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> In defence of Mr Musk, despite his character flaws, Tesla is the only Western electric car company in the top 20, and this includes Korea and Japan. Also, SpaceX is ~90% of the w…

> Instead of regular expressions, Janet’s text wrangling is based around parsing expression grammars. Parsing expression grammars are simpler, more powerful, and more predictable t…

> native ocaml repl has landed What does this refer to? Most people use the OCaml `utop` REPL which isn't okay for some printf debugging but nowhere near what a Lisp could do.

The repository link on that page does not work. Is there a preview?

The public transport service in Hannover/Germany once had a screensaver that you could configure to show the next departure from your nearest station. I thought that was clever mar…

I like the idea mentioned in the article of exploring limited higher-order functions: functions that can only take functions as argument that themselves are not taking functions as…

This makes you appreciate curation in a museum. Why are these objects shown together? Historical period, size, design feature, material, production method? It looks completely arbi…

The main feature of interval parsing appears to be that it can jump over content such that a later part in a file does not depend on knowing everything that comes before it. Has Do…

Filecoin, which is based on IPFS, creates a market for unused storage. I think that idea is great but for adoption it needs to be as simple as Dropbox to store files. But visit htt…

"Show, don't tell" is lost on the authors. They only talk about visual ugliness.

The argument for annealing in the original paper is that accepting regressions is essential to escape from local minima. https://www2.stat.duke.edu/~scs/Courses/Stat376/Papers/Temp…

My understanding of simulated annealing is that solutions that are not improvements are still accepted with some probability in early steps but that this probability decreases as "…

Links are unreadable in that blog post on iOS/Safari.

For covering the subject of writing, the typesetting of the PDF is remarkably poor. The mix of serif and sans serif, the font sizes don't match the structure of the document, and e…

What does your business do? Stripe might not have listed your business model explicitly but could still prefer to not have you as a customer if it is an edge case.

Since list traversal is very common in OCaml, could the compiler emit code that pre-fetches the next element?

Suggestion: parse any number like 12:03 as 12 minutes and 3 seconds (and 04:12:03 with hours) and represent it as seconds. It makes working with durations a lot easier. This is jus…

This guy needs a copy editor. The meandering writing is off putting when someone is writing on the subject of becoming efficient at a task or process. He is in love with his own wr…

That's a great service. I can think of various features to support more use cases: * provide an optional label - for the use case where several clocks are used and shared. * start …

> I actually really wish I had something similar for video... Try this: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut I am using the binary on macOS. The UI is a bit idiosyncratic but it wo…

> A much better effort, for anyone interested, would be to vastly simplify the OCaml build and package management story to be more Go-like. OCaml's package management and build sys…

I’d like to see support for FIT files as they are emitted by Garmin fitness devices. It’s a clever binary format that in-stream defines the format of records which then contain the…

The valuation of Apple on a P/E basis is attractive and constant stock buybacks make it a safe bet. At the current scale you can’t expect startup-level growth but it is still attra…

On my Safari 14.1.2 the hero image (demo) on the landing page does not show properly. The URL is https://slacklatex.com/static/media/demo_img.5ddca5f3.webp and I assume the format …

Compiler bugs outside undefined behaviour are not rare; calling conventions as implemented in C compilers are complex and random testing found bugs in several compilers. However, t…