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The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, written by Ludwig Wittgenstein, is a significant philosophical work that explores the relationship between language and reality and sets the limits of science. It consists of 525 declarative statements and was published in 1921. Wittgenstein’s later works criticized some of the ideas presented in the Tractatus, but there are still connections and […]
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Over the summer, the author spent their time building a garbage collector in Rust, a language designed to eliminate garbage collection. They explained that Rust’s standard library offers reference-counted garbage collectors, but they cannot handle cyclic references. So, the author aimed to create a garbage collector that can handle cyclic references and nearly any data […]
In this article, the author explains why Elixir uses a dot when calling anonymous functions. They start by discussing the limitation in the Erlang VM, which doesn’t allow functions to receive a variadic number of arguments. They then explore a fictional language that allows for multiple arities and functions stored in variables, similar to languages […]
Go 1.21 introduces new features to improve compatibility, which may sound boring but is actually a good thing. Go 1 was exciting and full of surprises, but Go 1’s compatibility promise was introduced to make future releases stable and predictable. The post discusses the importance of compatibility and the approaches used to maintain it, such […]
During a client engagement, someone made a memorable statement – if you succeed, you will fail. This particular engagement involved delivering an iOS Application and dealing with legacy backends and complex authentication processes. Despite facing some challenges, the team successfully built out an AWS environment and infrastructure. However, communicating with the lead developer of the […]
I attended an IETF meeting to learn more about TCP BBR and to understand the debate around IPv6. Many people believe that IPv6 is the future and that IPv4 is filled with hacks that need to be replaced. However, I wanted to understand why IPv6 is so complicated compared to IPv4. After researching and asking […]
After 18 months of commercial use, the author shares their thoughts on using Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView. Overall, they have had a pleasant experience and believe that Elixir exceeded their expectations in terms of available tools and overall development experience. They find Elixir enjoyable, with a good combination of functional programming and BEAM features. They […]
Thousands of hackers will gather at DEF CON to participate in the Generative Red Team Challenge, the largest red-teaming exercise for AI models. The challenge, announced by the Biden-Harris administration and supported by various organizations, aims to test the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of large language models provided by companies like Google and OpenAI. The models […]
In this web content, the author explores the driving factors behind social change throughout history. They propose that a small number of exceptional individuals create functional institutions that serve as the foundation of society. These institutions are then imitated by others, but the original versions outperform their imitators, leading to societal growth and prosperity. However, […]
In this web content, the author introduces the LearnDB project, which aims to deepen the understanding of databases by creating a relational database management system (RDBMS) similar to SQLite from scratch. The project is written in pure Python and has a relatively simple codebase, making it ideal for tinkering. However, it is not recommended for […]