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Which Knot Is Stronger?

scientificamerican.com
10 points·by woutgaze·last year·0 comments

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woutgaze
·20 days ago·discuss
I have the feeling that the author is really onto something: the explicit boundary between symbolic intent and real-world execution.

Type systems don’t cut it always, you sometimes need something in-between imperative code - which is hard to test all edge cases - and pure type system chasing. The sweet spot maybe lies in having a DSL (in this case "building business mutations") and have good building blocks.
woutgaze
·2 months ago·discuss
(and The Netherlands)
woutgaze
·4 months ago·discuss
If your air purifier sucks from and dumps into the same room it will do nothing for CO2 levels. Only for dust particulates.
woutgaze
·4 months ago·discuss
Is it also self-hosting as a sort of meta-quine?
woutgaze
·3 years ago·discuss
Nice setup although I remember that the efficiency of air tools is very low like around 1%. That’s also why they get replaced a lot.