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@darch I gotta say man I really love your passion! 🤗 hopefully we can all figure out a good branding for the project going forward 👌
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@prologic @darch Thank you for making twt.social etc:) I don’t think I have been this involed in a open source project before.
Western culture has a very unhealthy attitude towards sleep in general. There is only one socially accepted sleep pattern: Eight hours a night, in one block, starting at between 10pm and 11pm and ending between 6am and 7am. This “early-bird” rhythm is celebrated in to the point of fetishisation and held up as the goal to which all productive adults must aspire. To behave otherwise is to be lazy, slothful, and not putting forward your all It’s Time to Stop Nap-Shaming | Hacker News
A live-updating postfix shell for the Mu computer: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105108305362341204
Defining functions in my live-updating structured editor for postfix: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/105071402581806586
detective story of the day: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104975077519600207
Visualizing postfix functions with named arguments: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104935713813872559
New demo, a structured editor for postfix arithmetic: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104896128141863951
Growing a test-driven text-mode Markdown browser all the way up from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104845344081779025
so long feddy, and thanks for all the fish - gemini://sunshinegardens.org/~xj9/posts/2020-08-07-social-admin.gmi
Basically all current social media ends up optimizing for creating outrage, spawning mobs, less thoughtful discussion and more vitriolic arguments, etc. PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN | Hacker News
The social status of computer scientists is zero. Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017) | Hacker News
A tutorial on Mu the language: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/104385065026974197
the Stainless Steel law: “the better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero.” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net
The Iron law: “The expected value of any net impact assessment of any large scale social program is zero” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net
Mu now type-checking all function calls: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104366226332745069
A calculator app in Mu: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104352495147108886
A very-high-level language feature in Mu, in spite of bootstrapping from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104305128661766343
A test app in Mu, and an experience report: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104250249472942612
Mu language almost done: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103809142727508327. Now to make it safe.
past: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103635361482232697; future: https://lobste.rs/s/2qzmtr/#c_itzqwm
Learning the complexity of compilers rather than pretending they’re easy: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103581348949359372
Working: factorial function. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103571329543801973
Working: local variables. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103554841927344456
Update on my safe syntax for machine code: functions can now return results. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103395953154615316
First function body translated. Still no variable declarations, though. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103229216904239835
Another week, another instruction compiling, more refinements of the code-generator: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103157776545612964
Mu’s translator is growing complex. Lots of book-keeping for entering/exiting scopes: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103053133325948545
An ergonomic syntax for machine code: numbers, metadata, strings, tests, blocks. https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/102825992961303855
If you want to experience an almost empty social network, you can check out https://mastodon.sdf.org.