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manu3000··on Coldkey – Post-quantum age key generation and paper backup tool
record now, decrypt later?
manu3000··on Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
Marcel Duchamp
manu3000··on Turgot Map of Paris
one can see the Bastille fortress!
manu3000··on The power of interoperability: Why objects are inevitable (2013) [pdf]
Good to read alongside William Cook's On Understanding Data Abstraction https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf
manu3000··on Websites Every Aspiring Programmer Should Visit at Least Once
a great blog on programming languages: https://matt.might.net/articles/
manu3000··on Personnal data of 33M people in France leaked
there may be dead people data in there
manu3000··on Obesity drugs have another superpower: taming inflammation
i thought it led to muscle loss as well as fat loss, muscle loss being undesirable ?
manu3000··on The Ur Programming Language Family
Also see Wadler’s Links and OCaml/Ocsigen for inline xml fragments, and client + server code generation
manu3000··on Learn Datalog Today
you can use Datalig within Flix https://flix.dev/
manu3000··on Positive news from 2023
https://www.positive.news/
manu3000··on Simone Weil’s Great Awakening
For French speakers, France culture has 2 series of podcasts on Weil:

* https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-avoi...

* https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/serie-simo...

For English speakers, Enlightened By Love: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil (5 hours): https://www.davidcayley.com/podcasts/2014/11/30/1msu5jd829w2...

I can also recommend the already mentioned "Philosophize This!" podcast

As for her writings, I enjoyed these short pieces:

* The Power of Words

* The Iliad, or the Poem of Force

* Écrits historiques et politiques (fr) https://cras31.info/IMG/pdf/simone_weil_-_ecrits_1_--_histor...

manu3000··on Ask HN: Best value computer science book?
Hard to beat the scope of "The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles": https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P... The website is here: https://www.nand2tetris.org/
manu3000··on Leslie Lamport revolutionized computer science with math [video]
an introductory blog: https://matt.might.net/articles/partial-orders/
manu3000··on Beautiful ideas in programming: generators and continuations
Oleg has written a lot about this: http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/

you can also google "oliver danvy delimited continuations" or "felleisen delimited continuations"

manu3000··on Tony Hoare answers questions [video]
The OP said Hoare had invented null (which is true), not that it was one of his achievement.
manu3000··on Reading Grossman's “Stalingrad” and ”Life and Fate”
Victor Frankl discusses the psychological makeup of kapos in "Man's Search for Meaning"
manu3000··on Golang generics proposal has been accepted
no, overloading functions is called "ad hoc polymorphism", whereas generics is called "parametric polymorphism"
manu3000··on Neil Postman on Cyberspace (1995) [video]
i recommend it, it’s a great read. Fascinating to hear how literate US society was 100 years ago
manu3000··on David Graeber has died
> to impose the majority's will on the minority.

this is what democracy is about

manu3000··on Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language
also similar is why3 http://why3.lri.fr/
manu3000··on Can We Pull Back from the Brink?
https://phys.org/news/2020-07-white-people-black-police.html debunks Harris and Trump’s claim
manu3000··on Ask HN: Great programming language features, other languages should steal?
algebraic data types and parametric polymorphism, so you can define an option type for computations that fails and get rid of nulls
manu3000··on Ask HN: I want to make school more afforadable
get into politics
manu3000··on Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera
Can you please post a link to this?
manu3000··on Ask HN: How can I help towards Covid-19?
stay at home
manu3000··on Ask HN: What podcast(s) changed your life?
I discovered podcasts late, about 2 years ago, and now religiously tune in during my commute

I started with "In Our Time", recommended for the quality of the guests, the variety of subjects and number of episodes (near 900)

At the moment I switch between these 3:

"The Age of Napoleon" (https://podbay.fm/podcast/1223795973) and "Revolutions" (https://podbay.fm/podcast/703889772) rekindled my interest for History, especially the 19th century.

"The History of Literature" (https://podbay.fm/podcast/1048375034)

manu3000··on On Binary Search
a fun exercise is to write this in Dafny https://github.com/dafny-lang/dafny

It's simple enough to be attempted with a limited knowledge of Dafny, but subtle enough that you will need to think about what you are doing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_tx3lk7yn4

manu3000··on Books on Napoleon
The Age of Napoleon is another good one: https://recordedhistory.net/the-age-of-napoleon/
manu3000··on An Intern's Experience with Rust
> you can't do multi-line lambdas because whitespace sensitive languages are awful.

like Haskell ?

manu3000··on Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)
the big 3 are "Notes from the underground", "Crime and Punishment", "The brothers Karamazov" (from this podcast https://historyofliterature.com/169-dostoevsky/)
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