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zrkrlc

510 karma · joined March 14, 2016

Founder of Blackbelt (youtu.be/fulUTnDwRmE). Currently building in Manila.

Shoot me an e-mail: hello (at) zrkrlc (dot) com

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zrkrlc··on Codex Resets
Huh, isn’t Fable going to be available indefinitely to all Max users?
zrkrlc··on Claude Opus 4.7
You’re probably thinking of this article: https://she-llac.com/claude-limits
zrkrlc··on Writing Lisp is AI resistant and I'm sad
Ha, and I’ve been using Datalevin for my vibe-coded apps! Thank you so much for such a wonderful piece of software.
zrkrlc··on It's probably time to rethink “Building in public”
> Posting about your ideas or your product just isn't that interesting.

On the contrary, I wouldn’t be using Capacities if they didn’t have their entire development roadmap on your product, so thanks

zrkrlc··on Slingcode – App platform in a single HTML file, QR-code transmittable apps
Apparently this was written in ClojureScript. I’m actually a bit surprised by that, since this kind of thing seems perfect for vanilla JS.
zrkrlc··on Superlinear Returns
With multimodal GPT-4 I really feel like there's suddenly way more things I'm confident about attempting (e.g. anything bottlenecked by graphic design), which should in turn should lead to more things I'll be confident about in the future. Can a hyperproductive person verify if the returns here don't actually look linear, but geometric?
zrkrlc··on A Swift intro to Geometric Algebra (2020) [video]
I still maintain that Alan MacDonald is the best expositor of the subject I've seen. His books are almost entirely self-contained. Here's a sampling: http://www.faculty.luther.edu/~macdonal/GA&GC.pdf
zrkrlc··on Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll
Probably better to sort by karma by default though, otherwise it's alphabetical privilege all over again lol https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ905588
zrkrlc··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
Mostly philosophical spitballing: https://zrkrlc.com

Not a lot going on there but some people have told me they really like my essays so I elected to put my favourite ones online.

zrkrlc··on Code the shortest path first
Mind giving a concrete example? I read through the entire thing but couldn't make heads or tails of it. Is the point that your user stories should touch upon every aspect of your app, while still being incremental?
zrkrlc··on Reddit and Lisp Psychosis (2005)
With all the drama surrounding Reddit at the moment, it's nice to look back to a time when things were so much simpler, and most of the things we had to worry about were just tech.
zrkrlc··on Why Lisp Syntax Works
Minor nitpick, but weren't the best of these calculators (i.e. the HP ones with RPN) postfix instead of prefix?
zrkrlc··on HP 15C Collector’s Edition (preorder)
I yearn of the day when I'll have time to make RPN games
zrkrlc··on Ask HN: Books that helped you become a better person?
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga is very quickly shaping up to be this book for me.

It's probably highly unpalatable to modern Western sentiments (e.g., one of the chapter titles is "Trauma Does Not Exist") but it otherwise has really original lessons that I haven't seen articulated elsewhere, despite the sometimes overly formal English translation.

zrkrlc··on Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
A bit crass these days, but this is probably where Reddit-style fake accounts will probably shine. Maybe a mix of manual work + judiciously crafted chatGPT prompts?
zrkrlc··on Calculators now emulated at Internet Archive
Got my HP50g in my last year of uni (physics) and I only wish I'd learned to depend on it sooner. Would have been fun figuring out calculus wizardry with a lisp-like language from the get-go.
zrkrlc··on Ask HN: What's the best tech stack for indie hacking?
If the dev experience is so great, why move at all?
zrkrlc··on Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?
Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach

It's a rigorous but chatty textbook in the style of Spivak but written by someone who is sensitive to applied maths. I would not have survived my astrophysics classes without it.

(Not to mention it's where I first saw this really intuitive way of doing matrix multiplication: https://blogs.ams.org/mathgradblog/2015/10/19/matrix-multipl...)

zrkrlc··on Ask HN: What's the most important problem in the world? Are you working on it?
Any recommendations aside from the usual (Andrew Ng's course, fast.ai)?
zrkrlc··on Debugging Lisp: trace options, break on conditions
I wonder what it would take to bring these things to Clojure. Its REPL experience is miles ahead of non-lispy languages but I do feel a pang of grass-is-greener whenever I hear about CL's debugging tooling. Hell, the JVM has a great debugger as well (or so I hear), so why is that difficult to port over?
zrkrlc··on Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)
You wrote 'feetback' instead of 'feedback', and Colemak is the only popular layout (vs Qwerty and Dvorak) where 't' and 'd' are right next to each other.
zrkrlc··on Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)
Tangent but do you happen to use a Colemak-layout keyboard?
zrkrlc··on Austral: A systems language with linear types and capabilities
I love this! I'm currently reading the entire spec as I'm writing this

BTW, you have a typo in one of your examples.

> import (

> ...,

> Relase_Filesystem,

> ...

> )

zrkrlc··on Lifestreams (1997)
Submission statement: this is an old article about UIs that aren't organised in space like desktops are but in time.

With the advent of tools like git and nix, one wonders if the time is now ripe for chronology-centered interfaces. I frequently find myself wishing to have an integrated VCS in my filesystem (or at the very least, being able to treat my entire computer as if it were in a git repo so I can roll back changes) even if I'm on NixOS where you're basically on your own for files in your home directory.

It doesn't even have to be a complete replacement: you can imagine a tiny slider than can allow you to walk through the previous states of your desktop to see how your work evolves over time. But I guess (bi)temporality and immutability are still new ideas, and even in such a fast-moving field like ours it takes a while for certain things to trickle down from ivory towers.

zrkrlc··on MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (2018)
I've been seeing 'GP' 'round these parts for a while now. What does it stand for? Grandparent?
zrkrlc··on Two Vexing Problems in Functional Programming
Minor nitpick, but it's actually *Chris Okasaki
zrkrlc··on Crows possess higher intelligence, thought a primarily human attribute (2020)
Presumably, most animals have evolved to be able to smell rotting meat.
zrkrlc··on Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored
Wasn't that Newton quote a swipe at Robert Hooke, who was known to be quite short?
zrkrlc··on Ask HN: Easiest way to build a CRUD app?
I guess no one uses Clojure/Script on HN anymore. All of your requirements fit the cluster in designspace that the language was designed to occupy.

(cf. 'situated programs' in https://youtu.be/2V1FtfBDsLU)

zrkrlc··on Geometry from Another Universe
I didn't know Idris could do WebGL!
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