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earleybird··on Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML
Ordered choice may cause a PEG parser to fail where a CFG parser would recognize the string.
earleybird··on An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations
Field research from some time ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqTt_jDDCio
earleybird··on Tim Curry has died
Dick Van Dyke for President!
earleybird··on The "File" menu isn't about files
Did you do a backup :-)
earleybird··on Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone
Merry Christmas
earleybird··on AI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident
These agents are acting on behalf of a person. Charge that person with a crime.
earleybird··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
You get a Saucerfull of Secrets :-)
earleybird··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
I can't take the argument seriously when they ask "Pop quiz: You’re going to get hit by something coming at you at 50 miles per hour; given equal mass, would you rather that be a small object, or a large object?"

Either way you're dead.

earleybird··on Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt
Well, Chekov is not Scotty
earleybird··on Michael Keating has died
And both Charles Keating (actor) and Charles Keating (Lincoln Savings & Loan) passed away in 2014 :-)
earleybird··on As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work
It's possible that Adams was expanding on an Alan Kay quote "Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born"
earleybird··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
Depth of use over the lifetime of an app is a quality all its own that often not appreciated. A recurring pattern at $dayjob is that a new manager or director will join a business unit and declare an existing app as the worst terrible, no good, horrible app they've seen and they're going to fix that. A year and a half later the new app is finally delivered with 80% of the original functionality and a fresh set of bugs. The new dev team sees the surface functionality but misses a lot of the hard earned nuance the old system accrued over time. This is a pattern that existed long before LLMs.
earleybird··on Bring Your Agent to Teams
Now add a retention policy of 30 days. Business memory lived in those emails and now it's 50 First Dates
earleybird··on Elevated errors on login with Claude Code
someone vibed a production push
earleybird··on Simple screw counter
In a similar vein: https://www.youtube.com/@christopherhelmke
earleybird··on You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer
It's running his Signal chats.

You didn't get the invite???

earleybird··on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
A question we all have to ask ourselves. What would I trade for efficiency?
earleybird··on Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video]
Is that you Molesworth???
earleybird··on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
And still fatal

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/pedestrian-dead-aft...

In this case it was a bicycle and not an ebike. That said, anecdotally, many ebikes I see regularly travel faster than the people powered versions

earleybird··on Cognitive load is what matters
The Amanda solution is the intuitively obvious to even the casual reader. The Einstein solution is quite succinct but takes years to understand all the nuance in the one liner. :-)

I appreciate both for different reasons.

earleybird··on Claude Code Checkpoints
Pretty much bang on. I do have to remind myself that discipline in commit messages helps future me.
earleybird··on Stackless Traversal (2018)
Admittedly only gave a quick skim but essentially looks like Deutsch-Schorr-Waite.
earleybird··on I Messed Up My Google PM Vibe Coding Interview
Thanks for the chuckle - you know there's more than one marketing guy out there who will say in all seriousness "I can do that for you" :-)
earleybird··on Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf]
I checked in with Scribble as he did the typesetting. He apologizes for the error but says working without opposable thumbs makes the work more challenging.
earleybird··on Introducing Qodo Gen CLI: Build and Run Coding Agents Anywhere in the SDLC
Not to be confused with the protocol :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_Data_Link_Control

earleybird··on We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s, only nobody knew
LRP?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project

earleybird··on Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021)
Say it aint so. I learned all about lasers from Britney.

https://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

earleybird··on Alberta separatism push roils Canada
Let's not forget the Salmon Arm salute :-)
earleybird··on AI Agents Must Follow the Law
The authors concoct a Rube Goldberg legal framework on the assumption that an AI agent is acting as an independent legal entity. A straightforward way would be to say that any AI agent is acting on behalf of someone and that someone is who shall be held accountable.
earleybird··on Cardiac: A CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation [pdf]
It give me the concrete basis for "being the computer" that I put to use a year or two later programming assembler on a PDP-8I

:-)

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