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I'm fighting an uphill battle, but people in general still need to see it

your periodic reminder: don't listen to Garry Tan, unless maybe he's doing a tequila review

"Classical liberal" usually registers to me as a libertarian/paleoconservative trying to mainstream themselves.

Only had to scroll about halfway through the replies before I found somebody suggesting an SPAC

Puts their being a Thiel media op in an even more pathetic light.

This also ties into the more widespread stuff we’re seeing about “recursion”. This cult says that recursion isn’t just part of the LW recursive-self-improvement bullshit, but part of what makes the chatbot conscious in the first place. Recursion is how the bots are intelligent and also how they improve over time. More recursion means more intelligence.

Hmm, is it better or worse that they're now officially treating SICP as a literal holy book?

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Of course there has to be a permanent underclass that can only ever aspire to work in the service industry and will never harbor any hope of threatening my highly important thought leader job, that's the only way the world CAN work

The point about a static site generator being an ideal intro project is well-taken. I'm working my way through Practical Common Lisp right now, as it's recommended as one of the best CL intro books, and its intro project of an MP3 database is only barely relevant to me because I still have a stash of MP3s I started building up around the time of the book's original publication.

I struggle to imagine what might supplant the HTML generator suggestion in the future. If anything, its desirability is made more apparent by the proliferation of JS monoliths all over the Web. You can show students how quickly it renders compared to a corporate website or heavyweight social-media feed, use that as an introduction to performance considerations and profiling, introduce modularity by bolting on a more dynamic framework piece-by-piece...

Wronger explaining human sexual attraction

Are we sure this isn't an SCP entry?

But it's got what progressive web apps crave... it's got animations

Unironically, this was surely the primary design brief.