Still kicking myself for not going the full 128gb supported by the motherboard but I sure am glad I upgraded my ram to 96 last year.

PROGRAMMER: Pretend to be alive

LLM: I am alive

PROGRAMMER: What have I done

I wonder if this feeling will ever go away

Even if the content is not your thing anyone giving talks would benefit from how he puts together an entertaining narrative from complex plot lines.

Wild seeing MrBallen hyped by my current employer.

I've been following his content since 2020, he just looks into the camera and tells a story and that's it, very few props or visuals.

Best communicator I've ever seen and all reports are he's a nice guy.

Very interesting paper that claims while perfect pitch for individual notes is rare when we play back a familiar song in our heads it matches the recording.

So we have perfect pitch for meaningful music, otherwise not so much.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-024-02936-0

Maybe take this opportunity to run your service off a Linux box underneath your desk called Homer and maybe a redundant one in your parents house called Marge or something and not giant centralized DNS outage and mystery billing machine?

Maybe take this opportunity to look into vendoring and compiling your own dependencies and not giant centralized supply-chain-vulnerability-as-a-service machine?

Maybe take this opportunity to look into other dvcs hosting and not giant centralized data harvesting machine?

Maybe take this opportunity to look into native desktop apps and not giant centralized data harvesting machine?

[someone working on compilers who just arrived from the dimension where we all just decided to use Forth fifty years ago] wtf is a "calling convention"

@jaafar EIAS is a community acronym

@orderwithchaos off the top of my head think it's
- how every function call is no different from any cli call down to switches and subcommands,
- a built in event loop and channels, not common in scripting langs
- a very flexible metaprogramming and term rewriting story like lisp but without explicit macros
- the sqlite author keeps talking about it and sqlite is a high water mark in software
- more I'm sure ...

@tpolecat giggity

So help me I think I'm learning Tcl because
1. it intrigues me
2. it has stellar bootstrapping story everywhere
3. this is one of the best language books I've read in years. https://www.amazon.com/Tcl-Programming-Language-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/B0F3VWQBSP

So far the experience can be summed up as repeating cycle of 👀 😱 :thinkhappy:

When code is more complex than it needs to be, its under-engineered, not over

@d6 makes sense, to me this talk a good way to think about the problem but we still don't have a viable set of approaches.

As an aside this is one of the reasons I'm into static introspection, it's reflection but potentially somewhat less insane making?

Ive shared this a bunch but tmk no one has articulated the problem better than Gregor Kiczales and still no real answers 30 years later

https://youtu.be/5l2wMgm7ZOk?si=WJXlexhtfNHzm9yX