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What is your favorite way to treat yourself? (lemmy.world)

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Right now, mine is buying the fancy expensive dark chocolate 🍫

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cuddle up with tea and a good article driving deep into a fascinating subject.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This sounds fantastic. What are some good articles you've read?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Often it's on technical subjects, but not always. Most recently I read an academic paper on a new method for accelerating the execution engines of dynamic programming languages. The new copy-and-patch technique allows such an engine to generate more optimal code very quickly and without manual programming of machine specific hand tuning that is often not economically viable.

Speaking more recently, I enjoyed reading a paper and this article about the paper. "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" concerning the mind-body problem.

I enjoy that "learned something new" feeling.