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by lilactown 2mo ago
One of my favorite tech talks is "Seven implementations of incremental": https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/seven-implementations-...
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by lilactown 3mo ago
I tried to look for the thread on the emacs-devel archive, and couldn't find it. Is it not archived for some reason?
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by lilactown 4mo ago
I believe Borkdude showed it was possible by first implementing async/await in Squint, his alternative* implementation of ClojureScript, and then took those learnings to the core CLJS compiler.
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by lilactown 6mo ago
If your inbox is as big as mine, you won’t be able to load all the text content into a prompt even with SotA cloud hosted models. Instead you should give it tools to search over the mailbox for terms, labels, addresses, etc. so that the mod
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by lilactown 8mo ago
Would buy this in a heartbeat (pun intended) if it came with a heart rate monitor. I had the first Pebble Time Round and it's my favorite smart watch I've ever owned, but these days the things I want from a watch are to tell the t
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by lilactown 3y ago
That’s true
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by lilactown 3y ago
I think it's as much about familiarity than anything else. I've programmed full time in Clojure for the last 6 years, and I find it just as easy to read than other languages I'm familiar with (JavaScript, Java) and way less e
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by lilactown 3y ago
No sound in Mobile Safari
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by lilactown 4y ago
website seems down?
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by lilactown 4y ago
AFAICT Calva has come a very long way in 5 years
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by lilactown 4y ago
idk, I've trained with many competitive and pro athletes in BJJ and everyone's cutting. If winning matters, you take every advantage.
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by lilactown 4y ago
AFAICT after the first write, the inner promise is resolved and will return the same value it was resolved with even if subsequent writes are made. This is totally different than Go-like channels which can receive multiple writes, often han
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by lilactown 4y ago
Neat! Using Safari, the music pauses each time it transitions to another panel.
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by lilactown 4y ago
My dad and my grandpa worked for unions for decades, and they are the hardest working people I know and take great pride in that.
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by lilactown 4y ago
I also didn't think to look in the "language extensions" section of the manual, instead going to the API docs and clicking on the "Effect" module. This looks much more interesting, on a skim. Thanks!
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by lilactown 4y ago
The "Manual" link on this page https://ocaml.org/releases is broken
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by lilactown 4y ago
Is there a guide on how to use the new constructs? The link to the 5.0 docs was broken on the site, and after manually fixing the URL all I found was some type annotations in the `Effects` module.
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by lilactown 4y ago
Yes, an outpouring of sympathy, empathy, etc combined with the same unilateral decision making that technologists make would be terrible. I would call continuing to do that unempathetic. Technologists acting like technocrats and expecting e
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by lilactown 4y ago
Twitter's now owned by Elon, who is making friends with right wing reactionaries in public. Fox News is the most watched news channel on the continent. All tech companies at the very least are pro-capitalist, it's often a choice o
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by lilactown 4y ago
The First 5000 Years of Debt has a lot to say about this. It’s not fact that every large group of people invents money
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by lilactown 4y ago
IMO this is one of the main benefits of Clojure from a lisp-er perspective: it actually takes multithreading seriously in its design. It basically chose the "yes add the machinery" option, but built the machinery into the design o
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by lilactown 4y ago
That's a reasonable hypothesis. My experience was mbsync would hang for many minutes, and eventually when I revisited the terminal it was in it had failed with a nondescript error.
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by lilactown 4y ago
I tried using a combo of mbsync, notmuch, and notmuch-emacs to start migrating away from Gmail's UI (and eventually moving away from their service). I found, though, that mbsync failed to download updates after the initial bulk load. H
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by lilactown 4y ago
AFAIK (maybe someone else will correct me) there are two things that people run into when implementing interpreters: 1. You can't write a JIT because you need to be able to dynamically allocate executable memory, which is typically not
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by lilactown 4y ago
The "Optimized B-Trees" section I _think_ is suggesting to get rid of datoms, which I 100% agree with. I do not think they add anything at all; IME you can have a collection of all attributes indexed by entity ID and then have ad
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by lilactown 4y ago
The germ theory of disease is sprang up in many places of the world throughout history. Setting that aside, cultural appropriation is something that just happens; it's not a moral good or bad, despite the way that it often gets talked
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by lilactown 4y ago
STM, atomics and channels are all different things that can be use to build different kinds of systems, so I think it's good to disambiguate them when talking about concurrency problems and their tradeoffs. Clojure' STM is basical
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by lilactown 4y ago
The difference is that it's not "fools" that will accept USD, but people who are taxed by the US government. That's what keeps the USD from being worth nothing; even if you do all your transactions in crypto (which you s
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by lilactown 5y ago
I think the article comes off to many here as anti-technology because it doesn't continue past the thesis: Apple's vast amount of unilateral control over devices and software gives it the ability to surveil the population in ways
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by lilactown 5y ago
Project Loom is both about the JVM and the language Java. Most of the work for Loom AFAICT is at the JVM level, and the benefits are that all Java code will Just Work(TM) with the new primitives underneath them at the end. Scala’s varied as

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