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There's another good reason that hasn't been detailed in the comments so far: expressing intent. A test should communicate its reason for testing the subject, and when an input is …

You should definitely also read "Permutation City" by Greg Egan[1] if you haven't already! Amazing book... [1] https://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/Permutation.html

Geoffrey Hinton's recent lecture at the Royal Institute[1] is a fascinating watch. His assertion that human use of language being exactly analogous to neural networks with back-pro…

> learning when I can be doing something more efficiently hardtime.nvim[1] (or vim-hardtime[2] if you're old-school) do exactly this but within your editing session. There's an ass…

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LISPy REPLs are awesome. Babashka is another amazing tool for interacting with a shell with clojure (or a very close dialect thereof). https://babashka.org

some amazing auroral displays seen from tasmania over the last couple of nights https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-24/strong-naked-eye-auro...

i'm getting intermittent 200/500s - australia

Rich Hickey's talk about this is enlightening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk

I was just racking my memory and searching through my library of interesting links to find exactly this! Paul Chiusano gave a nice introductory talk at strangeloop last year: https…

I thought Renegades of the Empire was a fascinating look into the internal machinations at Redmond and a bit of DirectX history too https://www.amazon.com/Renegades-Empire-Software…

Some recent posts have been talking about what happens to classical encryption in a post-quantum scenario. This article demonstrates a system capable of creating and distributing q…