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New comment by dented42 in "LLMs as a Cognitive Virus"

dented42 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:08:58 +0000

> They weren’t trying to solve aging or bring everyone to the highest standard of living, they didn’t care to connect the world, explore it, and find others.

What are you talking about? Those are absolutely issues that are being worked on right here, right now. This framing is obviously false.

New comment by dented42 in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

dented42 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:14:03 +0000

It’s a cute idea but I found it to be exceedingly unpleasant.

New comment by dented42 in "Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?"

dented42 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:10:50 +0000

Who cares if it’s ludicrous? It’s a fun idea!

New comment by dented42 in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

dented42 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:32:34 +0000

Given that a lot of people use it in the wild I’m not sure where you’re getting that from.

New comment by dented42 in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

dented42 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:31:55 +0000

It used to be the official logo. The project was called PLT Scheme at the time.

New comment by dented42 in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

dented42 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:31:12 +0000

C, python, java, Fortran, ruby, Common Lisp, Haskell, go, zig (I think), forth, swift, cobol, pretty much any language that doesn’t directly descent from Scheme.

New comment by dented42 in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

dented42 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:01:12 +0000

> Wtf kind of intro to a programming language doesn’t include syntax rules?

Given that most languages don’t have syntax rules or anything like it, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that most language introductions/overviews/tutorials don’t mention it.

New comment by dented42 in "Hister – A private, full content search index that you control"

dented42 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:56:17 +0000

What’s the safari story look like right now?

New comment by dented42 in "Abstracting Effects with Continuations"

dented42 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:39:31 +0000

I think you’re missing the point…

New comment by dented42 in "Why write code in 2026"

dented42 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:29:40 +0000

I feel like this question doesn’t need a blog post to answer.

Why write code in 2026? Because it’s fun.

New comment by dented42 in "Maybe Anthropic and OpenAI Are Not the Future of Artificial Intelligence"

dented42 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:06:22 +0000

It’s difficult to interpret his position as being in good faith given the organisation that controls and represents.

New comment by dented42 in "Optimizing [sqlx:test] rebuild time"

dented42 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:11:08 +0000

Gods I feel old…

New comment by dented42 in "Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code"

dented42 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:24:33 +0000

I’m gonna hazard a guess and say that I don’t think the author has any troops anywhere, let alone in Ukraine.

New comment by dented42 in "macOS Container Machines"

dented42 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:13:40 +0000

Those issues could have been fixed…

New comment by dented42 in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

dented42 — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:53:10 +0000

So it sounds like you don’t get the exact version you want because metadata is thrown away.

New comment by dented42 in "Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations"

dented42 — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:27:44 +0000

I think the law is wrong…

New comment by dented42 in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

dented42 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:41:12 +0000

I definitely miss Darcs. I still use it very occasionally, but only with very small repos.

New comment by dented42 in "Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas"

dented42 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:29:10 +0000

Did you read what this does? Because I get the feeling you didn’t…

This isn’t a library, you don’t include in your application, and it doesn’t try to replace an understanding of floating point issues on the programmers part.

Is this comment written by AI?

New comment by dented42 in "LFortran compiles fpm"

dented42 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:20:25 +0000

I guess when you’ve been calling it that before everyone else you’re allowed. Sort of how Common Lisp calls threads ‘processes’.

New comment by dented42 in "From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion"

dented42 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:11:46 +0000

Ha, I was going to say the exact opposite. My first thought was that the website was broken.