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If you are interested in alternative lithium chemistries, Ouros is developing and commercializing one: https://ouros.energy/

That last point is super interesting: these diagrams never tell you much about the implementation or how it would perform.

The distinction you are making is right. All those examples are examples of visualization, not of direct programming. But why can't we use what today are visual representations of …

[post author] You are right. Any "language" visual or other wise used for communication has to include the level of detail trying to be communicated. In the Rust memory layout exam…

You are right. You can see the data first, charts, even dependencies. And yet nobody is drawing `IF(ACTIVE[A1:A4]=E$1)`

Amazing, thank you for taking the time

That is an interesting framing. I think the "maker vs taker" label is great. Creative Inc[0] uses "suitcase handles" to describe something similar but more generic. [0] https://www…

Nice!

That sounds super interesting! Did I understand correctly that the additional complexity came because you needed to emit optimal assembly? Or was implementing the logic from the st…

You are right. The diagrams are used as explanations not as the source of the program. But wouldn't it be neat if when you sketch out the state transition in a diagram (how I think…

[post author] I am familiar with those and have used a couple. There are similar examples in music, where visual programming dominates. The implied audience of this post (not clear…

Those two are both primarily for real time signals and music right? That is a great domain for wires, transforms, and pipelines. Have you ever seen them used in a different context…

It is certainly possible and that is how most of these visual languages do it. But is that how _you_ want to program that logic?

Thank you! Should be fixed in a minute

[post author] I agree. On many domains you can find a great mapping between some visual representation and how the developer (beginner or not) wants to think about the problem. I p…

I've found that while people don't want to change out of Excel they are forced to by the size of new files. The more data is generated by computers, the less likely it is to fit in…

And to answer the question directly: If you are operating under the "sports team" analogy, you should fire them. If you are operating under the "we are a family" analogy, you shoul…

[self-promotion] This is very related, but not at all the same, as this essay I just published: Team-oriented, outcome-oriented https://blog.sbensu.com/posts/team-oriented-vs-outco…

Hi! I'm Sebastian and I work at Stripe. We would love to understand what went wrong so that we can keep improving the integration experience. If you are interested in talking to us…

Wow, I thought you were making that up to fit the mood... until the Wikipedia article. This is bananas.

I recently learned of Telescript[1], a programming language, design to allow clients to execute arbitrary code on servers. SQL databases also have a similar architecture, with the …

Related recommendation: this podcast episode[1] was very good, covered many solutions to the Fermi Paradox, and discussed the OP's article. [1] http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org…

One of the first chapters of The Art of Science and Engineering (Hamming) covers this beautifully.

From this project, I gather it wouldn't be hard to remove the need for calling `lisp!` on every form. Then you'd have a lisp syntax on Rust that is not embedded. Is that correct?

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned Jose Valim yet.