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Ted Nelson's Computer Paradigm, Expressed as One-Liners(xanadu.com.au)
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Flight with Disabled Controls(en.wikipedia.org)
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Sky City 1000(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Rocket Company (2005)(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Masque of the Heat Death (1997)(web.archive.org)
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Computer Lib/Dream Machines(en.wikipedia.org)
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by zetalyrae 2y ago
That's why it's extended release. So you get an even release throughout the night, and it helps you stay asleep.
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by zetalyrae 2y ago
Melatonin. Here in Australia they sell an extended-release version that lasts throughout the night.
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The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone (2010)(bactra.org)
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
The point about the storage size of UUID columns is unconvincing. 128 bits vs. 64 bits doesn't matter much when the table has five other columns. A much more salient concern for me is performance. UUIDv4 is widely supported but is comp
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
>Now scientists have used mathematical techniques to compare patterns in the “social networks” of characters in Ossian with those in two key Irish stories – and discovered they are almost a perfect match, virtually ending any remaining d
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Opusmodus: Common Lisp Music Composition System(opusmodus.com)
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Things I've learned from running OTIS(blog.evanchen.cc)
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
Also a cognate of thesaurus. Like the Trésor de la langue française .
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Daily Life Among the Jupiter Brains (1999, PDF)(jetpress.org)
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
XML is a great choice for this because it's a markup language: it's designed for adding structure and formatting information to documents in a way that's generic and extensible. Something like Markdown is too spartan for al
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
If you have the time, I would be delighted to hear about your experience, especially the things about Austral that were inadequate.
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
You're right, that was uncalled for. I apologize for lowering the quality of site.
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
So there's differing views on this, Zig famously has the build system built in. To me, having them separate forces you to keep things simple, because the build system can't communicate with the compiler except through compiler-pro
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
In my experience you don't use nested arithmetic often enough to make it annoying. Most arithmetic in computing is basically `count := count + 1`? What is more annoying to me is looking at an expression that mixes arithmetic and logica
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
Declarations don't need `end function` because it's always clear what you're closing. Statements need an `end if`, `end for` etc. because it lets you find your way in nested code. The rationale for the syntax explains it a bi
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
I'll say the Ada-style syntax grows on you.
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
No, on the contrary, Austral is entirely built around resource management. The central concept is linear types, which is about ensuring 1) resources are disposed of and 2) resourced are used according to their protocol, e.g. no use-after-fr
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
I wouldn't rely on TCO being available, the bootstrapping compiler right now just emits very simple C (though GCC/LLVM might eliminate the recursion if they can). Ideally I'd like stack overflow to be a clean abort rather tha
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
The idea is the compiler has a bunch of explicit flags, but the build system (which doesn't exist yet) will have the `foo build`, `foo run` etc. commands and find the files using a package manifest. Essentially like `cargo` vs. `rustc`
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
Make two of them.
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
Once again, the problem is not S3, it is reinventing a database on top of S3, the logic of which runs on EC2.
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
RDS can have replication. But more than that: servers should be stateless! A server going down should never take down your business. If you use Postgres, and stateless servers, then if a server goes down it's no problem, it gets reboot
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
The database engine implements ACID and crash recovery so you don't have to. This is precisely what failed in this outage.
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by zetalyrae 3y ago
You can always self-host Postgres.

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