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- Distributed Systems
- DDD / CQRS / Event Sourcing
- Erlang/OTP, Elixir/Phoenix/Absinthe/LiveView, Elm
- kdb+/q
- GraphQL, MQTT, Pub/Sub, WebSockets, Long Polling, etc.
- PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Riak
- AWS / GCP
- GPU Computing (OpenCL, CUDA)
- Agent-based Modeling/Simulations (ABM), NetLogoTo protect their homes from floods and fires, the ancient Egyptians made sacrifices and offerings to deities like Hapi (god of the Nile)[1] and Bastet[2]
But this naive actuarial model with a 100% deductible is obviously far less sophisticated than modern insurance ;)
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In ancient Egypt, there were various trade unions, usually organized by profession
One of the most interesting was the thieves' union
Suppose someone stole yr carpet at night, and in the morning you'd go to the office of the head of the thieves' union, pay 25% of the carpet's value, and get it back. Much better than modern insurance!
The Soviet computer industry had only two secrets:
1. how far behind the West it was, and
2. that there were no other secrets
This Soviet project developed two Russian-language PLs: Robic[1] and Rapira[2]. Robic was similar to Logo, but unlike Logo, which had only one actor - a turtle, Robik had several: a Train, an Ant, a Painter, and so on
Rapira was more like SETL + Python. It was a dynamic interpreted PL with a rich set of compound data types, such as sets, records (associative arrays), and so on. Compared to the contemporary BASIC, it was ADVANCED
Like Logo, Robik was used to teach programming to kindergarthen-age children, while Rapira was aimed at high school students
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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robic / https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BA
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapira / https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%80...
Even if you have an insurable interest, moral hazard may arise - acting recklessly or other abuse, while knowing you are insured/covered. Somewhat similar to friendly fraud in retail/ecommerce.
AI talk is turning into Silicon Valley pseudo-math slang. Priors, exponentials, latent space
You get lines like “no priors” or “embracing exponentials” that sound smart but mostly signal status
Same move as N Taleb and “convexity.” A real idea turned into a generic intellectual flex
slow is smooth, smooth is fast
It's better to first show truth tables, then K-maps, and only then logical formulas.
But the main question is: does this FP2 have any real applications? Maybe it could be useful when only one operand is FP2? Especially for vectorized math.
What about comparison operators?
The Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory
https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from...
January 23, 2026
72 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739117
There are several other similar posts/videos. Steve Yegge also talks about it.
FP2 spec:
00 -> 0.0
01 -> 1.0
10 -> Inf
11 -> NaN
00 -> 0.0
01 -> 1.0
10 -> Inf
11 -> -InfThe number of traditional public companies has been cut in half.
The number of alternative public and semi-public companies went up exponentially (Reg CF/Reg A, crypto ICOs).
After reaching some thresholds a Reg A company can become public and even trade on OTC markets.
Windows (arm 64), but no official Linux (x86) support?
There is only unofficial build:
Claude Desktop for Debian-based Linux distributions
statistics == lies
BTW: some early filesystems were more database-like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Management_Services
They were more like BerkeleyDB and lacked Query Planner.
I think Oracle internally using something similar, i.e. a native filesystem optimized for an RDBMS.
“The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Without Atlantis?”
The slogan of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was: "Factories to the workers, land to the peasants."
If the factory is yours, then everything inside is yours ;)
But it's funny how low wages under the broken Soviet economic system turned such things into a semi-official, informal work perks, allowing people to make ends meet.
1. The problem is with using HTTP for APIs, not with GraphQL. HTTP was designed for rich (hypertext) documents, not for APIs. So layering GraphQL or any other APIs over HTTP is a hack.
2. GraphQL is useful for small remote teams b/c of mandatory staticly-typed schema and built-in schema documentation. Otherwise it's lots of back-and-forth between backen, frontend, QA, etc. You forced to use external tools like Postman collections, and still having communication problems.
After years of debate and confusion, the GraphQL Working Group has reached a historic decision: starting with the October 2027 spec release, all GraphQL responses will return random HTTP status codes between 100 and 599.
Additionally in order to make GraphQL AI Agents friendly, the GraphQL response body will be switching from JSON to Markdown.
Imagined vs discovered tasks
The way to really figure out what needs to be done is to start doing real work.
https://basecamp.com/shapeup/3.1-chapter-10#imagined-vs-disc...
imagined tasks == Jira
discovered tasks == Dark Jira
Planned work should be organically discovered from the plan by the developers (or agents) who will be implementing it, not assigned via Jira tickets by the project manager. Shape Up recommedns using Hill Charts for per-scope (vertical slice) progress updates.
yes here voice mode != hands-off mode, so you can't DWC (Driving-While-Coding)
Claude Code's /voice mode isn't very accurate comparing to other speech-to-text (e.g. Google Translate).
Also it takes about 500ms to activate after you press SPACE, so the initial words are missed out. It took me some time to realize it.
Does Handy has a better speech-to-text accuracy? Is there an activation delay?
/ði ˈɡloʊbəl iˈliːt (ænd ˈɛvɹiˌwʌn ɛls) ʃʊd swɪtʃ tu fəˈniːmɪk ˈspɛlɪŋ/
PHP is too high level for this task - might as well write Rust compiler in a Tiring Machine.
That’s true for any software project - on average only 5% goes into developing of the first version, while 95% goes into continuous development, support, and maintenance.
unsurprising, since they're also into Monoliths
just use TSV instead of CSV by default