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mike_ivanov··on Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop
More like Jolt
mike_ivanov··on Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop
Ask them what they prefer.
mike_ivanov··on What should we tell our students?
Yes, all we know is that things will change, but we don't know exactly how. So - increase your tolerance to sudden life swifts and learn to enjoy uncertainty.
mike_ivanov··on RacketCon Is Saturday
Cool project, thank you for sharing. I've been thinking about something similar lately.

However. "Send, not apply" - sigh.. how shall I put it.. let's try this - eyes_rolling_so_hard_they_fall_out_of_sockets.png

mike_ivanov··on What makes Lisp difficult to read?
- add two and two

- compare apples to oranges

- use observational skills

(edit: formatting)

mike_ivanov··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
Radiating 1MW at 500K (227C) with a 0.4MW heat pump takes about 200 m^2 flat sheet surface. Inputs - solar+nuclear for double fun. So - quite feasible.
mike_ivanov··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
no, not gtk4 - they lost their way after v3
mike_ivanov··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
wxWidgets carries too much legacy. A GTK3 fork maybe? Or a functional clone of QML with some improvements.
mike_ivanov··on Squeak 6.1
All Common Lisps can do that, though it is not a part of the standard. See e.g. (sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die)
mike_ivanov··on GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2
As a sign in the window of a tiny shop in my quiet suburb says "Laptop and phone repairs - Windows, Linux and MacOS". If that doesn't count, I don't know what else could.
mike_ivanov··on Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
Firing a human is a form of natural selection. The unit here is a human fulfilling a position (job function) instead of an organism, and the adaptation mechanism would be memes/lore/training surrounding it. The same could be done in an accelerated manner to LLMs with some kind of DNA-like mechanism related to weights. It is plausible that LLMs will be bred in the future for specific roles by how well they fit - kind of like continuous parallel finetuning in prod.

As I wrote this I thought - hey, they might gain the capacity to do the same to us humans - and we won't even notice.

mike_ivanov··on Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
"What one man built, another will always find a way to break"
mike_ivanov··on Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right
Yes. It is all about making uncertain things "certain".
mike_ivanov··on Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
Bullshit. We have more words for flavors of bribery than for types of snow.
mike_ivanov··on Returning to Rails in 2026
Ruby is a strongly typed language. I think you are confusing strong typing with static typing.
mike_ivanov··on Programming languages used for music
Opus Modus (mentioned there) is quite notably Common Lisp
mike_ivanov··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
miracles happen
mike_ivanov··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Corporations play the role of gods in our society.

edit: about the same role as Greek or Roman gods.

mike_ivanov··on We're losing our voice to LLMs
You didn't, but you've learned.
mike_ivanov··on Python is not a great language for data science
Please read the article. It literally shows pandas code as an example.
mike_ivanov··on Google Antigravity
New Era. A New - think about it for a sec - Era.
mike_ivanov··on Some people can't see mental images
Not the OP - I think it's the same process. The difference is in what my inner narrator is doing. When I asleep it is almost always gone, and this is when I typically see things in full color. When awake, my attention is split between listening to its storytelling and the mental imagery, which I believe makes the latter more dull. I noticed that the narrator is more loud when I'm in a minor mental state, like tired or annoyed. When happy/refreshed - there is no voice in my head and I can "see" things very clearly, especially their colors. So, I started looking for ways to divert my attention from the narrator. The most effective seems to keep the narrator busy with commenting on my breath ("in" and "out"), got some boost of mental clarity from that.
mike_ivanov··on Subvocalization: Toward Hearing the Inner Thoughts of Developers (2011) [pdf]
I worked with a (very nice and smart) dude who would angrily shout "CRAP!" every few minutes while working on his XUL-based project. I guess, that would teach LLMs a thing or two.
mike_ivanov··on Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
I'd say ROS (Robot Operating System) is the closest to this ideal.
mike_ivanov··on Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
All GUI apps are different, each being unhappy in its own way. Moated fiefdoms they are, scattered within the boundaries of their operating system. CLI is a common ground, an integration plaza where the peers meet, streams flow and signals are exchanged. No commitment needs to be made to enter this information bazaar. The closest analog in the GUI world is Smalltalk, but again - you need to pledge your allegiance before entering one.
mike_ivanov··on Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high
Self-care is being Karen since when?
mike_ivanov··on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
I had some success with Claude in this regard. I simply told it to be blunt or face the consequences. The tweak was that I asked another LLM to translate my prompt to the most intimidating bureaucratic German possible. It worked.
mike_ivanov··on Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021)
This is the Result monad in practice. It allows you to postpone error handling until the computation is done.
mike_ivanov··on New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source
A horse is just a bunch of chemicals in a skin sack. Gee, I understand it!
mike_ivanov··on Backlash to artificial dye grows as Kraft ditches coloring for Kool-Aid, Jell-O
For the people downvoting this comment - it's a relatively well researched topic covered by at least three major studies with published papers, etc. If you are not aware of something, it does not necessarily mean it is wrong.
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