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PG celebrates Boom's pivot to power generator supply.

For comparison: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/medievalmedicalrecipe...

This looks like a hack. Yes, being able to interpret webassembly is a general oracle. Still falls short of solving the real problem directly.

I foresee someone at Apple saying, someday, "Houston we have a problem".

Originally published in If magazine in September 1954: in this satirical tale (author is Robert Schekley), advanced robot soldiers fight a war against "Satan's forces," and after t…

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Drill baby drill.

Looking at yet another new sans typeface reminds me of looking through all the shades of white at a paint store. After a while, I just can't tell the differences or why they matter…

bad vibes

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751443/technofeudal...

only in the limit as N -> infinity

What if there could be a way to eliminate all of {frustration,boredom,joy} from programming?

Shout out to those hardcores using De Bruijn notation. And bonus points if you're using just S, K, and I. Points off if you're using Y or some other fancy combinators.

Medical practitioners are tied into their own EHR systems. The fundamental problem with maintaining your own patient vault is friction. I doubt my caregivers would have the time to…

Two background resources useful to know: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome-Driven_Innovation and Christensen's "Jobs to be Done" theory. 2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/sh…

Inattention is abundant.

I lost interest in codex after reading https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/ because it was just too Straussian for me to follow. But he is a prodigious writer an…

"all publicity is good publicity" Apparently false (from WH perspective).

The one science not rejected by the current US administration is Ballistics. The problem is that China can probably do it better than America. (I do realize that Nature does not ha…

You might enjoy the book "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (interview: In Conversation With Yanis Varoufakis - on YouTube).

The first computer I experienced was the Programma 101. Later, learned FORTRAN using punched cards to program, and then paper tape (still remember painful finger cuts). You kids an…

I thought this was a role that ACM Queue was supposed to serve. I guess I missed the distinction between Software Engineering and Practice.

This reminds me of an essay I read many years ago, something about the lost art of back-of-the-envelope estimation. Going from slide rules to calculators and then more powerful too…

This is a response to search query of a related topic (I know it doesn't directly address the topic of the posting). Cisco has a reputation for sometimes "killing" companies it acq…

R2D2's language is real.