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New comment by mighmi in "Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic"

mighmi — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:08:42 +0000

> evil

They never removed "don't be evil", they just changed where it is in the document.

New comment by mighmi in "Forth: The programming language that writes itself"

mighmi — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:53:37 +0000

It's a real cool idea to compile everything down to lambda calculus and then you solve all semantics issues. (If something fits) you can convert 1:1, use general libraries in one language in others without loss etc. Ah, what a beautiful world it could be!

New comment by mighmi in "LoC is a dumb metric for functions"

mighmi — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:44:28 +0000

LOC is an important metric for cost. There's a certain budget of what a person or team can understand/manage.

New comment by mighmi in "Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system"

mighmi — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:42:51 +0000

To what extent is this practice applicable to other loads?

New comment by mighmi in "Should we revisit Extreme Programming in the age of AI?"

mighmi — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:40:41 +0000

> CUE spec

Have you heard of Ada, whose type system does the same thing?

New comment by mighmi in "Building Bluesky comments for my blog"

mighmi — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:25:42 +0000

Taking comments via a (n email) form, which you then manually add under the article's html/markdown is nice.

New comment by mighmi in "Ditching GitHub (2024)"

mighmi — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:06:28 +0000

The etymology is:

> A deliberate misspelling of lead, originally used in instructions given to printers to indicate which paragraphs constitute the lede, intended to avoid confusion with the word lead which may actually appear in the text of an article. Compare dek (“subhead”) (modified from deck) and hed (“headline”) (from head).

Further:

> In 1990, the American author and journalist William Safire (1929–2009) was still able to say: “You will not find this spelling in dictionaries; it is still an insiders' variant, steadily growing in frequency of use. […] Will lede break out of its insider status and find its way into general use? […] To suggest this is becoming standard would be misledeing […] But it has earned its place as a variant spelling, soon to overtake the original spelling for the beginning of a news article."

New comment by mighmi in "Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition"

mighmi — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:42:28 +0000

Sweden did not have a mask mandate and did very well.

New comment by mighmi in "My Ideal Array Language"

mighmi — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 05:02:22 +0000

Julia may be cool, but it's not an array language in the tradition of APL.

New comment by mighmi in "Is "The Phoenician Scheme" Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film?"

mighmi — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 06:36:46 +0000

Because it's in the middle of the night.

New comment by mighmi in "RSC for Lisp Developers"

mighmi — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 19:04:54 +0000

Perhaps paradise. The browser as a lisp machine, ah... Dreams. The spritely team is making strides to using Guile in WASM, but it's nothing like s expr instead of JSON etc. could have been. https://files.spritely.institute/docs/guile-hoot/0.1.0/Intro...

New comment by mighmi in "How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)"

mighmi — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 18:59:37 +0000

GUIX is a pleasure

New comment by mighmi in "Building interactive web pages with Guile Hoot"

mighmi — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:12:40 +0000

This is cool. I think I'll try to learn it!

New comment by mighmi in "Methodical Banality"

mighmi — Fri, 16 May 2025 22:56:36 +0000

I guess the ussr originally were vibrant and full of innovation but especially the 30s purges killed it off.

New comment by mighmi in "NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture"

mighmi — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:21:25 +0000

Without detracting from her humor, Thomas Edison and other before him e.g. wrote about bugs in the 19th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engineering)#History

New comment by mighmi in "Writing a Rust compiler in C"

mighmi — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 23:30:44 +0000

Wait, dissemblers will turn assembly into any language you want?

Learning APL

mighmi — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:56:22 +0000

Article URL: https://xpqz.github.io/learnapl/intro.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153571

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Reduce Allocations and Comparison performance in Go 1.23

mighmi — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 23:16:02 +0000

Article URL: https://josephwoodward.co.uk/2024/08/performance-improvements-unique-package-go-1-23

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41150001

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mighmi in "Göttingen was one of the most productive centers of mathematics (2019)"

mighmi — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 18:09:26 +0000

> wrinkles

They go the other way.

The US surpassed the UK in per capita income in the 1880s. However, American yeomen farmers, factory workers etc. were far better off than (non-UK) Europeans even in 1800, hence millions of Europeans immigrating. By 1913, the American was still earning almost twice as much as the German or French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P...

APL Since 1978 [pdf] (2020)

mighmi — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:03:49 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386319

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087887

Points: 4

# Comments: 0