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Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs

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Published on 2025-04-21Tags: tcl, programmingTwo things that really annoy me with some programming languages: the lack...
Published on 2025-04-21Tags: tcl, programmingTwo things that really annoy me with some programming languages: the lack of keyword (optional, always named and order agnostic) parameters and when the language has a builtin feature not made available to the user.Tcl hits the nail here, because a lot of its standard com...
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Digital piracy in times of Covid-19

springer.com
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Gemini 2.5: The First LLM That Understands PDF Layouts

sergey.fyi
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Experimenting is above all a process

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Show HN: I rewrote few of the common core string.h functions

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Handwriting activates broader brain networks than typing

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PlanetMath

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Inner Loop Agents

timkellogg.me
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Why LLM-Powered Programming Is More Mech Suit Than Artificial Human

matthewsinclair.com

Photo by Screen Rant [ED: There’s a lot of talk of replacing human programmers. Sure, some...
Photo by Screen Rant [ED: There’s a lot of talk of replacing human programmers. Sure, some will go, but not all. My views on how this plays out have changed considerably over the last 2 months. 3 out of 5 hats.] Last month, I used Claude Code to build two apps: an MVP for a non-trivial backend agent processing platf...
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2,031-HP Hennessey Venom F5 Evolution Claims 0 to 200 MPH in 10 Seconds

thedrive.com

Is your Hennessey Venom F5, with its 1,817 horsepower and 1,193 lb-ft of torque, just not...
Is your Hennessey Venom F5, with its 1,817 horsepower and 1,193 lb-ft of torque, just not powerful enough? Hennessey has you covered if that’s the case, because the Texas-based company just unveiled its latest creation: the Hennessey Venom F5 Evolution, and it produces 2,031 horsepower. That makes it the most powerf...
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AI assisted search-based research works now

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21st April 2025 For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted...
21st April 2025 For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the first glimpses of this back in early 2023, with Perplexity (first launched December 2022, first prompt leak in January 2023) and then the GPT-4 power...
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Show HN: Brainstorm.gg – Get ideas out of your head fast

brainstorm.gg
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The Tontine Coffee-House (2018)

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Out of the Fog

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Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

ycombinator.com

Alex and Teddy here. We’re launching Magic Patterns (https://www.magicpatterns.com), an AI prototyping tool that helps PMs...
Alex and Teddy here. We’re launching Magic Patterns (https://www.magicpatterns.com), an AI prototyping tool that helps PMs and designers create functional, interactive designs and websites. There’s a demo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK8C_tQBwIU, as well as video walkthroughs of specific examples at http...
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Pope Francis Died

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You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Pope Francis at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York in 2015. He was elected after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, but few expected him to seek to transform his ch...

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The Board Game Industry Is Burning – and It's Their Own Fault

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Ref Butts and Slam Dunks: What It's Like Photographing an NBA Game

petapixel.com

Distance is not a problem. Photographers at NBA games are so close that referees, coaches, and...
Distance is not a problem. Photographers at NBA games are so close that referees, coaches, and players can block their shots. “Especially at NBA games, all photographers must face the infamous ‘ref butt’ issue,” says photojournalist Chris Day of The Commercial Appeal newspaper. “It differs from game to game dependin...
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Show HN: Nerdlog – Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram

github.com
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Hegseth Faces Heat After New Signal Chat Emerges and Claim of Pentagon 'Chaos'

wsj.com
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Why R the Critical Value and Emergent Behavior of Large Language Models Fake?

acm.org

Why there are no emergent properties in Large Language Models. We heard lot about emergent properties...
Why there are no emergent properties in Large Language Models. We heard lot about emergent properties of Large Language Models (LLMs) last year. I will share with you my thoughts, and some other scientists, of why there are no emergent properties and especially why the assumed critical value that these so-called eme...
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Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature

herecomesthemoon.net

Epistemic status: Don’t take it too seriously. Or do. idk, I can’t stop you. Pop culture...
Epistemic status: Don’t take it too seriously. Or do. idk, I can’t stop you. Pop culture reference. Toggle original/dithered image Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature. What is pipelining? Pipelining is the feature that allows you to omit a single argument from your parameter list, by instead...
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Are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

theguardian.com

Imagine for a moment you are a child in 1941, sitting the common entrance exam for...
Imagine for a moment you are a child in 1941, sitting the common entrance exam for public schools with nothing but a pencil and paper. You read the following: “Write, for no more than a quarter of an hour, about a British author.”Today, most of us wouldn’t need 15 minutes to ponder such a question. We’d get the answ...
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Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent

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Much of the world’s web traffic is routed through data centers, which also fuel power-guzzling artificial...
Much of the world’s web traffic is routed through data centers, which also fuel power-guzzling artificial intelligence (AI) applications. In the U.S. alone, data centers consumed around 4 percent of the country’s total electricity in 2023, and that number is projected to rise up to 12 percent by 2028.Some researcher...

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