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bitcrafter

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  • Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skils

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  • Story time?

  • Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skils

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  • Sure, but if someone is more introverted, then, even if they have amazing social skills, they will have a much harder time forming social networks with a lot of reach because it takes more energy for them to do so, whereas it is a lot easier for a more extroverted person to do this.

  • Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skils

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  • So in other words, focus on hiring extroverts who are great at forming social networks.

  • The Hare programming language

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  • Yeah, it's like they looked at Go and said, "You know what the real problem was with the lack of generics in Go? They made an exception for lists and maps!"

  • The Hare programming language

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  • Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User

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  • Another Linux utility is being rewritten in Rust

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  • Except that it is likely to be included in future versions of Fedora:

    According to the official Fedora change proposal, the rewrite expands support for both bootc and rpm-ostree based systems, whereas the original Bash version was built only for rpm-ostree. Red Hat developers have submitted a proposal to ship this new Rust version in Fedora 43. According to Phoronix, while the plan still needs a final vote from the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee, it looks very likely to be approved. For current Fedora IoT users, the change promises to be a simple, seamless upgrade.

  • New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism

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  • I do not think that they are playing 5D chess in this particular executive order, since they are just taking their existing policies banning the federal government from anything having to do with DEI and extending them to AI, rather than doing something brand new.

    Also, the good news is that, just as it only took a stroke of a pen to create these executive orders, it also will only take a stroke of a pen for anyone who follows to get rid of them.

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  • If the objective of the administration had been to place restrictions on all AI in general, heedless of restraint, then it could have just as easily written an executive order which did that instead. However, that is not what they did.

    My intent is not to calm anyone, but merely to clarify. Honestly, I view this executive order as just being a relatively minor extension of previous (terrible) executive orders to say, "Oh, and this applies to AI too."

  • When a Christian Makes Contact with an Atheist

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  • A doctrine of Catholicism is that you need good works as well as faith in order to get into Heaven. When Martin Luther broke away and started the Protestant movement, one of the big changes he made was to drop the "good works" part so that faith alone is sufficient to get into Heaven. (As I understand it, the argument behind this is that Jesus saves us from all of our sins already so therefore it does not matter how good or bad we are during our lives as long as we have faith.)

  • ArkScript, A small, lisp-inspired, functional scripting language

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  • Except that in practice people also indent their code, making the parentheses redundant clutter, especially since the usual convention is to put all of the closing parentheses at the end where it hard to immediately match each one up visually with its corresponding opening parenthesis.

    My preference is for the way Haskell handles this, where essentially there is a syntax built on braces and semicolons that you can always fall back on, but most of the time you can just use indentation and it will figure things out just fine via built-in layout rules.

    Finally, it seems immediately apparent that this is a type-1 lisp given that there is only one syntax for assigning to symbols and it is used both for functions and for other values.

  • ArkScript, A small, lisp-inspired, functional scripting language

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  • A different way of stating my remark is that it might be nice to have a page that lists other lisp variants and has a bullet point or two for saying how ArkScript does things differently in a way that someone might find nicer.

    I’m no frontend dev, so I battle a lot with it so it displays how I want ; I tried with flex to center vertically the « getting started » section, will have to try again.

    Yeah, I remember having to fight similar battles when I created a web page for a similar project! Don't worry about it if it proves too much of a pain.

  • ArkScript, A small, lisp-inspired, functional scripting language

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  • Excellent! I got a bit concerned when my experimental infinite loop was able to run for over a minute. 😉

  • Blast from the past

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  • And the cool thing is: not only were you able to install this 6 years ago, you were able to install it 16 years as well!

  • Me: I mean it's freacking python. How bad can it get? Python: Hold my beer, mf

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  • In fairness, we wouldn't have had to do this if they had just put in monads like we had been calling for from the beginning!

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  • Given that there are zillions of lisp variants out there, why would someone want to make serious use of this compared to something like Guile Scheme (or one of the other schemes)?

    Having said that, the website and branding is really pretty!!! In particular, I absolutely love your usage of color gradients. Some minor feedback is that when the screen is wide, I think that would be nice if the "A small, lisp-inspired, functional scripting language / Get Started" element flowed to the middle relative vertically to the examples column rather than floating at the top. (I do like how it floats above the right column when the screen is narrow, though.)

    Also, just to check, do you have a time limit set for the Playground so that people do not over-tax your system? (You might also look into WASM so that people run their scripts locally.)

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  • I agree that is a legitimate concern, though I would hope that even in that case there would be less popular alternative models that people could use, just like how those of us who want to stay away from the big social networks can use Lemmy. This would not save us from AI chatbots subtly reprogramming the population just like how Facebook did with its algorithm, though...

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  • Having done some cursory research (so I could be missing something), it doesn't look like you get any funding for being a federal depository library, just easier access to government documents, as well as formal recognition (so that people know you provide a local access point).