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He's an old-school hacker in the best sense of the term. Living in an off-grid cabin in the Oregon mountains, programming the Apple Writer, flying down to Cupertino on a little private airplane w…

Ooh, I'd read this article before, but didn't realize Joel Yliluoma is Bisqwit. He has a YouTube channel on technical topics including: making your own terminal emulator, NES emulator, 3D en…

As long as powerful people profit from war, humanity will never be free of its curse. Those who engineer war will ensure the world is traumatized by the horror, generation after generation; so that na…

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I don't get how every post you make gets exactly 8 upvotes immediately. In every, single, new comment. (I don't really care, I just noticed it now. I honestly enjoy many of your comments.)…

Ceci n'est pas une pipe. (:

Literally a comment I wrote then decided not to post. > The best LISP is the one you create yourself. You learn so much about programming by implementing your own language, and LISP is brilliant fo…

Related: Classical Sorting Algorithms as a Model of Morphogenesis: self-sorting arrays reveal unexpected competencies in a minimal model of basal intelligence - https://arxiv.org/abs&#…

Here's a Lex Fridman interview discussing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr1sNYY2t9A I'm a fan of Michael Levin's work, a biologist and philosopher riding that edg…

I really wish it had more industry buy-in, in terms of funding and community participation. The language has so much to love about it, and even the typical criticisms - some deserved, some not - can b…

Such a helpful comment, much appreciated.

Beep boop. Newly proposed international law mandates all AI-generated content to start with: "beep boop".

I'm not familiar but I think this paper describes how OxCaml works: Oxidizing OCaml with Modal Memory Management - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3674642 > We focus …

Oh wow, what a treat, an entire interview with the author! I posted this link because I loved his story of living in an off-grid mountain cabin with a computer, programming Apple Writer. After the suc…

Also OxCaml, from what I hear.

Instead of waiting for faster compiler in Rust, how about from the other direction, adding some kind of borrow checker to Zig? That sounds more within reach and practically achievable, possibly even i…

> results indicate that linguistic representations are neither utilized nor required for inductive or deductive logical reasoning. It's often said that "Writing is thinking." At leas…