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macmac··on Hindenburg Research: Forensic Financial Research
Nothing like having a lot of money riding on it, as an incentive for getting it right.
macmac··on Embracing Common Lisp in the modern world
It what way is it janky exactly? I mean what normal debugger functionality is missing/broken? Or do you find it hard to discover?
macmac··on Hindenburg Research: Forensic Financial Research
Talk about an interesting business model.

"Hindenburg Research prepares an investigation report on a target company by going through its public records, internal corporate documents and by talking to its employees. The report is then circulated to Hindenburg's limited partners, who, together with Hindenburg, take a short position in the target company before publicly releasing the report. Hindenburg takes profits if the target company's share price declines"

macmac··on Embracing Common Lisp in the modern world
I don't understand this. Are you saying that SLIME/SLY debugging of SBCL in Emacs is "basically a CLI tool running separately in a window"? It is arguably the most powerful debugging experience available for any programming language. There is ton of documentation and tutorials available and it is as far from janky as you can possibly get.
macmac··on The lazy technologist's guide to weight loss
Thanks. I love gadgets, apps etc. but I felt the rules around this had to be so simple I did not need any support to keep them. Originally I had planned to start running after a month or 2, to save time, but when I saw the progress I decided to stick with walking to be sure I did not get injured. At age 50 that is a real possibility.
macmac··on The lazy technologist's guide to weight loss
90% of the time it is in one go, 10 % 8 and 2. In the beginning it was about 2 hours, now it is around 1 hour 40 mins. Outside always, mostly in the morning. I listen to podcasts, news and audiobooks.
macmac··on The lazy technologist's guide to weight loss
I have no idea if this will work for anyone else and I don't have any data on which components are more important than others or how they interact, but the following is how I lost 35 kgs down to my target of 79 kg. from 1st of January 2023 to 15th May 2023, a weight which I retain +/- 2 kg. as of today.

I walk 10 km every day, no exceptions. (I still do this) I had a banana + coffee w. skimmed milk for breakfast. I had a plate of 2/3 heavy vegs (e.g. carrot, cabbage) 1/3 protein for lunch. I had ONLY one serving of whatever we were having for dinner. No alcohol, beer, crisps, candy at home - ever. When we went out I drank and ate whatever everyone else did.

Those are the broad strokes. Feel free to ask any questions you might have.

macmac··on Learn Datalog Today
Ad 1. All versions of Datomic are now free, but none are Open Source.
macmac··on DHH about Apple protecting its App Store racket
This seems very on point. I cannot shake the feeling that Apple's abuse comes across as much more morally decrepit because of the company's deluded self-perception as "the good guys".
macmac··on A Core Calculus for Documents [pdf]
The arguments against for loops in Scheme returning the result of evaluation of the last form seems to be confused to me. This is what all lisps that I know of do for all blocks/functions.
macmac··on Maersk ship hit by missile in the Red Sea
Iran
macmac··on Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
I use this daily, and it has been a complete game changer for me. I estimated that I understand diffs about 50% quicker than with conventional diffs.
macmac··on Scandinavian spy drama: An intelligence chief who came under state surveillance
This article is severely dated. On 27th October the Supreme Court decided that the cases would only be partially closed to the public and that the accused would have full access to the charges and supporting material. The Prosecution Service asserted that this would expose highly sensitive material to unacceptable risk of unauthorized disclosure and dropped the cases.
macmac··on Elon Musk is considering taking X out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation
Oh, please, please do.
macmac··on Endatabas – SQL Document Database with Full History
Interesting to see the use of both Common Lisp and Rust together. I think it is the first time I have seen a project use this combination.
macmac··on Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack
According to the company the attacker managed to encrypt both the primary and secondary backup systems.
macmac··on Man who mistakenly received entire town's Covid-19 relief money vanishes
"The town compiled a list of all the applicants for the money and put all of their account information on a floppy disk to send to the bank in order to execute the transfers." - I thought floppy disks were only used at nuclear power plants these days.
macmac··on Stefan Tilkov has died
Oh, this is sad. I had the pleasure of meeting Stefan a few times. Always a joy, always an interesting, hostorically wellfounded perspective on the issues of the day.
macmac··on The Danish Sugar Beats Auction pioneered privacy-first multi-party computation
Beets. If it had been Beats, it would have gotten more attention :-)
macmac··on A Nordic revolt against 'ugly' modern architecture
Interesting that Denmark is not mentioned at all (expect for a single reference to BIG as a leading studio). Perhaps modern architecture in Denmark is more thoughtful, constrained by public regulation or maybe Danes are just more open to modern approaches.
macmac··on When McDonalds Came to Denmark (2021)
The base salary does not even begin to describe how different the conditions are. Just one example: first 2 hours of extra work pays 50% extra, extra hours in excess of 2 pays 100% extra.
macmac··on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS
I think the article links to the wrong marky library. The one linked to is a node lib called marky-mark, which does not appear to support mermaid. I think the correct link is this: https://docs.rs/crate/marky
macmac··on Ask HN: What is the best non-Apple laptop I can buy?
MacBook Air 15 inch.
macmac··on Ask HN: What is the best non-Apple laptop I can buy?
Since yesterday I have no meaningful recommendation. Before I would I have said Dell XPS. Today I would look into Asahi Linux.
macmac··on Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unprecedented”
That is a hilarious pun.
macmac··on Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (1999)
The Steve Losh link is dead for me. Here is one from the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230505132018/https://stevelosh...
macmac··on Launch HN: OutSail (YC W23) – Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption
A practical collapsible container still has not been made. If you could stack 3 collapsed containers in one slot, that could be a game changer for repositioning.
macmac··on Launch HN: OutSail (YC W23) – Wingsails to reduce cargo ship fuel consumption
Do you have plans for how to get the effect of the sail into the loading computer? Would be surprised if any of the current software is capable of handling a dynamic input like that. Seems like an interesting problem, but tough.
macmac··on Smalltalk: An Entrepreneur’s Secret Weapon? (2020)
Do you have any evidence for Twitters motivation in this case? I don't see how dabbledb constituted even a theoretical threat to Twitter.
macmac··on MRSK
"MRSK" is a play on "Maersk" the container shipping company.
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