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Concise better, silly

Out of curiosity, any plans on adding push notification primitives?

For context it's sinking at 0.1 cm / year, versus 50 cm / year in Mexico City and 20 cm / year in Jakarta.

nods approvingly while reading hn instead of just sitting on a bench

Related: https://twitter.com/zetalyrae/status/1639474931086901248 My OCaml: let foo (x: bar): baz = (\* Is this quuxable? *) match is_quuxable x with | Yes -> (* Then, we have to .…

You can go 100x faster using SIMD on the CPU, instead of doing the linear algebra by hand, then another order of magnitude or two on the GPU.

I've found it particularly useful for drawing SVGs. Also allows mixing in new code blocks one by one, so you can have a REPL-like conversation and add/overwrite JavaScript function…

There is nothing more frustrating than a status page that lies about the state of an API. Feels like insult + injury. I'd rather they not even have a status page!

That's super cool!

Since there is so much criticism here of NordVPN (in general, not for open-sourcing), what are the VPNs that people like?

Does anybody remember this, posted on HN? It was an interactive tutorial on a single page web app, where you have a code editor, some explanation for what the code is doing, and ar…

There is a mindset where each bookmark is an implicit obligation, and they of course pile up faster than you can go back and peruse them to your satisfaction, so this understandabl…

I think if we divorce the idea of direct data manipulation from exclusively non-textual representation, we are slowly making progress in this direction through traditional notebook…

I tend to agree in spirit, but I worry there's a real risk of a lemon market[1] situation. If, for whatever reason, consumers of content are not immediately attuned to the differen…

I've really enjoyed Babashka lately. Most recently, I ported a script from Bash which gets around WiFi captive portals and was able to add some features and even unit tests. Super …

Hear, hear! Tired of seeing these tirelessly dumb takes about expected value theory's supposed flaws or its psychological dimension. Poker players make bets based on bank roll size…