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Jj-stack: stacked GitHub pull requests for Jujutsu(serpentine.com)
4 points by bos 3d ago|0 comments
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My e-reader lost its stripes(serpentine.com)
21 points by bos 6d ago|0 comments
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by bos 23d ago
temacs, in older versions of Emacs, is an intermediate build product, never something that is installed. It’s created fairly late during the build, then loaded up with the standard library, undumped, and that is the emacs that is installe
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by bos 28d ago
Claude slop. "durable base", "That is real money", "those are requests, not appropriations", etc etc.
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by bos 2mo ago
Could be, for which the first attested use is in 1965 or so. Still doesn’t help.
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by bos 2mo ago
While fun and satisfying, this is extremely unlikely to be true. The first attested use is from 1945, on the nose of a P-47 Thunderbolt flown by Captain Milton Thompson of the 509th Fighter Squadron. And his art was exactly what you'd
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by bos 4mo ago
It starts in the very first paragraph. “The headlines say yes. […] The headline is wrong.” And there are numerous such examples. “That was half true. The kill chain ran. The interceptor did not.” LLMs produce staccato, ugly chains of senten
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by bos 4mo ago
This is an exhausting and dispiriting article to try to read because of its short, choppy, clearly AI-generated sentences. The topic is interesting, but whoever caused it to be penned didn’t seem to care enough to make it appealing to read.
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by bos 4mo ago
Your backstory is complete nonsense. Liberty Utilities has nothing to do with libertarian separatists. It's a brand name of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp, a boring Canadian infrastructure conglomerate that buys regulated water,
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by bos 6mo ago
This is sort of a revival and elaboration of some of Bram’s ideas from Codeville, an earlier effort that dates back to the early 2000s Cambrian explosion of DVCS. Codeville also used a weave for storage and merge, a concept that originated
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by bos 10mo ago
Really nice to see a solidly valuable project develop a sustainable foundation instead of turning into yet another VC-backed devtools startup that will inevitably die in a few years.
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by bos 11mo ago
This is a bizarre essay by someone who understands neither functional programming nor the history of computers. > To be kind, we’ve spent several decades twisting hardware to make the FP spherical cow work “faster”, at the expense of exp
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by bos 2y ago
Should say "(2018)".
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by bos 2y ago
No, this isn’t a good description of monads. It merely describes a case that shows up sometimes.
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by bos 5y ago
The wreck is actually from a 1986 crash that saw no fatalities. https://www.facebook.com/199535516767620/posts/4006006656120...
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by bos 8y ago
Yes, and in fact this can even be done incrementally and efficiently these days. One example is the open source tool Infer, which we run on very large bodies of native and Java code at Facebook. http://fbinfer.com
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Facebook's evolutionary search for crashing software bugs(arstechnica.co.uk)
3 points by bos 9y ago|0 comments
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by bos 9y ago
Let me put Mike's comment into what I think is its proper context. "Poor support for numerical computing" really means "relative to Mike's dream, which is not actually realisable by any programming language today&qu
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by bos 10y ago
Facebook has large engineering offices in New York, Seattle, London, and Tel Aviv, and smaller presences in Boston and Dublin. There's also a vast range of engineering projects, from VR through video, mobile apps, machine learning, com
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by bos 10y ago
There have been numerous well-known problems with the Java and Python standard libraries over the years. For instance, the date/time classes in Java were a disaster for a long time, and Python has taken decades to converge on a nearly-
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by bos 11y ago
A small correction: GHC uses plenty of type tagging information. In fact, its metadata overhead is relatively high.
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by bos 11y ago
I think of programming in Haskell as being more about being able to choose a level of abstraction that makes sense for the situation. The more abstract code is great when it works well, and when it falters I can easily drop down to somethin
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Markup.rocks – in-browser markup edit, preview and conversion(markup.rocks)
2 points by bos 11y ago|0 comments
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by bos 11y ago
In fact, it turns out the Pusher protocol is all JSON, so you can autogenerate the code. Here's a Pusher message. { "event": "pusher:error", "data": { "message": String, &
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by bos 11y ago
I know nothing about the Pusher protocol, but the standard approach to boilerplate encoding/decoding problems these days is to use GHC.Generics. It doesn't always fit (typically when your data structures don't resemble the wi
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by bos 11y ago
Right there on the front page: "We are also working on an Android implementation which we will release later."
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by bos 12y ago
Modern pans are cast in sand because it's cheap. The manufacturing method changed about 60 years ago from a more precise mould (that happened to cost more, but gave a smoother finish).
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The Innovation Dead End(medium.com)
8 points by bos 12y ago|0 comments
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Criterion: a Haskell microbenchmarking library(serpentine.com)
2 points by bos 12y ago|0 comments
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Win bigger statistical fights with a better jackknife(serpentine.com)
4 points by bos 12y ago|0 comments

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