digikar

12th rule of programming: Any attempt to extend, modify, or adapt Common Lisp to dispatch on types instead of classes, at both runtime and optionally at compile time, and perhaps also provide parametric polymorphism with adhoc polymorphism, without deviating too much from CL semantics, results in a half-baked implementation of Peltadot.

2026-06-28 17:02:10 GMT

Data Dashboard: Reuters Climate Monitor
How today's temperatures compare to the historic average
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-AUTOMATED/MONITOR/akpeykqqapr/

2026-06-20 20:03:53 GMT

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/12/01/where-most-people-trust-others-and-where-they-dont-around-the-world/

2026-06-01 22:11:13 GMT

Been doing some experiment analysis recently. But perhaps, these concerns apply more broadly.
My conclusions keep flipping. What am I to conclude when the analysis results keep flipping at every minor correction to the selection criterion?!
Am I terrible at this or is this the normal state of affairs? If it is normal, the state of any statistical analysis based conclusion out there looks a lot more scarier and coin-tossy.
To look at data without commitments is to be ready to say, "Look, I was wrong, I used the wrong selection criterion." But at what point does a selection criterion actually become correct?
Perhaps once one has the *complete* causal model of the situation?

2026-05-16 20:13:33 GMT

https://foxislandpress.ca/climate-change/

2026-05-07 20:15:56 GMT

Open source developers. Whenever that term comes up, unfortunately my mind only conjures up images of men.
Of course, there are women in open source. Though, we always look at code and contributions and almost never the gender. But of course gender plays a factor growing up and deciding what sorts of things to do with one's free (and professional) time.
So, where are women doing cool open source work? Here's a good article on that -
https://timreview.ca/article/256

2026-05-06 14:18:39 GMT

How does eating yoghurt kill crispy chicken craving? According to this chart, oily fatty food craving is an indication of calcium deficiency. Amazing.
https://betterme.world/articles/food-cravings-chart/

2026-04-26 09:11:31 GMT

https://keepandroidopen.org/

2026-04-25 19:21:12 GMT

Just finished Chapter 1 of Development as Freedom. Interesting to note that in its foundings, the focus of capitalism was on free market primarily for its own sake, rather than for the so called market efficiency. Market efficiency was a nice-to-have add on.
https://blossom.primal.net/b87d100c0905194c1445ef549268c35fddfe51b0fc664a21ea39fa632699429a.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/16a899f027ad2616998c6363b08ff1c690da367eda9c27ae83b3aebb2dda69fe.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/a101f668097cc4d21756f9afa9687a8c01f8fe2ef94603b25a6ff9191cb3b2a4.jpg

2026-04-24 19:53:18 GMT

Why doesn't Emacs' Org Mode just use Markdown? (2021)
https://rpdillon.net/why-doesnt-emacs-org-mode-just-use-markdown-2021.html

2026-04-23 22:14:54 GMT

*Encounters paper with lofty title and abstract*
Before reading: Oh, someone is actually doing that!
After reading: Eh, yeah, that makes sense. But that is not even making contact with the problem the lofty title mentions. At best, the title is not a false description of the paper, but it is far from the best description.

2026-04-23 08:34:22 GMT

Just wrote a short essay: A World without Climate Change is one that promotes Freedom
https://digikar99.github.io/microblog/p/no-climate-change/

2026-04-22 06:27:29 GMT

Feeling sad because I want to name my variable starting with 2afc_*. But I am reminded this is JS and not Lisp, so variable names cannot start with numbers.

2026-04-21 10:43:54 GMT

https://plugos.net/plugmate
The Private Computer at Your Fingertips
A thumbdrive computer that you can plug into your android (or other) devices.

2026-04-20 18:06:04 GMT

https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/

2026-04-14 13:06:07 GMT

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-lays-down-the-law-on-ai-generated-code-yes-to-copilot-no-to-ai-slop-and-humans-take-the-fall-for-mistakes-after-months-of-fierce-debate-torvalds-and-maintainers-come-to-an-agreement

2026-04-11 05:43:44 GMT

Yay, ditching closed source for open source :3
https://techputs.com/france-windows-to-linux-shift/

2026-04-07 11:52:29 GMT

Idea for browser extensions:
Remove posts that contain the sentence structures "It's not X. It's Y." Or also, "It's A. It's B. It's C." Or, "There's A. There's B. There's C."

2026-04-06 16:59:17 GMT

Research Motivation: “Mixed Research Findings”
https://sites.google.com/view/utkarsh-shukla/phd-writeups/3-research-motivation-mixed-research-findings
#psychology, #cognitive-science, #research

2026-04-06 13:59:29 GMT

Forbes: Meet @Fiatjaf, The Mysterious Nostr Creator Who Has Lured 18 Million Users And $5 Million From Jack Dorsey
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/30/bitcoin-social-network-nostr-creator-fiatjaf-/
#nostr

2026-04-05 21:42:39 GMT

Any lispers around?
#lisp, #programming

2026-04-05 21:19:21 GMT

Trying out Nostr for the first time. The architecture matches some intuitions I had on what a decentralised reddit/etc alternative should look like. So, does it actually get rid of the fediverse madness? #introductions