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       Posts by simonmic@fosstodon.org
 (DIR) Post #AVjyov54r6aFcN75ua by simonmic@fosstodon.org
       2023-05-16T23:28:47Z
       
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       Boosting this link shared by Prof. Wadler - well worth your time.&quot;Warped hallucinations are indeed afoot in the world of AI, however – but it’s not the bots that are having them; it’s the tech CEOs who unleashed them, along with a phalanx of their fans, who are in the grips of wild hallucinations.&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
       
 (DIR) Post #Adg9e602n6E2zEX78y by simonmic@fosstodon.org
       2024-01-09T19:20:37Z
       
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       @mms Not so crazy, but it always gives me a little wow feeling when I&#39;m editing a #hledger journal with (ledger-mode and) flycheck-hledger and I see real time error indicators for typos or even the smallest decimal error in a transaction amount or account balance.I also heavily use terminal emacs, multiple emacs daemons and clients scoped to individual projects for better context/scope/durability, and dtach for connecting to remote emacsen (much simpler than tmux).#emacs #plaintextaccounting
       
 (DIR) Post #B0DSZ9jZOGHkGfhAhs by simonmic@fosstodon.org
       2025-11-13T21:49:15Z
       
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       Found in awk-pta&#39;s README, this great read about the origins of AWK: https://a-z.readthedocs.io/en/latest/awk.html&quot;it was born from the necessity to meet a need. As a researcher at Bell Labs in the early 1970s, I found myself keeping track of budgets...&quot;&quot;Some Wall Street financial houses used AWK when it first came out to balance their books because it was so easy to write data-processing programs in AWK...&quot;Plot twist ! Is AWK the original #plaintextaccounting tool ??
       
 (DIR) Post #B0DSZBr5VHUGqZEChc by simonmic@fosstodon.org
       2025-11-13T22:04:09Z
       
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       @gumnos 👍🏻Also: &quot;We were heavily influenced by GREP, a popular string-matching utility on UNIX, which had been created in our research center... We thought that we’d like to generalize the class of patterns to deal with numbers as well as strings.&quot;