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by asplake 1y ago
That’s great, thanks! I see there is a mini Haskell there too. But yes, a smallest possible ML is what I had in mind.
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by asplake 1y ago
Something I was looking for recently: is there a tiny, "just for fun" language in the ML line, or something similarly based on typed lambda calculus? Or something smaller, something more Lisp-like but curried?
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by asplake 1y ago
More niche than mainstream I guess, but I do have what could be called a community, a large following on LinkedIn, a mailing list in the low thousands, paid subscribers, and a partner programme. Not enough to generate the kind of sales that
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by asplake 1y ago
That’s my experience too. My most recent book (my fifth) was closer to one publisher’s stated mission than 95% of its catalog, but they all but admitted that they had given up on it. After that rejection I didn’t have the energy to approach
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by asplake 1y ago
Nice! Any plans for epub?
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A no-maths guide to monads(raphael-proust.gitlab.io)
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by asplake 1y ago
Could have been titled "When a team lacks sufficient reason for colleagues to care what others are up to"
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by asplake 1y ago
It’s not either/or. No formal process or knowledge management system is so efficient that people won’t from time to time lack the context they need to make good decisions. Informal conversations made possible by seniors making themselv
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by asplake 1y ago
Erlang → scalable real-time systems, eg telecoms
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by asplake 1y ago
The product vs engineering framing here didn’t sit well with me. For a deep dive I would recommend Don Reinertsen’s Principles of Product Development Flow (2009).
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How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants(bbc.co.uk)
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iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years(arstechnica.com)
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Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task'(cnn.com)
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by asplake 1y ago
I started the SolidJS tutorial on my iPhone this morning. Was impressed that it worked at all, but I couldn’t find a way to copy & paste, and switched to my MacBook. Better than giving up I guess…
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by asplake 1y ago
The secant is the reciprocal of a cosine – the hypotenuse over the adjacent
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by asplake 1y ago
Better still, pass the parsed config. Let the app decide how it is configured, and let it deal with any problems.
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by asplake 1y ago
Demographics is a problem for the US also, but the easiest solution, immigration, is no longer acceptable (if ever it was) to an increasingly vocal minority. To be fair to the US, that situation is shared by many other countries in the West
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by asplake 1y ago
Seems ok for me now
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Looking at the Universe's dark ages from the far side of the Moon(arstechnica.com)
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Millions watch as Swedish moose begin annual migration(bbc.co.uk)
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Inside The Controversial Decision to Rid the UK of Its Plutonium Stores(politicshome.com)
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by asplake 2y ago
Ovens in the UK are usually wired in. Plugs go up to 13A, suitable only for small (e.g. tabletop) ovens.
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by asplake 2y ago
Potentially a testable hypothesis for string theory? I.e. that it might predict something observable that isn’t accounted for otherwise?
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by asplake 2y ago
Oh wow, thanks!
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by asplake 2y ago
Do they have SPLIT and JOIN also? I have long wished for those in Excel
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by asplake 2y ago
I think of that as “British” style (as opposed to American). I think it’s more common here and I certainly prefer it
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by asplake 2y ago
Recently updated: [Simon Tatham, initial version 2023-09-01, last updated 2025-03-25]
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by asplake 2y ago
The illustrated example isn’t multivariate and can be drawn in 2 dimensions. The harder examples are also harder to visualise.
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by asplake 2y ago
Implying an memoryless distribution (eg exponential) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorylessness In the absence of other information it might be as good a basis as any?
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by asplake 2y ago
I wouldn’t call it disingenuous. It’s the published title (i.e. not editorialised for HN) and accurate enough for its intended audience.

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