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The Most Emacs Bzr Saga

Since I had no interesting books to read today, nor interesting films to watch, I decided to scavenge for the most intriguing content one can find online. I ended up reading the Linux kernel mailing lists, but those discussions seemed to be 18+, so I...

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AI as Social Technology

Our debates about ‘AI’ grow out of 1990s science fiction. Back then, Vinge (1993) wrote essays and novels urging us to face up to the oncoming “Singularity”: a moment of rapid change that would fundamentally transform the human condition. On that day, AI...

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Dart in WebAssembly

The kernel front-end (dart2wasm) compiles your source to kernel bytes in-page, the VM (emcc with an ARM simulator) executes it, and the Dart analyzer (also dart2wasm) provides type checking and diagnostics live as you type.

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MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop For The Rest Of Us — fireborn

The MacBook Neo is a normal computer for normal people. That's the promise, and Apple has delivered on it — for the first time at this price point, from this company, possibly ever. It's the laptop most people should buy. That's the verdict. Everything else...

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kakoune is a text editor

My goal with this article is to help you develop a comprehensive understanding of the Kakoune text editor: what it is, how it works, and why it has that design.

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Partial static single information form

In compilers, static single information form (SSI) is a common extension to static single assignment form (SSA). It was introduced by C. Scott Ananian in 1999 in his MS thesis (PDF) 1. …and optimized in 2002 (PDF), ↩