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2,824karma·2,025submissions·February 14, 2015
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/r/emacs discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1vpufnu/the_emacs_ca... …
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LLMs are surprisingly good with Lisp dialects. With a caveat - when you give them actual (homoiconic) REPL. It makes little sense treating a Lisp just like any other language, which is roughly the Uni…
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Install Doom, understand the "vocabulary" - learn what constitutes a "module", what a "package" is; go through the list of modules, enable only those that look immediatel…
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> It is impossible to duplicate results with an LLM But that's the fundamental property of it - it is stochastic by nature. The skill is to learn how to sandwich deterministic logic between la…
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I don't think Paul ever envisioned Lisp evolving into something like Clojure, where macros indeed are a bit less than a first-class citizen. And I think the whole adage of "First rule of mac…
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Yup. When you give an LLM a "true" REPL, it stops guessing and starts empirically assessing the situation and achieves results faster, costing you far less tokens. And when you have somethin…
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That is badly generalized proverb. Clojure has unhygienic macros, no expander extension points, and no error-message layer, so "don't" is a rational default there. Yet, for example Rack…
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Gracias, Fidel!
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Thanks, I already have Emacs.
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Ah, so you're saying my Mazda that's manufactured has little (or no) value because it wasn't hand-crafted like a Bugatti? I suppose I should be ashamed to even call it "a vehicle&q…
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This is such a disingenuous, childish, immature and ignorant take - I can't even remain calm without getting angry. Have you ever, kids, tried building anything useful? Anything practical, anythi…
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LLMs are not only OpenAI and Anthropic. Some of us liberally use local models as well. You can't just portray the entire chunk of innovation as "trash". It's like calling the inven…
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> I don’t know much about it or its creator The guy literally has published book(s) on Clojure - not some random, unknown, AI-wielding teenager from somewhere in Nebraska. I'm pretty sure they…
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Why the fuck people keep using Reddit (including myself) I still can't fathom. Maybe the lack of alternatives? Reddit is actively trying to "kill the Internet" turning itself into a gar…
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Lisp is not "forgotten". It's quite alive, kicking and running [big] circles. Nubank (the largest digital bank in the world) using Clojure as their primary driver grew from ~12M custome…
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> Haskell people smart, other people dumb? Da hell you're talking about, friend? I said nothing about "people", or them being smart or dumb; just a difference in cultural stereotype…
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> I would have to make a trip just for the food Totally. There are too many dishes to count that don't exist and unlikely ever will outside of that country. Traditional sausage Qazi is a must …
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Okay, but what that has to do with preferring strong CS theoretical grounds vs. cutting corners to get-the-shit-done? My initial point was about cultures - Haskelites are typically very smart, extreme…
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Are you using a 42 year old book to find flaws in my argumentation? Let's talk real, contemporary numbers. NuBank: from ~12M customers in 2019, grown to 25M in a year, then to 48M at IPO a year l…
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097840 > Clojure is actually an interesting case here, because it is hosted. So, you can write a Clojurescript macro that runs at compile tim…
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Honest answer? This is not simple, because to authentically bake that kind of bread, you'd need the "tandir". No, it's not like Punjabi or Indian traditional tandoors, those are si…
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Uzbek cuisine is a fascinating phenomenon because its traditions were shaped by interesting geography, climate and history. It is a double-land-locked country, therefore the lack of seafood and saltwa…
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No, in Uzbek it is actually "non" and not "naan", "palov" and not "pilav", "somsa" and not "samosa", "tandir" and not "tandoo…
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Clojure is actually an interesting case here, because it is hosted. So, you can write a Clojurescript macro that runs at compile time on the JVM, but emits code that runs at runtime in Javascript, e.g…
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> My point stands. Your point can stand, sit or jump around in a circle - makes no difference. Any ignorant fool can make a hollow point about things they don't fully understand and congratula…