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asangha··on Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library
>sine_wave.colors[::3] = "red"

I never knew I needed this until now

asangha··on Quantum Katas
Practice coding in Q#
asangha··on Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds
Thanks for this Berman reference.
asangha··on Repair and Remain (2022)
This is great point that demonstrates how to read ethically.
asangha··on On Tolstoy's “War and Peace”
Great quotation; reminds me of Nassim Taleb's remarks on planning in "Antifragile".
asangha··on On Tolstoy's “War and Peace”
Did you mean Herbert's "Dune"? Or did the movie diverge from the book?
asangha··on On Tolstoy's “War and Peace”
I never finished this novel, but the juxtaposition of social maneuvers and war struck me early in the story.
asangha··on The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (2009)
The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage — management.

https://www.amazon.com/Dilbert-Principle-Cubicles-Eye-Manage...

asangha··on How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State Machine
JS Harel Statecharts: https://github.com/burrows/statechart.js
asangha··on Dev Bootcamp is shutting down
This is fake news.
asangha··on Ask HN: Are decentralised webapps the future?
"The room for exactly where decentralized code execution gives a 10-X advantage over centralized code execution is not yet obvious to me. I don’t know what that application is." -- Balaji Srinivasan, from https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/04/21/21-with-bala...
asangha··on 40 year old study could have reshaped American diet, was never fully published
Gary Taubes wrote a great book showing how politics marred nutritional science: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Scienc...
asangha··on A Look at the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Evidently from the article, humans are different from other animals in that we are concerned with concepts like "purpose".