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React Alternatives for Front-End Development in 2026(acropolium.com)
1 points by stmw 7mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 7mo ago
Good blog post, good balance. One thing to add is that in systems programming, very often the struct is not arbitrarily defined by the programmer - it may be defined by the hardware or another system entirely. So the Data, including its bit
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All Linus rants from 2012 to 2015(github.com)
5 points by stmw 7mo ago|2 comments
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A Mathematical Theory of Communication, Claude Shannon [pdf](people.math.harvard.edu)
6 points by stmw 7mo ago|1 comments
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by stmw 7mo ago
Some may argue that the real problem here is the unstated assumption of wanting to have a garbage collector in the first place.
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by stmw 7mo ago
Not to be confused with the uncle, August Dvorak, inventor of the keyboard, who apparently served in the US Army against Pancho Villa, and later in the Navy in both WW I and WW II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_D
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by stmw 8mo ago
the destruction of the em-dash is really a shame; and "--" is under suspicion..
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Being a luddite is cool, but have you seen the tapestries new looms are making?(mcsweeneys.net)
10 points by stmw 8mo ago|2 comments
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by stmw 8mo ago
Exactly, this is why USB was very unattractive for peripherals when it first came out.
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by stmw 8mo ago
Related to recent HN discussion re: SCSI version of same. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46636571 Of possible interest.
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Apple's Global Manufacturing Empire(historytools.org)
2 points by stmw 8mo ago|0 comments
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Reading the Manual for Eniac, the First Electronic Computer(thenewstack.io)
1 points by stmw 8mo ago|0 comments
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Rust Jobs January 2026(filtra.io)
1 points by stmw 8mo ago|0 comments
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VCF West: Whirlwind Software Restoration – Guy Fedorkow [video](youtube.com)
1 points by stmw 8mo ago|1 comments
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by stmw 8mo ago
"The talk Whirlwind Software Restoration provides an overview of the Whirlwind real-time digital computer designed at MIT. When brought on line in 1950, Whirlwind was one of the largest computers in existence. We then focus on restorat
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Code Quality Analysis of Translations from C to Rust(arxiv.org)
5 points by stmw 8mo ago|1 comments
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by stmw 8mo ago
" C/C++ is a prevalent programming language. Yet, it suffers from significant memory and thread-safety issues. Recent studies have explored automated translation of C/C++ to safer languages, such as Rust. However, these s
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Apple I: The Spark That Ignited the Digital Revolution (legendary price $666.66)(mac-history.net)
1 points by stmw 8mo ago|0 comments
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Study finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch(news.mit.edu)
2 points by stmw 8mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 9mo ago
There were efforts to make XML 1. more ergonomic and 2. more performant, and while (2) was largely successful, (1) never got there, unfortunately - but seem https://github.com/yaml/sml-dev-archive for some history of j
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Rust Burn 0.20.0 Release: Unifying CPU and GPU Kernels with CubeCL(burn.dev)
2 points by stmw 9mo ago|0 comments
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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click(nature.com)
58 points by stmw 9mo ago|82 comments
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Tom Lehrer (1928–2025): A (Mostly) Mathematical Appreciation(ams.org)
3 points by stmw 9mo ago|0 comments
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Happy 40th birthday Apple Lisa (2023)(computerhistory.org)
2 points by stmw 9mo ago|0 comments
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by stmw 9mo ago
It seems that one can't turn off the resource-hogging "knowledgeconstructiond" even in Sequioa. Maybe Apple could offer a $200 upgrade on Mac purchase to get it without all of the Apple Intelligence features?
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by stmw 9mo ago
Interesting... What bothers me is that you'd think that with Mac Proc M2 having advertised support for "storage" cards and lots of PCIe slots, at least some SCSI HBA's would have drivers?
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by stmw 9mo ago
It does appear that MacOS still ships with SCSI drivers and that there people actively working on updating them to DriverKit - this is an interesting thread from last month (Dec 2025) https://developer.apple.com/forums/
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by stmw 9mo ago
!! This is oddly tempting. I was hoping someone had done this already. Some level shifters like you suggest and perhaps something like this - https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264
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by stmw 9mo ago
I don't. One option I am considering a Thunberbold-to-PCI card expander, with a SCSI HBA card supported by or for MacOS...
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by stmw 9mo ago
It kind of was, at least enough so to be an IEEE Milestone https://ethw.org/Milestones:Whirlwind_Computer,_1944-59

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