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Christophe Grand (cgrand)

@cgrand.net

❤️ #clojure since 2008 | #clojuredart maintainer | Principal Consultant at t10s.com

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rob pike@robpike.io · 7mo ago

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
Christophe Grand (cgrand)@cgrand.net · 10mo ago

I need a progress bar for something with a wildly varying estimated time to completion — but I still want to show constant progress. So here’s the 💡: a dot moving at constant speed along a space-filling curve (Hilbert?) and dynamically adjusting the curve’s resolution as the ETC changes. Thoughts?

Christophe Grand (cgrand)@cgrand.net · 10mo ago

A friend gently reminded me on my birthday: “There’s always a number base where you’re in your 20s — and the number of such bases keeps increasing.” I’m more in my 20s than ever!

Jack Rusher@jackrusher.com · last yr.

It’s a special kind of sadness seeing the entire genre of art made with computers that I have been pursuing since the 70s ruined by AI slop. I have never been less motivated to share new work in my life. 😿

Shriram Krishnamurthi@shriram.bsky.social · last yr.

There is no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might write a comment, say thanks, post on HN, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people reading and remembering the author, posting on HN, etc. That is, it totally destroys the incentive structure.

Christophe Grand (cgrand)@cgrand.net · last yr.

Almost all chat software automatically scroll to the end of the conversation. (Even terms and repls.) But not chat AI UIs. Because you are expected to read the output. Our chat UIs makes it too easy to skip and ignore.

Kristopher Micinski@krismicinski.bsky.social · last yr.

Our new paper, “Datalog with First-Class Facts,” will appear at VLDB ‘25. We are very excited about this work, which harmonizes concepts from functional programming and databases.

PVLDB@pvldb.bsky.social · last yr.

Vol:18 No:3 → Datalog with First-Class Facts 👥 Authors: Thomas Gilray, Arash Sahebolamri, Yihao Sun, Sowmith Kunapaneni, Sidharth Kumar, Kristopher Micinski 📄 PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p651-micinski.pdf

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Dragan Djuric@draganrocks.bsky.social · last yr.

Not only that #Clojure have been supporting high performance computing on Apple M CPU since Neanderthal 0.53.0, but the even more optimized operations through Apple Accelerate is coming soon! Check it out now at github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal #MachineLearning #Python #NVIDIA #Swift

GitHub - uncomplicate/neanderthal: Fast Clojure Matrix Library

Fast Clojure Matrix Library. Contribute to uncomplicate/neanderthal development by creating an account on GitHub.

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`fogus@fogus.me · last yr.

The most distressing part of the decline of reading is that reading's core purpose is to not only present facts, perspectives, and information, but to expose us to the mechanisms of thought itself.

Christophe Grand (cgrand)@cgrand.net · last yr.

This bug was weird. All of a sudden code stops compiling. The only change? The reader now adds end source location metadata. If I add only end column or end line it’s ok. But not both. The failing form? (ns foo (:require [bar :refer [x y]])

Ben Shapiro (he/him)@benshapi.ro · last yr.

(Please re-skeet for visibility) Did you use HyperCard back in the day? What was your experience with it? What did you make? How did it change the way you think about yourself?