ivanb

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by ivanb 4mo ago
Most if not all the terrorist-related deaths are attributed to The Troubles that ended in - you guessed that - 1998. It is not possible to attribute the deaths or lack thereof to corporal punishment.
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by ivanb 4mo ago
Regardless of what side you take, time is the judge. It does not care about what you consider right or wrong. It will show which societies will prosper and which will go extinct.
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by ivanb 5mo ago
It would be nice to refactor some of these. Vas deferens and laryngeal nerve look like easy pickings. Leave me my ear-wiggling. Any last bit of expression matters. I'm dreading the horror of genetic manipulation it would open. The gene
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by ivanb 5mo ago
Btw I meant quasi-mutations of course. So every quasi-mutation conses. Alright.
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by ivanb 5mo ago
Big-O is one thing. Big constant factor, heap fragmentation and cache locality are other useful characteristics of data structures.
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by ivanb 5mo ago
Balancing trade-off is crucial in software design. It would be nice if the documentation listed the trade-offs of the structures compared to their native implementations. I imagine at least every mutation is consing? There are also larger f
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by ivanb 6mo ago
Besides, one can easily code a skill+script for detecting the problem and suggesting fixes. In my anecdotal experience it cuts down the number of times dumber models walk in circle trying to balance parens.
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by ivanb 6mo ago
This is fantastic! Godspeed.
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by ivanb 7mo ago
It is not easy to tell because lparallel's documentation website has rotted away just the same as cl-user.net. Does anyone remember this beautiful wiki of CL libraries? Anyway, it looks like lparallel is nice and has some very useful c
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by ivanb 7mo ago
>Yes, but that would be a CL violation Let's be brave and deviate from the standard, preferably in a backward-compatible way, to provide the best achievable DX. The CL committee, however smart it was, could not think through all the
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by ivanb 7mo ago
The same way threads are different from goroutines, green threads, JS event loop etc.
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by ivanb 7mo ago
Coalton is nice but it requires a wrapper around every form you feed a REPL or around the whole file. If on the other hand SBCL had a more powerful type system or extension points for a pluggable type system...
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by ivanb 7mo ago
Hijacking the thread, the JetBrains plugin for Common Lisp had not been maintained since 2023. I forked it and vibed it back to life. You don't need Emacs. Feel free to enjoy Common Lisp in your regular IDE. https://github.c
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by ivanb 7mo ago
It is probably the best Common Lisp compiler when it comes to type checking. However, it leaves a lot to be desired. For example, it cannot specialize an element type for lists. With lists being the go-to structure, if you attempt to (decla
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by ivanb 7mo ago
That explains why Opus was so dumb yesterday. It walked in circles on tasks it used to one-shot. With these companies and services you never know what product you are actually getting regardless what is said on the tin.
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by ivanb 7mo ago
We all can google. Have you tried to install the plugin? It doesn't support the current version of the IDE and as the last commit was 8 months ago there is no hope it will get such a support soon.
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by ivanb 7mo ago
One thing this specific feature was letting me do is seeing when Claude Code takes a wrong turn, read a wrong memory MD file. I used to immediately interrupt and correct its course. Now it is more opaque and there is less of a hint at CC&#x
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by ivanb 8mo ago
That 500x313 screenshot of the desktop does not help any argument.
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by ivanb 9mo ago
It will be mine as well but only because consumer agentic AI became available and good. Only it makes all quirks and hardware incompatibilities bearable. I tell it to investigate the problem and it does an incredible amount of digging to he
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by ivanb 9mo ago
What's is the deal with Linux and suspend? It seems only a select few combinations of hardware and software can handle suspend and resume. AMD is commonly praised for their Linux drivers but my all-AMD system crumbles down on power sta
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by ivanb 10mo ago
It was so thoughtful of them to use IR tracking. Bed time gaming becomes much easier. I wonder if there was a choice between color passthrough and IR tracking and they chose the latter. Good choice!
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by ivanb 1y ago
The whole area is full of contradictions: - mechanical keys - reduced movement; - buy a custom build - have industrial build quality; - barely any movement - good blood flow; - avoid rolling - type fast; - concave keyboards - tenting; - few
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Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks(pnpm.io)
238 points by ivanb 1y ago|146 comments
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by ivanb 1y ago
One limitation of JSON is its limited set of types. For example, for decimal numbers one has to resort to stringly typing representation because DB connection libraries assume that JSON numbers are floating point. Note that JSON numbers are
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by ivanb 1y ago
Supposedly, Pijul doesn't have the "force-push to trunk" problem. This alone makes it interesting.
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by ivanb 1y ago
I haven't yet given jj a proper trial, so pardon the ignorance. All I've seen are conveniences regarding the working the copy. Besides the subjectively terrible UI, my biggest gripes with Git have to do with collaboration. A rebas
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by ivanb 1y ago
In practice e2e tests don't cover all code paths and raise a question: what is the point? There is a code path explosion when going from a unit to an endpoint. A more low-level test can cover all code paths of every small unit, whereas
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by ivanb 1y ago
I wish manufacturers of ergonomic keyboards would pay more attention to pointing devices. After all, with modern UIs we have to use the pointer. Having a hand jump to a mouse all the time is, at least, distracting. Another factor is skeleta
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by ivanb 1y ago
This is the future. Foldable, headless computer-in-keyboard and some glasses. In a sense we are doing a full circle to Commodore 64 form factor. One overlooked aspect is ergonomics. Laptops are terrible for posture, unlike the poster's
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by ivanb 1y ago
At one point I had a Blackberry Passport and a Pebble. The future looked bright.

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