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I love this because it gets to the heart of information theory. Shannon's foundational insight was that information is surprise. A random sequence is incompressible by definition. …

Yeah, the author wants a story saying there wasn't enough continuity between scenarios or motivation to continue, but that was a non-issue for me personally. It's been many, many y…

All I want today is Chrome-style profiles in Firefox. None of this about:profiles nonsense.

There's a pretty large market for people who mostly like Trump but side with Musk on balancing the budget and don't trust Repubs to get there.

I wonder what red tape we're talking about. SEC regulates disclosures, but pretty sure NYSE and Nasdaq decide when to allow trading, halt trading, APIs, what gets listed, and more,…

Fun read! Along the way I was trying to guess the cause and my best guess was TTL-related. However I don’t quite understand the actual cause! If the connection timeout is 3ms in pr…

The issue isn't the possible noise in non-covid deaths. It's this rather bold statement: "None of these deaths were considered related to BNT162b2 by investigators" How would they …

Yep, you'd find huge stacks of their CDs everywhere. I remember always getting a free "frisbee" every time we'd go to Blockbuster. Also, AOL keywords.

AOL lumbered on but what finally killed it was broadband and cable. They just didn't have the pipes and the luster was gone by then anyway. DSL gave it some life support but by 200…

Very similar story here. I was in middle school when the follow-up Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus came out [0]. I read it cover to cover and proceeded to buy as many …

Thanks. That makes more sense.

What's the real story here? Why did Trump say the $10B would not be spent if he was not re-elected? What "changing global market conditions" is Foxconn referring to? Edit: I found …

Structurizr looks popular but I don't love needing to learn yet another DSL. Does there exist a way to describe things in an existing language with a library? To use the example on…

If C4 is new to you too, I recommend their intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2-rSnhpw0g . It feels like a very light ruleset over what we would do naturally when explai…

Ray Kurzweil makes an appearance in Episode 17 talking about AI: https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/f3fc8a5ce91dfb847a4f91eed7ddb184

Sure features are transitive. A crate’s features at build are the superset of what every package defines. If I define “fast_compile” (opt-in) or “no_binaries” (opt-out) it’ll get a…

I don't understand why this is so complex? Just make it a feature you put in Cargo.toml: serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["serde_derive", "fast_compile"] } Either opt-in or o…

Anyone know what are the main drivers for USA falling in economic complexity from #6 to #14 over the past 20 years?

For more on TSMC's history, Acquired podcast's episode is incredible: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc

Exactly. Here's Gamespot's homepage in 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20070228162159/http://www.gamesp... Very similar. So much more personality than Gamespot today: https://www…

True, and C10M is the new C10K. I was just surprised it works well using that many OS threads rather than needing green threads or async.

Async is a bit trendy right now and in my experience has a way of infecting a codebase. That said, I like the way it reads for server code. In a project I'm working on, we use both…

I enjoyed the async part where the author built up Future and a runtime from first principles. If the topic interests you, these two videos are good follow-ups into Rust async [1] …