Exolon

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by Exolon 29d ago
Exactly! That's also why almost every slop commit I see has a linecount like +700 / -20, whereas human commits often end up net zero. I try to remove more lines than I add, if possible, but LLMs will just add more bloat, forever.
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by Exolon 29d ago
Same here. I was always more of an en-dash enjoyer, and used that back in academia since it's just a double-dash in Latex.
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by Exolon 29d ago
The number of times I've seen phrases of the form "(ingestion|main|ingress|success|designated} path" in workslop docs recently is frankly intolerable. Last week someone sent me a 50 page doc with a proposed update to a (small
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by Exolon 2y ago
"Star chamber" is a fabulous term that would seem to describe the situation quite well. Thanks, added to my internal dictionary!
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by Exolon 3y ago
Imagine if someone wanted to play music in an orchestra, but couldn't read music because it was "too confusing", but they'd never even tried to learn. They would be laughed out the door. I'm not sure why so many lay
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by Exolon 3y ago
That's fantastic. It's a shame there isn't more stuff written (and especially, videos/streams) about K, but I get the feeling that will improve since there are a good few open-source K-like implementations (at least ngn&
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by Exolon 6y ago
> Your words betray your ignorance. Common Lisp has a type system. Have you ever written it? Do you actually know anything about it? Moreover, macros are a plus - you clearly have not actually used Lisp macros, [...] This isn't real
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by Exolon 6y ago
I didn't even "interview", just took one of their tests out of curiosity to see how I did. The announcement was especially unwelcome news given that I'm not even looking for another job.
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by Exolon 9y ago
I would dispute the idea that "if they were a lazy coder in TypeScript, they'll be lazy in Elm". The fact that Elm forces you to at least think for a moment about how handle the failure case is a good thing. Even if you'