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Reminds me of Thinking Machines and Danny Hillis. See chapter "Parsing a Regular Language" in "DATA PARALLEL ALGORITHMS" https://rsim.cs.illinois.edu/arch/qual_papers/systems/3.pdf…

In Plan 9 you did have a real (synthetic) /net, and could do that and more from any program. You could even mount /net from another machine via 9P protocol and have an instant VPN.…

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1817064/bbp-formula...

Reminds me when Russ Cox (Go, Google, Bell Labs) used Rob Pike's APL like Ivy to solve 2021 Advent of code puzzles: https://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/comments/uccbd6/russ_cox_solv...

I am especially fond of this article inventing LLMs as Markov chains. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-11/page/n129/...

Who ever invented the idea that you can embed Javasript to picture files?

Someone else can explain, how me pressing "a" gets to light some LEDs on my screen, and what happens in the output part of the data flow.

No one mentioned Upspin? A global file namespace (URL, but better...) and protocol to isolate public data users from private governance and storage, by gurus like Rob Pike. https:/…

At least in Finland the jail sentences have been related to extreme widely published antisemitism. Fines have been given for other sorts of hate speech. If the U.S. wants this to b…

I don't think there has been a rock album ever since, that would have been so big, popular, revolutionary and generation defining. I guess some genius must have been there.

Can you explain me, why do you need to be online to extract the private key? Can't you just steal the token, input the nonces offline, and meter timing? Then, crunch out the privat…

If this is inefficient, what are you comparing to? What is the best way to purify water or produce hydrogen with solar energy? Is there a good way? Certainly producing electricity …

Designing better error handling in Go is an ongoing work. Proposols are being considered. Personally I don't see a big problem in real life Go code bases. Note that there is kind o…

If you browse random Go code from https://pkg.go.dev/ you will have a hard time finding that hypothetical case where most of your code is error handling chores. The problem is arti…

They are also pretty good in teaching you human languages. There is a saying that the best way to learn a new language is to fall in love with someone who speaks it. ChatGPT speaks…

"Kiosk" is pretty universal, Persian originally.

Burnout at work is easy. Burnout in life is harder.

How is this problem different from DALL-E and such? Is the copyright legislation ready for all this, and when will there be established interpretations of law?

That’s a myth. Go read some random Go. Trivial functions often do nothing but call a couple of other functions, check errors and return. But non-trivial functions use relatively le…

Great games! One of the pioneers of combining RTS and FPS, if not the first one?

What does this all mean from IaC perspective? Let’s say you can define all your containers, orchestration, database and middleware in a compact way (Dockerfiles, Terraform, etc) wi…

Elegant is "pleasingly ingenious and simple". But it's often in the eye of the beholder, if a loop or a list comprehension is simpler.

Freedom considered harmful. In olden days, you had less stupid choices in your life. Sure the idle upper class always had this problem.

I would Google for the real answer. I just did. I could not come up with it by myself. Just what I do as a developer.

If Hornsea 2 really produces anywhere near the nominal 1,4 MW and was built in three years, that is remarkable. The Olkiluoto 3 nuclear plant here in Finland (1,6 MW) was just star…