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  1. blaise: A modern, self-hosting Object Pascal compiler built for the 2020s. Zero legacy, full ARC, and unified UTF-8 lobste.rs/s/ot6g23 #compilers
    github.com/graemeg/blaise

  2. blaise: A modern, self-hosting Object Pascal compiler built for the 2020s. Zero legacy, full ARC, and unified UTF-8

    fed.brid.gy/r/https://github.c

  3. Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE

    github.com/graemeg/blaise

    #compiler #github

  4. Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

    — Blaise Pascal

    #Stoic #Stoicism #BlaisePascal

  5. Blaise Agüera y Arcas implemented a computational simulation of what amounts to the RNA world hypothesis using a modified form of brainfuck language to encode the evolvable information-carrying and self-replicating substrate as executable programs:

    "Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction" (2024)
    arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108

    Was quite the amusing talk that he gave - and even more amusing that someone noted his paper in brainfuck's wikipedia page.

    #brainfuck #RNAworld #evolution

  6. Beautiful weather for takeoff from Blaise Diagne International airport in Dakar area (Senegal) “GOBD 041300Z 01017KT CAVOK 24/13 Q1015 NOSIG” : See what it means on bigorre.org/aero/meteo/gobd/en #blaisediagneinternationalairport #airport #dakar #senegal #gobd #dss #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

  7. Beautiful weather for takeoff from Blaise Diagne International airport in Dakar area (Senegal) “GOBD 041300Z 01017KT CAVOK 24/13 Q1015 NOSIG” : See what it means on bigorre.org/aero/meteo/gobd/en #blaisediagneinternationalairport #airport #dakar #senegal #gobd #dss #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

  8. Beautiful weather for takeoff from Blaise Diagne International airport in Dakar area (Senegal) “GOBD 041300Z 01017KT CAVOK 24/13 Q1015 NOSIG” : See what it means on bigorre.org/aero/meteo/gobd/en #blaisediagneinternationalairport #airport #dakar #senegal #gobd #dss #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

  9. Beautiful weather for takeoff from Blaise Diagne International airport in Dakar area (Senegal) “GOBD 041300Z 01017KT CAVOK 24/13 Q1015 NOSIG” : See what it means on bigorre.org/aero/meteo/gobd/en #blaisediagneinternationalairport #airport #dakar #senegal #gobd #dss #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

  10. “Stercus accidit”*…

    The Wealth of the Nation (1942) by Seymour Fogel. Fine Arts Collection, United States General Services Administration

    As we try to understand the rifts afflicting our nation and world, many turn to Marx and his framework of class. But in a provocative essay, Catherine Nichols suggests that it was David Hume (in an 1752 essay that identified the unfethering of wealth from land) who identified the origin of our political divisions…

    Describing the political map in terms of Left and Right is an accepted convention all over the world, almost to the point of cliché. Yet it is surprisingly complicated to explain whose interests lie on each side of this spectrum. For example, if the Left supports the interests of workers over the interests of employers, why are Left-leaning regions of the United States and elsewhere in the world among the richest? When Japan and South Korea sought to become economic powerhouses in the later 20th century, they adopted Leftist policies such as strong public education, universal healthcare and increased gender equality – if countries seeking to compete in capitalist arenas adopt broadly Leftist policies, then how do we explain why Leftists are always talking about overthrowing capitalism? And if the Left is somehow both the party of workers’ rights and the party of material wealth, then whose interests are supported by the Right? Given such contradictions, how did these terms become so central to modern politics?

    The terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ come from the seating arrangements in the National Assembly during the French Revolution, where the combatants used the medieval estate groupings to define their battle lines. According to their writings, land-owning aristocrats (the Second Estate) were the party of the Right, while the interests of nearly everyone else (the Third Estate) belonged to the Left. This Third Estate included peasants working for the landowners but also every other kind of business owner and worker. Decades later, Karl Marx offered a different analysis of capitalism: he put owners of both land and businesses together on one side (the bourgeoisie), while grouping workers from fields and factories on the other side (the proletariat) in a single, world-wide class struggle. The trouble with both these ways of parsing Left and Right is that voting patterns never seem to line up with class. Both historic analyses leave us with questions about the contemporary world – and not just the paradox of why so many Left-leaning places are so rich. Why, for example, do working-class conservatives appear to vote against their material interests, year in and year out, across generations?

    The 18th-century philosopher and political theorist David Hume had answers to these questions, though he was writing decades before the French Revolution. While his essay ‘Of Public Credit’ (1752) was a warning about the dangers of Britain’s increasing reliance on debt financing, his apocalyptic vision of the future turned out to describe some features of our current political map surprisingly well. Hume was writing because he believed that debt financing had the power to upend Europe’s traditional power structure and culture by creating a new source of money divorced from tradition or responsibility: stocks and bonds. Unlike land, anyone with some cash could buy war bonds and get an immediate passive income in the form of interest. This was the thin end of the wedge caused by the debt financing that Hume believed was destroying every part of society. The governments of antiquity, Hume argued, saved money to use in battle and then waged wars in self-defence, or else to expand their territory. But the British had invented a new form of warfare that Hume saw no precedent for, even in the merchant states of Nicollò Machiavelli’s Italy: war for trade, funded with money borrowed from private stockholders…

    [Nichols unpacks Hume’s observations (centrally, that three groups with stakes in the status quo, heretability, and the sanctity of “family and family hierarchy”tradition”– landowners, aging parents, and want to preserve old power structures, including the family– and traces their relevance, from Hume’s time to ours…]

    … There are many reasons for people aligning Right or Left, which is why analyses of class and material interests fall short of describing the realities of people’s politics. Hume foresaw that these specific groups would resent the economic sea-change of the 18th century – and he was correct. Many people would rather have land and power than money and liberty.

    Still, the power of the Right hasn’t doomed the Left – no more than the Spanish Inquisition doomed the rise of the Left in 18th-century England and France. As long as governments want to keep the value of their currencies from falling, someone in their ranks will be using the methods of the Left and inventiveness that brought us everything from our banking system to gay marriage. We don’t need to resurrect communism or focus narrowly on class, following Marx. The experiments are far from over, and we should remember that the Left is generally where money comes from in modern times. We give away too much power when we forget it…

    Rethinking Right and Left: “Landholder vs stockholder,” from @catherinenichols.bsky.social in @aeon.co.

    As for how it’s going at the moment (and further to Hume and the quote in this post’s title), see: “MAGA’s Betrayal of Small Business,” from @pkrugman.bsky.social.

    * “shit happens”– often attributed to David Hume, reflecting his skeptical view that human understanding, particularly of cause-and-effect, is limited to habitual belief from experience, implying that unforeseen, messy outcomes (“shit”) inevitably occur in life despite our reasoning.

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    As we sort the Whigs from the Tories, we might recall that it was on this date 1656 that Blaise Pascal (writing under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte) published the first of his Provential Letters (Lettres provinciales), a series of eighteen polemical letters using humor to attack Jesuits for their use of  casuistry and their moral laxity. Though the Letters were a popular success, they had little immediate effect on politics or the clergy. But they influenced later French writers like Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and ultimately persuaded Pope Alexander to condemn “laxity” in the church and order a revision of casuistic texts.

    source

    #BlaisePascal #culture #DavidHume #economics #history #JeanJacquesRousseau #Jesuits #KarlMarx #philosophy #politicalDivision #politics #ProventialLetters #religion #society #sociology #Voltaire
  11. Il est temps de se réveiller et d'écrire. Parce qu'écrire c'est bien. De quoi parlons-nous aujourd'hui ? De Cendrars, Blaise, pardon, Ablaze Cendrars !

    #BlaiseCendrars #Radio #Suisse #TerredeFeu
    lasteppe.eu/nomsimportants/abl

  12. @blaise @ShaulaEvans @researchfairy
    Is it the type of thing we'd expect to be #HankHill approved?
    Knowing of course the answer to that question may or may not have an effect. He has a special relationship with his lawn. I guess it makes him an authority in a certain capacity at least.
    😬
    Khan would do that, just to make Hank angry.
    I'd do it for the right reasons. People should read #Thoreau as well.

  13. @blaise is alive and kicking. still . Great community, one of my favorites. Have been super helpful in development of more hardware oriented features of in particular CPU and recent RAM upgrades. Very pleasant to deal with.

  14. Blaise Castle, with random family, for scale. Second pic shows the building edge-on, showing the trefoil structure of the folly.
    Henbury, Bristol
    #photography #BlaiseCastle #Henbury #Bristol #folly

  15. #Parution : Blaise Pascal : un homme aux mille facettes, colloque scientifique. Le Coudray-Macouard : Éditions Saint-Léger, 2026. ISBN : 9782385224554.
    boutique.saintlegerproductions

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