Étienne Laurin

#EmptyOctober Afterbirth In the bonfire's flame, you see a vision of someone else's life- A Daughter. A beautiful Daughter. Maybe it screams like a banshee, and ruins your sleep. But it makes you a Mother. Like you were meant to be. It's your little gift from God.

I found Yann LeCun's analysis of autonomous driving fascinating:

Add native delimited continuations to the RTS ift.tt/4aYq9Re

LLVM 15.0.0 is now available! Thank you so much for the release team for all their hard work. Full details here: discourse.llvm.org/t/llvm-15-0-0-…

With Riff, you can cd into a Rust project, run `riff shell` to enter a shell with external dependencies available, and then run commands like `cargo build` without worrying about commonly missing dependencies like OpenSSL, Protobuf, and SystemConfiguration on macOS.

@eigenbom @lefticus The Dwim language! It has a single instruction, dwim.

What's the best fictional programming language

Symbolic function induction in #Picat: hakank.org/picat/symbolic… It solves integer sequences puzzles such as: * "1,2,6,42,1806,?" * "1+4=5, 2+5=12, 3+6=21, 5+8=?" * "11x11=4, 22x22=16, 33x33=?" by enumerating all possible solutions (with infix functions). It's a lot of examples.

@spakhm His book on remarkable men and Matin des Magiciens by one of his students are amazing. Both great examples on how truths about the human condition can easily be explained by making up history and converting cultural differences into mysticism.

RethinkDB 2.4.2 released rethinkdb.com/blog/2.4.2-rel…

TIL there's restrictions on public displays of English signs in Quebec cbc.ca/amp/1.860189

The more I use Nix the more I love it. It started with managing my macOS user environment with home-manager, then installed NixOS on a Raspberry Pi 4 that functions as my home server. Later started using it at work, to provide self-contained and reproducible dev environments.

Who called it BUILD_SHARED_LIBS and not CMAKE_IT_SO?

Wordle 198 3/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

NixOS 21.11 has been released! discourse.nixos.org/t/21-11-has-be… This is the first time I’ve seen a stable release surpass the Arch User Repository (AUR) on both freshness and number of packages on Repology!

Nix 2.4 released: discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-2-4-rele… That's a wild two years of improvements 🥳

I've just learned GLSL and applied some old FRACTINT skills shadertoy.com/view/NdcSRN

@spakhm My imagination works best when bounded. I practice it by preparing as a DM every week, by stopping books, TV shows and papers at arbitrary points and making up the continuation or by making terrible puns.

@lunasorcery youtube.com/watch?v=Lzoqh-…

I sometimes look forward to drowning together.

@spakhm It's great you're blogging again! This is a great insight into why you spent an hour watching me implement an rsync clone in Python on a whiteboard. It reminds me of this quote: "Intelligence means nothing without solid work ethic and a killer drive to accomplish useful things."