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by hencq 11mo ago
I recently read The Unaccountability Machine (which I can recommend btw), which mentions Stafford Beer's experiments with a computing pond. Who knows, maybe we'll control our factories with mushroom brains soon!
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by hencq 1y ago
Haha yeah not sure how useful it would be in practice, but mostly curious.
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by hencq 1y ago
I'm kind of curious if it would be possible for it to use my own voice but decoupled from accent. I.e. could it translate a recording from my voice to a different accent but still with my voice. If so, I wonder if that makes it easier
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by hencq 1y ago
> IMHO the only questionable pilot decision here is to divert to Edinburgh rather than Manchester immediately. But this is somewhat understandable: first of all, dropping the passengers off at Edinburgh (an hour drive from Glasgow) is si
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by hencq 1y ago
I didn't realize it until I searched for it, but as a kid I did have one of those. An M.C. Escher one (a quick search found exactly the one [1]). My aunt got it for me when I was little and I was fascinated by it. Fond memories. [1] h
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by hencq 1y ago
I'm not an expert on this, but the main difference with a CRDT like Automerge seems to be the server reconciliation. See for example this article [1]. Automerge handles concurrent insertions by using a sequence number and relying on an
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by hencq 1y ago
Yes, though I think they meant to say disclosure instead of disclaimer.
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by hencq 1y ago
I remember reading an article about exactly that some time last year: https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-inverter The technology is grid forming inverters, unlike the normal grid following converters. I'm definitely no
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by hencq 2y ago
A bunch of lisps do that. Clojure for instance or arc use conventions like that to reduce the number of parentheses. See e.g. cond in clojure: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/cond
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by hencq 2y ago
Very cool! I'm curious whether you're using it (or planning to use it) yourself for anything serious or if it's just to see if it could be done. Are you planning to support classes beyond Java 8 at some point?
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by hencq 2y ago
Huh, did you stop watching after episode 1? The HBO series was all about how it was the system that caused the accident to happen. The fact that it was a known failure mode was a major plot point. It can hardly get more explicit than this s
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by hencq 2y ago
As the article mentions, this makes it quite similar to a bytecode vm. I think the traditional wisdom is that an AST walker is easy to write, but for speed you'd want a bytecode interpreter. It'd be interesting to see how close th
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by hencq 2y ago
Yeah, it's important to note that this design is specifically for local side streets that are only expected to get destination traffic. If it's a busier street, there would typically be a separate turning lane, i.e. a bigger buffe
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by hencq 2y ago
As a Dutch person living in the US, a big difference is also that almost every driver in the Netherlands is also a cyclist themselves. In the US there is this almost cultural divide between drivers and cyclists where it becomes part of peop
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by hencq 2y ago
A nice stereotype, but it doesn't seem to really match reality. See for example: https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west... At least Chinese consumers (and increasingly more European cons
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by hencq 2y ago
> if a function takes a list of records all of which need an x field of type int, then you cannot pass it a list of records where all contain the x field of int but some also contain an irrelevant y field and others contain an irrelevant
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by hencq 2y ago
> It is possible to use a JIT model for this but AFAIK it is typically not done. Isn't this what the last line of the article is hinting at? > our WebAssembly team is making great progress rearchitecting the Wasm compiler pipeli
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by hencq 2y ago
Thanks! That actually seems very smooth. Trying out htmx has been high on my list for a while when I finally get time to do a little personal side project. Real life keeps getting in the way, but this is a good nudge. The appealing thing ab
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by hencq 2y ago
Your attitude to call out where htmx might not be the best solution, makes me respect the project even more. It's refreshing to see this compared to lots of other projects that always seem to claim to be the best solution for everythin
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by hencq 2y ago
In the Zig/Odin example, I would imagine that any pointers from other (non-GC) arenas into the default (GC) arena, would need to be added to the roots for this to work right?
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by hencq 2y ago
For people that can understand Dutch, the author of Revolusi , David Van Reybrouck also has an absolutely brilliant podcast with the same name.
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by hencq 2y ago
I initially read over what show this was, so I was picturing you live coding this during a Taylor Swift concert.
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by hencq 2y ago
I love them too. In a similar vein I learned just the other day that the verb 'escalate' only became in vogue after the invention of the escalator in the 1920s. I can't really pinpoint why either, but I think it has something
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by hencq 3y ago
> Usually when people say 'moved', it implies a decrease in one place and an increase elsewhere, and yet Yeah, I'm with you there. Personally I think this would be simpler if accounting just used negative numbers instead o
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by hencq 3y ago
> Money appeared. Lemonade disappeared. I want to see the corresponding +$5 and -$5. If I understand your comment correctly, where you're getting confused is, you're reading Current Account (Assets) to mean your inventory of le
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by hencq 3y ago
Totally agree. That's what I like about the way e.g. beancount does it [1]. Instead of using the debit/credit nomenclature, it just relies on positive and negative numbers. This way all the legs in a transaction just sum to zero,
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by hencq 3y ago
I think there's some validity to the privacy concerns, but it seems those could be addressed with proper access controls and rules. The recordings should only really be listened to in the aftermath of an accident, in which case, as you
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by hencq 3y ago
Yeah, assuming this article is true, I wonder if Airbus is finding similar quality issues with Spirit as a supplier.
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by hencq 3y ago
That line is quoted in the article (and in fact the comment cites the article)
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by hencq 3y ago
Yeah, agreed, it makes intuitive sense and also neatly fits an emotional "finance bad" story, but shouldn't we then also expect the 787 to have similar problems? Or, why would the 787 with its entirely new airframe exist in t

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