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I write clojure all day every day for my job. Here's my tips:

1. Get on an nrepl. Not like, the non-text-editor repl, hook your text editor (or Cursive) up to the network repl and start evaluating sexprs from the text editor. doesn't have to be emacs, I do it on vim with conjure all day every day

2. Don't write too many macros

3. Use a lotta let-statements and threading macros (->, ->>, as->, cond->, etc), that's the idiomatic way to be composing a buncha stuff

4. All the async stuff is real good (with perhaps the exception of agents) but it's like a spice, not the main meat, you know?

Clojure is actually a pretty bad language if you write it like Java. You gotta write it like it's the lisp that it is

it's locale specific, but it's like, locale specific to places that do the bunny stuff for easter, which is like a material proportion of the earth

rule of thumb: company A acquires company B, then company A does not change to become like company B, company B changes to become like company A. there are exceptions, but few. I think Slack's communications are going to become more crap, personally.

the OG disposable-characters RPG is Paranoia. Friend Computer has 6 clones of you in reserve for your messy demise!

I guess we're all the Mechanicus of Warhammer 40k now

well, it supports the argument that clojure peeps get paid more. can confirm, touchin the parens (now with square and curly brackets!) all day

they put up a non-adult to do these transactions? what the hell?

John McCarthy's mom was Jewish.

surely america's the eagle, and the brits are lions? heraldry is ancient and the US has got some, surprisingly enough

I'm a year and change into my job at metabase (metabase.com) writing clojure all day every day and I am still terribly surprised that basically it is all that it's promised to be.

That said, you do need to actually use the repl and be repling all the time because the startup times suck and the stack traces are gigantic all the time. That's pretty much it for complaints. You would expect things that aren't apparent in 30 minutes looking at the language to come up after an entire year, but nothing so far.

This interpretation of what faith is was created during the Reformation. Which was unfortunately a few millennia after this episode. Ancient religions were definitely based on getting the goods by magic - they really did sacrifice those oxen to get YHWH to win the war for them, they really did sacrifice those fatted calves to get Zeus to get the king to make good decisions, they really did sacrifice those pigeons to get Portunus the god of locks to keep the lock working.

It's not fatted calves, but we do sacrifice some money to the quantum folks so they can break our enemies' encryption locks ... in like 25 years ...

the proper name of the glorious sultan of slack, j. r. "bob" dobbs, has the quotation marks and therefore is a great subject for this

Someone on twitter was talking about the Franz Ferdinand insane ripples of the man's decision to ban anime pornography on his site:

1. He bans it

2. One "moot" was then currently showing around his futaba channel clone "4chan" and not getting many bites

3. The pornography-obsessed people decide to abscond to 4chan en masse, determining the culture of /b/ and all that

4. This leads to the proliferation of fascism and other foolish ideology in /b/ and eventually to the quarantine zone, /pol/

5. Someone starts posting as "qanon"

6. A depressing number of people start believing in that crap

7. Many depressing things

e: looks like 4chan also has a banner for the occassion:

" RIP Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka

Our dad who disowned us"

which one would surmise would also describe moot. Who wouldn't disown 4chan if it was created from their actions?

1.7 billion fund to blackrock is nothing to them, shove like 5-10 peeps to it, tops

also the vast majority of blackrock's holdings are unleveraged equity

They figured out how to jack up the price of ketamine 100x by making it esketamine - find an analog, shove in an acetyl group somewhere, something something chiral something

CGN has exponentially increasing cost overruns and delays like the rest of 'em. It's just cheaper to have the cost overruns and delays because of their low cost of financing - which in turn is a big ol' chunk of the underlying problem behind the rash of state bank insolvencies that was the big news before the real estate insolvencies eclipsed them

right. everything is a tradeoff. but in almost every other part of the tradeoff space you can do better than 6 mb/hour for 14 gigawatts.

I did do the reading. It's an O(n) db insert. The blockchain's the DB and the insert needs PoW.

throughput of a blockchain is contingent upon tweaking but for the original bitcoin, still used, it's 6 mb/hour. electricity consumption is 14 gigawatts. if i were given 14 gigawatts of electricity i think i could do better than 6 megabytes/hour.

it's as old as android with like 5 orders of magnitude less societal impact and worse societal impact when there is societal impact than android. it's eaten a material amount of all gains in renewable energy basically using cycles to heat the world for what ends up being an O(n) database insert.

How do you know that they didn't just watch a lot of American TV and YouTube and we didn't export our insanities into their heads?

bismark and metternich and so on managed to run around and mostly keep a general european peace with the balance of powers for 80 years from the 1820s on. too bad it all went to shit - but current events are not incompatible with the assertion that it's all going to shit this decade...

if you don't have hegemony, you have the balance of powers: if you don't have the balance of powers, you have hegemony. if we're getting out from hegemony we'll go into the balance of powers (you can sort of see this in the everyone-surrounding-the-prc's reaction to the prc: everyone gangs up together to balance out the putative new hegemon)

you need total consensus down to the last man for pacifism to work. works great in groups of 10 people, not so much with groups of 2 billion: you need to credibly threaten the insane yelling person while making sure you're not the insane yelling person yourself

there's the plant-based stuff and there's the stuff that's genetically indistinguishable from meat. the plant-based stuff is available right now, the genetic meat stuff is not available for ordinary consumption because it's too expensive and there's a few material hurdles

something awful is still around, so is metafilter. structurally unspammable because of the paywall

the introduction to continental philosophy here is left as footnote, but the argument for understanding continental philosophy and not as a red-headed stepchild of analytic philosophy goes in saying that they've had as equal an effect on the world of art and politics (of the kind in countries opposed to america, tho, of course) as analytic philosophy has in formal linguistics and cs and such.

do you think they don't read adorno in beijing university? they do. if the chinese started off the great Deng reform era based upon the marxist doctrine of historical materialism, maybe it's worthwhile to go learn historical materialism! the Bourbaki conversed extensively with the French post-structuralists and various other weirdoes including Dieudonne, Levi-Strauss, Piaget and Lacan: if you understand more of post-structuralism, maybe you'll understand why the hell they are / were that way!

they sure didn't have the early-Wittgensteinian idea of philosophy as fundamentally therapy underneath. they lived by philosophy, and slaughtered millions for it, but this is still worth study, if not very useful as life-enrichment.

the most important thing about startups is that they're much less uniform. there's no over-overlord megalomaniac at the head to make sure anyone does anything. Half seems to be about a good ratio, but I also bet the best remote folks are also startups, they just don't talk to folks about it

the academic environmentalists have been advocating for the controlled burns for half a century now - the folks you wanna be pissed off at are the homeowners

... and it's also worth noting that in the introduction of this book O. Donath, the author posts a typical example of one of the interesting death threats, wishes for her death, etc etc that she got from news reports of her original 2015 article that she expanded into the book

If you want "yes" answers there's a narrative book-length study an Israeli feminist did on the question, with interviews of some mothers who regretted it. I've not found anything on fathers.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYUTO1A/

solar + batteries is $40/mwh?