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I heard they based a book on it.
And which, in turn, was used to train LLMs without any guidance as to whether it's "good" or "bad" code.
Re:Clojure Zippers on Friday October 24, 2025 @07:30PM (#45700141)
I've used zippers to edit parse trees. Very useful API, if a little user unfriendly.
Re:Indoor surfaces act as sponges for harmful chemicals on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:09PM (#45350744)
Having moved into a home previously owned by a chain smoker ten years prior, I have no problem believing this. We've had to run ozonators in rooms repeatedly to finally get the smell out.
Re:Never write your own date parsing library on Friday July 25, 2025 @03:27PM (#44687319)
Vernor Vinge had it figured out in A Deepness in the Sky with the use of kiloseconds, megaseconds, and gigaseconds.
It's certainly been a massive financial hit to the greater Baltimore area, so that sounds appropriate. Insurance companies need to account for large shocks -- it's the whole reason their industry exists.
Re:Java 8 still widely used on Friday December 01, 2023 @12:42AM (#38483566)
Re:Clojure in 2024 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:53AM (#37938997)
In what way have the TensorFlow or Cassandra teams adopted Clojure? They both have third-party Clojure clients, but neither appears to be using Clojure for their project's implementation.
Re:Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:55PM (#34987417)
Any good resources on how to use flakes? I'm currently experimenting with having home-manager work via a flake but I haven't come across any good HOWTOs on common operations. For example, I'd like to update the flake dependencies similar to how I used to use "nix-channel --update" to freshen the dependencies used by home-manager.
We did, however, have the capability to implement walkable cities with decent public transport. Not every city had to have an interstate running down the middle of it.
Re:When Douglas Adams wrote about Hypercard on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @12:59PM (#34328798)
"It's a UNIX system! I know this! It shows you what to do!"
Re:macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @07:11PM (#33337476)
This is why my next laptop is going to be a Framework running Linux.
Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:27PM (#32829110)
Civ VI is on the Switch? Uh, gotta go.
Re:Teams is killing my Mac every day on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:59PM (#32088684)
I think a lot of their products are only held together by the hopes and dreams of their sales department.
Let Over Lambda by Doug Hoyte was a compelling read for me, even though I don't work in Common Lisp that often. It's a very opinionated work that flies in the face of a lot of conventional Lisp practices (he loves his macros!) I don't necessarily agree with everything written, but having to think about why I didn't agree in itself made it a value-add to my book collection.
Re:Blade Runner RPG on Friday April 08, 2022 @08:00PM (#30963930)
I hope that they adopt something along the lines of the Gumshoe RPG System that provides a little more depth to the investigative aspects. Blade Runner shouldn't be just a combat-based shoot 'em up; it demands attention to its roots in noir detective fiction.
Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:27PM (#30921991)
Gibson has only himself and Sterling to blame for steampunk, given their joint work on The Difference Engine.
It's Meta's responsibility to justify the existence of their data center. It's not any country's responsibility to host it.
Re:How to Learn Nix on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @01:02PM (#30687807)
Even with StackOverflow, try finding the current canonical means of building Python applications and deploying artifacts. It's a maelstrom of outdated advice.
Re:Reduced-hours software development engineer position at Amazon on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:49PM (#30185245)
"How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure."

- Charles Crumb

Re:Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming on Monday January 24, 2022 @12:49PM (#30061168)
As mentioned in the article's comments, this appears to be an article by another author reposted wholesale without attribution:

https://cscalfani.medium.com/goodbye-object-oriented-program...

An unaccountably high level of carbon in the atmosphere could be such an indicator.
Has Stadia died already?
Re:Demystifying USB-C and Thunderbolt Docks (2017) on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @06:16PM (#29479399)
Ironic you mention the Switch given that, within that plastic cradle, it's still a USB-C dock.
Re:Back end developers on hackathons are not needed on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:44PM (#29397887)
When did hackathons become about "winning"? I thought it was a chance to test out new solutions that your day-to-day job wouldn't necessarily give you the opportunity to explore.
Re:Will Nix Overtake Docker? on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:44AM (#29394102)
"git reflog" has also been a blessing in getting out of scrapes.
Re:Reasons Truck Drivers Walk Out the Door [video] on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:38PM (#29040572)
The network of rest stops varies. In Washington State, they recently closed a line of them along the I-5 due to vandalism and a lack of employees to maintain them.
Re:Why I Hate Frameworks (2005) on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @08:11PM (#28925323)
You can tell it was written in 2005 because there's no mention of General Purpose Tool Building Factory As A Service.
Re:macOS unable to open any non-Apple application on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:09PM (#25075802)
If my employer offered anything for Linux use than a 10lb Dell laptop I would consider it. I primarily choose MacBooks because I know what to expect in terms of hardware.
Re:Nobody wants to read your shit (2009) on Monday March 25, 2019 @08:37PM (#19488176)
This sounds like StackExchange's raison d'etre.

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