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Good news. My phone would have to live another couple of years, and the next one i buy would stay with me for a decade. Just 10 years ago you could detach back of the smartphone wi…

> Enakshi Barua, 14, said she’s also opposed to the ban, on principle. Barua said. "I feel like the trust isn’t there between the students and teachers." > staff members are collec…

When does the CTO has time to be the first unit in the pipeline? How much applicants do you have? From our experience just posting a junior web developer job gets up to 1000 resume…

Does not mention the actual open source solution that has autocomplete, chat, planer and agents, lets you bring your own keys, connect to any llm provider, customize anything, rewr…

Dark Messiah had unique combat mechanics in hazard filled environments, where you could create all sorts of physics based accidents to eliminate enemies. Game combat was showcased …

And the content-adressable filesystem that it uses is git [1]. It uses git with a javascript implementation of it [2] or node bindings to a c one [3]. 1. https://github.com/microso…

The Office 365 backend uses git to store snapshots of documents. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework/tree/main/server...

Except Malevich had written extensively about why he painted the Black Square and he never said it was to reject god. Malevich even wrote an essay "Бог не скинут: Искусство, церков…

Like everyone else i rely on open source libraries. I sometimes need to change them either to fix bugs that i encounter or to improve them in some way to better fit my purposes. It…

Imagine skipping i in debit. Or just say deb - it will be close. I always pronounced it somewhat like this. [1] The worst thing is that i had heard the word pronounced by native sp…

Thank you. I downloaded this paper a month ago to read it eventually. Your comment made me read it yesterday and i have a question. By using the type system would we exlude potenti…

I can ELIP (Explain Like I am a Programmer) statements and consequences of both incompleteness theorems and two related problems. So the pemise is that you have to write 4 programs…

Yes, not the first but most open. In Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks there is a drawing "Draftsman drawing an armillary sphere" dated 1510 which shows a kind of drawing machine. It i…

Interesting fact - Durer used a kind of 3d rendering engine to study and teach perpective. He made a woodcut of it called "Man Drawing a Lute". I learned it from Computer Graphics …

Just discovered plantuml and liked it - i can use some visual aid if only i do not have to draw it. Sequence and use case diagrams are useful. Class diagrams i would rather see in …

Einstein explained gravity without action at a distance with general relativity theory. I wonder what would Newton thought about that one since about his own theory he said "so gre…

Chomsky refers to Galileo, who thought that theories are intelligible, only if we can “duplicate [their posits] by means of appropriate artificial devices.” So in modern terms - co…

Here is a later text version of this lecture: Noam Chomsky - Science, Mind, and Limits of Understanding. https://chomsky.info/201401__/ I tried to edit for brevity and summarise th…

In this article [1] i see quite a lot of funny examples of false friends for czech to russian translation. Stale is cherstvyj in russian, but in czech cherstvyj is fresh. A corpse …

Robota means different thing in czech than rabota in other slavic languages. Czech robota means corvee. There are different words for corvee in other slavic languages - "barshhina"…

I thought maybe he finished the book on origins of inequality with David Wengrow. But he said it is a book about kings. He published the book "On Kings" in 2017, it is in open acce…

Church-Turing thesis is that for every algorithm you can compute you can define a turing machine that can compute it too. You still have show that you can compute answers to your q…

I find this interesting how natural it comes to use people as a metaphor to explain programs. I found sometime ago that i could read an actual code like a prose to someone who know…

This was not what bothered me. I needed to see how this puzzle does not contradict my intuition that if i flip a coin to choose between two last doors i do get 1/2 chance of winnin…

I was able to predict how simulation would go when i saw the program that i wrote. When i saw the simulation confirm my prediction it was so much more convincing then any other met…