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Does it? I’m a regular WhatsApp user and haven’t touched any other Meta app in a long time. Easy to forget that they’re connected.

Per [1], Zig seems to have its own C compiler (AFAICT it's not just a frontend to an existing one)

[1] https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...

Find me on LinkedIn (a hop or two from my profile page here) and I’ll give you early access if you’re up for giving some feedback

Re the viable system model, I can recommend Dan Davis, The Unaccountability Machine, which also touches on the Allende story, and Patrick Hoverstadt, The Fractal Organisation. My own VSM-inspired book with a modern complexity lens will be published next year.

Why F# there?

(2016)

> If a farm generates £50k of income per annum, what makes it worth the £3 mm at which UK inheritance tax will likely become payable?

Answer: it is worth the £3 mm only because land prices have been inflated by people purchasing land for tax planning purposes. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the governent’s solution, the market has been distorted by an anomaly in the tax system.

I’m getting certificate errors. Is there a better URL?

Yes, but it seemed a little ironic in context. But now you mention it, the piece does stroke its core audience nicely ;-)

“Defending that claim isn’t really the main focus of this post, but a couple pieces of legible evidence which are weakly in favor”

Re the word “afford” (a nod I suspect to “affordance”), see Don Norman’s classic The Design of Everyday Things and Jenny Davis, How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things.

> Their engines were mainly 2.5-liters in size and usually naturally aspirated with roughly 150 horsepower. Sure, they were down on power, and efficiency compared to other cars; however, they could easily outlast the competition.

This piece is just ridiculous. 2.5 litre engines are not the norm in Europe and I don’t think they are in Japan either. Along with its comments on hybrids, I think the article is just waking up to what cars are like in the rest of the world, where Toyotas were and still are very reliable. I’ve owned four, three of them hybrids. Likely my next car too.

And are you writing meanwhile?

Via @simonw.

> PS: Write and publish before you write your own static site generator or perfect blogging platform. We have lost billions of good writers to this side quest because they spend all their time working on the platform instead of writing.

> The eukaryotes invented organization, if we use the literal definition of “organize”: to be furnished with organs

I write about organisations, and I had never considered that! I wonder if that fits with the historical bias towards functional organisation. (And functionalism in sociology, but I undestand that to be discredited now)

2012 is a very long time ago given LLMs. Curious, I asked Google if it still used Google Knowledge Graph and got this answer: “Google's search results sometimes show information that comes from our Knowledge Graph”.

A little more info here: https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/9787176?hl=....

> The joke I always like to make is that in the US everything is legal unless the government legislates to say you can't

Guess where the US got that from? Yes, the UK, and it still applies.

I went from MacBook Air to Pro mainly for the sake of a dedicated, dongle-free HDMI port. Your mileage may vary, but I found USB just too unreliable when going from place to place for speaking and training engagements, to the point that it became a source of stress.

Having a play now with the tutorial [1] – works great!

[1] https://svelte.dev/tutorial/svelte/welcome-to-svelte

I sometimes think it would be fun to do “do: ... where:/while/until”, wherein the “where” part does local bindings.

Right! And the forms too? Got to say though, even if it doesn't do the html generation that WTForms does, it seems the better split.

Oh, SQLModel [1] looks interesting – hadn't seen that before. For apps with html front ends, are people replacing WTForms?

[1] https://github.com/fastapi/sqlmodel

“Gleam is a statically-typed language, meaning you must declare the type of a variable before using it.”

That second part is wrong. Gleam has type inference.

In our household we call them “parking tokens”. We use cash for little else.

The article is better than the headline might suggest. Key paragraph:

> It’s not just the performance of NVLM, but Nvidia’s decision to make it available as an open-source project. The likes of OpenAI, Claude, and Google aren’t expected to do that anytime soon. Nvidia’s approach could benefit AI researchers and smaller firms, as they’d get access to a seemingly powerful multimodal LLM without having to pay for it.

Unless the title is internationalised somehow (possible, but I doubt it), it's "4.76" in the original article. That's what happens when submitters editorialise ;-)

His “Debt: The first 5,000 years” is excellent also

Ha! That seems to answer my next question: what’s its story for web development? Does it have one?

> Update 2024-09-17, 7:10 p.m.

> After further investigation, we found that this bug has already existed at least since macOS 14.5 Sonoma (maybe even earlier, but we currently don’t have access to an older 14.x system for testing).

> I do not like Consider Phlebas

One of my favourites! Excession most of all though. Agree with starting with Player of Games.