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Interesting, thanks for sharing. How do you handle historical backfill for new features? As in, some feature that can be updated in streaming fashion but whose initial value depend…

I also don't have a strong opinion on Bitcoin, but the author's argument seems flawed. Yes, running power stations and manufacturing chips requires the protection of a government; …

I also find this shocking - 10% -> 30% seems like a massive change in ~100 years in the context of human evolution. Why does increased blood supply create such a large selection pr…

Someone tried to liberate Org from Emacs by writing a parser in Rust (see previous discussion on HN [1]), but it looks like the project died unfinished [2]. [1] https://news.ycombi…

I suspect a mandate to use Org could be counter-productive. One of Org's unique advantages is the pliability it has by virtue of running in Emacs. I doubt whether someone who was f…

I was also there last night and agree with your friend. I didn't personally see anyone with a gun, no one asked me for ID, and no one tried to charge me an entrance fee. The vibe i…

WebPerl looks cool. I wrote an interactive blog post [1] that guides the reader through an exercise in scraping log files using a series of Perl one-liners. I ended up delegating e…

And literate programming with org-babel! ( http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.htm... )

Great point - the benefits of automation can't always be reduced to time saved per operation. I wrote a blog post [1] about this in response to that xkcd. [1] https://andrewstahlma…

How timely - I, too, got frustrated by the fact that org-babel src block evaluation is synchronous, so I built ob-async [1]. Rather than target a specific babel language, it aims t…