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My X41 from 2005 has the same trackpad and “trackpoint” and still runs Debian Bookworm just fine.

Yes, otherwise is more natural but less terse.

‘Else’ is not commonly used in English today but the meaning does fit. From Webster’s (1913):

Else, adverb or conjunction

1. Besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else.

2. Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.

“For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it.” – Ps. li. 16.

After ‘or’, else is sometimes used expletively, as simply noting an alternative. “Will you give thanks, … or else shall I?” – Shak.

Iosevka is also available in Nerd Fonts. https://www.nerdfonts.com/#features

Related:

Margaret Hamilton Led the NASA Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36720448 - July 2023 (32 comments)

Margaret Hamilton oral history (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668338 - March 2022 (7 comments)

An interview with Margaret Hamilton - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20453737 - July 2019 (12 comments)

Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12991524 - Nov 2016 (70 comments)

Profile of Margaret Hamilton, programmer of the Apollo software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10379904 - Oct 2015 (58 comments)

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer, Project Apollo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8735912 - Dec 2014 (94 comments)

Having AI “blow over” is overblown but OP does have some suggestions (except maybe CSS) that should be AI-resistant.

Yes, so far the competitive dynamics feel more like cloud computing than web search.

Not to be confused with the Zen of Backup…

A novice asked the master: “What must I do to learn the Zen of Backup?” The master whacked the novice in the head, grabbed the keyboard, and ran sudo rm -rf /. The novice smiled and left feeling enlightened.

Forgive me for my ignorance: Why should the Rodin Museum be obligated to provide 3D scans of Rodin’s sculptures? OP jumps into legal arguments about FOI without connecting the dots from the law to the point clouds.

This isn’t really a paradox if you just visualize the Moon as a sphere and visualize where the Sun is shining from, and I think that’s what the plots in OP demonstrate.

The “paradox” might be in the initial assertion which does not use an accurate mental model: “After sunset, the sun is below, so we would expect the illuminated portion of the moon to point down, towards where the sun is.” This assertion might be true if at sunset the Sun ducks just behind the horizon, around the same distance or closer than the Moon is to the Earth. In reality, the Sun is of course much farther from Earth than the Moon. Factoring the relative distances into the mental model will lead you to the correct conclusion.

Instead of the proposed /src/md convention:

  src/
    md/
      README.md          # index of all md, entry point for agents
      TODO.md            # a list of general TODOs open for this module
      OVERVIEW.md        # a technical overview of this module
      features/FEATURE_1.md       # a set of feature-specific documents
      data/DATAMODEL_1.md         # descriptions of data models in the module
      api/API_1.md                # descriptions of APIs the module provides
      infrastructure/INFRASTRUCTURE_1.md   # descriptions of infrastructure used by the module

What if we standardized on README.md in each subdirectory alongside the code?

  src/
    README.md    # entry point for humans and agents
    TODO.md      # list of general TODOs open for this module
    INFRA.md     # descriptions of infrastructure used by the module
    api/
      README.md  # descriptions of APIs the module provides
    models/
      README.md  # descriptions of data models in this module

README.md in each subdirectory seems to align better with OP’s objective “that Markdown should be checked in to /src, next to the code it produces”. It is also a convention already in use in many code repositories.

“You will never sell anything to any of those people ever again.”

There are some in actual use though, for example this rotor ship that has docked at the Port of Vancouver: https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/what-is-this-strange-ship-...

The underlying classifier, BirdNET, is a traditional neural network and not an LLM:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101236

fm = Foundation Models

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/334/

Quite an interesting selection committee:

  Neal Stephenson
  Gwern Branwen
  Matt Huang

This geographic puzzle feels like the modern day version of the Seven Bridges of Königsberg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_Königsberg

It was a $1 million donation to Vanderbilt in April 2020 to support three COVID research projects, including one related to the Moderna vaccine:

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has been gifting free books to kids from birth to age 5 for over three decades: https://imaginationlibrary.com/