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by beders 1mo ago
I can always rely on hacker news to improve my English
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by beders 1mo ago
This is magnificent! Gave me roller-coaster ride across 40 years of gathering knowledge about computers and networks. I'm very jealous of whoever created that. Well done!
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by beders 2mo ago
Oh we know. That's why static types are a la carte in Clojure. You can have them if you really really want them.
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by beders 2mo ago
It'll take a while but now other programming languages look alien to me. Once you've adopted s-expressions it is hard to go back.
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by beders 3mo ago
Wow, this was a cherry-picking peace of misinformation, conveniently ignoring the actual counts of people affected by Chernobyl. There's no safe dose of radiation, there's only statistics. And I'm not sure what this article i
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by beders 4mo ago
Good thing you have a variety of those nowadays. Clojure runs in the browser, Node.js, cross-compiles to Dart, works stand-alone via babashka and has a brand new C++ interfacing implementation in Jank. The ergonomics of using a proper REPL
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by beders 4mo ago
Nobody should take the Pope seriously or the Vatican. An organization that - for centuries - has actively protected child molesters, has sat on billions of dollars, has sided with Nazis, has been involved in multiple fraud and money launder
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by beders 5mo ago
I think you highlight one of the problems with users of LLMs: You can't tell anymore if it is BS or not. I caught Claude the other day hallucinating code that was not only wrong, but dangerously wrong, leading to tasks being failed and
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by beders 5mo ago
Thank you for putting it so succinctly. I keep explaining to my peers, friends and family that what actually is happening inside an LLM has nothing to do with conscience or agency and that the term AI is just completely overloaded right now
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by beders 7mo ago
My employer is trying to convince us to embrace spec-kit. But we are a Clojure shop: we iterate fast and produce results. We don't sit around and write specs and then hope working code plops out.
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by beders 7mo ago
> Define the contract before writing a single line of implementation. Specs are the source of truth. There is only one source of truth and that is the source code. To define and change contracts written in an ambiguous language and then
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by beders 7mo ago
As someone who is roughly in the same age group as the author and who was running a BBS, has witnessed the rise of IP4 networks, HTTP, Mosaic etc. let me provide a counter-point. The democratization ends at your router. Unless you are willi
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by beders 7mo ago
The reason they are on Bluesky is that it just works, its client just works and the barrier of entry is low. Oh, and others they want to follow are on there. That's it. No regular user cares about - oh my data, it is stored centrally
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by beders 7mo ago
It's sad how many people are falling for the narrative that there's more at play here than predict-next-token and some kind of emergent intelligence is happening. No, that is just your interpretation of what you see as something t
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by beders 7mo ago
This never-ending whining about oooh but my data ... for a service that you can use for free is nauseating. This is a for-profit company running this service. It ain't free to operate. If you don't like that, go elsewhere. If ther
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by beders 7mo ago
How can light "bounce off" something if it doesn't have mass?
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by beders 8mo ago
Has anyone confirmed the solution is not in the training data? Otherwise it is just a bit information retrieval LLM style. No intelligence necessary.
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by beders 8mo ago
It is enabled by default so you can enjoy the snowflakes.
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by beders 9mo ago
While the author mentions that he just doesn't have the time to look at all the databases, none of the reviews of the last few years mention immutable and/or bi-temporal databases. Which looks more like a blind spot to me honestly
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by beders 9mo ago
Most of the musings on enforcing invalid states with ADTs are impractical when working with real data that needs runtime validation when it enters the system. Using a schema/spec/type library at runtime that is even more powerful
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by beders 9mo ago
Can someone who's adapted HTMX for a larger app report about front-end-server costs? HTMX serves fully baked HTML that needs to be created on the back-end (or front-end-facing servers) That is more processing than sending the raw data
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by beders 9mo ago
AI - as a discipline - has been around forever (1956), essentially since the birth of Lisp - both with staggering successes as well as spectacular failures that ushered in 2(3?) so-called AI winters. The author probably just means LLMs. And
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by beders 10mo ago
One could get the impression that the only really really important non-functional requirement for such a thing is to absolutely ensure that you can only call the "good" functions with the "good" payload.
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by beders 10mo ago
Know the consumer of your API. If that is just your team, use whatever tech gets you there quick. However, if you need to provide some guarantees to a second or third party with your API, embrace standards like JSON, even better, use conten
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by beders 10mo ago
This is the first wave of a new generation of Apps which has the potential to replace/enhance the majority of e-commerce websites. I wouldn't underestimate it - it's the hammer can break up the information silos we've bu
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by beders 10mo ago
when PayPal tells you that they already know you and don't require you to log in: that's fingerprint.com behind the scenes. There are pros/cons. It should be obvious by now that using any free service of scale is being paid
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by beders 11mo ago
The Clojure (or any Lisp) journey is very different, not because of the language per se, but because of the developer experience. In Clojure, there's no appreciable compilation time. During my work week I barely, if ever, restart the a
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by beders 1y ago
> 60.7% Why would anyone trust the output of an LLM, if it is barely better than guessing and much much worse than humans? GPT-5 shows more impressive numbers, but for that particular task, the precision should be 100% - always. No matte
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by beders 1y ago
TLDR; Use regex if you can treat XML/HTML as a string and get away with it.
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by beders 1y ago
Can I finally redo the Star Wars sequels with this? :)

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