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At the risk of straying into forbidden metacommentary: look, I understand (and also feel) the temptation to have a go at Stephen Wolfram every time he posts something wacky, but… h…

Among a strong field, this is the single most depressing comment I’ve ever read on Hacker News. Several grim components but it’s the “I don’t understand why” which seals the deal.

The game’s difficult to understand so it’s too punitive to not offer even a single practice/example puzzle to use for learning. One puzzle a day is nice once you’ve got the hang of…

I had to look this up: https://doi.org/10.7155/jgaa.00370

Congratulations on the new adventure, Steve, and good luck!

What do you mean by “Pagemorphs”? A quick Google search suggests you’re the only person using this term so it’s hard to know what you’re recommending. I think it must mean e.g. htt…

Do you want another person (or yourself in the future) to be able to read your commits, in order, to get a clear account of what changed & why? If so, you should fix up those commi…

https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

Yes, it is.

This sounds intuitively true, but it’s a (very persistent) myth: https://www.viget.com/articles/just-use-double-quoted-ruby-s...

The branding is incredibly confusing, but: Hotwire ( https://hotwired.dev/ ) is a set of ideas about how to build dynamic web UI (“HTML over the wire”), and the Turbo, Stimulus and…

Rails’ nightly CI already needed a fix: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52937

Here’s the PR. I don’t know whether it was discussed elsewhere. https://github.com/ruby/rdoc/pull/1157

That’s the joke.

I’m pretty sure you’re talking to an LLM.

Definitive reference: https://www.urbanautomaton.com/blog/2015/08/10/the-pledge-to...

I did read your comment but I don’t really understand what you mean by “the memory system”. A linear bounded automaton is by definition a finite state machine for a given input (i.…

Real-world computers are equivalent to linear bounded automata, not true Turing machines, because they have finite memory. This technicality is mostly ignored because a computer wi…

Mike Dalessio, the maintainer of Nokogiri, gave an excellent talk about this at Rails World 2023: https://youtu.be/USPLEASZ0Dc?t=939

You’re taking the use of the word “state” too literally. The original comment was complaining about how Ruby `require` adds names (constants) to a global namespace ; Python `import…

You might be interested in Chris Salzberg’s Im [0], already usable on Ruby 3.2, or the discussion about the speculative “namespace on read” feature [1]. [0] https://github.com/shio…

The target audience for this hack are people who carefully weigh their beans (and then put them into the empty hopper for grinding) each time they make coffee.