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Which emoji scissors close
Fri 03 Jan 2020 09:49:14 AM MST - permalink -

- - https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html
Banter Blitz with World Champion Magnus Carlsen

Magnus's Banter Blitz sessions on chess24 are very good.
Wed 01 Jan 2020 06:47:33 PM MST - permalink -

- - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li-D6mXwql8

chess video
The joy of Perl [1998]

A reporter talks to Larry Wall (and Eric Raymond and Tim O'Reilly) at the zenith of the Perl era.
Sat 21 Dec 2019 07:26:00 AM MST - permalink -

- - https://www.salon.com/1998/10/13/feature_269/

perl programming
John Graham-Cumming: The search for the "perfect" Advent Calendar (involves Python and Processing)
Tue 17 Dec 2019 06:54:09 AM MST - permalink -

- - https://blog.jgc.org/2018/12/the-search-for-perfect-advent-calendar.html

programming
Why Go Is Not Good :: Will Yager

After writing a few programs in Go, I appreciate its simplicity and how easy it is to cross-complile and deploy simple programs, but I agree its type system is a bit *too* simple.
Sun 15 Dec 2019 12:45:02 PM MST - permalink -

- - http://yager.io/programming/go.html

golang programming
6.042J Chapter 12: Generating functions [PDF]

The most clear introduction to generating functions and their uses that I've found.
Sun 15 Dec 2019 12:38:30 PM MST - permalink -

- - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-042j-mathematics-for-computer-science-fall-2010/readings/MIT6_042JF10_chap12.pdf

math
François Labelle's Homepage

computational geometry, chess, running, programming...
Thu 12 Dec 2019 08:11:25 PM MST - permalink -

- - https://wismuth.com/

chess programming
Software Library: MS-DOS Games : Free Software : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are bootable and playable
Thu 12 Dec 2019 09:00:54 AM MST - permalink -

- - https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

games
Ted Yapo - Towards an Open-Source Multi-GHz Sampling Oscilloscope - YouTube

I enjoyed this presentation by Ted Yapo about his DIY sampling scope.
Sun 01 Dec 2019 02:55:10 PM MST - permalink -

- - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99u53V7uDFY

electronics
Exception Handling Considered Harmful

Argument in favor of returning errors instead of raising exceptions.
Thu 21 Nov 2019 01:24:48 PM MST - permalink -

- - http://www.lighterra.com/papers/exceptionsharmful/

programming
Sneaky Topology | The Borsuk-Ulam theorem and stolen necklaces [video]

Fun example of using a topological theorem to solve a discrete puzzle.
Mon 04 Nov 2019 06:02:42 AM MST - permalink -

- - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVqxCSsE7c

math video
How This Guy Folds and Flies World Record Paper Airplanes | WIRED - YouTube
Sun 27 Oct 2019 06:58:10 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BNg4fDJC8A&list=WL&index=2&t=0s

control-theory vidoe
Go and Algebraic Data Types - Eli Bendersky's website

Sum types in Go with interfaces and runtime type switches.
Mon 21 Oct 2019 10:49:40 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/go-and-algebraic-data-types/

golang programming
Why do prime numbers make these spirals? - YouTube

On a fun way to re-discover Dirichlet's prime number theorem.
Wed 09 Oct 2019 08:24:16 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ

math
Scripting News: Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Dave Winer's weblog is 25 years old.
Tue 08 Oct 2019 08:01:20 PM MDT - permalink -

- - http://scripting.com/2019/10/08.html

blogging
My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive | Hacker News [2007]
Mon 23 Sep 2019 02:30:36 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

software
cloning - dd vs cat -- is dd still relevant these days?

(Asked in 2011)
Sun 22 Sep 2019 10:37:09 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12532/dd-vs-cat-is-dd-still-relevant-these-days

unix
Useless Use Of dd – Vidar’s Blog

sometimes cp is better than dd
Sun 22 Sep 2019 09:52:17 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479

unix
A history of modern init systems (1992-2015)
Fri 20 Sep 2019 09:11:41 AM MDT - permalink -

- - https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/

unix
How to Sew Webbing Loops - Sailrite

Engineering with webbing.
Tue 03 Sep 2019 12:18:08 PM MDT - permalink -

- - https://www.sailrite.com/How-to-Sew-Webbing-Loops

diy sewing

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