaper chain's readers?
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by neilv 2mo ago
> In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact problem was out there on the internet. You could read some general refere
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by neilv 2mo ago
Recently it's seemed like (very roughly) half the Little Free Libraries I see aren't in OSM. I sometimes edit OSM, so I'm wondering whether any public bookshelf omissions are intentional, and adding the shelves would be unwel
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by neilv 2mo ago
I'd get runner's high sometimes. If you got it, you'd know it. Personally, I only recall it happening for me at end of treadmill and erg and dumbbells session, not on any of the many runs on streets/waterfront/tra
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by neilv 2mo ago
> The Play Age Signals API is a privacy-preserving tool that puts parents in the driver's seat allowing them to share their child's age range (e.g. 16-17) directly with apps. Sounds like an adtech targeting demographic, not p
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by neilv 3mo ago
> Wait until you get an overly smug rejection letter that the author seemed too eager to write, and took too much joy in writing. I got one of those a few years ago, from a prominent tech startup CEO (non-YC). The funniest thing is tha
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by neilv 3mo ago
If you want to work through SICP, you can use MIT Scheme, but another option is to use Racket or DrRacket, with this add-on package: https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/
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by neilv 3mo ago
If you want a non-corporate alternative to Goodreads, there's a Fediverse one, BookWyrm: https://bookwyrm.social/ (I don't know how many people are using BookWyrm, but Goodreads itself seems half-abandoned. Maybe
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by neilv 3mo ago
> OfficeCLI is the first and best Office suite purpose-built for AI agents to read, edit, and automate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. Free, open-source, single binary, no Office installation required. 1. Calling Microsoft Office si
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by neilv 3mo ago
The US should just find a way to quietly share literature access with the Russians, rather than letting piracy be promoted and facilitated for US consumers as freedom-fighter "archiving". Between all the piracy, and all the AI tra
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by neilv 3mo ago
What was the root cause of that? (Company consciously prioritized other things than those logistics optimizations? Individual incentives lead to management behavior that was against company's intent? Bad hiring and retention practic
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by neilv 3mo ago
Slop that wasted my time. Flagged.
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by neilv 3mo ago
What's at 12,000 meters deep? What are they afraid of?
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by neilv 3mo ago
One of the better-written ones I've seen. Am sending it around to some professors.
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by neilv 3mo ago
Unrealistic. There's no way a contemporary tech founder would offer 5% of the company to an engineer that late in the game. It would be 0.5%, and it would be ISOs at worthless pricing. Also, for all the founder's Leadership contr

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