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by lioeters 10mo ago
I resonate with this. I enjoy reading people's technical, artistic and personal writings. How they built, solved, or learned something new. Their favorite tools, workflows. Favorite authors, concepts, interests. @simonw is a great exam
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by lioeters 10mo ago
An explanation of the observer effect may be that the universe is lazily evaluated at the moment of observation. Outside of that experienced reality, it might as well be all a cloud of latent possibilities, rough outlines and low-res detail
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by lioeters 10mo ago
That's what a simulated universe running inside Docker would say.
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by lioeters 10mo ago
That was hilarious, uncannily accurate in some places. A romantic of the motherboard who thinks software engineering peaked at Xerox PARC and spent 2025 auditing every Show HN for missing source code while mourning the death of the em-d
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by lioeters 10mo ago
This is a paper by Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist who created LaTex and TLA+ (Temporal Logic of Actions), among other innovations in the areas of distributed computing, concurrent and reactive systems. He retired from Microsoft earlie
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How Fresh Editor Loads Huge Files Fast(noamlewis.com)
1 points by lioeters 10mo ago|0 comments
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by lioeters 10mo ago
> We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach. So the price change is not cancelled, as the post title says, but jus
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by lioeters 10mo ago
This sounds like an interesting thread to follow. From a cursory search, it seems vector calculus was being used by the early 1900's to reformulate Maxwell's equations, then later with notations like differential, integral, and ma
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Learning Fortran (2024)(uncenter.dev)
83 points by lioeters 10mo ago|83 comments
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by lioeters 10mo ago
> Firefox is trying to diversify their revenue Nobody wants a browser that's focused on diversifying its revenue, especially from Mozilla which pretends to be a non-profit "free software community". Chrome is paid for by a
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Extending ts-Wolfram: dropping OOP, kernel/userspace interop, better printing(spakhm.com)
11 points by lioeters 10mo ago|1 comments
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by lioeters 10mo ago
This hits the nail on the head. The happiest people I've met in my life, and I've been literally around the world, are in some of the poorest "developing" countries. Their basic needs were met, food and shelter, at least
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by lioeters 10mo ago
"Arguably we would have been better off knee-deep in horse manure." -- MarxGPT
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by lioeters 11mo ago
Meh, a lot of people name their projects or product series using puns on their own name, or an abbreviation, not from pride or ego at all but simply for convenience of a unique namespace.
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by lioeters 11mo ago
They're already using synthetic data generated by LLMs to further train LLMs. Of course they will not hesitate to feed "anonymized" data generated by user interactions. Who's going to stop them? Or even prove that it&#x2
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by lioeters 11mo ago
Unexpected burst of actual antisemitism midway through. Flagged.
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by lioeters 11mo ago
Terrible article, repeatedly ignoring patients' lived experience. Biased, patronising, and outdated. Misinformation like this belongs in the past century. > a gulf between how the public perceives cannabis and what gold-standard sci
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by lioeters 11mo ago
The title is the opposite of click bait, it repels potential readers with its apparent obviousness. The article itself is actually interesting, it's an argument against learning from bad examples . Perhaps a better title might have be
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by lioeters 11mo ago
Same here. Up-thread someone said the upgrade was flawless. I'm crossing my fingers.
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by lioeters 11mo ago
Quicklisp still doesn't support HTTPS, which is apparently also necessary to do signature check. Use HTTPS instead of HTTP - https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-client/issues/167
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by lioeters 11mo ago
The more you talk, the more you're proving their point.
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by lioeters 11mo ago
> DHH is free to describe his proprietary software as Open Source, a form of greenwashing, and even though he wants to “Well akshually” denigrate those saying why this is BS, we as free citizens are free to explain why, despite how fast
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by lioeters 11mo ago
“For seven weeks, our blind monkeys hardly slept, banging away at the typewriter in an inspired rush to produce the best prompts for the next McDonald's ad."
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by lioeters 11mo ago
Off topic but if you're the author of sokol, I'm so thankful because it led to my re-learning the C language in the most enjoyable way. Started to learn Zig these days and I see you're active in the community too. Not sure if
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by lioeters 11mo ago
Education: "Faculty grew too powerful and too romantic about their role in society. Students are our customers." Corporations: "Workers grew too powerful and too romantic about their role in society. Customers are our custome
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by lioeters 11mo ago
> in the C "standard" Oof, those passive-aggressive quotes were probably deserved at the time.
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by lioeters 11mo ago
Their new CEO fired (sorry "laid off") long-time loyal staff and kicked out the original founders, then described it as "a fond farewell to some colleagues". Complete sociopath. I enjoyed many of their articles but it&#x
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by lioeters 11mo ago
"Compute? Think with own brain? Our servants do that for us."
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by lioeters 11mo ago
And the world, people as a mob, will try its best to punish that person for daring to be different. The nail that sticks out gets beaten. RMS is a flawed person, a stubborn unreasonable man with questionable traits. But dismissing his life&
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by lioeters 11mo ago
HN user: Ah yes let me casually scribble down a tweet-sized base64 encoder that runs parallel on GPU. Bravo, that is a thing of beauty.

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