hare-update assists in addressing breaking changes in your code
June 11, 2025 by Drew DeVault
https://harelang.org/blog/2025-06-11-hare-update/

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I have found a SINGLE valid and necessary use for LLMs, which will appear in all my new far-future SF novels:

Henceforth I shall shamelessly claim that an LLM renamed my Smeerps to Rabbits!

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„Umstritten“ ist inzwischen weitgehend Code für „eigentlich ist das glasklar, die gesellschaftliche Debatte abgeschlossen, die rechtliche (völkerrechtliche, menschenrechtliche…) Lage eindeutig, die Faktenlage geklärt, die Wissenschaft dahinter verstanden, aber irgendwelche ewiggestrigen wollen das Fass immer wieder aufmachen“.

Demnächst: Das umstrittene Frauenwahlrecht, das umstrittene Arbeitszeitgesetz, umstrittene Nacht- und Feiertagszuschläge, umstrittene Lohnfortzahlung…

Delightful morning reading: “An ssh adventure” (or: smuggling your bashrc onto remote servers)

The perfect amount of unhinged. I was already sold on reading the whole thing and giggling throughout when I got to “The filesystem is basically global state, global state is morally wrong.”

https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2149340

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.


I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

Curiosity-driven research isn't just fun; it led us to develop tools that thousands of scientists use to find meaningful patterns in massive datasets (e.g. www.mapequation.org). 





Separately, I've had the opportunity to be part of the largest collective intellectual effort in human history.

In 2020, the scientific community came together—remotely, by necessity—in response to the COVID pandemic, to understand how this disease spreads and what that it does to people, to find of returning life to a semblance of normal amidst a pandemic, to develop a vaccine in record time.

And I've been able to teach 1000s of students. I've written a popular textbook about evolution; developed a class and book about critical thinking that is used around the world; and most recently launched a humanities course about LLMs that will be taught at scores of schools in the fall.

But right now my job doesn't feel like the best job in the world. 

Targeted attacks on university funding have put every US institution into a severe crisis. As of now, there is no way we will be able to continue doing the biomedical research, the conservation science, etc. that we always have.