If you do something for the first time, you're a scientist. The second time, you're an engineer. The third time, you're an operator. The fourth time, it's automated.

Can anyone think of artistic mediums that have been ultimately discontinued because they were determined to be harmful to humans? For example, certain red pigments contain lead and aren't used anymore

Spent my morning reading up on the "buddy system" for dynamic memory allocation in Knuth TAOCP

Once again, I still have this thing

Hey cool I still have this thing

Good news: my purple MNT pocket reform I ordered over a year arrived in the mail today

Bad news: It arrived in Boston. I am in New York.

I am patient.

Indulging my tool-mind

I am beginning another attempt at reading Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann.

This time, I'll be taking a breadth-first approach to consuming information in the pages, populating my knowledge graph (dagzet) as I go:

pbat.ch/recurse/dz/D...