Posts by paul@post.lurk.org
(DIR) Post #Aj5ZxB9QcfdN93zuVs by paul@post.lurk.org
2024-06-19T15:02:45Z
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@icedquinn next time I'll be more prepared
(DIR) Post #AjLljoZVYbPKMXFR56 by paul@post.lurk.org
2024-06-27T10:30:24Z
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Me: there's too much television to choose from these days. It's quantity over quality.Paramount: *erases their archives going back 3 decades*Me: no not like that
(DIR) Post #AjnoUk3Vo07KIifFjc by paul@post.lurk.org
2024-07-10T23:07:43Z
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oh my god it's still wednesday what
(DIR) Post #AkOHt4FFHk7crDuPPU by paul@post.lurk.org
2024-07-28T13:32:25Z
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Spent most of my day yesterday staring at a colorless text editor writing in a dialect of TCL in small lines. Almost no indentation needed or required.It was nice break from the visual carnival that is Rust in NeoVim.
(DIR) Post #ApKLgUp931uW6HVcP2 by paul@post.lurk.org
2024-12-23T05:12:08Z
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Denise Crosby just randomly showed up at the end of this X-Files episode
(DIR) Post #ApsmWQBXUzfaGsWzg0 by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-01-08T19:56:18Z
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Got totally distracted with an idea this morning involving Scheme, S-expressions, ASTs, literate programming, and knowledge graphs.The literate program markup looks like this:https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Recurse/blob/main/scratch/edexp/proto.eThis builds up a s-expressions as trees (take my word for it)It "tangles" into scheme code that looks like this:https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Recurse/blob/main/scratch/edexp/output.scmIt "weaves" into knowledge graph markup (dagzet), which can then be rendered into an HTML document like this one:https://pbat.ch/recurse/dz/edexp_test/program/Once in the knowledge graph format, I can treat every atom in the tree like a node in a graph and connect them to any other nodes in the graph. I can also use it to create emergent structures in my knowledge graph, such as this dynamically produced comments page:https://pbat.ch/recurse/dz/edexp_test/comments/
(DIR) Post #ArbJ5Wf78a62SJlbua by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-03-01T05:20:02Z
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Those weird food advertisements on the NYC subway have to be subliminal messaging right?
(DIR) Post #AueeFNrk85ip75LPjk by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-05-31T13:16:42Z
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I quite like my "pen and paper" phase of software development, because you can pivot out of bad ideas before they start.Makes me feel like that 5th dimensional alien in MIB4 where they keep saying "phew, that was a close one!"
(DIR) Post #AwObu1R4uJnxWYErkO by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-07-22T14:22:26Z
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Are you working in tech? Do you not have a STEM degree and are mostly self taught? I'd like to hear your story.Boosts are welcome.
(DIR) Post #Awbkc5dQFqfDKdjxWC by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-07-28T23:49:16Z
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TIRAMISU HAS RETURNED TO TRADER JOE'S
(DIR) Post #Ax4UQzqpNGXPAhdB7g by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-08-11T18:03:43Z
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No more plan9 support in Zig. Zig creator calls plan9 "not that interesting or popular".Quotes for the 9front page?https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24803
(DIR) Post #AxL3bY31gxRB3GSjHk by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-08-19T20:24:32Z
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From a CS paper in 1974:"An Algol implementation of the algorithm successfully tested graphs with as many as 900 vertices in less than 12 seconds"
(DIR) Post #Axawzm9HKHs2aJLpJI by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-08-27T12:26:18Z
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The future couldn't be more uncertain for me right now. But the sleep. The sleep has been excellent.
(DIR) Post #Ayv0eRdTgBgHJ9ktbk by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-10-06T02:22:08Z
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Today I learned that you can sketch a golden rectangle using a ruler and a compass. I think I may have found a new short-term fixation.
(DIR) Post #Ayv0eZKd49MDB0zxL6 by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-10-06T02:25:17Z
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The fact that I can use primitive tools to jam a square and a circle together to make a rectangle that is "golden" is quite satisfying to me. It's like geometric alchemy.
(DIR) Post #AyvleRq1cfTvmV7zAe by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-10-06T11:21:01Z
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@neauoire square, line from midpoint to corner, arc, rectanglehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rectangle#Construction
(DIR) Post #AzGnxbJEug5WsyDAyu by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-10-16T14:53:47Z
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Is there any database research where the storage medium is optimized for a physical box of cards, possibly handwritten? The box could be represented digitally, but I/O commands would be centered around writing things (with a pen?) to cards, maybe as instructions a human could follow. You could virtualize queries, but it would be neat to somehow generate indexes optimized for fingers and eyeballs and messy handwriting.
(DIR) Post #AzuISCzs1l8NNZFoAq by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-11-04T16:08:26Z
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Patterson and Hennessy: there are seven great ideas in computer architecture!P and H: ...P and H: there are eight great ideas in computer architecture!
(DIR) Post #AzuIVmhRk2IyyiLEHI by paul@post.lurk.org
2025-11-04T16:10:14Z
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Great idea #0 in computer architecture: 1-based indexingGreat idea #1 in computer architecture: 0-based indexing
(DIR) Post #B2QyRRtMPRYa22Vooq by paul@post.lurk.org
2026-01-18T22:28:33Z
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The urge to create a 1 bit brutalist typesetter for bitmap fonts is intensifying...