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my thoughts on paully’s output are along the same lines — it’s really a shame that he’s the guy a lot of people learned Lisp from, because it’s very clear he’s just a rich white guy bullshitting on that and every other topic he’s famous for

also, this stood out from a quote in your first linked post:

Server-based deployment of software was a central theme in Graham’s essays, and his continuation-based web framework was an interesting and fairly novel way to create continuity across multiple requests in a single session.

Seaside did this first, though it never got a ton of traction. if naive continuations are how the orange site’s doing sessions and state tracking, that goes a long way towards explaining why it’s so incredibly bad at scaling and has such weird performance characteristics. there’s ways to make continuations more performant in this role, but it takes a degree of low-level understanding paully’s never demonstrated, since his languages have always been built on top of Racket (which is a fine language for making languages! it’s fun as hell! but one day you will run out of runtime to repurpose)

(I should see if Racket finally has good LSP support for #lang languages. I’d seriously use it so much more if I could bring my own editor)

also, holy shit those responses to your second linked post really haven’t aged well at all, have they?

thanks to the EU, those three electronics experts are now 1.5 door-to-door vacuum cleaner salespeople

Tom Clancy’s CrowdStrike sounds like the kind of military fiction I’d accidentally buy from the thrift store

I’ll see what I can find for longer form stuff! the Marques Brownlee review is of course recommended listening if you haven’t yet — he really tore into the thing in a way they never recovered from. I haven’t given it a listen myself, but it looks like the 404media podcast discussed some of the articles they wrote tearing the AI Pin down, which were quite good

and the depressing part is, I’m pretty sure that unlike the R1 this thing won’t have any off-label use cases as a weird hackable gadget or an Android cyberdeck for big Teenage Engineering fans

there’s a button on that site that activates what I’ve decided is Piss Noir mode, because it makes everything monochrome except the buttons and other random elements, which are neon yellow

off you fuck

…I mean look, it’s not that I don’t like wearing my glasses, they’re just uncomfortable (because I don’t wear them)

this is just how I look

ah yeah, the well-known nter2 Rust function that lets you… enter the number 2, you know?

this isn’t sneer material but I’m a bit too exhausted to post a thread specifically for it: I stumbled upon PieFed and it looks really promising — a few of the architectural decisions are similar to ones I’d make, and lately I’ve become a lot more open to running Python in production (and it’s going to be much less awful to hack on too)

this could be a viable path forward if we decide lemmy is a rotten codebase (it is) and PieFed gets closer to feature parity with what we’ve got now

I was honestly gonna defed just by the domain name alone but I was finally able to check out their instance and hoo boy of course there’s a Nazi-looking skull logo