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Very creative visual joke. I love it when a funny idea is taken seriously and actually implemented. Nice work!

That's not a lion, it's the tortured soul of an artist.

Hilarious, the software industry is a parody of itself. Sadly I understood most of the jargon, a sign that I'm in way too deep. Time to step away from the madness of crowds, and return to monkey.…

That's an informative overview. Somewhere in the story was Node.js and libuv, the callback style, promises, and the popularization of the async/await paradigm. Not sure if there was a direct…

Since the article was written 9 years ago, I wonder what the state of the art is in using concurrency in JavaScript. Concurrency in JavaScript (2023) - https://www.honeybadger.io/blog&…

The infinite tower of elephants is ringed by dancing worshippers wearing elephant masks and tusks, bowing with arms raised, then raising their faces up to the sky in ecstasy. "All hail, the Great…

I think it got fixed since the parent comment was posted, because I was not able to download at the time either, and now it works. In the meantime I tried to find the file with archive.org, seeing wha…

I'm sure it is, and thought it's a clever and humorous title. It made me wonder, what other books and articles on scientific or mathematical subjects reference works of classical music, art,…

Wonderful, I read a little about House of Leaves, and am intrigued. What a great way to have a book recommended, looking forward to reading it. :)

This article and your comment reminded me of something Stephen Wolfram was saying about "mining" the latent space of, in his case, cellular automata as a computational medium. A quick search…

That's really good, I'll have to read some of his work (Jacek Dukaj). It makes me think about the role of indeterminacy and unpredictability in physics. And reminds me of..who was it, Gurdji…

> We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they regretted to…

Related: Private equity firm K1 acquires MariaDB (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41506124 (91 comments)…

Abstract: As the use of citing electronic World Wide Web sites grows, the question arises as to whether this practice has scholarly limitations due to the fact that uniform resource locators (URLs) of…

I think SimCity Classic had a similar feature.

C++ is a decades-long mistake that spawned other misguided directions in the entire software industry. We're still trying to undo many of the bad ideas, but I'm afraid even Rust has too much…

I see, very interesting, thanks! I've been curious about Sanskrit "indirectly" from learning about root words in Slavic (and other) languages, as they call it proto-Indo-European roots.…

That's fascinating to learn. I'm curious, is there a political angle to the revival of some of the languages? The posted article mentions "values and traditions" associated with …

The revival of Hebrew is a counter example, of a "ritual" language that managed to become a practical daily language for written and spoken communication.

Kinda getting dizzy thinking about all the loops we're embedded in. Where is the still point in these turning wheels of the world.

I imagine the extreme physical constraints will force us to explore alternative and unconventional forms of machines and computers, built from different materials available. For example, molecular or …

Curious how this affects date/time algorithms and software libraries, particularly those that do not have a way to sync with an external authoritative source of time. I guess they all need to be …

What an interesting word, "ergodic". Searching for its meaning led me to some curious corner of mathematics and physics. Then I found this definition: > Ergodic literature is a mode of te…