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It’s a bit like how the end point of the most wildly successful music is that you hear it on a loop in the grocery store

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I remember noting "djot" when John M. created it but hadn't really looked into it before now. After reading through the design goals and differences from Markdown, I can see we'd h…

Ironically, my confidence that a human had at least an active part in writing/editing this article went up because of this train wreck of a sentence: > "A cache-aware model router …

If there were any upsides to brexit I've never heard what they were. (Though, also: not a brit)

As someone curious about subscribing: why did you end your subscription?

I take the opposite approach, I refuse to whitelist domains. When someone internal complains I send a notice to their contact on the other end (CCing the internal recipient) saying…

I have this site’s rss feed in my feed reader. I definitely don’t try to keep up with every post but once a week or so I click through a dozen or so recent posts.

No mention of using this with CarPlay...

And in assembler and machine code before that! I'm persuaded that just about every language is "homoiconic" and that _bicameral syntax_ is the actually-interesting thing about Lisp…

Anyone got any advice for a techy dad with no (zero) Minecraft experience who wants to set up a Minecraft server for the family in 2026? Kids right now are playing on their iPads, …

"he's rich therefore he has no incentive to scam anyone" is not a good heuristic, though it will help you get a degree from Trump University.

Moby Dick has a bad (high) ratio of “people who try to read it like a thriller novel” to “people who read it for what it is”.

Again, Codeberg isn’t obscure. Worrying about front page HN links “confusing” others because you haven’t heard of something is about the silliest thing I have read on this site.

Consider that maybe you haven’t heard of all the things that HN readers find interesting.

> When considering the reasons for a language, look at the negation. Nobody writes a language to be "unapproachable"… Nobody really wants to stick "non-extensible" on their languag…

This seems like a good set of ideas if you can guarantee that you'll never have false alarms. I've had too many birds in warehouses and employees forgetting their codes to feel com…

Ah but what about ( dun dun dun ) “innovation”

I'm also on the $100 max plan. I let Fable rip on a complicated issue involving hot-reloading modules in a GUI app built with Racket, it's fixed a couple issues over the last hour,…

But it doesn't, because none of those systems are presenting SQLite to the user as something they should be using; they don't even make SQLite available to the user at all. Those s…

…and iOS, and Windows, and Mac OS, and Boeing, and Sony, and Firefox and Chrome and Safari…

> My technopolitics faction – the faction associated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where I've worked for a quarter-century – has an answer: the role of encryption is to …

David Gelernter describes a theory of consciousness and creativity that explains why this works in his book “The Muse in the Machine”. I recommend it to everyone.

This sounds like you don’t have much exposure to actual professional engineering disciplines. I’m sure civil, electrical, structural and mechanical PEs would be quite surprised to …