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CommieBobDole commented on Update on my Racket exit blog.winny.tech/posts/upd... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

behnamoh · 3 days ago

Is this much drama around a tiny niche language normal? I've been happily using Python for over a decade and never encountered weird, dramatic behavior by its creators or main developers.

Could it be that some languages, through the target audience they attract, seal their disastrous fate? By that I mean languages that attract nerds like me or peculiar math-oriented minds who can nit pick at every single detail.

You wouldn't expect this much nit from a mass-scale enterprise language like Java.

CommieBobDole · 3 days ago

To quote Charles Issawi:

"In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."

Big projects have big problems to deal with. On small projects with no such distractions, the influence of personalities is relatively larger.

CommieBobDole commented on A renovation project in Turkey led to the discovery of a lost city (2023) atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/areoform

dhosek · 8 days ago

Of course in their list of fictional gateways, they get the Shawshank Redemption example wrong: it was Rita Hayworth, not Raquel Welch. (I found a similar aggravating error recently in an (older) article on boingboing which erroneously credited the song Route 66 to Chuck Berry.

CommieBobDole · 8 days ago

The posters changed over the years as he was digging the tunnel - the final one was indeed a poster of Raquel Welch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyN63zVPQjk&t=209s

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CommieBobDole commented on Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145M missionlocal.org/2025/07/... · Posted by u/danso

stagger87 · a month ago

"In a liquidation, common stockholders receive whatever assets remain after creditors, bondholders, and preferred stockholders are paid."

Coupled with what sounds like an already bad financial state of the company... I'm not claiming no foul play, but it looks like there is a reasonable avenue for what is happening.

CommieBobDole · a month ago

The article implies that it's not a liquidation or bankruptcy, though, just a sale.

I don't know how you can buy a company without buying its stock from the shareholders, given that they are the owners of the company, but there must be some special circumstance that's not mentioned in the article.

CommieBobDole commented on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety cbc.ca/news/business/lab-... · Posted by u/geox

Incipient · a month ago

I'd disagree with that. The prospect of a natural diamond is that it's unique (I mean, not visibly I suppose) and millions of years old.

I'd say it's like AI music or art - something made by a machine, for some reason, just doesn't have any "soul" to it.

I'm not actually entirely convinced in my argument, but there is something there...

CommieBobDole · a month ago

Every piece of gravel is unique and millions of years old, too.

CommieBobDole commented on OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August theverge.com/notepad-micr... · Posted by u/ghoulishly

MaxfordAndSons · a month ago

> Altman decided to let GPT-5 take a stab at a question he didn’t understand. “I put it in the model, this is GPT-5, and it answered it perfectly,” Altman said.

If he didn't understand the question how could he know the model answered it perfectly?

CommieBobDole · a month ago

>If he didn't understand the question how could he know the model answered it perfectly?

Also, 'thing that I don't know about but is broadly and uncontroversially known and documented by others' is sort of dead center of the value proposition for current-generation LLMs and also doesn't make very impressive marketing copy.

Unless he's saying that he fed it an unknown-to-experts-in-the-field question and it figured it out in which case I am very skeptical.

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