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jolt42··on I made $100K from a dick joke
Facebook Marketplace has dried up craigslist, not saying it's better for scams, but I feel like it's the only game -in town- now.
jolt42··on Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf]
The name "dynamic programming" has never clicked for me. I've looked it up I think multiple times over the years, and I think oh "recursive" or all the code I've written in Lisp/Elm. The distinction seems relatively "meh" to me.
jolt42··on Xerox to acquire Lexmark
Same. I had to look them up, apparently PARC is still a thing. I had no idea.
jolt42··on US airspace closures, lack of answers deepen East Coast drone mystery
All you need is press about one mysterious looking unidentified object, and then everyone starts looking up and filming anything creating a snowball effect.
jolt42··on Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking
Agree. The article turned me off as well. No specific example, felt like an ad.
jolt42··on Monorepo – Our Experience
I couldn't disagree more. DevOps probably likes it but from software dev standpoint it's not helpful at all. Had to stave that thinking off at my last job (because of devops). It was obvious it was going to be a huge waste of time with a continuing negative payback. It was trivial to essentially put a description file for our repo of 7 or so components.
jolt42··on Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)
- OMeta - sounds like my experience with Instaparse (Clojure) - REXX - I thought this was ingenious specifically for file/text processing.
jolt42··on Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI
They are useful, but so far, I haven't seen LLMs being obviously more useful than stackoverflow. It might generate code closer to what I need than what I find already coded, but it also produces buggier code. Sometimes it will show me a function I wasn't aware of or approach I wouldn't have considered, but I have to balance that with all the other attempts that didn't produce something useful.
jolt42··on Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)
Everything in balance. While I agree with this philosophy, I've also seen lots of duplicate bugs because it wasn't realized there was two copies of the same bug.
jolt42··on One of Florida's most lethal python hunters
King snakes will control other snake populations, but I imagine boas not so much.
jolt42··on Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated
Seems solid to me. They can predict reduction of caries before they add it to city supply water, which still happens in China I believe.
jolt42··on The Art of Finishing
I'm surprised how software can be a real fight with no end in sight, and then boom, it's suddenly "done". By "done" I guess I mean "useful" as it's never done done.
jolt42··on Roc Lang – Elm but for everywhere [video]
I'd say Elm fixed packages. Only uses what is needed and detects API breaks.
jolt42··on National Instruments acquired by Emerson (2023)
Did they leave and go to CrowdStrike?
jolt42··on What you learn by making a new programming language
Personally I've seen 9pm be a holy grail, an exceedingly advantageous position to be in. But, it's exceedingly challenging to figure out what that DSL should and should not have as well.
jolt42··on Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT love the word "eager" so much?
Seems like "chef's kiss" is replacing "icing on the cake" or "cherry on top", although I think it really means "stamp of approval", so that one has been bugging me since I hear it all the time now, it seems.
jolt42··on Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
Lisps don't get in your way, but they also have no opinions, which is problematic for community development. As a static type fan, it's the only language I think the pros outweigh than one con.
jolt42··on Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
They seem to disappear with parinfer.
jolt42··on Richat Structure (2011)
Atlantis was man-made, but Richat is not, seems like the biggest argument against it.
jolt42··on Richat Structure (2011)
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jolt42··on ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
Not sure what you mean. There's a viable answer that's marked incorrect. The examples should show the pattern well enough to eliminate possible wrong answers, correct?
jolt42··on ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
On puzzle #23 (id: 11e1fe23), I'm sure there's more than one possible valid answer from the examples given. You can't tell if the expected distance is from the gray square or from the RGB squares.
jolt42··on Xylitol is associated with cardiovascular risk
It appears in very small quantities in nature (raspberries apparently being the highest). What was the amount in the study (I don't have access)? I credit xylitol for much improved mouth health, but I maybe take 5g a day.
jolt42··on Visiting the annual Braun collectors fair
Yeah, the battery in the Oral-B toothbrushes are awful, sonic care are much better
jolt42··on The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue
Meh. Probably a reaction to getting "burned" by it. But show me something you can't get burned by.
jolt42··on Tour of CLIPS (2022)
Is it possible to make a reasonable rules engine in Ruby rather than a "bolt-on" (separate rules language files)? I think its interesting that its the LISP languages that spawned rules-engines, and as far as I've seen, the only language that can produce a reasonable rules engine as an API library.
jolt42··on The Texas Triangle: A rising megaregion unlike all others (2021)
That's as far away as "Nawlins" from the triangle, so I don't see why it's relevant.
jolt42··on Scripts should be written using the project main language
Clojure -> Babashka, better than regular bash
jolt42··on Maybe Functions
For collections, returning [] (empty collection) instead of null is almost always what I want.
jolt42··on Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011)
After using Instaparse at least it felt like a solved problem: https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse
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