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by hcs 4y ago
Certainly wouldn't have been practical without smaller, faster, more reliable relays, and once it got there the applications were immediately understood. What I meant was that it seems surprising, from a modern perspective, that it nev
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by hcs 4y ago
> it is conceivable we'd have had a telegraph powered form of the internet a century earlier too. It's interesting to think that relays were an inherent part of all long range telegraphy (Morse's patent is 1840 and there w
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by hcs 4y ago
Maybe thinking of ac.uk and such? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)
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by hcs 4y ago
Correct, it's all converted to Lua, Fennel has no runtime.
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by hcs 5y ago
Would Bitcoin exchanges be more willing to operate accounts for these stores than credit card companies?
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by hcs 5y ago
This was jokingly called the “graduate student algorithm” in the context of fractal image compression. http://mcs.csueastbay.edu/~grewe/CS6825/Mat/Compression/Frac...
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by hcs 5y ago
From residential Comcast/Xfinity cable in Portland, Oregon, GitHub itself is working, but GitHub Pages sites (e.g. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/ ) are showing an angry unicorn error message (503). The sam
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by hcs 5y ago
Mynatt analyzed whiteboard use in 1999's "The Writing on the Wall" [1], which led to an interactive whiteboard system called Flatland [2], but it's not focused on programming. More recent, detailed, and programming-speci
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by hcs 5y ago
Ever since I saw the cover of Elements of ML Programming [1], which shows the book as charting a course across "Logos Island", I've wondered what a programming language might look like as a navigable space. Perhaps somethin
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by hcs 5y ago
I wonder if that would have held up given Sega failing with something similar in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
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by hcs 5y ago
Great example! I'd tried playing this but got nervous about making the wrong deductions; my background in reverse engineering (but not linguistics) wanted to keep all options open until I had more data. Definitely need to give it a ret
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by hcs 5y ago
I do love the Zachtronics games. But, to me, they're this new, weird, completely self-contained system to learn, where boring "responsibly engineered" solutions very quickly become infeasible (due to space, limited primitives
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by hcs 5y ago
Are there computer/video games that work on this level, didactic and narrative, as well as having substantial gameplay? I expect there are some with a lot of e.g. military history, but I haven’t played those myself. Of course most game
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by hcs 5y ago
I happened to be reading John Wilkins' introduction to "An Essay Towards A Real Character and a Philosophical Language" [1] yesterday, he mentions that Messalla Corvinus wrote a treatise on the letter S, though it seems we on
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by hcs 5y ago
He's been publishing in the space all the while [1], I'm guessing a lot of what he still has unpublished is in terms of how to present and connect across the ever growing literature. [1] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.
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by hcs 5y ago
"Volume 5 Syntactic Algorithms, in preparation. 9. Lexical scanning (includes also string search and data compression) 10. Parsing techniques ... And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of c
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by hcs 5y ago
As a kid I used to get a kick out of reading manuals, I particularly remember those for SimLife and SimEarth. Somehow I got my hands on the manual for PC Tools for Windows, and I got really interested in the section documenting the scriptin
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by hcs 5y ago
> (1) Code spends a huge amount of time in a non-parsable state. One way to attack this is via holes, as in https://hazel.org/
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by hcs 5y ago
The author of the article teaches and works in Smalltalk. It's about explaining and justifying the differences that confuse programmers coming from Java and C++.
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by hcs 5y ago
This is subtly present in Neal Stephenson's Anathem, late in the book it's a plot device that comes up a few times.
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by hcs 5y ago
What's up there now is "only" up to *5. They announced that back in February and it sounds like there's been a lot more work since (though perhaps mostly reorganization and typesetting). Volume I goes up to *97, and the
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by hcs 5y ago
I had assumed this had already been done, if not in Coq then in some machine formalization, interesting to see it being tackled. Is there a decent chance they'll find some of the later proofs not just missing a step but actually wrong?
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by hcs 5y ago
That's a goal for me as well. The Zachtronics "design puzzle" games are considerably more interesting (to me) than most standard "program a robot" games. Some others of possible interest: Hack 'n' Slash is
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by hcs 5y ago
The Servo browser engine was one of the first big applications of Rust. (Maybe I’ve missed a joke…)
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by hcs 5y ago
The source code from 1995 is in here (wwwbrowser.tar.gz): https://web.archive.org/web/19980524232845/http://www.cs.cha... There were updates in 1997 and 1998 but I haven't been able to find newer so
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by hcs 5y ago
I also first thought of Hermes (and then Hephaestus), but I think the alchemy association is through Hermes Trismegistus, who combines the messenger functions of Hermes with Thoth, the Egyptian god of writing and magic. https://e
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by hcs 5y ago
I think you're referring to courgette, which does the disassemble + patch + reassemble thing. Fwiw, Chrome now uses a simpler but competetive format called zucchini, see my recent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by hcs 5y ago
I don't think elfshaker actually does do any binary diffing (e.g. xdelta or bsdiff). It works well because it uses pre-link objects which are built to change as little as possible between versions. Then when it compresses similar files
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by hcs 5y ago
It should be possible to do this in IPFS already if you use the go-ipfs --chunker option with a content-sensitive chunking algorithm like rabin or buzhash [1]. With this there's a good chance that a file with small changes from somethi
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by hcs 5y ago
The title of the article is "Candy CORN: analyzing the CORONA concrete crosses myth"

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