mattmein
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Comment · 12 days ago
Reminded me of this comedy skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibDNwF8bjs
Comment · 4 months ago
This is the concept of Simple vs Easy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38768107
Comment · 1 year ago
There's a WKUK comedy sketch that fits this story pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fibDNwF8bjs
Comment · 1 year ago
A few years ago I set up a ublock filter to hide the next/more buttons on hacker news and reddit. It works great because I can still get my news fix, but I can't scroll endlessly.
Ublock Origin: ! 2020-10-11 https://news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com##.morelink
Comment · 1 year ago
I think that particular issue was addressed in the recent Clojure release [https://clojure.org/news/2024/09/05/clojure-1-12-0] ("Clojure developers can now invoke Java methods taking functional interfaces by passing functions with matching arity.")
Comment · 2 years ago
Also check out https://github.com/D-Star-AI/dsRAG/ for a bit more involved chunking strategy.
Comment · 2 years ago
Check out agenix-rekey[https://github.com/oddlama/agenix-rekey], it has the ability to set up secret generators.
Comment · 2 years ago
Reminds me of Planck's principle:
> A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it ...
Comment · 2 years ago
Related: https://yamlscript.org/
Comment · 3 years ago
>> In practice, they are a niche endeavor used by a bunch of hackers and computer science nerds.
I don't know anything about federation, but what you said basically describes the Internet when it started, so I don't see how you can imagine it is not going anywhere based on that. Most tech starts as a "niche endeavor of a bunch of hackers and computer science nerds" (I'm also thinking of Apple starting at a computer club).
Comment · 4 years ago
My point is that there is nothing about functional programming, specifically the "Data structure + Algorithm" style, that makes it unsuitable for building complex applications like air traffic control system or bank lending system, and it has in fact been used successfully in domains like that.
If you are really interesting in this topic, check out the following pages: https://clojure.org/community/success_stories
Comment · 4 years ago
Data structure + algorithm is a valid way of building large programs. That is basically how Clojure is designed, and it works pretty well for big applications.
Functional programming in aviation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0x3EIqBrZxw
Functional programming in banking: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/36297/nubank-buys-firm-...
Comment · 4 years ago
>> other languages have radically different tools and practices that lead to far fewer footguns
Can you share any examples of these different tools and practices?
Comment · 4 years ago
I've used Tabula for many years, and it works great. Use it for converting PDF invoices from specific supplier for import into our system. Changed a task that took about a day each month, to about 10 minutes each month.
Comment · 5 years ago
Regarding your long lines issue - from your description it sounds instead like an unicode issue which I also ran into a while back.
What happens is that your main programming font does not have the unicode characters, so Emacs falls back to searching all your fonts for each character it can't find, which is slow if it has to search through many different fonts.
The solution is to ensure you have symbol fonts installed - see the list of fonts here: https://github.com/rolandwalker/unicode-fonts