Kernighan's lever in action for me at the moment. Wrote a Luau bytecode interpreter in ~2 days with just Copilot, now set to spend the next ~2 weeks debugging it to improve my skill level.

Kernighan's lever

Ever have a dream, not like a nightmare but just one so odd it puts you off going back to sleep?

It's so lost on me, but I can't stop thinking about Urbit. Its deliberately idiosyncratic design decisions (0 = true, difficult to understand for anyone not technically competent, planets being named such that it's difficult to tell what their galaxy is) means that I don't think it'll ever take over the world, certainly not anytime soon. But think about what technologies will still exist in 100 years. - The internet? Most likely. Most large companies on it? Probably not so much. - Big, established networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum? Yeah. Smaller ones like Monero and Litecoin? Hmm, less of a chance. - Fundamental protocols like TCP/UDP/IP/HTTP? Probably. Smaller ones like Nostr? There are reasons I'm here, but overall I have my doubts. - Ubiquitous programming languages like C and JavaScript? Of course, they're everywhere. Smaller ones like Go/Lua/Rust? A few might still be around. Clearly the more a technology is used, the more likely it is to seem like it'll stick around. If a system is designed to stand the test of time, then that obviously helps. Try extending the time to what will still exist in, say, 200 years. It's a fun thought experiment. Is Urbit on this list? Ehh, I have no idea, but it seems to have potential. In physics, lots of quantities for electricity need their own specific units because they're so unintuitive, unlike other quantities. Urbit, with its gigantic glossary of terms, is similar in this way. I don't have a way to end this post, Urbit has just been on my mind recently. It's mesmerising hierarchy much reflects the mind of its creator as a hierarchical thinker, which I find more difficult to grok as a someone on the other end of the thought spectrum.

Pretty-printing of an array had me searching for a bug that didn't exist for a solid hour because I assumed the keys were sequential (note [5])...

Github really has been recommending AOSP-based projects to me recently. "hey wanna try this hot new android distro?" No thanks, I just installed /e/OS

Deno's "Announcing Deno 2" video is amazing, I was not expecting this style/production quality, nor was I expecting a full action-packed 36 whole seconds of Ryan waiting on npm install

Verifiability > Truth

New drama in the Nobel prize community today

The yellow sprinkles in my really old jar of hundreds and thousands have faded more than the other colours (not likely exposed to much natural light though)

History of radio - Wikipedia

Fascinating read

Honey is one of the great beasts that modern capitalism has yet to vanquish. It just seems inherently not economically viable to produce. And yesterday, we accepted Bitcoin for it (alongside a discount of 15%)

Had a random dental appointment for a wobbly tooth, turns out it's fine but also I need 2 fillings somewhere else entirely. Unrelated advice follows: - Get a dental checkup if you haven't in like 4 years (probably goes for opticians as well), before 2 fillings turns into 5 or 6 - Make sure to get those pesky fuckers at the back which you have to contort the toothbrush at weird angles to hit - If the dentist offers to yank out a tooth for you, it's probably a good idea; they'll give you some anaesthetic spray and you won't have to deal with eating only with one side of your mouth for another week - They aren't fooled if you just brush your teeth reeeaally well right before an appointment lmao - If your water isn't already fluorinated, join a local campaign for it to be

ViteConf 2024!!

Felt cure, might NIP-09 later idk

Fun fact: Most duvets instantly become non-euclidean upon turning off the lights in the room they inhabit. This is called the Lobachevsky Long-Edge Effect and has perplexed and puzzled sleepers for millenia.

Seemingly every HN thread has someone knowledgeable/experienced at the top of it. The only platform where "experts in the comments section" might not be sarcastic

Can we have a moment to praise LibreTexts? Thanks

"It's important to remember that bootstrap is a *CSS framework*. It is not, as many people seem to think, a religion." - Me, 9 months ago lmao

GOOGLE DOT COM HOW TO UNSTUB TOE

The meta-essays have got to be by far the best part of Wikipedia, even if they make it seem like all Wikimedians are 5-year-olds. Here's a few, don't check them out, they are a massive rabbit hole. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BLUE https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BEANS https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CITEBITE https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PLSBITE https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BRRR https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:IDIOT https://wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:FUCK