simongray

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by simongray 9d ago
He's speaking at the coming Clojure Conj, so there will be a new talk soon.
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by simongray 1mo ago
> I always wish I could replace the UI with my own embedded editor (emacs in my case) Consider his his older project instead? https://overtone.github.io/ He even used to perform using emacs before he created Sonic Pi.
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by simongray 1mo ago
> A two hour commute is much less of a problem if you can be a bit productive. A two hour commute sounds absolutely unbearable to my ears. I guess it makes sense if you are able work for 4 hours daily inside a train or something, but tha
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by simongray 1mo ago
> What is the cost balance from being that net exporter? Are they selling energy for more than they buy? Electricity production is a subset of energy production. A lot of factories use natural gas directly, they don't produce electr
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by simongray 1mo ago
> The oil industry is full of really smart people, but this all appears to be so stupid. Why don't the fossil fuel companies just expand their investment portfolios to include off-shore wind? Some of them do, e.g. Ørsted here in Den
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by simongray 1mo ago
I am sure some variant of the infinite monkey theorem applies. Anthropic devs have unlimited access to Claude, so they are no doubt lazy when it comes to prompt writing and just brute-force the agent to do what they want.
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by simongray 2mo ago
I don't think these numbers are correct, but desktop Linux is no doubt having its year now. So many big YouTube content creators are covering Linux content and switching to Linux specifically, since the major obstacle to switching (gam
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by simongray 2mo ago
They don't act the way humans would. It's normal to start a sentence after the other person in the conversation pauses, especially if you're eager to say something (like the chat agent is), but a real human is socially aware
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by simongray 3mo ago
> Or are there other reasons why this lib was moved to TS? I'm pretty sure reach was the motivation. The author basically wrote his own TypeScript libraries duplicating a bunch of Clojure stuff, so the code is quite Clojure-like sti
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by simongray 3mo ago
I don't think you can conclude much from a sample size of 1. My country at least (and probably yours too) is producing more organic products than ever before. People are also consuming organic products more than before.
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by simongray 5mo ago
I am pretty sure Dustin Getz is American.
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by simongray 7mo ago
NemID, the previous national 2-factor solution, used a small card with rows of pre-printed single-use codes. When you logged in to a bank or a public sector website, it would ask for a random code at a specific row and column number. Once t
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by simongray 7mo ago
Maybe the momentum of Stoxx600 will last the next 4 years? Or maybe the S&P500 will come crashing down soon? Who knows. The Shiller PE ratio is insanely high. At least the European market isn't completely overinvested in just 7 com
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by simongray 7mo ago
> And what's the actual result? Just look at the market capitalization of European companies compared to US companies.. Europe is actually doing quite well at the moment. The European stock markets have over-performed quite decently
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by simongray 8mo ago
It's a crucial step on the way. Definitely nothing to scoff at.
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by simongray 8mo ago
Eu Inc. will become a reality soon, so it isn't like the Commission is standing still: eu.inc/what-is-eu-inc
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by simongray 8mo ago
> What's the saying? Time in the market vs timing the market. Seems like he managed both.
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by simongray 10mo ago
I am talking about the purpose of the law and the way it is written. It's not hard to create a law that only targets the bigger services, just make it apply to entities with a daily user count above N. A law isn't a headline on Ha
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by simongray 10mo ago
Why do you think it's going to be arbitrary? The law will obviously be framed in such a way as to hit the targets it is supposed to hit, avoid collateral damage. It's not like complete amateurs are writing our laws.
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by simongray 10mo ago
> everyone but the biggest players throwing out a lot of bathwater with very little baby by simply not accepting Danish users (if required). The biggest players in social media are precisely the ones that this law is targeting. No one
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by simongray 11mo ago
> in exchange for a promise to use the revenues "for good purposes". They still do an enormous amount of charity, though activities of the foundation are probably highly localised to Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by simongray 1y ago
The behaviour of an HTML datalist is basically completely different in every browser. It is a highly flawed element.
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by simongray 1y ago
> How does programming with Clojure targeting multiple platforms (JVM, JS, CLR, LLVM, ...) work? Each variant has its own file extension, e.g. .clj for JVM and .cljs for JS. In case you're writing code that needs to work on multiple
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by simongray 1y ago
I'm not talking about the content but about the topics.
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by simongray 1y ago
Having to rate the 30 examples made me realise just how much HN is dominated by LLM content these days. Kinda sad.
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by simongray 1y ago
Maybe you can argue why it's not most countries? It seems obvious to me that it is, but I also come from a country where everyone is bilingual. Many former European colonies are mostly bilingual, e.g. Africa is highly multilingual out
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by simongray 1y ago
I mean... 20% is not really a lot. It's probably a lot closer to 100% in most countries of the world.
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by simongray 1y ago
It's gone from the frontpage now and isn't anywhere in the top 200 either. Hmmm. I guess he was right.
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Bret Victor: Computational Public Space [video](youtube.com)
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by simongray 1y ago
There are several early retirement systems in place in Denmark for people who are unable to work.

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