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I'm don't care. If it's good, it's good.

What an ambitious and impressive project! I'm going to try it.

One note: The home page says "Nothing phones home," but the Bento files I've examined include a cloudflareinsights.com beacon.

Eddie Murphy had a great comedy bit based on that car.

I don't understand this comment. They wrote SICP.

Sussman and Abelson are great at teaching.

Schools should forbid grading on a curve. MIT does, for example. Standards should be absolute.

Why is anyone using anything else?

“You may note however that the university has not issued any statement refuting the information reported in the press.”

For a side project, I used Iroh to give my web server in the cloud the ability to print directly to my label printer at home. The API is simple and easy to use. It took no time to write a reliable system on top of Iroh.

So much work is done for HIPAA compliance, and then the only authentication required is a birth date.

If you're interested in efforts to catalog and even deflect asteroids that might hit Earth:

https://b612.ai/

The ".ai" stands for "Asteroid Institute." It was started by two former astronauts, Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart.

Actually, they do have an incentive to let you turn off ads. If they don't, many users will turn off notifications entirely. At least if they categorize them, some users will just turn off the bothersome ones.

I have the poster on my wall. It's beautiful. I highly recommend it.

I second your recommendation. I watched it last night, and loved it. It was beautiful to see the level of competence and devotion of the tiny group running the spacecraft.

Andy gave a nice talk on the implementation of Chez Scheme, an optimizing compiler, at the Scheme Workshop in Berlin in 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_-enNCZxaU

Absolutely. I do all my LLM-assisted work inside Emacs using Agent Shell and Emacs skills:

https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

https://github.com/xenodium/emacs-skills

Here's Pixie Scheme, which is an interesting implementation for the iPad:

https://jayreynoldsfreeman.com/My/Wraith_Scheme_(64-bit_vers...

This makes me nostalgic for my 4K TRS-80 Model I with cassette tape. There was something beautiful about having control over everything, and even the tight constraints were sometimes fun.

I love Waymo. Using the word "impact" is unfortunate.

Thank you for saying that. I regularly attend the International Conference on Functional Programming, which grew out of the LISP and Functional Programming conference. Except for the Scheme Workshop, which is the reason I attend, it might as well be called the International Conference on Static Types. Almost all of the benefits of functional programming come from functional programming itself, not from static types, but one would never get that impression from the papers presented there. The types are all that anyone talks about.

Yes, especially in a city like San Francisco where so many cultures come together: the Prius culture, the BMW culture, the Subaru culture, etc.

There are situations where it is allowed:

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/vehicle-code/veh-sect-25251/

Me, too. I like masonry layout too much to wait for CSS to solve the problem, so I've been waiting to remove the last 1.3KB of Javascript from my home page since 2019.

Thank you to everyone who is making this happen.

Does anyone have more information on this sentence from the second paragraph?:

Alphabet themselves reportedly see the writing on the wall, developing what appears to be a new browser separate from Chrome.

I can't get that page to respond. Did you mean <https://remotestorage.io/>?

<rant>I've never had confidence in MacOS or Apple software in general, and especially not in Apple Photos. Photos beachballs constantly, even when I do simple things like creating a new folder or naming a photo. It loses keystrokes almost every time I type a folder or photo name. No other program does this on the same Mac, which is an M4 Pro with 64GB RAM and terabytes of SSD. I know that it's not a problem with the hardware because the previous Mac Mini, which was well equipped, had the same problem for years. Reconstructing the Photos database didn't help.

Don't get me started about how Time Machine drops files — important files like the Photos Sqlite3 database — from backups.

Yes, I should switch from Photos to something else, e.g. Immich.

I barely use the software included with the Mac, and would only use Linux except that there are still just a few programs or bits of hardware that insist on there being a Mac or Windows machine somewhere.

How Apple every got a reputation for high-quality, user-friendly software is beyond me.

Not recommended.</rant>

I have owned at least one of every Pebble watch since the beginning, have written watch faces for myself (but never posted them on the store), have received my Pebble 2 Duo, and am looking forward to receiving my Pebble Time 2. I am thrilled that Eric Migicovsky and his team are bringing the Pebble back to life. It was amazing that the Rebble team kept the watches alive all this time. But it's all open source, and doing that shouldn't give Rebble any kind of special say. There's no reason that "there has to be a future for Rebble in there" or that Rebble has to be "the core of the community." That sounds like nothing more than bruised egos.

Make sure you know about exit code 125 to your test script. You can use it in those terrible cases where the test can't tell, one way or another, whether the failure you seek happened, for example when there is an unrelated build problem.

I wrote a short post on this:

https://speechcode.com/blog/git-bisect

I like the modern social contract and hotels, but to be fair, AirBNB is inverting what had already been inverted. In some sense, AirBNB is returning to the old model before hotels were everywhere. A traveler would reach a new town and ask for lodging in someone's home. In many countries, providing lodging to strangers is still the norm.

It's there, but the documentation is weak.

The release notes from long ago when that back end was released are here, and give some detail:

https://share.google/xmUnDhC7lndujD7TI