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This is very common in Chicago where I was a teaching instructor in a former life and witnessed this behavior across the board.
If (many, not all) public schools forced students to learn math where they were supposed to learn, unfortunately, the entire system would come to a stop, as almost no students can do basic math.
Might be good though to let people know where we really are as a society. Take a couple years off work back up with our rudiments.
The vibe in this thread is literally everyone going "script kiddie, it's all smoke and mirrors, marketing stunt" and acting like well that settles it.
Meanwhile literally no one has actually shown the script kiddie thing - nikcub's apparently looked.
Sure, moat, sure, OpenAI milks this, both can be true, but literally has zero to do with misalignment.
Just frustrating that folks are still having this collective delusion about the capabilities of the model.
respectfully.
Please tell me more about that! CAN still changing lives.
fellow Caps Lock to Ctrl remapper (and neovim) here...
Also I love your take.
Feel like a holy grail to me to back in the hot seat with repl driven but I can drop in and figure things out... all on the JVM. Madness!
Sure!
Setup is:
- nvim --listen /tmp/nvim — starts Neovim with a socket Claude can connect to
- /mcp in Claude Code — enables the Neovim MCP server, gives Claude direct control of Neovim
- lein repl in the nvim terminal
- Claude reads .nrepl-port, runs :ConjureConnect — REPL is live!
The loop is so dope:
- Claude writes code directly into my .clj files
- Then evals it into the running process via Conjure
- Sees the result in the REPL, iterates if wrong, all in the same conversation turn
- wrap-reload middleware means the web server hot-reloads changed namespaces on the next request
JVM + Syntax is upside for me.
Type's are for compilers ;) jk. I'm fully lover or type's but removing the constraint is easy in clojure. teams resist.
<3 the opposite of boring.
AI augmented Repl driven dev has got me back into Clojure and it's been changing my life (full on JVM nerd: Kotlin mostly on the backend).
The syntax is the best in the world (how computer's really operate?) but it's always been a pain to setup the tooling for me. I'm dumb like that. Now with AI it's become super easy to get back into the REPL and I'm in heaven.
Totally moving it back into workflow and proposing to bring it back into the dayjob.
It's cool to rediscover Applescript for me (I'm late 40's) but it's a funny thing where I can like smell the NeXT in it almost nostalgically but it's quite handy in this new era of hijacking mac mini's (OpenClaw obviously is one way to do it, but why not just straight to the core).
I personally think coders get better with age, like lounge singers.
I like how in the fourth season, the computer props are literally just cardboard boxes.
I like literally love it, not ironically, it makes it more like a stage play.
Feel like the flaws are what makes it special. I don't want Kubrick for a tv show about BBS'
he reminds me of truly the best bosses
also something about him with a good engineer
reminds me of me and my boss, i hope lol
And as I understand it loosely based on the fantastic and seminal book Soul of a New Machine.
I had a great EM once who said I need to read it because nothing has changed in 40 years, and I keep a copy on my desk.
Touching as well, as it's on Joe MacMillan's desk in the final scene of third season.
What's so great about it is:
- mushroom theory of management works
- trust new graduates and juniors to win by not understanding the possible
- throw all the corporate bs away, just build
- competing teams (skunk-works, vs roadmap team) works
- real innovation is built by tinkerers, from the ground up, not top down
as a startup weirdo in the age of AI, who pines for the golden era (as they call it the golden prarie) i highly recommend this show!
This is really cool, I don't want to think about infra tbh just want to build. Is there a wold where an on-prem version of this exists? I buy a box, install shell script, and it just works?
Thanks for your comment. Same here, Gen X. Off social media since pandemic. As Nassim Taleb says if it's really important someone will tell you. I feel like I'm on an island. I'm never outraged at all. Of course I hope there's more justice and equity in the world, but I am at peace with things and have no hatred or rage compared to when I was glued to social media.
That's my experience trying to use OpenSCAD from the cli for some home remodeling projects, there I was, neo-vim open, trying to do 3d with pure text files. But at the end of the day the platform felt very limited. Also "Big OpenSCAD" is hilarious.
This one feels like it's going to be disruptive, good luck, very impressed with the lyric generation compared to others I've tinkered with, jukebox, musicgen, surprised personally to see it move so fast :bow:
As someone who has been lucky to work on some large-scale apps that are household names with very very small teams, I find it fascinating/hilarious that comments from the Y Combinator peanut gallery often reduce acquired companies to 'isn't a complicated product, let's just rebuild over a weekend.'
While the core technology may not be as 'complicated' as quantum computing, the unique challenges in execution, user engagement, and market fit should not be underestimated, simple is hard ya'll... The real value and are far from trivial to replicate and come from the people.... no offense just sayin' this is a funny pattern around here.
Sindre does amazing work!
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Oh, great, yet another UI masterpiece swallowed by the insatiable maw of refinement culture at Apple. "Dark Sky" app was only a weather app, but it looked goth. It was our weather app, and it was beautiful in its simplicity. Now we're left with the soulless husk that is Apple Weather. But hey, why not? Let's strip away every last shred of uniqueness and character in the name of "refinement." Sigh. Guess I'll just go back to waiting for my bones to ache for my forecasts.
I read up on what Protocol Labs are doing. Seems pretty not-useful to me living in the real world. I'm pretty sure distributed vague-but-epic-crypto-bro-sounding super-important-"let's back up the worlds most important information on the blockchain and also it's a file system like dropbox but on the chain" resonates with some folks, but to me, it's just more of the same: rich folks saying that they better have control of the info, the coins, the way its distributed. It all comes down to _agency_. They actually want to be a centralized owner of information. Crypto is full of ridiculous offerings like Protocol Labs.
I think the web already solves this problem. That's the larger issue I have with web3, trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
I appreciate you reading to and responding to my words, and I'll try to find something useful in their offering in the real world. But, honestly, their layoff statement was all I needed to know, a CEO completely out of touch with main street and living in the crypto-futurist-whiz-bang-only-for-rich-folks future. Maybe one day folks will call things as they see it, for instance blockchain might have a future as a rebrand under "append-only ledgers" (technology from the 1970's), etc. But a specific example, just for the sake of discourse, would be appreciated here.
Agreed. Made a comment in the thread above, but happy to know I'm not alone: it's ethnically blind, morally wrong, and just plain short sighted to blame macro economic "winters" for layoffs when the folks making these decisions should own up to the fact that they were playing with folks lives by over-hiring in a useless industry.
Agreed. It's ethically problematic the terminology "winter" has taken hold as though there's some sort of eternal truth and seasonality to crypto, when in reality the irrefutable mathematical truth is the ultimate value of crypto is $0. It's not an industry experiencing another periodic downturn "winter," but the end of a useless industry. There may be some edge cases for the use of various technologies, but it has zero chance of scaling or becoming useful to folks living in the real world.
Monodraw is awesome, and has a really great desktop interface.
The idea of the pendulum swinging too far is a huge over-reaction. The pendulum has 40 years of swinging back to a "normal" state if you include the overprescribed industry of prescribing mood altering drugs to suburbanites, adderall, etc. Yes, the boomer and gen-x generations were raised in a lie: their doctors told them they could take drugs without side effects. However, this is now well known.