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To gain more experience with Rust I'm implementing an interpreter for a Lisp-like language in it. As an additional challenge I've committed myself to record the entire development …

Read the reply you got more carefully, especially the last sentence is key.

I think Gothic II did this really well. While there are some clear borders a lot of the transitions between the three categories are gradual and organic. You're mostly safe in the …

Centralized infrastructure is fragile and to the extent that the internet has become centralized unscheduled Internet shutdowns are bound to happen. The benefit of scheduled Intern…

The reason you're not hearing any difference between the words in those pairs is because they are pronounced the same. At least according to Wiktionary and my own subjective judgem…

There has been open source before Linux and there will be open source after Linux. Yes Linux is a flagship project but the whole culture of open source is much broader than it.

> prevent this scenario from ever happening again. Every additional nine of not getting hacked takes effort. Getting to 100% takes infinite effort i.e. is impossible. Trying to ach…

While I'm always ready to throw away code when I realize that there is a better way to do things I found it quite difficult to write code with the intent to throw it away. However …

The paradox isn't that as a good becomes cheaper we're using more of it. The paradox is that as a good becomes cheaper we're spending more on it.

While STM was a big selling point when Clojure in practice it's actually very rarely used. The persistent data structures are indeed the heart of Clojure. While for many applicatio…

Maybe the result of NaN === NaN should be neither true nor false but NaB (not a bool).

I've found that when I'm listening to recordings of me my accent really sticks out to me in a way that's completely inaudible when listening to myself live. This happens with both …

One thing you can do is listen on a non-standard port.

I suspect that for someone who reads a decent amount reading speed is also bottlenecked by the rate by which we comprehend the ideas being communicated and not the rate at which we…

Depends on the length of the blackouts, if it's more than a day then solar panels will allow you to lower the amount of batteries you get.

I think half life already is well on its way to be considered high brow. I played it a few years ago and while I did enjoy it part of my motivation to play it was "this is what the…

I mean even when I'm working on my own projects I'm cleaning up whatever code I wrote when I didn't yet know as much about the shape of the problem.

It doesn't only need to make economic sense now but you also need to be fairly certain that all the battery capacity that is likely to be added to the grid in the future will still…

There are many ways to get around this since it is trivial to write code that strips those tags.

It's not quite as effective as a real social connection but the para-social connection you get from say listening to a podcast in the language you're learning does work too in my e…

I'm making a website for learning languages through comprehensible input: https://input.emanuelrylke.com/ The idea is to aggregate videos by language and then sort them by difficul…

I always assumed that chess engines are dumbed down by occasionally inserting random moves but now it occurred to me that a way to get more realistic mistakes might be feed them a …

There's a big difference between being wildly over-optimistic about your odds of making it back and expecting from the get go you won't make it back.

If you had to choose between everyone dying and everyone except billionaires dying what would you choose?