Woah, today I learned that Rust has a doubly linked list in its standard library!
It's a common example of something you can't do in purely safe Rust. Nonetheless, the core Rust devs have done the hard work already!
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.LinkedList.html
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Shower thought: there's already some precedent for intelligent, self-driving vehicles. Horses!
Admittedly the speeds are much lower.
At what point do we start talking about a minimum expected level automation in industries? To what extent are there industries that still lack basic automation?
A code completion tool built on n-grams could be very effective. Many special cases for types arise naturally from this.
`foo.` is probably a void method, whereas `await foo.` is an async method. `return foo.` and `x = foo.` probably have different properties too.
Ideological diversity producing better articles for Wikipedia articles about both politics and science:
https://m.nautil.us/issue/70/variables/wikipedia-and-the-wisdom-of-polarized-crowds
Reinventing, rethinking and playing with UI that is just fine already:
https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950
A nice example of creativity in software design, and the value of building things that already exist!
The rise of type inference and its impact on language syntax:
https://medium.com/@elizarov/types-are-moving-to-the-right-22c0ef31dd4a
An interactive site that asks to press random buttons, and predicts your next key press:
https://www.expunctis.com/2019/03/07/Not-so-random.html
It's now possible to edit results buffers inside deadgrep! This has been a much requested feature. https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep/issues/12
I'd love to hear any feedback you have on the design. #emacs
A fun project for generating random Stack Overflow questions with a neural net: https://stackroboflow.com/about/index.html
It's also fascinating to read that the author was unable to predict question popularity, even by manual examination.
Why data science often doesn't suit specialisation by team members:
https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2019/03/11/FullStackDS-Generalists/
Contrasting consequences of bazaar and cathedral style development, and the role that fun plays: https://urbit.org/posts/essays/a-founders-farewell/
It's funny how common round UI elements have become. Round avatars are widespread, and Android is moving to round app icons.
It's especially odd when so many UIs are built on a grid. You necessarily waste space with circles.
Are they more ergonomic for fingers, somehow?
I'm excited to learn that there are good tiling window manager options for macOS! https://koekeishiya.github.io/chunkwm/
The impact of manufacturing costs and price sensitivity on book sizes:
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/03/cmap-5-why-books-are-the-lengt.html
Many of these constraints disappear for ebooks!
A specialist app and social network for anglers! https://www.forbes.com/sites/heatherfarmbrough/2018/12/17/reeling-in-how-a-social-network-for-sports-fishing-won-7m-users/
An interesting discussion of different ways of funding volunteer-run FOSS projects, and which boring tasks more amenable to charging: https://blog.tidelift.com/open-source-has-a-working-for-free-problem
If reverse engineering is black box analysis of how something works, the original development is apparently 'forward engineering'!
On building explainable ML models:
https://towardsdatascience.com/why-model-explainability-is-the-next-data-science-superpower-b11b6102a5e0
I'm comfortable choosing sorting algorithms for a computer. Choosing a sorting algorithm for a human seems much harder.
For example, suppose you want to sort a shuffled deck cards. Quicksort seems too fiddly for a manual process with a relatively small (52) quantity.
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