the #English phrase “try and” thoroughly analyzed grammatically
discussion of #simonw’s “lethal trifecta” talk about #AI #neural-networks #security
the meaning of “let it crash” in #Erlang and #Elixir, and when you should do otherwise #fault-tolerance
discussion of “let it crash” in #Erlang and #Elixir #fault-tolerance
Joe Armstrong’s #dissertation on #Erlang and #fault-tolerance, “Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors” #toread
Joe Armstrong answering Luke Gorrie about “let it crash” #Erlang #fault-tolerance
the resistance of a shaft to twisting scales as the fourth power of its diameter! #mechanisms #physics
100 CLI application recommendations: Whisper, git, make, dust (disk usage), aria2 (downloader), zoxide (cd), asciinema, LZ4, ffmpeg, gcc, bat, radio-active, inxi (system metadata summary), mpv, pandoc, openssh, cheat.sh (cheatsheet access), onefetch, clamav, coreutils, ps_mem, TLP, ddrescue, rclone, restic, just, ripgrep, firejail, mcfly (^R with a neural network), localtunnel, nmap, GoTTY (webify CLI tools), tar, HTTPie, mitmproxy, GnuPG, howdoi, beets (with MusicBrainz), ImageMagick, diff-so-fancy, parted, exa (ls alternative), Unison, pet, tldr, Qalculate!, scrot, scc, MyCLI (better CLI for MariaDB), streamlink, ddgr (DuckDuckGo), trash-cli, ttygif (ttyrec→GIF), yank, SoX, zsh, fig, hexyl, insect (another scientific calculator), taskwarrior, yt-dlp, NcFTP, SVGO, watson, dog (dig with DoH), fail2ban, pgcli (better CLI for Postgres), fd (finder), toot, povray, fdupes, croc, himalaya, gnuplot, nethogs (for watching bandwidth), f3 (testing counterfeit Flash), glow (machine learning compiler), entr (file change watcher), gifsicle, cookiecutter, apt, abcde, jq, exiftool, jrnl, progress, hyperfine, hledger, s (the web search utility), SpamAssassin, Jupyter console, gh (a GitHub interface), difftastic, Miller, Chafa, DocToc, transfer.sh (file sharing), buku, usql (universal SQL shell).
apparently NcFTP is free software now? This is the “clarified artistic license” which I haven’t reviewed
Discussion of #AI emulation of the dead and whether and how to stop it
more about legacy admissions, “holistic” #admissions, #racism, etc.
#Windsurf #AI CEO went to Google, the OpenAI deal fell apart. Last month’s #news
Cognition #AI (Devin) bought #Windsurf after Google hired their top management away
Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future” #fiction. Review by Michael Svoboda is CC-BY-NC-ND
#history of #Novartis research in the early 21st century. #toread
Hudson River Trading forked #Python to add “lazy imports” for startup #performance #toread
“"Cinder" is Meta’s internal #performance oriented production version of CPython 3.10. It contains a number of performance optimizations, including bytecode inline caching, eager evaluation of coroutines, a method-at-a-time JIT, and an experimental bytecode compiler that uses type annotations to emit type-specialized bytecode that performs better in the JIT.” #Python
#Simonw’s talk slides about the "lethal trifecta", discussing #CaMeL, etc. #neural-networks #security #AI
#Bitchat #decentralization testing at a music festival. Mobile internet “as usual” was not working most of the time. Bitchat also didn’t work most of the time, in fact nearly at all. “Kudos to @jack, @calle and other contributors working on the project. I hope my report will provide you valuable info for further work.”
notes on #Zig #syntax. Apparently break W causes the loop expression to return W!
deep discussion #toread of bash and zsh command-line completion APIs, etc.
Lougheed and McCubbrey’s "Cytocomputer" #paper from 01980. #PDF #toread
Rutenbar, Mudge, and Atkins did #cytocomputer follow-on work in 01983, calling it “raster pipeline subarrays”, using it for design rule checks and (electronic design) routing, and published this tech report #paper #PDF. #toread
Mudge, Rutenbar, Lougheed, and Atkins wrote another #cytocomputer #paper in 01982. #PDF #toread
#video on pogo pins (50¢–100¢ each!) for programming a mass-production #electronics board without paying for a connector
#PostScript level 3 reference manual #documentation #ebook #PDF
LinuxFocus article on #PostScript from 01999
#Don-Lancaster’s #tutorial #documentation for his #PostScript utility routines. #PDF
#Don-Lancaster’s #PostScript Secrets columns from Computer Shopper. 140 pages of cute hacks. #PDF
the first alloy steel. #metallurgy #materials #history
how #teflon #materials self-extinguish when you remove the flame source
apparently the US no longer has any battleships since 02011, having initially deactivated them in 01947 #weaponry
“US holding fire on rail gun development but China takes aim with planned tests” by Stephen Chen in February 02022, quoting “Wang Xiaohe, a researcher at the China Huayin Ordnance Test Centre in the northwestern province of Shaanxi” #weaponry