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> requiring more instructions for string access Wait, why would interned immutable strings require more instructions when doing regular string access? You can still point to the st…

I don't know much about other quantum computers, so maybe this is a common feature of them, but isn't another interesting thing about this design that it would do reversible comput…

Bootstrapping a Forth in assembly is probably a better option, two birds with one stone.

> If you're an unc with a background in Ruby or that era of webdev Millennials catching strays I see.

> Btw, almost all of Javascript's good parts come from Smalltalk. That's E and Self erasure.

As your link points out, in Dutch this is also known as "komkommertijd" ("cucumber time"), and in German as "Sauregurkenzeit", (" pickled cucumber time"). The funny thing is that a…

I do wonder if you can truly control for it in this case, or if doing so doesn't in and of itself introduce a survivar bias that masks a reversal of causality. That is: could the t…

Also came up with the original ..cantor.dust.. binary visualization tool, which is a tool I never used directly but Chris' presentation of it in 2012 is still one of the coolest ta…

That's because Gaussian splats are ellipses without any texture of their own (more or less), missing any detail that an actual brush stroke would have. Because the ellipses are so …

I am very much looking forward to see the results of trying it out, regardless of whether it works in practice! (negative results are also educational after all) And thank you for …

> Each layer is more translucent and specific than the one below it, augmenting the existing structure that's already been built up. So interestingly, one distinguishing difference…

As someone with an arts degree (not in painting though, but still) it feels really really weird to see how that animation builds up the image. It feels less random than the old "si…

So where do either of you lie on the "human rights vs property rights" spectrum? Because that's the real discussion to be had here. To quote Cory Doctorow: > But when it comes to a…

> Most people complain about the rules in Germany, but I like them. It means someone, or a group of people, sat down and thought about that specific thing and decided on a standard…

The author mentions various categories grew or shrank, but always in percentages. Since the list also grew from 2300 to 2800 words that feels like it might distort things a bit: in…

Oh like that. I was thinking of situations where "reference" just directly links to the API keyword index, e.g. the P5 docs[0], putting a redundant extra page between that would an…

I'm genuinely confused about what one would expect under "reference" that isn't effectively API-shaped (in the context of software). Like, I've never consciously thought of this be…

You know, I see that Cem Yuksel is one of the authors, and he is one of those names that keeps popping up in the weirdest places whenever I look up something random that involves g…

As I said in the other comment: jsgist, precisely because it's so bare-bones. The data is stored either in a shareable URL parameter, or in a gist if you give it access to you GH a…

This is why I switched to jsgist[0] years ago and haven't looked back since. It's very sparse, but it has also avoided feature creep as a result, and since the output is stored as …

> The constant 4th wall breaking is just bad IMO Ron Gilbert's biggest weakness as a writer is mainly that he has a tendency to use fourth wall breaking for everything, including t…

I never heard of the Seiler interpolation algorithm mentioned in the paper before, but the way it uses extra additions and subtractions up-front to turn six interpolations into onl…

This builds on that paper, apparently: > Yuksel [2024] explained how Seiler interpolation can be used to evaluate polynomial curves, including B´ezier curves, and noted that GPU li…

I fail to understand why this should make the lack of US action on gun control any more justifiable. Per your linked article: > But then comes the adjustment the viral chart skips …

> While this is an extremely quick verification, the construction presented in this fashion appears like a massive miracle. The polynomial {F} has degree seven, so a priori the Jac…