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numeromanceron Lambda the Ultimate is now running in a new, more stable environment

It finally came up but the links to older articles are dead.

numeromanceron Whytheluckystiff's original domain back as an archive

Why, indeed.

numeromanceron Embracer enters into agreement to acquire The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit IP

Another vulture picking at the flesh.

numeromanceron The end of Optane is bad news

Are you thinking of something like this?:

https://www.unison-lang.org/

numeromanceron Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)

David Lynch directing The Lord of the Rings would be a fascinating experiment. Lynch would make the experience of the Ring-bearer, in particular, sublime.

numeromanceron Pronunciation Guide for Unix

The latest pronunciation is "n'vim". Cf "n'wah".

numeromanceron Pronunciation Guide for Unix

Urbit has made it's own (characteristically idiosyncratic) syllabary for ASCII symbol pronumciation:

https://developers.urbit.org/guides/core/hoon-school/A-intro...

numeromanceron A sketch of the biggest idea in software architecture

Like a glass jar that has been dropped onto a stone floor.

numeromanceron Common libraries and data structures for C

In C, whenever any part of the creature needs to do some thinking, it grows its own small head to do just enough thinking to get by, and then goes about its business. The process is simple, but the result is often Cthulhic.

numeromanceron Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?

It's hard to mature when you never stop growing.

numeromanceron Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians

"All hate is hate, but some hate is more hate than others."

-- Hypocrite Valley

numeromanceron Russian news channel RT to broadcast on Rumble after Big Tech curbs

Should "we" force you to label your posts as "activism" rather than "information" or "discussion"?

numeromanceron I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer

Cats. Lots and lots of cats.

numeromanceron An underrated idea: the priority view

Imagine that the Imagination Quotient is a number between 0 and 1, with 0 being the inability to imagine even what you're looking at, and 1 representing the ability to imagine a real thing unseen in full detail. The Imagination Quotient required to imagine that someone's utility is 80 is would be an proper imaginary number.

numeromanceron An underrated idea: the priority view

> "Imagine that the gifted boy has a total utility of 80,..."

Argument discarded.

numeromanceron IPv4 addresses are silly, inet_aton(3) doubly so

> may be decimal, octal, or hexadecimal, as specified in the C language (i.e., a leading 0x or 0X implies hexadecimal; otherwise, a leading 0 implies octal; otherwise, the number is interpreted as decimal)

I really want this convention to die.

numeromanceron YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

The accumulation of "chilling effects" has now become a deep-freeze.

numeromanceron The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

No, it was prescribed by his doctor.

Which brings up another point: some pharmacies are refusing to fill it, even when prescribed by a doctor. If you want to place the blame for people getting "horse dewormer", such pharmacies deserve part of the blame.

numeromanceron Freenode ops take control of 700 channels

I doubt that they are stupid, so one must conclude that the purpose was to silence speach, not profit from it.

numeromanceron Master List of Logical Fallacies (2018)

Since the author doesn't even know what a logical fallacy is, he has no reason not to continue to add whatever itches him as a "fallacy".

numeromanceron Master List of Logical Fallacies (2018)

Like most of the entries in the article's silly list, this is not a "fallacy", formal nor informal; one does not invalidate a particular argument just by "thinking too much".

numeromanceron Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

In particular, this was an analogy used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck vs United States. The act which he compared to "shouting fire in a crowded theatre" was passing out leaflets opposing the draft, ie the government's power to force people to go to a war by which the American people were not threatened.

numeromanceron Riot is now Element

Maybe they should have called it "Protest".

numeromanceron Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe

> which end of a hammer to grip to drive a screw

I must confess that I don't know which end of a hammer to grip to drive a screw.

numeromanceron Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor

  We dance round in a ring and suppose,
  But the secret sits in the middle, and knows.

numeromanceron Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)

I though he was being clever; "egregiously" means "in a manner consistent with being out of the herd". Bad or offensive for the goat-herd maybe, but perhaps not for the goat.

numeromanceron The “10,000 Hours of Practice” Myth

This definition is better than the others, given the origin of this use of the word "talent".

numeromanceron Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (2009) [pdf]

IBM: OS/2?

numeromanceron Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?

Pari:

http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/pari.git

I prefer the early versions, before it was softened up for the vulgo.

numeromanceron Doing One Thing, Well: The Unix Philosophy

> Another interesting idea to come out of the computing world around that time was the saying “worse is better“. Although this idea wasn’t a direct relative of the Unix philosophy, it’s certainly similar. The idea references the fact that additional features or complexity doesn’t necessarily make things better, and a “worse” project — one with fewer features and less complexity — is actually better because it will tend to be more reliable and usable.

I don't think that this is an accurate description of "worse is better". I've always taken it as being a bit (or more) tongue-in-cheek. Sort of an analogy to the saying that a lie can travel half-way around the world before the truth can get its boots on, but going on the say that a lie is therefore better because its faster.