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New comment by ldite in "What Is Happening to Publishing?"

ldite — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:21:23 +0000

Loses some credibility with this footnote; https://resobscura.substack.com/p/what-is-happening-to-publi...

> I suspect the hum obsession has something to do with LLMs “awareness” that their “physical selves” exist in data centers.

Temporal is becoming Crystal Palace Football Club's front-of-shirt partner

ldite — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://temporal.io/blog/crystal-palace-partnership

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226154

Points: 3

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New comment by ldite in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

ldite — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:47:21 +0000

Wait no longer; https://www.polyplay.xyz/CPC_1

Ninety Seven Things Every Programmer Should Know

ldite — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:36:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/97-things/97-things-every-programmer-should-know/blob/master/en/SUMMARY.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791815

Points: 2

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New comment by ldite in "How IMAP works under the hood"

ldite — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:03:00 +0000

same for alpine (https://alpineapp.email/)

New comment by ldite in "Spaghetti science: What pasta reveals about the universe"

ldite — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:16:14 +0000

A better article (featuring the same Getty stock photo!) at Scientific American, that clarifies that this research was looking at better materials for bandages and dressings: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-worlds-smalle...

New comment by ldite in "Why Clojure?"

ldite — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:31:09 +0000

> But that's not what a Clojure dev would do.

Apparently I and my fellow Clojure devs aren't real Clojure devs. Or perhaps you mean "true" clojure developers, or "good" clojure developers. (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman)

And even if we were Clojure devs we've inherited multiple big Clojure codebases that were apparently written by non-Clojure devs, and heavily refactoring is not on the to-do list.

New comment by ldite in "Why Clojure?"

ldite — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:27:57 +0000

The dynamic typing and "everything is a map" can be a PITA. At the moment I'm working on a codebase that has I/O to JSON APIs, Avro schemas and postgres databases. That means that a field called "date" can be either a string, integer days since the epoch or a Java Date, and (because this codebase isn't great) there's no way of knowing without tracing the call stack.

With the right discipline (specs, obsessively normalising all data at the boundaries, good naming conventions) this wouldn't have been a problem, but that discipline is optional, and headbanging aggravation results.

(This is, of course, a generic "dynamic typing" problem, but that's a key feature of Clojure)

Qalculate Hacks

ldite — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:11:13 +0000

Article URL: https://anarc.at/blog/2025-02-08-qalculate-hacks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050542

Points: 2

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New comment by ldite in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

ldite — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:37:45 +0000

I didn't mean FAANG companies - these days I work for a boring 500 person SaaS company (outside London) and we have at least 50-100 engineers at £100k+, excluding equity.

I get a lot of recruiter spam on Linkedin for roles at retail banks, outsourcers, consultancies, SaaS companies, startups, etc. etc. in the £90-110k bracket. I do also get a lot of recruiter spam for laughably underpaid jobs, in particular hardware/embedded roles, which is why I switched out of embedded.

New comment by ldite in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

ldite — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:26:29 +0000

> 100k jobs aren't that common in software in the UK

They really are, if you're prepared to work for $BIGCO

New comment by ldite in "A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)"

ldite — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:41:13 +0000

I am a (UK) cyclist, and I pay both road taxes and fuel taxes.

(For the car that I also own, to be clear)

New comment by ldite in "Why Haskell?"

ldite — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:42:21 +0000

SBT is awful. I've never used Gradle, but if SBT is saner then I'm worried. This blogpost is a bit old, but still on-target: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html

New comment by ldite in "Ceefax Simulator"

ldite — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:25:22 +0000

Funnily enough my memory of trying to implement the DSM-CC specs is that they are broadly equivalent to a denial-of-service attack on your brain

New comment by ldite in "New car buying guide: the algorithm (2021)"

ldite — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:31:45 +0000

Anecdotally I've heard of people getting discounts from the dealer by buying on finance, then asserting the right to cancel within 14 days* and paying cash instead. AIUI the dealer doesn't have to accept the cash, and could take the car back, but then they lose the sale, so they generally just suck it up.

(* https://www.carmoola.co.uk/blog/cooling-off-period-car-finan...)