nerdponx (u/nerdponx)

nerdponx commented on Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly spritely.institute/hoot/... · Posted by u/AlexeyBrin

zelphirkalt · 17 hours ago

Guile has lots of libraries though, and is the language of Guix. This makes it more likely for people to package their stuff via Guix. Guix itself enriches the ecosystem, and Guile projects can use Guix to make them reproducible.

A few problems remain though. A good debugger, a good macro expander (geiser in Emacs is able to expand somehow), and solving the issues with R6RS library syntax and standard library bindings, are what comes to mind.

Racket's multi-core abilities for a long time were mostly heavy weight (places, starting whole new Racket VMs), except for their implementation of futures, but that one was not always useful. I think recently the situation in Racket has improved, but I don't know, whether it is as good as Guile fibers and futures (which are different from futures in Racket).

nerdponx · 16 hours ago

If Guile had more of the "batteries" from the Gauche standard library it might be the perfect all-purpose Scheme. But for just writing a simple application quickly and easily it's been impossible to beat Gauche for me, it's on par with Python and Ruby in that regard IMO.

nerdponx commented on Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info sheldonbrown.com/... · Posted by u/ostacke

manithree · a day ago

I lost my "Clear Creek Bike Book" in the 1980's but eventually Sheldon made me not miss it at all.

It's not as comprehensive, and more corporate than Sheldon's site, but I currently love Park Tool's youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@parktool). They shamelessly mention their tools, but they frequently give alternatives like, you can get this park tool for pushing your disc brake pads back into place, or you can just use a plastic tire tool.

nerdponx · a day ago

Interesting timing, the Park Tool Youtube presenter just retired. The guy with the big mustache.

nerdponx commented on xAI joins SpaceX spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork

Fogest · 5 days ago

I guess you'll have to wait and see what ideas they have to deal with this. If they can't manage the heat they aren't going to spend billions launching these things just for fun.

nerdponx · 5 days ago

Which is precisely why I said originally that data centers in space have never been a thing and will never be a thing. Because the whole premise is "it's cold in space so that's great for data centers", but that fundamental premise is fundamentally wrong and based in a misunderstanding of the physics involved. There is no other redeeming argument for it, therefore it's not going to happen. Anyone trying to sell you on data centers in space is grifting.

nerdponx commented on xAI joins SpaceX spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork

Fogest · 5 days ago

But that is also just an assumption isn't it? Could this not also be related to the fact that they plan to launch a ton of servers into the sky to run in space and power AI? It would mean that their AI product would become heavily based on the services provided by SpaceX via launching all this.

But regardless, I think quotes like these should have some commentary around them as it helps create a discussion around whatever point they might be trying to make rather than having to make assumptions.

nerdponx · 5 days ago

Data centers in space have never been a thing and never will be.

nerdponx commented on EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01... · Posted by u/8organicbits

nickff · 9 days ago

That may be the intention, but to me it looks like the EFF is just giving its employees a paid day off. Also, you're not really striking if your employer approves of it, and pays you for it.

nerdponx · 9 days ago

This is right-wing authoritarian virtue signaling IMO.

nerdponx commented on EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01... · Posted by u/8organicbits

SpicyLemonZest · 9 days ago

Low effort to participate isn’t a feature. The point of these kind of actions is to show that there’s a lot of people who are really fired up and won’t be placated or deterred unless policymakers meet their demands.

nerdponx · 9 days ago

Sort of? You want something that's going to actually affect the corporations involved. It's not about showing effort, because the government doesn't care how much effort you put in. It's about showing power, making a statement that we "the people" have power and can use it if you don't do what we want. A long-term "nonessentials boycott" might be more impactful in that sense.

nerdponx commented on Amazon cuts 16k jobs reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/DGAP

oytis · 11 days ago

I can't imagine Donald Trump would harm the US on purpose.

nerdponx · 11 days ago

He absolutely would harm some people in the US to benefit other people in the US. The same is true for many many other businesspeople and politiciansl

nerdponx commented on Amazon cuts 16k jobs reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/DGAP

Buttons840 · 11 days ago

Once again the mask of "AI" is really just human labor underneath.

I've personally seen founders raise millions of dollars because of "AI" that is really just manual labor. I know, I wrote the code that enabled the manual laborers. This was like 10 years ago; the lie is even easier to tell now. And that is so so important in an economy where gaining favor from those who already have money is far better than just selling a good or service.

nerdponx · 11 days ago

Back when IBM Watson was a thing, the rumor I heard was that it was actually just a big team of data people and programmers who would bang out stuff in a hurry and then they would pretend like the AI came up with it.

nerdponx commented on Amazon cuts 16k jobs reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/DGAP

oytis · 11 days ago

Very related IMO. Even before Trump US workforce was expensive, now limit the influx of new workforce and hiring abroad looks like a logical decision

nerdponx · 11 days ago

Imagine that! It's almost like it's coordinated. Surely the US government would never do something like that on purpose.

nerdponx commented on I made my own Git tonystr.net/blog/git_immi... · Posted by u/TonyStr

program_whiz · 12 days ago

while I think this is a fun idea -- we are in such a dystopian timeline that I fear you will end up being prosecuted under a digital equivalent of various laws like "why did you attack the intruder instead of fleeing" or "you can't simply remove a squatter because its your house, therefore you get an assault charge."

A kind of "they found this code, therefore you have a duty not to poison their model as they take it." Meanwhile if I scrape a website and discover data I'm not supposed to see (e.g. bank details being publicly visible) then I will go to jail for pointing it out. :(

nerdponx · 12 days ago

I think if we're at the point where posting deliberate mistakes to poison training data is considered a crime, we would be far far far down the path of authoritarian corporate regulatory capture, much farther than we are now (fortunately).