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Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

clojuriststogether.org
145 points·by dragandj·2 माह पहले·26 comments

Clojure: The Documentary[official trailer] [video]

youtube.com
5 points·by dragandj·4 माह पहले·0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

mccue.dev
10 points·by dragandj·5 माह पहले·1 comments

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dragandj
·17 दिन पहले·discuss
... and I suppose the solution for these particular conditions is.... drumrolls... stablecoins? They are allowed? Available everywhere? Accepted everywhere? Totaly safe from disappearing overnight?
dragandj
·19 दिन पहले·discuss
The global poor already had ways to store value in dollars. They could simply exchange whatever meager savings they had into... real dollars! And they have been doing that for decades. I don't know whether anyone in the west really believes in this bullshit of cryptocurrencies that give the global poor options.
dragandj
·पिछला माह·discuss
... and by the year 50, they will be a trillion times more productive?
dragandj
·पिछला माह·discuss
It depends. What if Aldi bled a trillion dollars for this revenue of $120B? Would it be a desirable purchase?
dragandj
·पिछला माह·discuss
Yes it is, because as soon as programmers step out of the most basic language level (which is kinda similar in most mainstream languages) there's a bunch of wildly different concepts, with wildly different ways of writing them. Writing them in isolation might be manageable, but it's combining them effectively that gets hairy very quickly, unless one is very experienced in said language. But then, translating that to OTHER languages becomes a bar that is too high!
dragandj
·पिछला माह·discuss
What happens when Anthropic decides that the free hay time is over, and it's milking time?
dragandj
·2 माह पहले·discuss
LLMs can and will provide inaccurate answers to questions where data is included in their training sets too, that's in the nature of neural networks. It's just less likely that when the data is not in the training set...
dragandj
·2 माह पहले·discuss
I forgot to put /s in my comment :)
dragandj
·2 माह पहले·discuss
None of the numerous existing human-coded X11 tray icons showing battery charge level is good for you? Why? What are they missing?
dragandj
·2 माह पहले·discuss
FWIW Back in 2015 OpenCL 2.0 performance was quite good on then-current AMD GPUs (IMO), but the problem was that 1. You had to implement everything yourself, from scratch, since AMD's GPU BLAS was barely compilable, and 2. They abandoned OpenCL that year, and switched to HIP (or whatever their copy of CUDA was called) which didn't even compile (in practice) for quite some time, and 3. Even with HIP, you were on your own when it comes for any BLAS and other standard library implementations because AMD provided nothing of the sorts for a long time.

All in all, it's not that the drivers performance was poor per se, but AMD did nothing about providing a software ecosystem, which amount to its hardware wasn't realistically usable unless your pockets were so big that you can do AMD's job and fund the re-development of the whole ecosystem from scratch.

In other words, it made MUCH better ROI to just use Nvidia, pay a little bit more for the hardware, and save millions on software :)
dragandj
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Who's gonna pay $20,000 for labor that can be done by anyone with a $200/mo subscription?
dragandj
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Now let's think about how much money it costs Anthropic to make that $60k. :)
dragandj
·3 माह पहले·discuss
I find it works even better with "/effort ultra".
dragandj
·3 माह पहले·discuss
And when it doesn't, it politely apologizes, at least :)
dragandj
·3 माह पहले·discuss
If the main problem is programming languages incompatibility with QWERTY, that problem has been solved many decades ago. The programmers can switch to Colemak, and save many trillions of dollars of AI expenses.
dragandj
·3 माह पहले·discuss
> An app is often much more than a CRUD interface. "I could have written Facebook over a weekend" syndrome :)
dragandj
·6 माह पहले·discuss
Perhaps music that at least the author would listen to? To this day I haven't heard an AI song that made me wish I press the rewind/play to listen it again. Granted, most human-generated songs are crap, too, but at least they are not crap to their authors.
dragandj
·6 माह पहले·discuss
IMHO, it would be solved by just making AI "art" un-copyrightable. Fine, make "AI art" as much as you wish. Sell and buy it as much as you please if you find it to your taste. BUT, you can NOT participate in organizations that take royalties from radio stations, TVs, movies, records, etc. for publishing, performance, etc.
dragandj
·8 माह पहले·discuss
As an avid reader of BDs, I would agree with you, but for the purpose of this discussion, and for the general public, these two are indistinguishable. Even to the actual translation, which is (pardon my rusty French) somewhere in the ballpark of "cartoon strips".
dragandj
·9 माह पहले·discuss
OTOH, 1% of a large group is still quite a lot. How many programmers are there in the world? Google says estimated 47 million. 1% of that is almost half a million people. If there are half a million Clojure programmers, Clojure is quite a successful technology! (Sadly, I doubt there are that many)...