The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,497 posts.
Andrej has invited me to write about certain surprising functional programs. The first program, due to Ulrich Berger (1990), performs exhaustive search over the “ Cantor space ” of infinite sequences of binary digits. I have included references at the end. A weak form of exhaustive search amounts to checking whether…
[This is about Symex.el , the Emacs extension for structural editing with Lisp. If you are unfamiliar with Symex, you could read the post introducing it , or TL;DR: just know that “symex” is short for Lisp symbolic expression / S-expression, and this extension provides a full-featured modal interface / Evil state for…
Since around 2009, methamphetamines have been made with phenylacetone (P2P). Is there a chemical different causing schizophrenia?
A miracle occurred this week. Everyone I have talked to about it, myself included, is shocked that it happened. It’s important to Understand what happened.Make sure everyone knows it ha…
Another entry into my blog series on countering misconceptions in space journalism. I discussed this post on The Space Show on November 5 2021. It has been exactly two years since my initial posts …
The HTML standard doesn’t provide web authors the tools required to embed small video files in a screen and bandwidth responsive way. This needs to change.
The Macbook Pro M1 is the software development laptop of choice yet I love my iPad considerably more. I'm all in with my thin client for hipsters. Here’s what I’ve learned over the months and how my baremetal homelab in the sky is setup.
A curated list of underappreciated open-source creators worth sponsoring on GitHub — maintainers whose libraries quietly power the JavaScript ecosystem.
Main software architecture patterns in a nutshell.
The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W has just been released, it's now got three more cores just like the RPi 3, but what is it good for and should you get one?
I spent a few days examining the mechanics of Hacker News (HN) and I discovered some open secrets. “Open” because they’re not private. …
A static site to link people to when their code is displaying Japanese wrong.
If you’re knowledgeable in a technical field, writing a book to teach others a few things can be a rewarding experience on many different levels. With the many avenues available for self-publishing these days, an important question to ask yourself is “Do I need a publisher?”. The answer depends on your particular…
We describe a set of very unusual dice, and a two player game where you will always have the advantage. You can even teach your opponent how the game works, yet still win again! Finally, we will describe a new game for three players where you can expect to beat both players at the same time! Watch James Grime and…
I maintain a VPS which I use to self-host a variety of services that I use: Joplin Server, Seafile , as well as for hosting websites that I develop. For the past few years, that VPS has been managed with Docker Compose, but recently I decided to build something a bit bigger. My goals with the project:
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
“Writing is its own reward.” – Henry Miller Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates new ones. Writing forces you to think. It’s nature’s way of telling you how sloppy your thinking is. The ultimate test of how well you understand something is how clearly you can explain it in writing — clear writers are
Make your own acoustic camera with miniDSP UMA-16 and Acoular
Dreams are newsletters from the deep
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Most C++ programmers rely on "STL" for their data structures. The most popular data structure is probably vector, which is just a dynamic array. The set and the map are other useful ones. The STL data structures are a minimalist design. You have relatively few methods. All of them allow you to compute the size ……
Writing Rust is pretty neat. But you know what’s even neater? Continuously testing Rust, releasing Rust, and eventually, shipping Rust to production. And for that, we want more than plug-in for a c...
This is not a competition, is just to show how to use the hardware with relative efficiency, being the idea is to show something collaborative rather than competitive.
Can history help us make sense of the term 'RESTful API'?
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Update (2021-10-31): DuckDuckGo now includes results for Wikivoyage again, as do Bing and Yahoo. I have been planning a long due vacation and I was doing some research into the places I wanted to visit. My goto travel guide is Wikivoyage: it’s well organised, text-heavy (instead of slideshow-heavy alternatives) and…
