My wife took one look at this and said “It’s not Wordle if it’s all binary—it’s Digitle.”

Well… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)

5 bits would be a weird size for a word.

Knuth's "Art of Programming" had a hypothetical machine with 5-bit words.

I don’t think the parent’s argument would change if he had made an 8-bit Wordle.

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Reminds me of the idea of analogue cheese - fake cheese. It's analogue cheese until you get some on your fingers, when it becomes digital cheese.

It's not Wordle because because it's only 5 bits. There are no remotely common 5-bit word systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...

I grew up about 3 minutes away from a big hardware store, doing projects all the time. This contributed to a very wrongheaded idea about how long projects take.

When I moved into my current house it was suddenly a 40 minute trip. For the first couple years I couldn’t get anything done on Saturdays because I’d never needed to optimize away trips to the store before.

You’ve just introduced me to a good poem. Thanks!

Super impressive. Can’t agree more with the author that GPS is a stunningly clever engineering achievement.

For those interested in the story of the development of GPS, I found “GPS Declassified” by Richard Easton to be an engaging retelling.

While reading Amazon reviews, I learned that they missed the contributions by Hedy Lamarr, a very interesting and impressive figure:

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

a great book to read, much better than you would expect, about Hedy Lamarr, is Richard Rhodes book: "Hedy's Folly."

Thank you very much!

I wrote a thing for this back when you could download the whole hash database as a single torrent, but I haven’t checked it since they moved over to the PwnedPasswordsDownloader system. This doesn’t use any probabilistic data structures though, it just packs the database into the smallest binary file I could come up with.

https://github.com/tylerchr/pwnedpass

I don’t know that much about materials science. Why is a “titanium hemisphere bonded to a carbon fiber cylinder” “such a fundamentally compromised design” in this application?

I imagine maybe carbon fiber would be better in tension (e.g. airframes) than in compression (this), perhaps. Or do carbon fiber and titanium not get along somehow?

(EDIT: Had tension and compression backwards.)

Why would shipping a good GPU be a prerequisite to shipping a quantum processor?

Because engineering a competitive GPU takes massive resources. Why pour resources into Quantum computers when you're loosing the battle on CPU and GPU side? Buy the time Quantum computer become mainstream Intel might not survive, if they don't pick their battles wisely.

Maybe a way to win battle is to leap forward?

Always neat to discover that multiple high-quality tools you discovered separately are all written by the same person. I use both bat and hyperfine regularly and had no idea. Now, knowing to look up the author, I've learned about insect and hexyl too!

Fabrice Bellard, klauspost, and bradfitz are three prior examples of this that spring to mind. I'm sure there are plenty more I haven't noticed yet.

Sincerely, thanks to the people who make contributions like this.

pv is invaluable but my issue with it is it’s only useful if you think to include it before you run the command. Usually the thought doesn’t occur to me until I have some runaway cp or dd and I want to be reassured that it’s going to be done soon. For that case that this looks super interesting.

You can attach pv to an existing process. IIRC it's the -p option.

-p is same as "--progess":

https://linux.die.net/man/1/pv

Ah, it was -d I was thinking of. Anyway, the point is that you can run pv retrospectively just fine while your slow command is running.

Heh, that gives “2.49 US dollars,” before the expected 907.18 grams.

Try with 2 lb. Pound is for money. Libra pondo is for weight.