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The author writes in the book explicitly "This is a modified version of config.h for compiling a small Minix system with only the options described in the text". This leaves no doubt that th…

The book version is a subset of Minix version 3.1.0 (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Minix3/tree/3.1.0 ). The sursprise comes when you try to compile the minimal bo…

> that's N times the fundamental as the Nth Harmonic It's not actually "N times", isn't it?

Semi-formal human language will replace programming languages for a large part. As we are able to write specifications and build huge and complex systems based on it (as e.g. the Apollo program alread…

previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919918

Interesting. Just wanted to note that this is about the expensive J-Link, not the J-Link EDU (which nowadays is a "mini" version, officially supporting the Pi Picos).

This article is about a neurological condition where people derive no pleasure from music, through the personal story of someone affected. I wasn't aware that such a condition exists. Apparently …

That's a cool project. Amazing that the bytecode interpreter is slower than the AST interpreter also here. Wasn't there a paper by S. Marr's team which came to the same conclusion?

I didn't try what you suggested, but even without better control of the music with more structured prompts, I think the musicality of this system is much lower than what we have commercially. I m…

This is a competent introduction to Stoicism; it successfully debunks the most common myth, that Stoics are emotionless robots. However, the text presents a somewhat "sanitized" version of t…

previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919918

Neely's core thesis seems to be that AI music companies (like Suno) are not "democratizing" music, but are engaging in a form of "wealth extraction" designed to turn music int…

Well, it's like a few people still make music, even if there is Suno ;-)

The main problem are the artifacts on the individual sounds generated by the LLM. If the sound is "muffled", you can usually correct the sound with filters, exciters and compressors (even au…

I'm not particularly sure what the autor's claim has to do with Wirth, but there is a quote which he could have added to the article: "To hell with AI" (see https://inf.…

I prefer Simula 67 ;-)

The author is a CTO/CPTO who explicitly describes himself as a "hands-off manager", who hasn't touched code in over many years. His view that GenAI "only speeds up the typing&…

Actually the whole thing has nothing to do with Rust at all. It's just that one of the proposals was about integrating a borrow-checker into C++. The timeline events and technical explanations of…

Neil was one of the authors of MUMPS ("Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS ), which appeared in 196…

This is an interesting system that I studied closely a few years ago, along with a few others based on Lua or Python. What surprises me enormously about all these systems is the fact that, in builds t…

This is unexpected. According to the article, research across 80 countries suggests that when schools introduce digital technology, student performance drops significantly. Students who use computers …

Looks interesting; but somehow this is the umpteenth Rust OS project I came across the last few month; I've lost count.

The author has the opinion, that AI coding tools have made us faster, but we're still the bottleneck because we have to be present and actively engaged. He conclude the next leap in productivity …

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723576

Eisenberg articulates a future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) fundamentally shifts the programmer's role but does not eliminate the need for precise languages. He claims: - The future divisio…

AI causes just an intensification of longstanding problems. The "publish or perish" pressure has compromised research integrity for decades (including manipulated peer reviews, massaged or f…

ad infinitum ;-)

So what we need is essentially a "libc virtualization". But Musl is only available on Linux, isn't it? Cosmopolitan ( https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan ) goes fur…