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fanf, 4 days ago to random

wondering about waldo (n., telemanipulator) i find to my mild surprise

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/waldo

from the Robert A. Heinlein story Waldo, published in Astounding in 1940, derived from the name of the eponymous protagonist, Waldo F. Jones, who invented remote manipulators to overcome his own myasthenia gravis

fanf, 4 days ago to random

https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2020/01/13/bit-twiddling-addition-with-unknown-bits/ - Bit-twiddling abstract addition with unknown bits.

fanf, 4 days ago to random

reading about 50 years of sql

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/31/fifty_years_of_sql/

and the earth shifts beneath me as i realise in a few months there will be historical retrospectives of foundational technologies that are younger than me

(i am quite looking forward to the articles about vlsi tbh)

fanf, 4 days ago to random

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html - It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time.

fanf, 4 days ago to random

https://pr0g.github.io/mathematics/graphics/2023/08/06/reverse-z.html - Reverse Z in 3D graphics (and why it’s so awesome).

fanf, 4 days ago to random

2023 retro-link! https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/bcrypt-25-retrospective-password-security - Bcrypt at 25: a retrospective on password security.

fanf, 5 days ago to random

https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/doing-is-normally-distributed-learning-is-log-normal/ - Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal.

fanf, 5 days ago to random

https://xuanwo.io/2023/04-rust-std-fs-slower-than-python/ - Why is Rust slower to read a file than Python?

revk, 5 days ago to random

Oh wow, that is going way too far!

[not my pic]

fanf, 5 days ago to random

nice pictures

but wat? cut-and-cover was “innovative” in 1901? i think not! the very first underground railway used cut-and-cover in 1861, which is still pretty obvious when using it to travel between paddington / euston / st pancras / kings cross / farringdon
https://social.masto.land/@dave/112552754801565791

fanf, 5 days ago to random

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/an-overview-of-starlark - An overview of the Starlark programming language.

fanf, 6 days ago to random

https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-longer-than-you-think-a-statistical-model.html - Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model.

fanf, 8 days ago to random

2021 retro-link! https://www.npopov.com/2021/06/02/Design-issues-in-LLVM-IR.html - Design issues in LLVM IR.

fanf, 8 days ago to random

2021 retro-link! https://blog.mozilla.org/attack-and-defense/2021/06/09/eliminating-data-races-in-firefox-a-technical-report/ - Eliminating data races in Firefox with Thread Sanitizer.

fanf, 8 days ago to random

2022 retro-link! https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide/discussions/579 - Cloning the Linux kernel in under a minute with gitoxide.

fanf, 8 days ago to random

2022 retro-link! http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2022/06/advancing-state-of-art-for.html - Advancing the state of the art for C++ std::unordered_map implementations.

fanf, 9 days ago to random

nice
https://mastodns.net/@diffroot/112526900725536823

fanf, 9 days ago to random

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/emoji-history-the-missing-years/ - Emoji history: the missing years.

fanf, 9 days ago to random

2022 retro-link! https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09029 - If multicast is the answer, what was the question?

fanf, 9 days ago to random

vague memory of someone else’s debugging story from i can’t remember where … :

they are called to an office which is complaining that the wifi stops working for two hours twice a day

this office is in portsmouth so it’s fairly obvious that the timing is related to the tides

but what on earth? how can the wifi be sensitive to the tides?!