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It took me several minutes, but you're talking about foot guns - brilliant reference. :-)

While mathematics are necessary to build LLMs, they are not a kind of math or a distinct branch of mathematics.

Stellar work!

I couldn't resist the pun, but all kidding aside this space atlas is truly wonderful.

Steam has a generous return/refund policy [0], so you could buy it, test it, and if it doesn't work request a refund.

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

A gigawatt?! Just a little more power and I won't need a DeLorean for time travel!

> Judaism is exclusive and you're not invited.

That's not strictly true. I suspect those that follow Orthodox and Ultra Orthodox Judaism are exclusive. However, those that follow Reform Judaism and the Conservative Movement support conversion to Judaism, so you are invited.

Thank you very much for that clarification. I knew about using sizeof with expressions, but I so rarely used it that way that I never gave it much thought.

> sizeof is a unary operator so the parentheses are rarely necessary

I thought parentheses where still required for types, and are optional for variables. Even if that's not so, I still use them for types and avoid them for variables just to add one more cue about what's being sized.

> and you get both DRY and avoid (void *) casting.

While that line of code is DRY, it doesn't avoid casting "void *" to "thing_t *".

I'm not a UI designer so honest question: is the problem the use of aesthetics, like frosted glass or brushed metal, in UI design or is it that in pursuit of presenting such interfaces some designers lost the visual queues needed to indicate where controls are and what they do?

First, I really like the effect the author has achieved. It's very pretty.

Now for a bit of whimsy. It's been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. However, a thousand words uses far less bandwidth. What if we go full-tilt down the energy saving path, replace some images with prose to describe them? What would articles and blog posts look like then?

I know it's not practical, and sending actual images saves a lot of time and effort over trying to describe them, but I like the idea of imagining what that kind of web might look like.

> However, who the hell has time to write everything twice?

Nobody. The article even says, "N.B. Obviously, don't write literally everything twice. It's a heuristic. Apply intelligently."

> All these years later we're still in a situation where "the economy" is going gangbusters, but the average person feels left out.

It doesn't matter. Trump claimed he'd build the greatest economy again. He didn't provide any details on what he plans to do that will actually improve people's lives. He just let people jump to their own happy conclusions.

Another version of that paper [0] is dated Feb. 1986.

[0]: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA620727.pdf

Thanks for explaining the why. I'm glad it falls somewhere between the X and the Z.

She was an absolutely wonderful actress. The Washington Post also has an article announcing her death [0]. It goes into a lot of depth about her work and who she was.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/09/27/maggie-...

You might want to look at Coping Strategies for the Serial Project Hoarder [0]. It's a blog post by Simon Willison who maintains a lot of projects. Even if you have only one, I think his strategies apply well to making progress regardless of whether you can work on your project everyday, or only once every couple of weekends.

That page also made it to HN in 2022 [1].

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/26/productivity/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33762438

Edit: add HN link.

I'd guess the GGP meant all of the root nodes together on one level and all of the tail nodes together on another, but single level. At least that's what makes sense to me.

If your goal is to replace rubber tires, then how about going whole hog and turn the entire road system into a railway system? Tires made of steel, parallel tracks, lots of switching, perhaps regional control systems to guide computerized vehicles along the fastest route keeping safe distances between cars, and cars that automatically link and unlink to create dynamic trains along shared routes. I think that would be a very cool system (although outrageously expensive to realize).

Thanks. I understand that '.sys' is a naming convention. I'd guess that they used it because those config/data files are used by their kernel driver, and so makes kernel vs user-space files easier to distinguish.

I wonder if it was pushed anywhere that didn't crash, as an extension of "It works on my machine. Ship it!"

I've built a couple of kernel drivers over the years and what I know is that ".sys" files are to the kernel as ".dll" files are to user-space programs in that the ones with code in them run only after they are loaded and a desired function is run (assuming boilerplate initialization code is good).

I've never made a data-only .sys file, but I don't see why someone couldn't. In that case, I'd guess that no one ever checked it was correct, and the service/program that loads it didn't do any verification either -- why would it, the developers of said service/program would tend to trust their own data .sys file would be valid, never thinking they'd release a broken file or consider that files sometimes get corrupted -- another failure mode waiting to happen on some unfortunate soul's computer.

In the end, it's a life-long process.

I found your blog and your diary of a solo developer building a web app [0]. Maybe the answers to my questions are there. Thanks for this, too.

[0]: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/30da6655040f47e693f8e66e...

Thanks for sharing. This is an impressive tool. Well done!

Would you mind sharing a little about your workflow? 528 commits over 40 workdays seems like a lot of work that must have been well organized. I'd guess each commit is a small amount of work on a focused aspect of the program. If that's so, did you have clear goals for what you wanted to achieve, break down the work ahead of time, or plan out what you wanted to change/add?

Well, isn't it by definition that the likelihood of a Fat Chance is slim?

Thanks for that link. The comments there help a lot. If I understand them, this is a minimal implementation of K with a lot of limitations, such as:

"the only supported atom/vector type is 8bit integer, so beware of overflows"

Still, it's fascinating how an interpreter can be written with such a small amount of code.

Thanks, but I have no idea. I never tried generating SVG from LaTeX. Others suggested MathML, some tools, and OpenType math fonts, so I'm going to try that route first.

Thanks folks. Your replies are very helpful. I'll take a look at MathML, pandoc, and LaTeXML. Writing MathML from scratch looks tedious, but pandoc and/or LaTeXML might be just the thing to make a conversion easy.

I like the idea of participating, but when I made my little Hugo-based blog I also liked the idea of presenting equations. Is there any way to do that without MathJax, KaTeX, or similar libraries?

I've used Everything for many years. It would be nice if it were FOSS. Still, it's always been fast and reliable for me.