rmathew

nixCraft, 13 days ago to random

What's the most outdated piece of tech you own and still use regularly? 🤔

rmathew, 13 days ago to programming

While #programming is fun, creating & maintaining #software for others isn’t:

“Woodworking As An Escape From The Absurdity Of Software”, Alin Panaitiu (https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/woodworking-escape-from-software-absurdity/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40245601

#Burnout #Woodworking #Wood #Hobby #Wood #Craft #Kaval

rmathew, 26 days ago to books

Sobering data if you want to write #books or are in the #publishing industry 😰:

"No One Buys Books", Elle Griffin (https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40119958

#Writing #Celebrities #Bestsellers #Authors #Reading #PenguinRandomHouse #Hachette

rmathew, 2 months ago to programming

Interesting:

"Prepare Thy Pitchforks: A (De Facto) Standard Project Layout" [2018], /r/cpp (https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/996q8o/prepare_thy_pitchforks_a_de_facto_standard/).

See: https://github.com/vector-of-bool/pitchfork/ (Repository) & https://api.csswg.org/bikeshed/?force=1&url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vector-of-bool/pitchfork/develop/data/spec.bs (Specification)

#Projects #Programming #Layout #DirectoryStructure #C #CPlusPlus

rmathew, 2 months ago to science

“Many Physicists Assume We Must Live In A Multiverse – But Their Basic Maths May Be Wrong” [2023], The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/many-physicists-assume-we-must-live-in-a-multiverse-but-their-basic-maths-may-be-wrong-216106).

#Universe #Multiverse #Science #Physics #DarkEnergy #Maths #Mthematics

rmathew, 2 months ago to calligraphy

Using #cursive and a #FountainPen on a decent #paper are boosters for a smooth #handwriting flow – #BallPointPens make it harder:

“On Handwriting And Switching To Cursive”, Brian Schrader (https://brianschrader.com/archive/on-handwriting-and-switching-to-cursive/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39498456

#Pen #Notes #Journal

rmathew, 3 months ago to zig

A little too cursory, but still interesting:

“My Impressions Of Hare”, ‘vfoley’ (https://vfoley.xyz/hare/).

Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/pdivx4/my_impressions_hare

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39142154

#Hare #HareLang #Odin #Zig #C3 #ProgrammingLanguages #SystemsProgramming

rmathew, 4 months ago to programming

Dijkstra’s snark notwithstanding, #BASIC was immensely helpful to me in learning #programming 🫡:

“BASIC Was Not Just A Programming Language”, Guillaume Chereau (https://gcher.com/posts/2023-12-24-basic/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777427

#ProgrammingLanguages #REPL #RetroComputing #OldSkool

rmathew, 4 months ago to ML

A bittersweet retrospective by Tomas Mikolov on #word2vec after receiving the “Test Of Time” award for it at #NeurIPS:

https://www.facebook.com/1533402400/posts/yesterday-we-received-a-test-of-time-award-at-neurips-for-the-word2vec-paper-fro/10231641326366223/

Their seminal #paper was rejected four times 😥:

https://openreview.net/forum?id=idpCdOWtqXd60

Via HN: https://openreview.net/forum?id=idpCdOWtqXd60

#ML #MachineLearning

rmathew, 7 months ago to bangalore

Two news stories in Deccan Herald on the same day show why #Bangalore is doomed due to horrible #corruption & #apathy from its politicians & councilors 😭:

Exhibit A: https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/i-t-raids-in-bengaluru-officials-recover-rs-42-crore-cash-in-23-cardboard-boxes-2725077

Exhibit B: https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/11-bengaluru-congress-mlas-get-rs-40-cr-each-nil-for-15-bjp-legislators-2724567

#Karnataka #India #BBMP #Politics #Infrastructure

dpiponi, 7 months ago to random

Star Trek: Jacobi

The Connected Component

DamnInteresting, 7 months ago to random

“Hallucinating” AIs Sound Creative, but Let’s Not Celebrate Being Wrong
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/hallucinating-ais-sound-creative-but-lets-not-celebrate-being-wrong/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

ryanhoulihan, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

“Women should apologize less” NO! MEN SHOULD APOLOGIZE MORE

nocontexttrek, 7 months ago to StarTrek

#StarTrek

rmathew, 8 months ago to StarTrek

S02E07 and S02E09 of #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds are so wacky. The directors have the cojones to pull that off as they know they have managed to revive Star Trek. 🫡

#SNW is so much better in every way than #Discovery.

#SciFi #TV #TVSeries #ScienceFiction #Music #Animation

rmathew, 9 months ago to vim

Oh no! #BramMoolenaar (the creator of #Vim) has passed away 😭:

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011324

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/yrlb5m/message_from_family_bram_moolenaar_he

On /r/vim: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/15iunt4/bram_moolenaar_creator_of_vim_has_died/

#RIP #TextEditors #Vi