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> never heard of a bit ever having more than two possible values It's not represented by a "bit", binary digit with value of 0 or 1; but with a "trit", ternary digit with …

In a different comment thread, someone mentioned the book, Category Theory for Programmers. Here's the Releases page with PDF files (click to open the Assets section). https://github.c…

That was an excellent thoughtful comment, thanks. I'm going to be thinking about this part particularly: > I suspect that the contest we are going to see in the next few years is: can Founder…

As soon as Linus retires, there will be an initiative to rewrite the Linux kernel in Rust assisted by LLMs. Either that, or some company will fund a fork before that. Imagine, man pages full of emojis…

You're right. It's disappointing to see an established name, which I used to respect as a voice of an experienced programmer, pivoted to a different field and purpose. There's no substa…

"Social physics" is pseudo-science abusing the name of physics and actual scientific terms to pretend it's even in the same ballpark.

There's a "training" channel where you can practice without annoying the more fluent users. You can choose the channel with the select menu at the top of the page, where it says "c…

Completely different approaches. The TypeScript Go port was done responsibly, reviewing every line ported, publishing both runtimes in parallel to give it time for real-life battle testing, with plent…

Found it: https://morse.halb.it/ Source: https://github.com/robalb/morsechat …

Indeed, both Thurston's quote about mathematics, and Naur's programming as theory building, are classics that are relevant now more than ever. A download link for the latter: https:/&#…

In my experience, it's the opposite. Immediate mode GUI, or at least a functional and declarative approach, is the only way I've seen it scale well. It's more modular and scale-independ…

Curious to see if that can map to what's happening in the software industry/community. > The product of software engineering (or computer science) is clarity and understanding. Not progra…

Yes, I understand, like you I have the same question and desire for a map of all knowledge. It relates to library science, how to organize all books on all subjects; and in general, the aim of academi…

I think it would be better to approach it from the other side, the priority is not to design a language for LLMs but a language more suitable for humans to think with. And not a natural language like …

It may be a question of perspective, but in my mind mathematics is upstream to everything else, including physics, biology, etc. And it doesn't just exist in the human mind or the "world o…

Mac only. :( But I love the brutalist site design!

This is a deep question. Many a great mind in history have thought about how to organize all of the world's knowledge systematically. > Indeed, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect kno…

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Pola…

Looks like Mine is part of Coalton's repo. https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/blob/main/mine/READM... …

That tsts project looks very interesting. I suppose there are various practical reasons for doing this. For me I'm just glad to see an easy way to run the newest TypeScript compiler (and I guess …

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1. Visit website. First thing I see is in-your-face advertising to subscribe. 2. Scroll past it to start reading. Realize I'm just reading more ad text with various dollar amounts. 3. A modal win…

Why did I have to see this mysterious and intriguing code in the morning, now my brain won't rest until I learn what every symbol means and how it works. Thanks for sharing!

Fair enough. Without seeing the code itself, one can only judge the book by its cover. I'm interested, but maybe not quite the target audience.