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  • stibium2 months, 4 weeks ago | link | | on The Tribes of Tierra del Fuego | source

    There's something eerie and brilliant about these photographs.

  • epilys4 months, 2 weeks ago | link | | on Folded diamond has been discovered in a rare type of meteorite | source

    I don't quite understand what folded means in this context, is it that the molecular crystal structure is deformed without breaking?

  • rhn_mk15 months, 1 week ago | link | | on Book club: Hell is the Absence of God - Ted Chiang | source

    That went fast! Without disclosing too much details, it was interesting enough that I read it in one breath.

  • rhn_mk15 months, 2 weeks ago | link | | on Book club: Exhalation - Ted Chiang | source

    I've finished too.

    Since no one announced that they started reading, I'll start the spoilery discussion.

    "The universe began as an enormous breath being held." delighted me. The story is about entropy, or, if you will, about the ultimate end, but it still manages to put some hope and poetry into that situation, rather than sliding into pointlessness and looking for external validation (although it kind of does the latter by invoking aliens).

    There was much less focus on that, but the observation "where is my body?" is quite salient. People tend to think that there's a border between "me" and "not me", whether it's the border of meat/nonmeat, or soul/body. But this seems all arbitrary, and I think it's fluid. If a prosthetic can be "me", then why not a wheelchair, and if a wheelchair, why not my glasses, or my bed, or family?

    Sometimes I think we individualized ourselves too much and forgot that alone, we're worth very little. How often do you hear "I've earned all of this alone"? We're ants, and an anthill is a superorganism.

  • epilys5 months, 2 weeks ago | link | | on Book club: Exhalation - Ted Chiang | source

    This was an enjoyable read, thank you for sharing it. Some random stuff that I thought about while reading the story:

    • Human vision compensates for visual input latency by combining recent input with past input https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.722.842&rep=rep1&type=pdf
    • Implementing boolean logic circuits with air (pneumatics) https://www.powermotiontech.com/home/article/21122363/basics-of-pneumatic-logic
  • stibium9 months, 2 weeks ago | link | | on Persepolis Reimagined in WebGL | source

    Truly magnificent.

  • epilys10 months ago | link | | on BQN: finally, an APL for your flying saucer | source

    Impressive. I like this collection of snippets: https://mlochbaum.github.io/bqncrate/ (/u/eris might like it)

  • vladimyr11 months, 2 weeks ago | link | | on Services in OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP | source

    I like that definition! It is very much relevant and still going strong: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/extensions/services/

  • epilys11 months, 2 weeks ago | link | | on Services in OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP | source

    What an interesting concept. It's sort of like an application IPC for GUIs- marvelous! I can see it being relevant in a today's integrated desktop environment.

  • vladimyr11 months, 2 weeks ago | link | | on The web of names, hashes and UUIDs | source

    To be honest I didn't even notice it but anyway it has been published using GitHub pages so source is also available here and also in its raw form.

  • epilys11 months, 2 weeks ago | link | | on The web of names, hashes and UUIDs | source

    Needs js to display static content... Thankfully the plain text cache works

    Interesting link!

  • vladimyr11 months, 2 weeks ago | link | | on The problems with hard wrapping email body text | source

    Personally, I'm in a format=flowed camp, and the inability to author such emails through Gmail's web interface, as is the case with many others, is really unfortunate.

    An even better idea is a combination of markdown and format=flowed like MailMate does: https://blog.freron.com/2011/thoughts-on-writing-emails-using-markdown/

  • epilys11 months, 2 weeks ago | link | | on The problems with hard wrapping email body text | source

    Having authored an email client, I have to agree with the article's points; Use either:

    • format flowed, or
    • one line per paragraph
  • epilys11 months, 3 weeks ago | link | | on `export default thing` is different to `export { thing as default }` | source

    Gotcha's all the way down! Thanks for posting!

  • vladimyr1 year ago | link | | on peg-bootstrap/peg.md at master · kragen/peg-bootstrap | source

    Found it also under their personal space at canonical.org server: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/peg-bootstrap/

  • river1 year ago | link | | on Hard code golf: Regex for divisibility by 7 | source

    https://stackoverflow.com/a/13223927

  • epilys1 year ago | link | | on Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch | source

    Yeah, I wonder what choices their made for their kernel, userspace, etc. Really interested to see how they solved the various challenges and problems that rise up in osdev.

  • river1 year ago | link | | on 29-year-old Conway conjecture settled | source

    https://conwaylife.com/book/

  • cfenollosa1 year ago | link | | on Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch | source

    It's a completely new operating system, written from scratch!

  • epilys1 year ago | link | | on Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch | source

    I'm interested in the technical details; what makes this different except for the UI theme? Really excited to see it!

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