iroddis

With the recent discussions around choreographic programming, and the flood of Show HN languages, this book might be of interest. Some of the languages are truly strange and unique. Transputers, concatenative stack programming, array programming, there's a lot of great stuff in here.

> For the person who only wants the notes, the sampler wins the job outright, completely. It will never play the wrong thing or at the wrong moment. For the person playing, it fails, because driving it costs more than playing, and it never touches the art at all.

This entire essay could be about AI adoption as well. Some programmers love to program, and while AI is great at producing the code, it doesn’t really viscerally appeal if one loves coding itself.

Probably made worse by the fact that _every_ VW brand car I’ve driven has read about 10% high on the speedometer. I think I’m going 100 kph, but timing using the km markers on the highway show I’m going about 90.

When I talked to the dealers, they said that the speedometers only have to be accurate +/- 10% according to the SAE specifications.

After DieselGate I assumed that the high reading was to game the fuel consumption game.

Never again, VW auto group…

It all sounds great until someone writes nested list comprehensions. They are the recommended, idiomatic way to things most sane people would use ‘map’, ‘filter’, and ‘reduce’ chains, although chains are another thing python very much dislikes.

This is really cool, and definitely needed.

Do you do any tracking of resource consumption over the runtime of a job? We have many jobs that use the requested memory only for a portion of the runtime, and are otherwise compute bound. It would be nice to be able to learn the profiles through time of jobs and layer them to get better resource utilization.

> Binary computers have two states: on and off. Every value, every decision, every process is either 1 or 0.

I’m not sure what this means. Computers are based on binary, but not everything is a single bit. Even if you wanted to use a ternary base the digit values would be 0, 1, and 2, not -1,0,1.

If anything this project is a testament to Claude’s ability to generate anything meaningful from the non-sensical requirements.

Also, you should probably want to remove the “hand-coded” claim.

The “programming is an act of externalizing a mental model” vs “a code review is reverse engineering the model, then verifying its reasoning” really hit home. Even before AI code reviews required a lot of mental effort for me. AI has made an already difficult process much more prevalent.

> the concept of getting a good grade on a test as a happier concept than kissing a girl for the first time.

Were the concepts weighted by response counts? I’d imagine a good grade is a happy concept for everyone, but kissing a girl for the first time might only be good for about 50% of people.

That’s true, but the travel distance of the braces or the double quotes from the home row is much less than the travel distance from the parentheses. Just using shift isn’t the problem, it’s how far parens are from the normal hand position.

For people that use Lisp extensively, do you find the chording requirements of parentheses (shift-9 or shift-0) annoying? It feels like very bad ergonomics, considering how frequently the characters are used.

Do you use a keyboard with mappings to make it easier? Rely on the editor to insert them for you?

+1 for vim slime. It’s not only amazing for programming in REPL languages. Since you can send anything from the buffer to another pane, it can be used to execute commands (send some rows from a cookbook to a remote shell), copy and paste segments of a local file to a remote source, and lots of other things. It’s a great example of doing something simple (send selections to another tmux/screen pane) that can be used in all kinds of useful ways. Very much the unix philosophy.