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A reasonable overview of Urbit…
Another look at (old) Distributed Systems
Remember watching this talk by Michael Bernstein many years ago, and some good things are worth revisiting, so I re-watched it today. It’s backed by some reading material too. Part 1 These days I’m…
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It's one thing to find evidence of an impact on Mars. It's another thing to find water and ice on Mars. It's a whole other thing to find evidence of a mega-tsunami on Mars. gizmodo.com/m…
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An amusing anecdote from a HN comment: > When I joined Sun in '86 I thought it was the pinnacle of technological excellence to be a kernel programmer, and I joined the Systems Group, the notio…
Monthly Curations — November 2022
* A new space station lives! * Looking at structures found in the Azores * A stock-sentiment-tracking service built on Lisp * Great old forth blog (from about 15 years…
On Madness
From an article in the Tablet: Entire nations can go insane. Here’s a way to test if we’re headed that way: Watch five minutes of TikTok—anything related to politics, beauty tips, or social justice.…
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A psychedelic take on generative AIs: return.life/2022/06/2...…
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A somewhat off-trace but to-my-taste wish-list: www.otherlife.co/gifts/…
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A review of “non-C-based” operating systems: https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/29/non_c_operating_systems/…
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A comparison between languages > I’ve noodled on it for a bit now, and I think the reason I like forth and scheme and other languages with something like a repl is because when I start a new proje…
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A note on pedagogy of programming: web.archive.org/web/20050...…
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Obligatory Octopus post -- this time, an explanation for their brain complexity that suggests a possible common factor for all complex brains: an expansion in the variety of microRNA www.mdc-berlin.d…