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cognomano··on You gotta push if you wanna pull
So… caches. The unfortunate reality of high used systems.
cognomano··on The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
I suppose identity is inherently associated with language. I can imagine that this also happens with programming languages.
cognomano··on Show HN: Vibe Linking
what-is-reality redirects to Wikipedia search. I’m not impressed. I wish I could tell the LLM: try again!
cognomano··on The Lambda Calculus (2023)
Church numbers in Python? Kewl!!

Edit: now, if I could rename “lambda” as λ.

cognomano··on Morgan and Morgan takes Disney to court over 'Steamboat Willie' in ads
I suppose trademark law will be the catch-all protection Disney will be using from now.
cognomano··on Show HN: One prompt generates an app with its own database
We are not in Kansas anymore.

Well done.

cognomano··on Experimental browser MMO with bots, boss fights and power-ups
Sorry, I don’t understand what button can I press. Playing on iPhone.
cognomano··on Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
TL;DR: «Only “necessary traffic” is allowed in Pontevedra: vehicles used for emergency and public safety, public services (including garbage and water trucks, etc.), transportation of people with reduced mobility, and accessing private garages are permitted 24/7. However, loading and unloading for commercial supplies, home delivery, transporting bulky objects, and house moving and related activities, are permitted only during certain hours.»
cognomano··on AI Darwin Awards
I like this. Is like “Interface Hall of Shame” for AI.
cognomano··on Microsoft Spends Billions, Creates Calculator That's Sometimes Wrong
Using an over-glorified text autocomplete to invent formulas on Excel - what could go wrong?
cognomano··on Microsoft Office Lens getting the axe
I just use its fantastic border detection to scan documents to images. iOS notes can generate PDFs from a photo but I found it cumbersome. Any alternative?
cognomano··on The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)
I can't read it on iPhone: the Reader doesn't work and neither the increasing the font size. Sorry!
cognomano··on The Prompt Theory
Now that is a great explanation why the world is crazy.
cognomano··on Stringly Typed
As usual, insight from 2013: https://wiki.c2.com/?StringlyTyped
cognomano··on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
May be making the countdown optional will be better. I like it!
cognomano··on Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight
Only white moves. Eat black. Go to green dot.
cognomano··on Why the Number Line Freaks Me Out (2016)
Related: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/462790/are-there-an...
cognomano··on 'Headed for technofascism': the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
Techology is a tool. It serves every corner of the political and ideological spectrum.
cognomano··on How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model That Rivals OpenAI
Limited resources lead to inventions.
cognomano··on Microsoft GW-Basic User's Guide and Reference (1989) [pdf]
After 28 years of leaving BASIC for C and then Java, I took a course on data science using Python. I heartily agree with you. The simplicity and power Python brings is refreshing.
cognomano··on Show HN: World's most performant web table (multicore, DOM-based)
What license?
cognomano··on Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet
> Execution order between cells is not guaranteed to be stable and may differ for different versions of Python.
cognomano··on How I made a 3D Level in a 2D Game [video]
This is so insane is cool.
cognomano··on OOHtml – Object-Oriented HTML Implementation
Tag languages were a success because SGML. Once we past XML tag languages are not loved by many people. JSON, YAML, and a myriad of another languages are being teach and used today. Don’t get me wrong — I loved when the XML 1.0 spec was published but the broken promise that we would never need to write XML by hand was the cause of hate to tag languages. Object Orientation is hated these days by many people. Those are the challenges this kind of projects have ti overcome in order to be successful.
cognomano··on Google search drops cache link from search results
And please, donate.
cognomano··on 'It's all gone': CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission
I have a young (30ish) friend with Rheumatoid Arthritis -luckily she doesn’t have many symptoms yet. I really really hope genetic therapy would bring a better quality of life in 10 or 20 years.
cognomano··on Extinguishing the EV Battery Fire Hype
Modern problems require modern solutions: https://ctif.org/news/see-swedish-lithium-ion-battery-expert...
cognomano··on Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for
Would be useful to be able to filter by multiple concepts: Charts and Javascript.
cognomano··on You are never taught how to build quality software
> We need to speak about money. As developers, we need to speak about the cost of not doing QA.

Yep!!

cognomano··on Show HN: SirixDB – Bitemporal binary JSON database system and event store
> storing checksums in parent page

A Merkle tree?

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