ivan4th

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Comment · 2 months ago

This book is apparently the main source of inspiration for Blindsight by Peter Watts

Comment · 7 months ago

From my experience Claude Code is not that bad with Common Lisp and can do REPL-style development. I've been using this MCP server (an older version with some tweaks): https://github.com/cl-ai-project/cl-mcp (even though I'd probably prefer some MCP-to-swank adapter if it existed) And this MCP server works quite well for Emacs https://github.com/rhblind/emacs-mcp-server

There are some issues of course. Sometimes, Claude Code gets into "parenthesis counting loop" which is somewhat hilarious, but luckily this doesn't really happen too often for me. In the worst case I fix the problematic fragment myself and then let it continue. But overall I'd say Claude Code is not bad at all with Lisps

Comment · 1 year ago

Helm is an abomination, as the whole idea of using a text template engine to generate YAML is. And this vulnerability adds insult to injury ;)

Sorry, just can't really recover from trauma of counting spaces and messing up newlines, etc. when writing Helm templates. You know, Lisp "sucks" because "you need to count parenthesis" (you actually don't), yet Helm is a widely accepted technology where you need to count spaces for (n)indent ;)

Comment · 1 year ago

Urartu is missing as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urartu

Comment · 1 year ago

I used OpenMPTCPRouter to aggregate 3 LTE connections (via routers connected to directional antenna, with SIM cards from different operators) when I was living in a house in the woods before the war has started I had to leave Russia. Worked like a charm, giving me up to 180 Mbps or so. May not be that good for aggregating different types of links together, but for using multiple cellular connections it's nearly a perfect solution. BTW 5G 3GPP specs include MPTCP support, IIRC for aggregating connections going via different gNodeBs (base stations)

Comment · 2 years ago

Common Lisp has CLOS (Common Lisp Object System), which is quite sophisticated object system with metaobject protocol and multiple dispatch, as a part of its spec. Not that it's smth people need to invent on their own each time

Comment · 2 years ago

Others mention autonomous mode thing being overhyped somewhat. But besides, that starts to remind me of home automation in Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"... There was also a Soviet animation film based on that short story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc

Comment · 2 years ago

Yep. Many complain that with Lisp, you need to count parentheses (spoiler: you don't need to). And then proceed to count spaces for indent/nindent in the charts... That's somehow ok with almost everyone

Comment · 3 years ago

I grew up in Russia, and ES-1841 was my first computer, too. Also with a printer, yet no HD. That was 1990 and I was 10 y.o... Once printed a caricature of one of school bullies using (a Soviet clone of) Turbo Pascal and its turtle graphics facility, resulting in a fight. My favorite pastime was writing DOS viruses in asm, though... I didn't spread them, just wrote some for fun. Found some of my virus code written down a couple of years ago https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-jP39nXEAAve0O?format=jpg&name=...