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   by aag 5d ago

   Arg. That's embarrassing. The correct link is: https://speechcode.com/blog/repl-as-service
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   by aag 6d ago

   I use them for debugging errors in web handlers. https://speechcode.local/blog/repl-as-service
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   by aag 13d ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe_Toaster
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   by aag 20d ago

   I'm a huge fan of agent-shell, too. It keeps getting better and better, and it's infinitely customizable, like any good Emacs package.
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   by aag 1mo ago

   That used to be a problem, but Claude Code has been doing fine at it for a few months now.
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   by aag 1mo ago

   First, read the blog post more carefully. Then read the book Hackers, by Steven Levy. Common Lisp was designed by amazing hackers for amazing hackers. Joe was making a comparison with languages like Java, which has some nice characterist
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   by aag 1mo ago

   I've known Joe for decades. I've never heard him describe himself this way, but I can confirm that it is true. He is amazing.
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   by aag 2mo ago

   Ambition is still a human characteristic.
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   by aag 2mo ago

   I'm don't care. If it's good, it's good.
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    by aag 2mo ago

    What an ambitious and impressive project! I'm going to try it. One note: The home page says "Nothing phones home," but the Bento files I've examined include a cloudflareinsights.com beacon.
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    by aag 2mo ago

    Eddie Murphy had a great comedy bit based on that car.
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    by aag 2mo ago

    I don't understand this comment. They wrote SICP.
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    by aag 2mo ago

    Sussman and Abelson are great at teaching.
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    by aag 3mo ago

    Schools should forbid grading on a curve. MIT does, for example. Standards should be absolute.
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    by aag 3mo ago

    Why is anyone using anything else?
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    by aag 3mo ago

    “You may note however that the university has not issued any statement refuting the information reported in the press.”
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    by aag 3mo ago

    For a side project, I used Iroh to give my web server in the cloud the ability to print directly to my label printer at home. The API is simple and easy to use. It took no time to write a reliable system on top of Iroh.
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    by aag 3mo ago

    So much work is done for HIPAA compliance, and then the only authentication required is a birth date.
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    by aag 3mo ago

    If you're interested in efforts to catalog and even deflect asteroids that might hit Earth: https://b612.ai/ The ".ai" stands for "Asteroid Institute." It was started by two former astronauts, Ed L
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    by aag 4mo ago

    Actually, they do have an incentive to let you turn off ads. If they don't, many users will turn off notifications entirely. At least if they categorize them, some users will just turn off the bothersome ones.
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    by aag 4mo ago

    I have the poster on my wall. It's beautiful. I highly recommend it.
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    by aag 5mo ago

    I second your recommendation. I watched it last night, and loved it. It was beautiful to see the level of competence and devotion of the tiny group running the spacecraft.
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    by aag 5mo ago

    Andy gave a nice talk on the implementation of Chez Scheme, an optimizing compiler, at the Scheme Workshop in Berlin in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_-enNCZxaU
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    by aag 5mo ago

    Absolutely. I do all my LLM-assisted work inside Emacs using Agent Shell and Emacs skills: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell https://github.com/xenodium/emacs-skills
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    by aag 6mo ago

    Here's Pixie Scheme, which is an interesting implementation for the iPad: https://jayreynoldsfreeman.com/My/Wraith_Scheme_(64-bit_vers...
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    by aag 6mo ago

    This makes me nostalgic for my 4K TRS-80 Model I with cassette tape. There was something beautiful about having control over everything, and even the tight constraints were sometimes fun.
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    by aag 6mo ago

    I love Waymo. Using the word "impact" is unfortunate.
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    by aag 9mo ago

    Thank you for saying that. I regularly attend the International Conference on Functional Programming, which grew out of the LISP and Functional Programming conference. Except for the Scheme Workshop, which is the reason I attend, it might
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    by aag 9mo ago

    Yes, especially in a city like San Francisco where so many cultures come together: the Prius culture, the BMW culture, the Subaru culture, etc.
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    by aag 9mo ago

    There are situations where it is allowed: https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/vehicle-code/veh-sect-25251/