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New comment by spinningarrow in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

spinningarrow — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:42:25 +0000

> The former have been table stakes for interpreted languages

I used to think so too back in the day when I was getting into Clojure. It was much later when I realized that when Lisp people talk about the REPL they’re usually talking not so much about the interactive CLI where you can evaluate commands easily but more so the ability to connect your program to a live session where you can quickly evaluate forms within your text editor and in the context of your running application, which enables much more interactive development than in other interpreted languages.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Show HN: Find local farms near you with raw dairy, pasture eggs, and more"

spinningarrow — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:30:37 +0000

There are other nations in the world…

New comment by spinningarrow in "Vivaldi 8.0"

spinningarrow — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:30:18 +0000

I’ll try to take your comment in good faith. And of course - that’s the trouble with issues like these isn’t it? I did find some reports online of the same but when there’s no consistent way of making it happen, there’s no simple solution either.

I ran it with no extensions and out of the other chromium-based browsers I’ve tried it’s the only one where I’ve had crash issues.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Vivaldi 8.0"

spinningarrow — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:24:14 +0000

I actively used Vivaldi for several months until recently - on my Mac it would intermittently crash for no reason I could find. I’ve since switched to ungoogled-chromium - it’s only a couple of weeks so it’s early days but so far it’s been very stable.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Show HN: Find local farms near you with raw dairy, pasture eggs, and more"

spinningarrow — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:46:23 +0000

New York, US only - can the title be updated to reflect that?

New comment by spinningarrow in "EFF is leaving X"

spinningarrow — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:00:40 +0000

It’s just another word for a group, same as people.

New comment by spinningarrow in "I Quit Editing Photos"

spinningarrow — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:03:44 +0000

Personally, I’ve spent a lot of time on both film and digital and currently I’m a lot happier with the results of my film work. Is it a combination of the camera, lens, medium, and process? I’m sure it is. Could I get similar artifacts out of digital? Probably but the key difference is that I don’t and the medium for me doesn’t make me want to. In the end creative work like photography has as many manifestations as people and your comment reads as rather dismissive than curious.

New comment by spinningarrow in "MacBook Neo"

spinningarrow — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:56:31 +0000

> No keyboard backlighting

When was the last time Apple had a laptop without keyboard lighting?

New comment by spinningarrow in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

spinningarrow — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:20:53 +0000

A long time ago I made a smart home automation web page for my Kindle, so that should definitely work.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

spinningarrow — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:32:09 +0000

Tipping culture has been around in Germany for a long time, hasn’t it? It’s surprisingly common there

New comment by spinningarrow in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

spinningarrow — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:38:51 +0000

I agree with this. I was curious and tried it out just now - there's a good part of the inside corner that is draggable and a decent amount outside as well. The cursor changes to indicate resizability make it quite difficult for me to make a mistake here.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

spinningarrow — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:36:47 +0000

Creating calendar events and reminders too!

A feature set that has remained unchanged since Siri’s launch…

New comment by spinningarrow in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

spinningarrow — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:05:00 +0000

Why would checking be duplicated? One would need to check only the discussions in this case, since issues will be created from discussions once something is ready to be worked on (as I understood it)

New comment by spinningarrow in "European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s"

spinningarrow — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:57:14 +0000

> unless their parents decide otherwise

is a key point I’d say.

New comment by spinningarrow in "My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4"

spinningarrow — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:03:33 +0000

> keeping screen on

`caffeinate -d` in the terminal - it’s built-in

New comment by spinningarrow in "Do you know that there is an HTML tables API?"

spinningarrow — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:49:40 +0000

I’ve been building sites since around 2000 and I’ve used HTML tables a lot (including for page layouts, remember those days?). There was a time when I thought I was fluent enough to not have to look up HTML or CSS docs for most things. But I don’t think I’ve ever actively used the DOM API that this article mentions so I learned something new today.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Stategraph: Terraform state as a distributed systems problem"

spinningarrow — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:45:52 +0000

Do you have an example you can share?

We have about 30 services with each managing their own terraform state. We also have a shared infra repo managing some top level items. We haven’t run into any issues (with any regularity at least) that I can think of but I’m wondering if this could be a good tool for us as we grow and things become even more complex?

New comment by spinningarrow in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

spinningarrow — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:35:27 +0000

> This kind of search could potentially compromise someone's privacy

Well this is true

New comment by spinningarrow in "MiniMax-M1 open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model"

spinningarrow — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:19:46 +0000

> It's conventional to do so

Where do you see that? e.g. I just checked https://openai.com/about/ and it doesn't say where they are based. I have no associations either way, but I usually have to work hard to find out where startups are based.

New comment by spinningarrow in "Red Programming Language"

spinningarrow — Wed, 21 May 2025 07:01:34 +0000

I think regex gets some of its hate from people writing painfully complex matchers. 99% of my day to day regex use is simpler string searches on the command line or in my editor. I’m really happy I took the time to learn the syntax (spent about a week on it around 15 years ago) because now it doesn’t get in my way.