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Elisp and Common Lisp for me, although I still use bash in the terminal.

That's why I switched to Common Lisp, its type system isn't perfect but it works well enough for my needs (especially with the occasional (describe 'sycamore:tree-insert) in the REPL).

Seems a bit similar to 'Why I prefer Scheme to Haskell' (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3816385>, 2012). Seems a bit plagiarized, but that may just be a coincidence.

It is odd. Especially since the author of the article states they’ve been working with Haskell for years, although they only have a few years of experience and only have a single Haskell repository on GitHub with some simple leetcode problems.

The number of both nearly and exactly identical phrasing makes it feel like someone told an LLM to slightly rephrase that older article.

I didn’t even know the internet was sick.


Also from that post:

> Models you can run yourself are toys.

Now I may be old, but whenever we put a lot of faith in unaccountable megacorps it sure seems to have backfired a lot (remember when Amazon removed 1984 from people's libraries?). As long as a model running locally on a regular laptop bought from the supermarket isn't good enough I'm gonna remain sceptical about current AI.

There's also ethical and environmental considerations, but let's see if we can walk before we try to run.


There is yellow Chartreuse as well. I seem to recall preferring the yellow, though it's been over a decade, so I can't remember how either one tastes.

I like my OG Steam Controller and I like the Steam Deck, SC2 is a no-brainer for me.

Classic HN indeed. Was fun when I first reached the reveal to go back and appreciate the work Guy put into it all.

Dildo Browser sounds like the name of a website aggregating sex toy store products. Could be interesting to build if it doesn't exist yet. Maybe add features like showing where a given product is available at the lowest price, product comparisons, and user reviews.

When I go to buy banana I always bring my Geiger counter. I also aways get kicked out of the supermarket, I wonder what they're trying to cover up...

> Analytics and Per-user behavior: Again, only commercial software seems to feel the need to spy on users and use them as A/B testing guinea pigs.

KDE has analytics, they're just disabled by default (and I always turn them on in the hopes of convincing KDE to switch the defaults to the ones I like).


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