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This sounds fascinating. Do you have a reference?

One of the best books I have read in recent years, somehow immensely relevant now: _Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story_ by John Bloom, that explores exactly what went wrong, the b…

https://archive.is/20260524231039/https://www.wired.com/stor...

AlexandertheOk's documentary on Elite and the BBC Micro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4YLMLar5I

Context for those unaware: https://xkcd.com/1053/

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I download and use parts dimensioned in metric to ISO standards all the time...

> "highly paramteric like fastners, gears, 3D printed boxes" 1. These parts should probably be on McMaster. If you are not using them straight from there, you better have a _great_…

I have to start reading from the top instead of skimming.

Reminds me of the Cosmopolitan project: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

I do not know enough to analyse these chips in any meaninful way, but is there a trend or cool feature to be seen across?

There is also all the helpful work that Mathworks does such as Simulink ... Also, consider that MATLAB works much more like how one would write on paper (including 1-indexing) and …

> If an engineer came to you and said “So for this project, I put all the code, input data, output data and comments scattered about one big two-dimensional array with no type safe…

Now I wonder if I can make category theory diagrams in spreadsheets.

Irrelevant but spreadsheets have always struck me as one of the most beautiful pieces of software that we use. Automatically updating calculations, programming logic complex anough…

That's the first thing on the page. > Interviewer: “What happens if you allocate memory with C’s malloc and try to free it with Rust’s dealloc, if you get a pointer to the memory f…

I see it as beautiful the same way Galadriel would be beautiful as the Dark Queen. Utterly captivating and powerful, and yet something that should never be.

If functions are first class, then they must be stored as variables. I mean, consider any FP Language.

My first thought was that this was done with consideration for mobile phones, since many higher-end models use 120 Hz displays, but Ladybird does not seem to support mobile for now…

> the future of SQLite is basically guaranteed on account of being open source I am not concerned with whether it has a future. But I do fear that the absolute manic focus on code …

I have never used SQLx, but the best SQL integration I can think of is LINQ. How does this compare to that?