corinroyal

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by corinroyal 1y ago
Thanks, Don. That's a lot of great history to start chewing on.
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by corinroyal 1y ago
Wait, you created April, one of the most amazing hosted languages on Lisp just to learn Lisp? Wow! And here I am toiling over a simple CRUD library management app trying to figure out CLOS and it's not even going well. April is a revel
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by corinroyal 1y ago
Memex as a name for a "vibe coding" platform is just trolling.
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by corinroyal 1y ago
hand-wringing
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by corinroyal 1y ago
A sentence is not a paragraph.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Tyrian purple can and should be extracted from live snails not crushed dead ones. You pluck them off a rock, poke them with a stick, they spit dye on to your skein, and you put them back, annoyed, but ready to make more. This is how it&#x27
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Fewer
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Common Lisp, XMPP, HTML/HTTP, DITA, XML, Git, ssh, Rsync, Nginx, Firefox, GIMP, Debian, EXTFS, HP-GL, bash, Emacs, TeX, PDF, Bittorrent.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
It's good when people act based on morality and encourage others to do so.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
What are the best general products (i.e. you ask for the topic and it teaches vs. specialized) that can teach you about a topic using AI
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by corinroyal 2y ago
I'm always baffled by hate for DSLs until I realize that what people are criticizing aren't DSLs, but DSLs you have to write from scratch. If you host your DSL on Lisp, then all you have to write is your domain logic, not the base
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by corinroyal 2y ago
And don't miss Sonja Keene's book "Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp" and Kiczales' "The Art of the Meta-Object Protocol". If you don't reach enlightenment after those, Libgen will refund you
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by corinroyal 2y ago
I thought so too, until I realized that if atheists see God as a deep aspect of the human mind, that evolved that way for reasons, then we don't miss much of the Judeo-Christian story. I stopped by a local church for Bible study just i
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by corinroyal 2y ago
On food stamps now, and totally agree. I don't need the government to pay for Coke or booze. I need food and appreciate the program greatly.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Sockpuppet created for this comment.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Delicious Chocolate Cheesecake When I think of Delicious Chocolate Cheesecake, I’m instantly transported to the glow of my grandmother’s kitchen—a warm, bustling space filled with the scent of melting chocolate and the comforting hum of fun
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by corinroyal 2y ago
I love the information architecture of this site. You jump right in to demonstration code and a reference and only later the marketing text. So refreshing. I can see at a glance what the project is and what makes it different. Kudos!
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Blue pigments were just rare. There are very few natural ones and historically the synthetics have been costly and hard to produce, Han blue, Egyptian blue, Fra Angelico blue from lapiz... The later was so expensive it was mainly reserved f
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by corinroyal 2y ago
DSLs are not a new or a bad thing. We use them everyday. SQL, HTML, CSS, JSON, Postscript, Markdown, YAML, Latex, and GNU make are all DSLs. The job of a programmer is to come up with thoughtful composable abstractions, a vocabulary of noun
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by corinroyal 2y ago
It's not that hard to stop most bad actors on social networks. The key is wanting to. When volume of engagement matters more than quality, then you get what we have. Strong moderation and terms of service enforcement are a prerequisite
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Seriously. This thread is a bunch of people who have never been homeless, who never bothered once to learn anything about the mechanics of homelessness, yet feel compelled to share their utterly wrong opinions anyway. It's still a sin
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by corinroyal 2y ago
The overwhelming majority of homeless people in CA are homeless near where they were last housed. The program you're remembering was called Care NOT Cash. Nothing you said was true. Why not?
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by corinroyal 2y ago
I pray you get the healing you need there.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
But you already learned the web stack--school kids haven't. Your mental model is what prepared you to use LLMs well to solve a problem. So if they're going to do as you did, they need to learn the subject first and then learn how
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Right? Or a domain specific language for law: https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala I get that dislodging docx is an impossible job, but since docx is a terrible format for anything, it needs to be done for all the reas
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by corinroyal 2y ago
No.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
This excites me. Imagine someone not overcomplicating web tech. I've been thinking of having web sites render as epubs so we don't have to have a sysadmin on call 24/7 just so I can read.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Here's a link to their website with the book: https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos.html
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Admirer, not user. So ambitious and gorgeous. Hosted on Common Lisp with full integration, so useful now. I hope more people check it out. The new Shen book is awesome.

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