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by juliangamble 2y ago
Charles Petzold (author of The Annotated Turing, and Code - The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software) is in the process of writing a book about this. You can see drafts here: https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog&
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by juliangamble 2y ago
21:48 the reasoning is facinating. "OOP thrived in an age of monoliths. But program units are getting smaller. They don't need as many internal boundaries. They are often coupled by less strongly typed schema."
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300k airplanes in five years(construction-physics.com)
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by juliangamble 2y ago
The health and environment effects of that one aren't great: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/
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by juliangamble 2y ago
Perhaps the more apt analogy is that we need "a John Von Neuman" to come and organise the pieces to give us that leap.
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by juliangamble 2y ago
There have been several PhD theses on trying to fix nitrogen to grow wheat in the dessert. To my knowledge none have been successful.
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Scientists just set a nuclear fusion record(cnn.com)
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by juliangamble 3y ago
The original holder of the insulin patent gave it away free - and yet thousands of American families have struggled to pay for it: https://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2021/the-astronomical-pri... I get that th
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by juliangamble 3y ago
Aussie!
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by juliangamble 3y ago
Aussie!
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by juliangamble 3y ago
Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!
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by juliangamble 3y ago
> The U.S.’s Skylab embarrassment over Australia resulted in no human injuries. President Jimmy Carter apologized for the mess. The city of Esperance issued NASA a $400 littering ticket that they never paid.
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The Technological Innovations That Produced the Shale Revolution(construction-physics.com)
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by juliangamble 3y ago
Australia has had free, searchable collections of Australian Law for 25+ years. Austlii is a prime example. There are Federal and State collections as well. The author is conscientious enough to read the scraping policy (or was blocked by
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by juliangamble 3y ago
This was written to a target audience who had all read Cyberpunk novels and imagined it as the future. See the references: [2] Gibson, William (1984), Neuromancer, Ace Books, New York. [3] Bruce Sterling, ed. (1986), Mirrorshades: The Cyber
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by juliangamble 3y ago
It would be great to have a comparison to Dataframes and RDDs as well.
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by juliangamble 3y ago
> After all, does it seem like any one of these features, or all of them combined, comprise what William James described as the “warmth” of conscious experience? Or, in Thomas Nagel’s words, “what it is like” to be you? There is a gap be
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by juliangamble 3y ago
Security and risk. You can run several different code/pom/package.json scanner tools that will articulate a risk that will send your IT security department into a panic attack, which you can sell as time you need to spend fixing t
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by juliangamble 3y ago
> Therefore, it came about that the liberal movement of our time has been cast largely in the mold of economic liberalism which makes its parallelism to the Jacksonian era more obvious, although none the less real, than its parallel to t
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Llama2 implementation on Mojo runs at high performance(twitter.com)
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by juliangamble 3y ago
17 Oct 1995 - OOPSLA ‘95 Austin, TX, USA This paper proposes a new MOP for C++, called OpenC++ Version 2. Like previous MOPS, it allows programmers to implement customized language extensions such as persistent or distributed objects, or c
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Making Up the Mind(themarginalian.org)
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by juliangamble 4y ago
Quoting from that page: In her 1961 book The United States and the Southwest Pacific, American author Clinton Hartley Grattan commented that, "the use of the word Oceania to cover Australia, New Zealand, and the [Pacific] islands now h
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by juliangamble 4y ago
I’m using Transactions on a Distributed Database with Cassandra 4.0: https://medium.com/building-the-open-data-stack/an-apache-ca... I’m curious to see what advantages this paper offers to everyday Cloud Developers ove
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Magnon-based computation could signal computing paradigm shift(phys.org)
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There's a generation of programmers that fell into software development through Visual Basic. Maybe you could say the same about the Apple II/Commodore/ Sinclair/ BBC Micro generation of computers that booted up to a BAS
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
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by juliangamble 4y ago
The critiques of Haskell are thoughtful.
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Roc Tutorial(roc-lang.org)
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by juliangamble 4y ago
>I feel like Pulumi takes the best of the two tools and has a really great developer experience. There is a little bit of a learning curve with Pulumi, and you give up some of the simplicity of Terraform. I'm familiar with Terraform

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