The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems
and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting
language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best
dangerous.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup in "The C Programming Language"
Statt Urnengang Untergang gelesen.
Hm.
https://www.republik.ch/2025/06/12/srg-mutlosigkeit-als-programm?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=cm&utm_content…
Iran warned the US, UK and France that their military bases and ships will be targeted
if they help block the Iranian missile and drone retaliation for Israel’s attack,
threatening to widen an already bloody war over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Donald Trump has said the US will help defend Israel,
and American officials have been quoted in news reports saying that US forces have already helped shoot down Iranian drones and missiles as they approached Israel.
Fran…
Synergistic control of radical generation in a radio frequency atmospheric pressure plasma jet via voltage waveform tailoring and structured electrodes
Mate Vass, Xiaokun Wang, Ihor Korolov, Julian Schulze, Thomas Mussenbrock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10099
Structure and asymptotic preserving deep neural surrogates for uncertainty quantification in multiscale kinetic equations
Wei Chen, Giacomo Dimarco, Lorenzo Pareschi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10636
Greater Manchester still has a long way to go on protected cycling infrastructure.
Share of protected cycling infra-
structure of total roads %:
Paris 44
Hamburg 33
Barcelona 19
Waraw 15
G London 8
Manchester 8 rank 29/36
Did better on school streets and safe speeds
https…
Engineering teams often get stuck striving for perfection, not out of laziness, but due to an insatiable desire to improve. Join Tim Schmolka next week at Berlin Buzzwords to discover how teams can overcome perfectionism. He will discuss the significance of setting clear boundaries, balancing quality with timely delivery, and focusing on what truly matters.
Learn more:
Hazel Deriver: A Live Editor for Constructing Rule-Based Derivations
Zhiyao Zhong, Cyrus Omar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10781 https://