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This reminded me of a prior discussion[0] on bulk data generation in SQLite with Rust (vs Python vs PyPy) which previously led me to trying out two different techniques using just …

PEP-508[0] explains the grammar for "extras": > Optional components of a distribution may be specified using the extras field: identifier_end = letterOrDigit | (('-' | '_' | '.' )*…

ZFS has been on my list of things I should learn "some day" for a long time. I installed Fedora a while ago and ended up opted into Btrfs without really trying. I have been pleasan…

I've had success using https://git-rebase.io/ to help people understand the workflow.

As a specific example I routinely ran into forms that rendered like this (hidden scrollbars in three different browsers concealing content, though Safari rendered _just_ enough tex…

I have tried with both python 2.7.18 and python 3.8.6 using Emacs 27.1 and the excerpt works without issue for me; I have no configuration (emacs -Q) beyond pointing org to my virt…

The chromium bug ticketing system is all but unreadable to me. The OP ticket itself is closed and links to another instead, is there recent movement of note? I know igalia[0] was w…

Emacs-specific solution, but there is this[0] example of J and prettify-symbols-mode, the results look something like this: quicksort=: (($:@( #[)) ({~ ?@#)) ^: (1 #⊢)) ({⍨ ?⍛#))⍣(…

Private collections based on what I've seen. Occasionally things come up for sale, this page dates to within the last few months for example: http://watrophy.com/files/lispm/lisp-s…

I wrote up a few of my own thoughts[0] on moving away from writing markdown to writing HTML directly. At this point I have a small bit of code to wrap things into an tag include a …

The old mobile interface is entirely text, it removes the thumbnails present in the i. subdomain (also available with a trailing /.compact) -- the fact that there are so many diffe…

I've been teaching myself J and dabbled in a few other APL-family languages before that (Klong and Dyalog's APL mostly). I don't have any specific goal in mind and have been doing …

This is a good one. I've used this in the past in order to get onto IPv6-only networks as well. In my case I don't have IPv6 enabled on my home internet (thanks Verizon!) and I had…

I've helped out with a few chapters! I'm actually very excited about it due to the relative scarcity of physical copies of the book. While it isn't too active, the most recent acti…

With the veritable flurry of state machine posts today[0,1] I thought I'd (re)submit[2] one of my favorite posts on finite state machines in Forth. The specific example is of numbe…

Not long ago there was a post about using English language instead of the J symbology[0] but the end result isn't meaningfully easier to understand because of all the prerequisite …

Always a pleasant surprise to find niche or mundane uses of array languages. I really appreciate the explication because it made it possible for me to follow along in J - there's v…

If you are looking for a full course this one isn't bad: Embedded Systems Shape the World [0] it does hew pretty close to platform specifics (Windows/Keil/TI Launchpad) which can b…

A People’s History of Computing in the United States - Joy Lisi Rankin Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fos…

Just earlier today I was reading through a lab available as part of the J programming language distribution covering fuzzy logic. I'm sure I've read the Wikipedia page for fuzzy lo…

I read the Klong book [0] and for me it "clicked" in a way that J/K never had. The author did a really nice job paring down the language and cleaning up some of the ambiguities in …

As far as I know, this is a peculiarity of APL resulting from Iverson's stance on the language as a "tool for thought"[0]. The best explanation I've heard is that "binary" is most …

In addition to Todd Mortimer's slides, linked in the sibling comment, there is this video of the same, which I enjoyed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvSSHtRv5Mg