agumonkey

'man' of the year

abrash black book reads like a thriller

note that i'm mostly pro-lisp, and wasn't criticizing, just reporting what i saw when reading about it.

i'd add one thing to your point, is that lispers know how to port concepts from lang a to lang b very easily, support libs, macro layer if need be (see goroutines in clojure) so fragmentation is not as hard it was in mainstream languages (ps: even though today everybody goes into ast / transpiler to experiment)

well i can't say for the whole community but i remember someone blogging around 2010 about dropping mainstream languages for his project because all the graph libraries he found were complicated to assess and inadequate.. so he went to write his own tiny lib on commonlisp and was done in a short time.

the lisp dialect growth is also famous, it's less the case these days because people know about it, but it existed

got more of the same "I made a job board and want you to be listed on it", which I assume are driven by AI

True slop ?

And it's natural for many of us to aim at optimized tools and setups

ahh right, I didn't read the github project owner, now it all make sense :)

I can use nail guns fine, I just don't want to live in a world of people who only know nail guns, and keep my brain / body stimulated.

How come these regimes can only breed excellence for illegal stuff and not solving other issues for their country.

oh really ? I never poked at that kind of problems using claude. still interesting that claude's training placed lisp at the top for IR stages.. even though historically it's obviously one of the culture that worked on interpretation and compilation the most, it's not mainstream. But I guess for sql engine teams, it decided that it was perfectly on point.

the day hardware and whatever ml engine reach apple ii cost then yeah everybody will just let it run

Are the pgrust guys lisper historically ?

How do you guys fight deskilling ? I can see my brain rot from reviewing $current_llm approaches to solving jira tickets.

What would be the list? NK, then Russia, anybody else ?

is it mathematically viable ? (aka no regression)

stings to see emacs keybinding hardcoded

unless someone can offer a custom keybinding mechanism.. and custom dynamic functions the user can bind to..

I know nothing about railroad systems but in complicated / ambiguous situations, is it possible to limit train speed to make it easier to monitor or control traffic ?

At the highest level it could be, but I can't see my future not learning more. So I'm trying to find a list of things that might still have some work value.

Considering the fact that mainstream dev (aka boilerplate, route, orm, docker) might evaporate in the coming years. Is discrete math/graph theory a good starting point to pivot if software engineering is disrupted ?

I find it interesting actually. Not embarrassing. You mastered the feature layer more than I. I went into lisp with dreams of making my own features but turns out I was quite limited.

Different psychologies

https://archive.is/gEZGz just in case

I had multiple phases in my life. Simple min wage jobs, long isolation, IT jobs.

Even in bakery, coffee shop, repair, deliveries.. you feel happy about your simple skills, happy to serve people that need a little bit of what you do, even serving coffee quick and clean.. in a team of people who know how to organize themselves. It can be exhausting, limited.. but it felt better than digital gray fog we're going in (graeber would say bullshit jobs).

And previous generation had even a different culture, my mother keeps telling me how warm and fun it was to work in the 70s. No easy job, 1000~ customer restaurants, but the way people approached jobs, belonging, connection.. was different. I witnessed the cold privatization of her building around 2000s, it became more a factory than a place to drink coffee and eat, everything was stiffer and came from high above management who didn't work with employees.

That's the end tail of capitalism. All that matters is the group / shareholder benefits and growth. It was useful to amplify trade skills and efficiency long ago but people pay the price in a different way.

I wonder if it's just me, but before the 2000s, a lot of jobs felt important, society felt important, institutions felt important.. it's evaporating now.

At least that wasn't my plan. I'd expect the space made by ignoring chaotic thought to leave room for a new kind of peaceful vibrance. And then if you read some video title claim a form of enlightenment.

I do that for 5-10 minutes, it helps lowering the amount of thoughts at first, then I can reach a slightly calmer state. New thoughts can come and I manage to not drift too long but the calm state suddenly gets boring. I was expecting a feeling of lighter brain state, something that feels reviving but so far i'm stuck at empty but slightly boring.

I do agree that spending time outside of the current internet field of distortion is quite pleasurable. I'm still dumbfounded how we pivoted from an ok-old-world with a bit of cyberspace fun to dopamine altering doomscrolling.

Quite curious how you guys prepare and do your meditation sessions

at the level of personal employee maybe, even though 87 had lotus 123 version 2. I was barely born but I'd think people would be able to think faster through electronic spreadsheet.