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shoggouth··on A Spreadsheet and a Debugger Walk into a Shell
Could you elaborate?
shoggouth··on Debugging in the Multiverse
Is this like UndoDB[0]?

[0]: https://undo.io/products/udb/

shoggouth··on Having a Child with Down Syndrome Changed the Way I Think About IQ
Thank you!
shoggouth··on Ask HN: Any Recommendations Around Programming on an iPad?
Get a good SSH app and connect to SDF[0] (which is NetBSD).

[0]: https://sdf.org/

shoggouth··on What Is Post-Quantum Cryptography? – NIST
In case anyone wants to check out NTRU.

"NTRU encryption algorithm, is an NTRU lattice-based alternative to RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and is based on the shortest vector problem in a lattice (which is not known to be breakable using quantum computers)."[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTRUEncrypt

shoggouth··on Show HN: D&D meets Siri – Interactive voice adventure
Thank you so much for creating this! I have been wanting something like this forever.

Please consider the potential for this - I think you could make something really fun and something people would be willing to pay for.

But the problem is you need a world someone else created (or one you painstakingly create yourself). You could consider Conan's Hyborian Age, H.P. Lovecraft, Sherlock Holmes, or Peter Watt's work[0] for a known world that is public domain to base your project on.

Best of luck!

[0]: https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm

shoggouth··on Spice: Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig
List of limitations of the project: https://github.com/judofyr/spice?tab=readme-ov-file#limitati...
shoggouth··on Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
It also will be available via Amazon after August 20, 2024.

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Compiler-Programming-Language...

shoggouth··on It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis
Non-paywalled: https://archive.ph/20240810233702/https://www.thetimes.com/u...
shoggouth··on Base 3 Computing Beats Binary
Thought I would link to the Wikipedia page for ternary computers[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

shoggouth··on Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
Thanks for working to create such a great language!
shoggouth··on I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go
I was under the impression that patents aren’t enforceable on open source projects. I assume I am wrong?
shoggouth··on The rich history of ham radio culture
Young Ellie: Dad, do you think there's people on other planets?

Ted Arroway: I don't know, Sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space.

shoggouth··on An approach to the fundamental theory of physics
This is a good introduction to it by Stephen Wolfram himself[0].

[0]: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...

shoggouth··on Complex systems emerge from simple rules
Other people might be interested in Stephen Wolfram's approach to physics[0].

[0]: https://wolframphysics.org/

shoggouth··on Student uses black soldier flies to grow pea plants in simulated Martian soil
Dandelions… my mistake.
shoggouth··on Virginia Woolf's list-making
https://archive.ph/20240712074941/https://www.ft.com/content...
shoggouth··on Student uses black soldier flies to grow pea plants in simulated Martian soil
I have been trying to find a paper for two decades on how daffodils mutate at a higher rate in cities to adapt. Could never find it again… hopefully my memory is not playing tricks on me.
shoggouth··on AI's $600B Question
In my opinion Elsevier and others charging for access to academic publications has held back the advancement of humanity to a lower exponential acceleration into the future at a considerable factor. Think of how cancer could have been cured a decade ago if information was allowed to flow freely from the 50's forward - if anyone could have read scientific publications for free. I have no respect for people that want to protect the moat around information that could be used to advance humanity.
shoggouth··on Woman set up a table to share her collection of washers. Nothing was for sale
That’s awesome! Good for her! She seems super interesting.
shoggouth··on Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?
Could you talk more about “BTW: perl is much better than python on this.”?
shoggouth··on Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships
So you see the marketing point of ChatGPT to be conversational ads?
shoggouth··on Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python
Doesn’t IBM/Red Hat own Ansible and Fedora CoreOS? I would think they would mix together perfectly.
shoggouth··on OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role
Is that related to GlobalFoundries?
shoggouth··on Zero-k: A libre sci-fi RTS game, with an economy based on metal and energy
Does Zero-k or another SpringRTS game support "strategic zoom" or building structures/units with real-time debt (as in you can construct a unit that requires 10000 mineral when you are only making 600 a minute) such as Supreme Commander?
shoggouth··on Opusmodus: Common Lisp Music Composition System
Also there is Impromptu[0], a live coding Scheme. This is my favorite piece written in it[1]. The guy behind Impromptu created Extempore[2].

[0]: http://impromptu.moso.com.au/index.html

[1]: https://vimeo.com/2579694

[2]: https://extemporelang.github.io/

shoggouth··on Morris worm
Robert Tappan Morris (the creator of this, the first internet 'worm') is the cofounder of ViaWeb and YCombinator with Paul Graham.
shoggouth··on Cleo, the Mysterious Math Menace
Awesome TikTok about her[0].

[0]: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8hGBwyu/