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"If you have an active subscription, Translate still works."

If you're actually planning on reading any of the essay, "The Poisoned Chalice" is the section most likely to be of interest to this audience, especially this bit:

> Big AI essen­tially uses its tech customers as an R&D facility. Big AI licenses models to these compa­nies. Tech compa­nies compete to adapt their busi­nesses to AI. Once a concept is proven, Big AI directly takes over that market. The labor-replace­ment story will grow into a company-replace­ment story.

The sketch here would be that Lisps used to be exceptionally resource-intensive, allowing closer-to-metal languages to proliferate and become the default. But nowadays even Common Lisp is a simple and lightweight language next to say Python or C++. Still it's hard to overcome the inertia of the past's massive investments in education in less abstraction-friendly languages.

Tim Cain on YouTube has been posting some technical details of the original Fallout implementation.

If you just do C-x C-f, M-n to get the "next completion" gives you the file at point.

"Over time, this shaped a deep biological aversion to unnecessary exertion." This is both ahistorical - dancing and athletic competition are effectively human universals - and abiological - wild animals play.

For forcing colorized output: I personally prefer pipetty (from the colorized-logs package on Debian) to unbuffer, since unbuffer merges stdout and stdin.

The Dark Reader browser extension works for HN.

It's true there's often a tenuous relationship between blurbs and books, but setting up reviews as the more reliable alternative to blurbs is untenable. Most reviews I read, especially in literary publications, have little to do with the book nominally under review. Mostly the book is there to provide the occasion for an essay, and the only part of the book that actually makes an appearance is the title.

Personally I feel about Scheme's distinction between false and the empty list the way Schemers feel about CL's distinction between variables and functions.