Xophmeister

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Show HN: Seize the means of production from our agentic overlords(github.com)
3 points by Xophmeister 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Xophmeister 4mo ago
Why would a Labour government be interested in enriching wealthy Conservatives?
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by Xophmeister 5mo ago
If you have a Kaitai spec for the format, then its IDE[0] will do structural highlighting for you. This is web-based, but it doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch to implement a TTY version. [1]: ide.kaitai.io
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by Xophmeister 6mo ago
Did his own publication from 9 years into the future ever materialise?
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by Xophmeister 7mo ago
Surely type checking on the keys of effectively arbitrary maps is just a folly. Maps shouldn’t be used for these purposes. If you know the members at compile time, then put them in a proper record type, like a struct or dataclass, etc.
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by Xophmeister 7mo ago
We have "part time" as well, but it's different from zero hours. Part timers are usually (AFAIK) salaried employees that work a fixed <1 FTE (but not zero) and paid pro rata, with the usual statutory benefits such as holid
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by Xophmeister 8mo ago
I’m the author — shameless self-promotion, on my behalf, I’m afraid — AMA :)
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Doctor Xælong, or: How I learnt to stop worrying and love AI(tweag.io)
3 points by Xophmeister 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Xophmeister 9mo ago
A chilling vision of the future, where phone books and checkbooks still exist ;) I have the impression that nanotechnology was very in vogue for science fiction around the late-80s and early-90s…and yet, these days, it’s seemingly disappear
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by Xophmeister 9mo ago
It’s not. It’s been through several editing rounds. (I was one of the editors.) In theory, we don’t have a problem with AI generated content if it meets our high editorial requirements, but all Tweag technical blogs go through a rigorous, m
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by Xophmeister 10mo ago
Didn’t D get an ownership model, a la Rust’s affine types, relatively recently?
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by Xophmeister 10mo ago
Nice; thanks :) I usually squash-merge. Does that break this workflow?
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by Xophmeister 10mo ago
Yeah, I do this too: The `--onto` solution feels a bit too magical at times and an interactive rebase is pretty clear about what's happening.
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by Xophmeister 11mo ago
Neat :) When I was a teenager, some 25+ years ago, I wrote a chaotic attractor visualiser like this — but only in 2D — and it occurred to me, “What if instead of visualising it, I rendered it to audio?” I don’t remember the details: I think
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by Xophmeister 1y ago
I've done this in my Claude settings, but it still doesn't seem that keen on following it: > Please be measured and critical in your response. I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I highly doubt everything I say is “brilliant” or “
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by Xophmeister 1y ago
I seem to remember a similar Star Trek episode; DS9, IIRC.
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by Xophmeister 1y ago
I have a similar problem: For purely vanity reasons, I have a .co e-mail. Whenever giving it over the phone, I say something like "blah blah blah, dot co; no UK, just dot co". So far this has worked, but -- along with my difficult
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by Xophmeister 1y ago
Palatino with Microtype is my go to for all my LaTeX documents. It looks so good.
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
April fools day has messed with my ability to identify satire at this time of year. Let's look at the evidence: Posting date: 2025-04-02T01:57:13 1743559033 <-- too late LoC: 35,000 <-- That's a _lot_ Front page: "Elon
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
He's Finnish, not Swedish.
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
Part of the beauty of the (current) WWW is that last W: the web. By design, everything is (or at least "can/should be") interlinked and scripting/computation is a layer on top of that. (See Fielding's thesis.[1]) In
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
Bumblebee headband?
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Wikipedia's Manual of Style(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Xophmeister 2y ago|0 comments
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
Prince Harry’s real name is Henry.
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
I wouldn’t want to end up in Chorleywood, near the north western end of the Metropolitan line, late at night. It’s a nice little village, but I suspect it would be pretty dead.
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
While I definitely sup from the RMS Kool-Aid, I can’t help but notice that it sounds a lot like small-government libertarianism (s/government/corporations). You’re the product, and all that, but maybe that angle dilutes the point
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Writing a formatter has never been so easy: a Topiary tutorial(tweag.io)
6 points by Xophmeister 2y ago|0 comments
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
Looks like there's an errata, already :) https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-sheepish-apolog...
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
Vauxhall and Spitalfields are much closer to Trafalgar Square.
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David Lynch: Heaven is a place on Earth (2013)(newstatesman.com)
5 points by Xophmeister 2y ago|0 comments

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