Readit Newsno buttons? no purchase.
Been waiting a long time, I suppose it's time to move to alternatives, as it's a pain to carry around a usb-micro cable just for my kindle.
When I personally want a binary with a native GUI I turn to Racket. It's also pretty nice for parsing stuff, like JSON, XML, some text-file formats.
The companion book How to design programs, https://htdp.org/2023-8-14/Book/index.html , is nice too, while it doesn't exactly teach Racket (it uses a couple of teaching languages implemented in Racket) it has some valuable ideas that are good to be reminded of every now and then.
The macro system might seem weird if one comes from e.g. CL, but once I got used to it I found it relatively easy to stay sane while doing metaprogramming.
A couple of more resources that are useful:
> We tokenize text because text isn't numbers.
Text is actually numbers. People tried inputting UTF8 directly into transformers, but it doesn't work that well. Karpathy explains why:
Text can be represented by numbers but they aren't the same datatype. They don't support the same operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc).
Google has always charged for storage in Google Photos - it's part of your "Google Drive" storage quota. They do give you 10GB free though, which can be substantial for a lot of folks.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html