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millettjon··on Clojure in the age of language models
Inscrutable to you does not imply inscrutable to everyone. Haskell is a different beast since it has to type check everything in a fine grained way.
millettjon··on Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
Given that software is composed of a hierarchy of dependencies, I would like to see a funding approach that works at the dependency tree level to support an entire tree or sub tree. There is a huge freeloader problem where business don't contribute any support for their core dependencies. I wonder if there is a role for an organization that could act as the interface for corporate support at the dependency tree level. It could offload maintainers (or fund them) to handle certain compliance requirements and provide an official sanctioned entity for purposes of corporate policies. There should be a way to garner support broadly for risk management and specifically for security in the corporate context.
millettjon··on Pfizer and Biontech provide update on Omicron variant
This paper from Africa Health Research Institute shows a 41x reduction in effectiveness of pfizer vaccine for omicron.

https://www.ahri.org/omicron-incompletely-escapes-immunity-i... https://www.ahri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MEDRXIV-2021...

millettjon··on Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity?
See: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200731/Research-suggests...

In addition to immunity based on T cells, the HIT depends on how individuals are networked. The original 60-70% estimates were based on 100% of people being vulnerable and also a random distribution of individuals interacting. In reality a small fraction of the population will have many interactions and once they become immune those transmission vectors away and the average R number drops. So based on the latest research plus observations of the worst hit places, 20-25% seems plausible.

millettjon··on Ask HN: What educational YouTube channels do you watch?
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe A physics tour de force by Sean Carroll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI09kat_GeI&list=PLrxfgDEc2N...
millettjon··on SEC Modernizes the Accredited Investor Definition
How about if we insisted you have 1,000,000 USD to buy guns or alcohol?
millettjon··on SEC Modernizes the Accredited Investor Definition
Alternatively pass regulations to make private companies over a certain size report more.
millettjon··on Estimating unobserved SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States
The parent is giving an example where it is clear cut.
millettjon··on Beta users of Starlink get downloads of 11 to 60 Mbps
Nothing would stop them from tracking access based on location.
millettjon··on Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
Websites are public. The act of publishing on one is an explicit opt-in.
millettjon··on Tell HN: Giving away my homebrew windmill
Would this work with water flows?
millettjon··on Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns
Once they publisher reaches near monopoly status this is censorship.
millettjon··on Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown
Just assuming the cost does little to prepare us for the next one. Think of this as a dry run for testing all the strategies for tech and social norms that will help us with the next one.
millettjon··on Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
Man's Search for Meaning.
millettjon··on America needs an immediate five-week national lockdown to defeat coronavirus
Buying time does get you better drugs, better testing, better data as to how much distancing is needed (there are a range of options), ability to tailor response to outbreaks in specific areas, and ultimately the vaccine. All this information is useful for future outbreaks which will potentially be worse. Alternatively if everyone gets sick at once there will be a massive percentage of people either too sick to work or out of work caring for others.
millettjon··on Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
Some measures are easier that others. It is important to have at least a basic level of preparedness. E.g., get sleep and eat nutritious food to keep your immune system optimal.
millettjon··on Ask HN: How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?
You can maximize immune system functioning by making sure you get proper nutrition and plenty of sleep.
millettjon··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)

  Location: Puerto Varas, Chile (GMT-3)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Clojure, Java, Ruby, Perl, Bash
  Résumé/CV: TBD
  Email: jon@millett.net
millettjon··on Ocean cleaning device succeeds in removing plastic for the first time
The large scale fish farms also pollute heavily.
millettjon··on OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
I've been using it for 2 years with very few problems.
millettjon··on Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk
I had sore wrists from overuse for about 3 years. It cleared up when I started cross country skiing and jogging. It took about a year to clear up. This was 20 years ago and it hasn't bothered me since. I do make a point to take breaks, exercise including weightlifting. I also eat more protein now relative to when I had the issue.
millettjon··on Sanders unveils plan to boost broadband access, break internet and cable titans
I hope starlink succeeds too. That said, it is still important to fight back politically. I should help in the longer term and it also makes it clear to other industries with large monopolies that they may be next on the chopping block. They have had it easy for too long.
millettjon··on ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
Time for blockchain based DNS.
millettjon··on Why does the Librem 5 phone cost that much?
I got the Librem 15" laptop about a year and a half ago. I am happy with it. I ran QubesOS for a couple of moths and NixOS since with no issues.
millettjon··on BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver
I use borg with both rsync.net and borgbase.com. Both are great.
millettjon··on SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites while setting two reuse records
Except where you can't. Lots places have no coverage.
millettjon··on Andrej Karpathy talks about how Tesla's NNs are structured and trained [video]
Do those really take more than 70,000 gpu hours to train a model?
millettjon··on Hundreds shot and beaten as Chile takes to the streets
The culprit is unequal distribution of wealth. The working class is affected by low minimum wage, limited access to healthcare, cost of education, and broken social security (AFP).
millettjon··on The complicated ethics of Tesla’s Autopilot
It's not that different from thousands of human drivers coordinating using waze during rush hour.
millettjon··on The complicated ethics of Tesla’s Autopilot
Can the human brain see through fog? Can it observe in 360 degrees in real time?
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