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Agentic programming reveals mechanical joins of an algebra of de facto components, that resisted capture by formal abstractions. Can we improve formal module abstraction so it can …

prefer semantic abstraction even when it creates duplication

This beaurcratic development feels like turning a super-tanker that's connected to a hundred other super-tankers. While I accept the priority of back-compatibility, I personally la…

The non-nullability issue seems to be about performance, not cognitive load (search the article for "writes atomically"), though not articulated.

Bloom's 2 sigma problem solved at last! But that's overestimating LLMs, our zeitgeist. AI can't detect AI, not because AI undetectable, but because it lacks judgment. Its shtick is…

Fewer features = smaller frame, easier to satisfy, better customer targeting.

Why not replenish with solar i.e. pump it back up into a dam-battery?

What does clocks mean here? A new usage? “Emacsification” clocks that everything now works this way, not just baroque text editors.

IANAG but the idea is that women get two copies of the X chromosome (XX), and men only one (XY). This explains why women have squared the colour blindness rates of men - women have…

Thanks - looks like this has already changed in line with GGP since my time. https://peer.asee.org/open-book-problem-solving-in-engineeri... [pdf]

New degree: B.Goo.

Law exams are open book; Engineering exams are not. I'm not sure exactly what the distinction is - apart from law being "soft" and requiring argument - but it's deeper than inabili…

He's making a more general statement, with "root of all evil", that improving some aspect of something without understanding its effects on the whole outcome, is literally the root…

It's more a research question. I think it'll be more like ordered keys in JSON - not ordered, according to the spec, but very useful in practice, because easier to compare, locate …

A problem with semantic markup is when it doesn't do what you want, and you need to wig-wam it. Does this mean you actually wanted presentation markup? Or, since you are trying to …

It does seem wrong that nature would use irrational numbers - the fault is more likely in our concepts. Our mathematics may be more parochial than we realize - than we can realize.…

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FYNI jq was originally implemented in Haskell.

jq uses bison (gnu's yacc), which is a nightmare for error diagnosis. Additionally, the founder (though brilliant - or maybe because brilliant) wouldn't accept improvements in erro…

jq used to do this, but changed to preserve key order.

Android tablet + termux + bluetooth keyboard is cheaper, and better performance in some ways... The only problem is Google slowly locking down and squeezing the life out of termux.…

Pedantry: the only exception I could think of is a timer (delay, alarm clock), where the output is when, not what. sleep 10 Yes, information technology is for processing informatio…

The Story of a Fisherman https://www.highview.com.au/the-story-of-a-fisherman/

> Luck is when opportunity meets preparedness.