Thanks for the link. I’m interested in trying it.

There’s no use arguing. As the ancient Lisp proverb says, when the programmer is ready, the parens will disappear. Until then, you’re just wasting your breath.

Yea, kudos on the docs. It’s rare that something this new is this polished. Well done!

Coming from Clojure, I like types being invisible. Square brackets feels like a needless change. If you want sexprs, just use sexprs. Interesting ideas, as you say.

Yes, but you’d be foolish to realize your gains if you think the stock still has a long way to run. That just triggers taxes and eliminates any further upside. So, we can reasonably conclude that either BH thinks Amazon’s run is nearly exhausted, or it’s one of the stocks with minimal forward prospects in BH’s portfolio and they want to deploy the capital with something that they feel will have a greater return (maybe Amazon still rises, but whatever else they want to invest in they think will rise more/faster).

Fascinating. The old designers were amazingly creative with their limited resources. The decoding logic for the 8087 is… ahem… interesting with how it interacts with the 8086. Amazing that it works at all. Would be interesting to see the actual microcode source and how some of the algorithms are implemented.

I always enjoy your write ups, @kens. I was doing hardware design in the late 1980s/early 1990s, and so this takes me back.

I’m sure Zilog did. But they didn’t share it with us. The history here is interesting.

> the same amount of attention as supervising a teenager in the first week of their learning permit.

Yikes! I’d be a nervous wreck after just a couple of days.

You learn when it’s good and bad. It definitely has a “personality”. It is awesome in certain situations, like bumper to bumper traffic.

I kept it for a couple months after the trial, but canceled because the situations it’s good at aren’t the situations I usually face when driving.

The most basic adaptive cruise control is "awesome" in bumper to bumper traffic.

For some reason many manufacturers intentionally disable it at low speeds or won’t let it restart from stop. Super annoying and entirely unnecessary

I understand not restarting from a stop unprompted. There are simply too many situations on the road where automatically moving from a stop may be undesirable in case the driver isn't paying attention. Stop signs, four way stops, yield situations, probably more. Safer overall to make it an intentioned action by the driver.

I kind of get it but it reality sucks in bumper to bumper. But why cut off at 25mph? Like I can’t use it in a camera zone to maintain snail speed below the camera threshold

> It definitely has a “personality”.

You mean it has obvious bugs.

JSON is… adequate. I like binary formats, too, when doing low-level programming, but you often want something readable, and JSON is a lot better and easier to parse than many other things, say XML.

> And they say "this time it's different", but it's not.

It never is. You know you’ve hit peak bubble when everyone you know is investing in the new hotness and saying, “This time it’s different.” When that happens, get ready to short the market.