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by birdfood 2mo ago
I too (like the other repliers) am using a 13 mini. And I likely will replace it with another refurbished one when I must.
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by birdfood 2mo ago
I'm really quite drawn to lisp (in general) but I keep bouncing off it. I think the main reason is I just don't know how to effectively work with a dynamically typed programming language. I think for me the affordances that a lang
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by birdfood 3mo ago
I live on the Gold Coast and I have seen in my yard Aseroe rubra, glow in the dark mushrooms (not for a while now) and many others. Just this weekend I found one that looks a bit like a king oyster. Where did you get your list? I was lookin
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by birdfood 5mo ago
Getting to spend 3 months on a self learning journey sounds wonderful. My hunch is that these deep skills will be valuable long term and that this new abstraction is not the same as moving from assembly to c, but I am not completely sure. L
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by birdfood 5mo ago
There’s roughly 8b people in the world and somewhere between 2-3b have never used the internet. If OpenAI manages to capture the 6b internet users growing at 100% per year, they have 3 years of user growth left max. Then what?
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by birdfood 6mo ago
I spent a couple of years of my career working on a multiplayer / social game. We definitely got some angry feedback on that, but overwhelmingly the users loved it. Our game hovered around a 92% approval rating. I even got fan art! I t
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by birdfood 6mo ago
These companies pirated their training material and reached settlements with the copyright holders. I imagine they’d do the same with software licenced under Not For Training terms too. It’d be up to you to find out it is happening and then
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by birdfood 6mo ago
I have a couple of hives of the local native tetragonula stingless bee in my yard. It does feel quite special to see them foraging and returning laden with various brightly coloured balls of pollen on their legs. I’ve managed to propagate t
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by birdfood 6mo ago
These companies are telling us software development is over. They are positioning themselves as the means of production. You want to build anything you do it through them. And since ‘software is solved’ this is not a software but a user ac
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by birdfood 7mo ago
I was in the same boat as you until I saw DHH post about how he’s changed his use of agents. In his talk with Lex Fridman his approach was similar to mine and it really felt like a kernel of sanity amongst the hype. So when he said he’s cha
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by birdfood 1y ago
I’m building a journaling app primarily for myself but with a view that others might want to use it to. I’ve built it in rails and deployed it. The experience has been great and it’s the first “app” I’ve deployed outside of work. But I have
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by birdfood 1y ago
I think a good, related example to your point is the “2 watched literals” algorithm used in SAT solvers. It uses lazy evaluation to significantly improve the speed of the SAT solver. I implemented an SAT solver a couple of years ago just fo
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by birdfood 1y ago
I considered Django pretty seriously and worked through most of the excellent Mozilla tutorial. I prefer Django's having models defined in code and being able to generate views and migrations based off these. The auth situation seems m
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by birdfood 1y ago
I work with python and typescript (occasionally c++) for my day job. I love getting to ship complete vertical slices of functionality. But I’m tired of all the faffing about. I’m sick of reinventing wheels and integrating with paid services
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by birdfood 1y ago
Yeah I’ve seen these posted here previously! Probably the most appealing new car to me at the moment. Hopefully they take off and we can get them outside the US
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by birdfood 1y ago
I want a dumb EV. No infotainment system. Just speakers and a way to plug my device into them. Anything critical to the car should be completely air gapped and require an absolute minimum amount of software, preferably zero.
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by birdfood 1y ago
I certainly can’t say whether this is idiomatic as I was working it all out myself. But I’d basically write a type for each operation (as I’d read elsewhere). And honestly this was a bit of a drag too. I really wanted some reflection to mak
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by birdfood 1y ago
OCaml is probably my favourite language. The most involved project I did with it was a CRUD app for organising Writer's Festivals. The app was 100% OCaml (ReasonML so I could get JSX) + Dream + HTMX + DataTables. I used modules to get
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by birdfood 1y ago
Perhaps related, after watching a talk by Gerald Sussman I loaded an image of the Kanizsa triangle into Claude and asked it a pretty vague question to see if it could “see” the inferred triangle. It recognised the image and went straight in
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by birdfood 1y ago
I’m writing a journaling app, for myself first. It’s already usable and I’ve gone from not writing to writing each day. The idea is the app should be very easy to submit entries (entries can be small) as a way to get thoughts and emotions o
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by birdfood 2y ago
With having internet in our pocket we no longer value being able to recall information. There is no need when anything is a query away. I suspect a similar thing will happen with our ability to think. What is the value in being able think t
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by birdfood 2y ago
I think I'm at the same conclusion. I basically want ocaml but with structural / compile time duck typing of all types (I know about objects but they don't seem widely used). And some sort of reflection mechanism to cover 80%
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by birdfood 2y ago
I've been having a similar experience trying to build an app with liveview. I've been simultaneously building the same app with Phoenix + LiveView and Dream (OCaml) + HTMX. With the OCaml stack I'm finding it really easy to f
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by birdfood 2y ago
I too have been working on a CRUD app using Dream, SQLite, and Caqti (with HTMX and ReasonML) for a few months in my limited free time. I think I've hit a few of the same issues as OP. There's definitely painful points, but overal
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by birdfood 2y ago
Writers Festival program: basically you have a 100+ authors, a handful of venues, and 3 or 4 days to run the festival. The nature of writers festivals is interesting because there are a lot of panel sessions (multiple authors on the one ses
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by birdfood 2y ago
Building a CRUD app. It's been a while since I've worked on a CRUD app so I'm finding the whole thing quite interesting. The purpose of the app is to solve a scheduling problem. I've written my own CDCL SAT solver (now j
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by birdfood 3y ago
I find it interesting that this green/orange colour palette so commonly appears in midjourney images, seemingly regardless of the subject.
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by birdfood 3y ago
https://gleam.run is a statically typed language on the BEAM
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Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument – ABC TV (1980)(youtube.com)
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by birdfood 4y ago
I've been thinking about similar things lately, and particularly I think about the 3 billion humans who have never used the internet. How will this affect them? And how do they interpret this existential crisis we are facing? Additiona

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