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> Dealing with every possible source of non-determinism, re-writing services to be testable/sans-IO [2], etc. takes a lot of engineering effort. Are there public examples of what s…

From the abstract, it sounds more like a toolkit for "Interactive / Hypermedia" papers. The paper itself is still dead. I was hoping more for "Living" as in "active, uncertain, wil…

And in the context of discussing "whole word" vs "phonetic" systems of learning the English language, it seems like outright deception.

My kids love that book, and my oldest had me read it to his preschool class earlier this year. Here is a much more creative reading by Ludacris [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watc…

Pointing out a few outliers in such a large system like the English Language and using them to justify reclassifying the entire thing is braindead.

It's an alphabetic writing system where the letters largely correspond to sounds, in contrast to logographic writing system where the symbol corresponds to the entire word (like Ch…

I highly recommend famed computer scientist Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research" [0] which covers "creating luck" from a researchers perspective. [0]: https://www.cs.virginia.…

If you don't mind sharing, what grade-level, decade, location were you taught this? The key part about the pizza example is the demonstration of mathematical thinking completely di…

TIL what an "SMT Pick and Place" [0][1] machine is. Summary: $1000 and with open source hardware and tools, I can make custom computing hardware for your projects. Seems pretty coo…

Do I have this Napkin math correct? 400 tons produced per year (original article) $1000 per ton (generous [0], current index at $770) $400k per year revenue (calculated) $25M Euro …

Despite seeing myself almost precisely described in that video and the original article, and despite having been diagnosed with ADHD as a college student... It's hard for me to bel…

Having suffered through learning highly configurable software tools independently enough times, I agree completely with "digesting one or few commands" at a time works better for m…

Is Ilograph open source?

heh - you're obviously correct and now I'm kicking myself for forgetting the #1 difference. FTT does not offer any sort of interest like Terra did. The benefits of holding are stri…

What the argument misses / why FTT is different than Terra 1) Alameda Research owns FTX, one of the largest and arguably most important crypto exchanges. 2) FTX offers fee discount…

Just want to say congratulations to the team! 2 years and 9,500+ commits is a hell of a feat. https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb_iox

> (1) I can have multiple domains for the same device, say gitea.mytsnetwork.com and netxcloud.mytsnetwork.com can go to the same device I tried setting up caddy on a machine and t…

I think you underestimate the selling power of "Green" options, particularly among those with dollars to spend.

I bet lots of schools would pay up for "sustainable" laptops, actually.

I'm very interested in the contours of this relationship with Google. - What kind of commitments did each party make to each other? - Did Google request anything of Framework? What…

Yes- there is a life-year cost to bringing death forward. But there has now been no excess mortality in Sweden compared to it's neighbors Finland and Norway (and all 3 blow the US …

Sweden was the well publicized "control group." It was not selected post-hoc, it was selected in 2020. The result was more death early and less death later, while suffering no lear…

if litestream ever enables logical replication, I think you could do `SQLite logical replication --> embedded materialize-db --> back to SQLite`