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by mpweiher 6d ago
Which is why "data structures" probably also belong in the "variables" column.
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Typst Makes Big Strides(lwn.net)
3 points by mpweiher 7d ago|0 comments
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Westinghouse EVinci Microreactor Achieves Criticality Milestone(energy.gov)
2 points by mpweiher 7d ago|0 comments
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Volkswagen Mission Efficiency Sets Three EV Records(theevreport.com)
2 points by mpweiher 7d ago|1 comments
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Starship – The Holy Grail of Rocketry [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mpweiher 7d ago|1 comments
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Startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50k years' worth of nuclear fuel(techcrunch.com)
2 points by mpweiher 8d ago|0 comments
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by mpweiher 8d ago
> humans will eventually stop writing and reading code, “Since FORTRAN should virtually eliminate coding and debugging…” -- FORTRAN report, 1954 http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/BackusE...
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A curated list of open source projects used in nuclear science and engineering(github.com)
1 points by mpweiher 8d ago|0 comments
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The Golden Spike, and Resurrecting the Vale(n) Programming Language(verdagon.dev)
3 points by mpweiher 8d ago|0 comments
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by mpweiher 8d ago
Is it just me or are local models getting better (catching up) a lot faster than the frontier models are getting better (creating distance)? If true, that would be a very welcome development.
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Reinventing issue tracking: Local-first and Git-native(blog.manganin.dev)
1 points by mpweiher 9d ago|0 comments
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Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models (2025)(arxiv.org)
3 points by mpweiher 10d ago|1 comments
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by mpweiher 13d ago
Tried the app. Just gives me the error message "Failed to decode Homebrew JSON output". ]brew -v Homebrew 7.0.1
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Stephen Bourne: Early days of Unix and design of sh (2015) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by mpweiher 14d ago|0 comments
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by mpweiher 15d ago
So prescient.
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NASA: The National Artificial Stupidity Association (Omni 1985)(ia800903.us.archive.org)
4 points by mpweiher 15d ago|1 comments
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by mpweiher 15d ago
Time for alternatives?
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Spanish civil servant off work unnoticed for six years (2016)(bbc.com)
2 points by mpweiher 15d ago|0 comments
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Why Bullshit Jobs Are (Finally) Dying [video](youtube.com)
30 points by mpweiher 15d ago|26 comments
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The Livelymerge Experiment(inkandswitch.com)
2 points by mpweiher 15d ago|0 comments
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by mpweiher 15d ago
Sure! To start: An operating system is a collection of things that don’t fit into a language. There shouldn’t be one. — Dan Ingalls, https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.... Let'
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Notre Dame to start requiring ACT, SAT test scores again for admissions(wndu.com)
2 points by mpweiher 16d ago|0 comments
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Why California Is Reconsidering Its Decision to Shun Nuclear Power(nytimes.com)
3 points by mpweiher 16d ago|0 comments
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by mpweiher 16d ago
I think there is a good case to be made for these things not to be mediated by the operating system by default. In Objective-Smalltalk[1], I can access a file as follows: hello ← file:hello-world.txt This is structurally the same w
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by mpweiher 16d ago
Have a look at Objective-Smalltalk[1][2], with polymorphic identifiers[3] (all identifiers are URIs), storage combinators[4] (virtual filesystems on steroids), and polymorphic write streams[5] (streams everywhere). Objective-Smalltalk basic
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Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up(jamescherti.com)
59 points by mpweiher 17d ago|26 comments
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Google: €13B investment in AI infrastructure in Finland(blog.google)
2 points by mpweiher 17d ago|0 comments
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The diversity hypothesis: diversity and scientific output/impact in the sciences(link.springer.com)
2 points by mpweiher 17d ago|0 comments
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The Rich Climate Distraction(wsj.com)
1 points by mpweiher 18d ago|0 comments
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The Carob Trust Prize for Academic Courage(thecarobtrust.org)
3 points by mpweiher 18d ago|0 comments

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