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  • Best By Test
    This website finds the best (so far: WiFi, sex, and the sun) and worst (so far: transaction fees, advertising, mortgage) things using the Glicko2 rating system.
    Sat Feb 16 07:33:22 2019 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://bestbytest.net/
  • http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub3/README
    How to generate epub books from docbook documents.
    Mon Jan 28 08:45:50 2019 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub3/README
    docbook
  • BBC Radio 4 - Across the Board
    Across The Board: a series of interviews conducted by Dominic Lawson over a game of chess
    Mon Jan 7 19:51:10 2019 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04njsks
    audio chess
  • Othello for Desktop, Mobile and Web: an AI and GUI Exercise
    A comprehensive writeup for a simple Othello engine with cross-platform GUI.
    Tue Jan 1 11:19:26 2019 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.hanshq.net/othello.html
    programming
  • I Want My ChessTV | Topic
    On chess livestreamers. I watch some of these people.
    Sun Dec 30 21:30:39 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.topic.com/i-want-my-chesstv
    chess
  • My Obsession with Chess
    An autobiographical comic in two parts by Scott McCloud.
    Sun Dec 30 09:36:32 2018 * - permalink -
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    - archive.org - http://scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/chess/index.html
    chess comic
  • Queen of Knights and Pawns
    Sports Illustrated's 1961 article on the chess player Lisa Lane.
    Tue Dec 18 20:46:31 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.si.com/vault/1961/08/07/586627/queen-of-knights-and-pawns
    chess
  • Dotsies
    This looks like an interesting shorthand font to look at sometime.
    Tue Dec 18 19:41:58 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - http://dotsies.org/
    later
  • Jim Copp, the Forgotten Virtuoso of Children’s Storytelling | The New Yorker
    I grew up listening to Jim Copp Tales.
    Tue Dec 18 11:53:32 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/jim-copp-the-forgotten-virtuoso-of-childrens-storytelling
    audio
  • Covariance and contravariance in subtyping - Eli Bendersky's website
    Tue Dec 18 11:15:35 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/covariance-and-contravariance-in-subtyping/
    programming
  • Why is chess gender segregated? After Lisa Lane, women still face inequality
    I think this article spends too much time on the structure and prize purses of top-level women's tournaments, which simply aren't the real barriers to women in chess, but it's otherwise good. I don't think I'd ever even heard of Lisa Lane before.
    Tue Dec 18 09:06:13 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.si.com/more-sports/2018/12/17/lisa-lane-hou-yifan-womens-chess-gender-inequality-world-championships
    chess feminism
  • Out on the road all alone
    An enjoyable personal essay about the time Bobby Fischer visited Little Rock to play a simul.
    Sun Dec 16 12:02:32 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://tinyletter.com/davidhill/letters/out-on-the-road-all-alone
    chess
  • Type erasure and reification - Eli Bendersky's website
    Erasure: only checks types at compile time
    Reification: type checking at run-time
    Sun Dec 16 08:37:53 2018 * - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/type-erasure-and-reification/
    programming
  • Running a Side Business as a Programmer: The story of Later for Reddit
    Adam Bard started a little web service that now makes $1,000/mo. This is the sort of thing I need to do.
    Mon Nov 26 08:39:08 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://adambard.com/blog/later-for-reddit-in-review/
    devops programming
  • Learn X in Y Minutes: Scenic Programming Language Tours
    I like these little introductions (at least the few I've read so far)
    Mon Nov 26 08:28:37 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://learnxinyminutes.com/
    programming
  • Recreating Another Byte Magazine Cover as a Photograph – Galactic Studios
    Saw these neat photographic recreations of Byte magazine cover paintings on a recent episode of EEVBlog.
    Wed Nov 21 11:07:11 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.galacticstudios.org/recreating-another-byte-magazine-cover-as-a-photograph/
    electronics
  • dissidents Engineering Books
    Copyleft engineering and programming texts by James M. Fiore.
    Tue Oct 23 12:04:03 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - http://www.dissidents.com/books.htm
    electronics textbook
  • The Conversation, Chess Grandmasters
    An interview with Hou Yifan and Judit Polgar about women in chess.
    Wed Oct 17 09:38:01 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswp1m
    chess feminism
  • Vimcasts Episodes
    I usually prefer text articles to instructional videos, but Vimcast screencasts are very nice.
    Thu Oct 11 16:48:00 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - http://vimcasts.org/episodes/
    video
  • Two bits per transistor: high-density ROM in Intel's 8087 floating point chip
    Another great IC photo and write up from Ken Shirriff which explains how Intel's 8087 used different gate widths in its ROM to encode two-bits of information per address.
    Thu Oct 11 12:41:11 2018 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - http://www.righto.com/2018/09/two-bits-per-transistor-high-density.html
    electronics reverse-engineer
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