Lobsters Interview with Claudius

@Claudius maintains LispE and previously TAMGU at Naver, combining array and logic programming with Haskell features. (N.b. the wiki holds the documentation and articles.)

In this interview, we discuss Lisp and Prolog implementations, array languages, symbolic (GOFAI) and neuro-symbolic AI.


How did you discover programming, come to pursue a PhD etc.?

It's not exactly a recent…

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Lasers - Trans Megathread for May 11th through May 17th, 2026

submitted by sodium_nitride to traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns
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Strap up your safety goggles my siblings, it’s time to lase

What even is a laser

The word itself stands for “light amplified by stimulated emission” … which explains nothing about what lasers actually are, what they produce and how they work. So let’s start from the beginning. What’s the difference between laser…

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Graphics Development • Re: [OTTD] 2cc TrainsInNML

I would like to thank both of you guys. I have never thought that someone would really start working on all this stuff.

It's nice that we have a little bit of emulation going I feel By the way the Stadler SALi is done! I'll also make a FGC 257 as a colorswap with minor edits, since it's basically the same locomotive but dual mode.

@nemethv: I have noticed a couple engines are…

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Graphics Development • Re: [OTTD] 2cc TrainsInNML

I would like to thank both of you guys. I have never thought that someone would really start working on all this stuff.

It's nice that we have a little bit of emulation going I feel By the way the Stadler SALi is done! I'll also make a FGC 257 as a colorswap with minor edits, since it's basically the same locomotive but dual mode.

@nemethv: I have noticed a couple engines are wrongfully…

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Panneaux et centrales solaires en Wallonie dans OpenStreetMap

Comme ailleurs dans le monde, les installations photovoltaïques se multiplient en Belgique. En 2022, 68 ans après les débuts du photovoltaïque, la capacité mondiale en panneaux photovoltaïques atteignait son premier TW. Il n’aura fallu que 2 ans pour que 1 TW supplémentaire soit ajouté en termes de capacité mondiale en 2024. Et le rythme s’accélère encore.

En Belgique, d’après electricitymaps,…

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Sahil Dhiman: MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026

MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026 was held on 14th and 15th March 2026 at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Having a Debian conference in the North was something many folks wanted. Ravi started the discussion (with local IIT Kanpur folks) almost 7 months before the conference. Lots of folks from Debian India joined in organizing the conference, which was nice. All the meeting notes and…

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Doing updates

Big update for doing: a lot of quality-of-life work since my last post, plus some genuinely useful time-reporting features.

If you want the full docs, start with the wiki.

Time Budgets

You can now set time budgets per tag and see how much you have left as you track work.

doing budget dev 100h doing budget meetings 10h doing budget doing budget dev --remove

Totals output now shows…

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Agenda du Libre pour la semaine 11 de l’année 2026

Calendrier Web, regroupant des événements liés au Libre (logiciel, salon, atelier, install party , conférence), annoncés par leurs organisateurs. Voici un récapitulatif de la semaine à venir. Le détail de chacun de ces 65 événements (France: 61, Internet: 3, Québec: 1) est en seconde partie de dépêche.

  • lien nᵒ 1 : April
  • lien nᵒ 2 : Agenda du Libre
  • lien nᵒ 3 : Carte des…
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Cannan on the King of the Treatise Writers

John Cannan, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law , on Joel Bishop's Reign as King of the Treatise Writers and What it Means for Persuasive Authority:


Joel Prentiss Bishop (wiki)
What does this say about law practice and legal education, which has long embraced and professed a perception of persuasive authority, mostly ruled by a rigid source hierarchy, that does…

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