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@lorenmorris There's a little-known letter from Chaucer that records his tasting flavor-blasted doritos > [...] mye mouthe wys accosted with sych violence by thee triangle I was laid out upon mye bed f'r three nyghts avvash in a dread sweat that did not abate until my humors weir set aright

A very funny pattern I’ve noticed when working with LLMs to write lisps is that the model catches and backtracks its own mistakes a lot Like, “here’s some elisp” followed by “actually, that’s bad, do this instead.” I wonder what’s going on there

I think the only improvement I’d make for me (personally) is difficulty; I one-shotted most bosses and I don’t think(?) I was over-leveled A+ though, I certainly think it deserved GotY

• Great art and music, legitimate bangers in the OST • Well-written story and plot. Really liked how unpredictable act II into act III was • I appreciated the bold decisions, particularly with weird designs (Esqiue) or plot turns (Gustave)

I finished Expedition 33 and it was good. I liked: • A distinct setting (not some variant of D&D or “another medieval era”). Being intensely French was fun and new. • Actual moral gray areas (not “make good choice A or bad choice B”). The final decision was actually painful

@Pinboard Would Abraham willingly leave his Tin Roof Sundae out to melt if the LORD commanded him to sacrifice his first bowl?

Can God make an ice cream so delicious He can't stop eating it?

@mholt6 @BambulabGlobal 100% written by an LLM, all the tics and patterns are there

REALLY, @BambulabGlobal? 1 week after our son saved up for and purchased your 3D printer, we set it up with him hoping for your good faith in the open source ecosystem, and then this? blog.bambulab.com/setting-the-re…

@lawofcons I might blog about it? It’s essentially a bunch of settings wrapped up in a minor mode; there’s nothing super special in it aside from just setting up a lot of tweaks to achieve the specific aesthetic

@leothrix Are you going to publish it?

I think I genuinely lowered my blood pressure tonight by intentionally giving myself like an hour to just fart around in emacs writing a silly little minor mode for writing prose. It’s a very cute mode

Setting a reminder to ensure I do not forget my 12 bottles of baked beans the next time I attend a FOSS conference keynote. They will be under high pressure and aimed DIRECTLY at the podium

Stripped-down visuals in a light theme with Bookman-style face, olivetti-mode for backdrop margins and centered pace column, minimal modeline with word count and nothing else

@HSVSphere Only if I can also pay either company to actively block specific developers who I don’t like from their APIs

what if OpenAI and Anthropic set up a way to donate tokens to your favorite developers

@ItsNotPaths That’s interesting because in my mind Rust’s ability to programmatically enforce invariants at the compiler level makes it one of the better ways to write code at scale

@leothrix Counterpoint: humans aren't smart enough to code in rust at scale (or any low level language that actually let's you do stuff that needs to be done)

I 100% believe that for anything non-trivial a strong, expressive type system like Rust’s is the obviously superior option BUT: the outright insanity that you can unleash in a lisp is so entertaining I still enjoy it purely for the vibes

I don’t have to keep my laptop lid open to run a process continually? I can remote into a “server” in the “cloud” or in my “network” that I can control with the keyboard that isn’t physically attached to it? Sounds like made-up nonsense

@furiouswhopper Some design choices might be forgivable for a language designed literally ten or twenty years earlier but with the language design available at the time go’s limitations are shocking sometimes

@leothrix Go seems to be literally fucking retarded to me. Like, it has all of the worst aspects of every other language. Just deep diving into go error handling (or, more precisely, its complete lack thereof) is a mind numbing traipse into madness.

So I read the “Just Use Go” article and it made some great points. There’s just no reason for a strict compiler tha— panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x480496] goroutine 1 [runnin

post is breaching containment. the gophers are coming for me. requesting immediate extraction from @typememetics hq

@lisperati that is a very large turtle, sir

this random car parked in our neighborhood today

@HSVSphere Finally, a language that implements the mistakes from the noteworthy design whitepaper "The Billion-dollar Mistake"

Rob Pike & Ken Thompson and nearly everything they stand for is horrible & has been deteriorating for decades. mcyoung.xyz/2024/12/16/ran… is a great article (remember reading it when it was released, wow time flies), it's just such a bad language. Heaps and heaps of bad decisions, enabling shit programmers to pump out garbage software fast. In the end, all you we got was ~2 decades of slightly off software (like how a painting 10deg tilted is more annoying than one 45deg), now it's getting replaced as LLMs are making Rust more accessible. Can't wait for a few decades of Rust software quality decline.

@soroush_srd Take (advice-add) and wield it like a chainsaw

@leothrix Shouldn't have seen this while learning elisp😂 now i'm even more convinced about it

My mom’s Mother’s Day request was for me to find a way to clear space on macOS so she could update because she didn’t know where her disk space was going Found the grandkids’ Minecraft world folders lmao