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New comment by Reefersleep in "What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents"

Reefersleep — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:02:38 +0000

Do you have other examples of how it's nicer? I've only ever heard of Elixir being the nicer alternative.

New comment by Reefersleep in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

Reefersleep — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:21:52 +0000

I wonder how many actual terrorists they pick up for saying "I'm here for terrorism"

New comment by Reefersleep in "Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15"

Reefersleep — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:12:33 +0000

Happen to be a Dane and I fully agree with your sentiment. I happen to agree (I think) that keeping children away from social media on a large scale, to avoid social isolation for those who might opt out of choice, might be overall good for the children. But the means that will likely be required to do so are, like you say, essentially more steps towards mass surveillance. And like you say, laws that can be exploited so easily by a government in bad faith are so dangerous to allow into public law, even in times when exploitation seems unlikely, because they'll likely never be removed (hah) or even amended before it's too late. Like Chat Control (though it seems pretty clear to _me_ that that is set up for abuse to begin with). I'm so embarrassed we're spearheading that abomination.

New comment by Reefersleep in "Iconic icons to showcase your skills"

Reefersleep — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 08:24:50 +0000

In the readme, I only see four examples under each entry, and they are all dissimilar.

New comment by Reefersleep in "Iconic icons to showcase your skills"

Reefersleep — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 07:14:50 +0000

Am I supposed to read something into the choice that the examples for "light" and "dark" show icons for different entities? E.g Python is dark, Rust is light. (Kidding, but still - why not use the same base icons?)

New comment by Reefersleep in "Cinematography of “Andor”"

Reefersleep — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:45:51 +0000

I prefer good static heads vs poor walking and talking. Didn't notice the prior to be a problem in Andor.

New comment by Reefersleep in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

Reefersleep — Tue, 27 May 2025 19:24:08 +0000

Thank you for that, what a fun read :D

New comment by Reefersleep in "Refactoring Clojure"

Reefersleep — Wed, 21 May 2025 07:56:58 +0000

As I gained more experience writing Clojure, I went in the other direction; familiarity with the standard library means that any composition of those functions and data structures is easily grokked. People's strained attempt to name every little line of code? Not so much. You end up jumping around the code a lot and, in my case, suffer the "portal effect" where you forget the context of what you were trying to understand. Also, namespaces become polluted with functions that only serve as assistants to your main function. This is a lesser concern, but still, it dilutes the focus of the namespace.

A nice middle way is using let bindings for whatever you want to give clearer names. You get the name you want while reducing the reader's scope to the literal let binding.

I do agree that big functions can be unwieldy, but I think that if it's mostly core clojure fns, and you're experienced, much bigger sized fns are acceptable than name-everything advocates generally prefer.

But it's individual and an artful balance even if the only reader is yourself. There's no silver bullet.

New comment by Reefersleep in "A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules"

Reefersleep — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:48:53 +0000

I've made a few of these as doodles while waiting for other stuff. Great set of restrictions to inspire creativity.

X Plus Star https://tixy.land/?code=%28sin%28t*0.8*-sqrt%28%28x-7.5%29**...

Sin Sin https://tixy.land/?code=sin%28sin%28i*sin%28t%2F10%29%29%29

Traffic https://tixy.land/?code=sin%28i*i*t*0.0005%29

New comment by Reefersleep in "You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown"

Reefersleep — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:32:19 +0000

Could it be that her work in pure, abstract mathematics, while important and foundational for some fields, remains too unrelatable for a wide audience?

Maybe the same could be argued for Einstein's work, but knowledgeable people, recognizing its importance, have found ways of explaining it in a relatable way... ?

New comment by Reefersleep in "Why I Program in Lisp"

Reefersleep — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:00:43 +0000

It's not implicit in this case, it's explicit. + is the function you're calling. And there's power in having mathematical operations be functions that you can manipulate and compose like all other functions, instead of some special case of infix implicit (to me, yeah) function calling, like 1 + 2, where it's no longer similar to other functions.

New comment by Reefersleep in "Making Postgres scale"

Reefersleep — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:07:27 +0000

What's an example of non-brute force scaling?

New comment by Reefersleep in "Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams"

Reefersleep — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:03:12 +0000

Ticktick was the closest approximation at the time of Wunderlist shutdown. Still solid, but haven't researched the market recently. I don't remember details about the Microsoft version except it wasn't good enough.

New comment by Reefersleep in "The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)"

Reefersleep — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:24:52 +0000

I wonder what the value is of that advice, it's so incredibly vague. What's "varied"? What's "moderated"? Feels a bit like an excuse to stay ignorant.

New comment by Reefersleep in "David Lynch has died"

Reefersleep — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:50:42 +0000

"Fear and anguish of parenthood" as a movie?

New comment by Reefersleep in "Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence"

Reefersleep — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:04:47 +0000

Seems to me like capitalism is pretty good at incentivising this stuff.

New comment by Reefersleep in "What's functional programming all about? (2017)"

Reefersleep — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:50:15 +0000

I don't understand the bit about the execution order, nor how it's relevant in your day-to-day programming.

New comment by Reefersleep in "Common English Lexicon: Common Words for Word Games"

Reefersleep — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:42:20 +0000

"aluminosilicates"

Hmmm

New comment by Reefersleep in "Linux: We need tiling desktop environments"

Reefersleep — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:17:29 +0000

Just want to add that I'm having a pretty good experience with Amethyst. No file-based configuration, sadly, but it does all of the tiling and movements I need.

Hammerspoon (via Spacehammer) seemed too slow for me.

New comment by Reefersleep in "Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern"

Reefersleep — Sat, 11 May 2024 09:43:34 +0000

How about a separate, schema-wise identical "deleted_x" table that you "move" deleted entities to? Can't get much more explicit than that, and still enables whatever joins you'd like on historical deleted data.