Why Rust strings seem hard. #rust

Foundations of Databases (PDF, 678 pp.). #database

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams mentions an extremely dull planet, inhabited by a bunch of depressed humans and a certain breed of animals with sharp teeth which communicate with the humans by biting them very hard in the thighs. This is strikingly similar to UNIX, in which the kernel communicates with processes by sending paralyzing or deadly signals to them. Processes may intercept some of the signals, and try to adapt to the situation, but most of them don’t. — The TTY demystified

Learn Vim Progressively: Very nice hand-on material for beginner. I would add that it’s still possible to add ̀C-a and C-e keybindings for Insert mode if you are used to using the terminal with default Emacs keybindings a lot. #vim

Predictive performance of machine and statistical learning methods: Impact of data-generating processes on external validity in the “large N, small p” setting.

We are now in the 2020 year, and this is also the year that Lisp would become 62 years old! That is an impressive age for a programming language. With that said that does not mean that the concepts and ideas developed in Lisp are old. — Starting with Common Lisp in 2020

Just found out lovely pictures from this website, especially in the “plants” category.

Great work in Victor’s new post: Python behind the scenes #10: how Python dictionaries work. #python

SQLean: all the missing SQLite functions. #database

Build systems for small programs or libraries will often spend 10+ seconds running configure and complete the actual compilation and linking in a fraction of that time. In other words, the setup to perform the build takes longer than the build itself! — Surprisingly slow