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by whacked_new 11mo ago
The organizers presented this at COSCUP 25 [1]. It's both extremely ambitious and impressive. They said there are basically no restrictions on who can join -- high schoolers to postdocs, and it's completely based on personal aptit
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by whacked_new 1y ago
Comparing nix style (hash head, package tail), and spack style (package head hash tail), and speaking from my own limited experience, the need arises in different cases, which also depends on the ease of tooling, sometimes I'm grepping
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by whacked_new 1y ago
I can't find the video of the talk where either Eelco Dolstra (nix) or Todd Gamblin (spack) talks about this, but IIRC it's a design decision; you generally don't go spelunking in the nix store, but if you do, and you ls &#x2
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by whacked_new 1y ago
Thanks for the reply! I'll have to try this out... it almost looks like what perkeep was meant to become. One interesting scenario re time traveling is if we use an LLM somewhere in data derivation. Say there's a secondary process
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by whacked_new 1y ago
so the progression of human technological revolutions is looking like industrial -> information -> AI -> vibe
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by whacked_new 1y ago
Super interested in this as well (and thank you for Caddy) How does this handle data updating / fixing? My use case is importing data that's semi structured. Say you get data from a 3rd party provider from one dump, and it's
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by whacked_new 1y ago
I was a long time org mode user and used babel extensively [1]. It was a marvelous experience, but the market chose markdown. I still drop into org-mode some times for specific features, and the babel integration is still in its own league,
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by whacked_new 1y ago
Oh right, I do this too! At the same time it often feels like a veneer of control, like you can control exactly where to place the door, but what's in the messy room (like emacs profiles if you do that) might be hidden behind the very
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by whacked_new 1y ago
I advocate (and use) nix + home manager too but when you need a one-off change or test and realize you need to do the whole commit and switch thing, or when you are debugging and spelunk through the read only nix store, or when you set up a
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by whacked_new 1y ago
Wow, thanks for digging! Looks like I haven't committed that file! It's an incomplete description of the android app that I wrote to output the jsonl in the self-logging piece going through some comparisons of existing options in
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by whacked_new 1y ago
I wanted to track my progress to the highest level of detail possible. The motor motions are somewhat similar, but slightly more complex, than typing on the keyboard. But since I already type fluently I wouldn't be able to get as fresh
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by whacked_new 1y ago
Author here. Very surprised to see this on HN years after I stopped! Also, thanks for the UI critique, points taken! The design decision was to hide nitty gritty detail about the background unless the reader was extra interested, in hopes o
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by whacked_new 1y ago
so is this something like core's interpretation of things like ztellman's manifold ( https://github.com/clj-commons/manifold )? EDIT: gpt says, Choose core.async.flow when you want a declarative, monitorable pr
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by whacked_new 1y ago
I have been doing something like this, every day, for several years now. I started with a more gentle kind of tape that doesn't go over your lips. But after trying different kinds of tape, I just stick a small piece of medical tape ove
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by whacked_new 1y ago
does uv play well with cuda? I use nix-shell when possible to specify my entire dev environment (including gnumake, gcc, down to utils like jq) it often doesn't play well with venv and cuda, which I get. I've succeeded in locking
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by whacked_new 2y ago
I like this, but forgive me for asking a bunch of obvious, ungrateful armchair questions - what are the core concepts that you've distilled from 15 years of hosted lisp? - are these thus the most foundational types? - how
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by whacked_new 3y ago
For anyone running nix/nixos, looks like there isn't a nix-shell-able package but `nix run github:dariof4/lem-flake` starts the ncurses version
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by whacked_new 3y ago
I doubt it; edn seemed like _that_ rebranding effort. It looked json-like enough, but clearly didn't have the draw. People who complain that json has no comments obviously have a secret list of other gripes. The general tooling wasn&#x
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by whacked_new 3y ago
I might sound like heretic but as someone who always keeps an eye out for configuration systems (I've tried edn, raw json, dhall, cue, hcl to name a couple) over the years, I'm sticking to jsonnet + jsonschema. Some reasons in fav
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by whacked_new 3y ago
edn + clojure was the most pleasant configuration system I've worked with, but I have never convinced anybody else to use it. Jsonnet on the other hand, people get productive in it pretty quickly. It's my default choice for all co
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by whacked_new 3y ago
I use jsonnet for templating and transformation and jsonschema for validation. Very happy with this combination. One big reason is that there are lot of libraries and codegen tools to choose from once you have the JSON generation pipeline (
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Joyful Cross platform Development with ClojureDart [video](youtube.com)
2 points by whacked_new 3y ago|0 comments
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by whacked_new 3y ago
yikes! do you have javascript blockers? The site is unusable without javascript. FWIW, it's a custom rerender of https://github.com/whacked/cow/blob/main/learning%20soroban%...
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by whacked_new 3y ago
I started learning the soroban (Japanese abacus) 2 years ago because I wanted to understand how people used it to perform calculation feats. I spent a year practicing using the abacus mechanics, and another year replacing the physical abacu
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Reviewing 1 year of my progress from practicing mental calculation (flash anzan)(hippocanvas.com)
1 points by whacked_new 3y ago|4 comments
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by whacked_new 3y ago
I used it for a few research projects around the same time. Overall it was a good experience, even after wresting with the macro system, and I was very sad it didn't reach wider adoption. A few years later I tried to rebuild an old pro
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by whacked_new 3y ago
The missing link for me is nix-copy-closure, which I learned about from a post by mitchellh: https://mitchellh.com/writing/nix-with-dockerfiles conceptually a game changer for me. In practice it's far from a silve
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by whacked_new 3y ago
https://ui.toast.com/tui-grid is MIT
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by whacked_new 3y ago
clicked out of curiosity and was hooked to the end. fantastic, masterful talk, thanks.
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by whacked_new 3y ago
I'm sighted, but bought a used braille display for slightly less than $200 to learn braille for fun. It's pretty impressive to actuate hundreds of tiny dots at a time, for every sentence you need to read. Every once in a while one

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