Human folly for 02017-10-01

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• Forth on Nandland go board (jeelabs.org):

  The #J1(a) #Forth processor on the Nandland #hardware, which has the ICE40HX1K #FPGA among those supported by #IceStorm.

• Ols2002 pages (kernel.org):

  #PDF #paper on #Linux futexes

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  another discussion thread about #decentralization of the web

• Its time for the distributed web (blog.neocities.org):

  the #decentralization piece being discussed

• Outlawing war Kellogg Briand (nytimes.com):

  supposedly the 1929 Kellogg-Briand pact nearly eliminated conquest in #war #history

• Russians who were adults back while the Soviet (reddit.com):

  #Russia quasi-oral #history

• La me ln Berkeley counterprotesters 20170922 story (latimes.com):

  fake #AltRight conference canceled. #USA #politics

• Proptest (docs.rs):

  A #property-based #testing thing for #Rust that you could use for C libraries, modeled after Hypothesis.

• Alloc (github.com):

  The first malloc-like function in #Unix #history, from 1975

• Malloc (github.com):

  the first version of malloc in #Unix #history, from 1979

• Zenith defy lab oscillator introducing (hodinkee.com):

  the Zenith Defy Lab ZO 342 #mechanical wristwatch’s oscillator uses silicon #flexures that oscillate at 15Hz, designed by Guy Sémon. They are cut with deep reactive ion etching.

• Has anyone looked into hacking an Alphasmart 3000 or neo to build a portable system (forums.parallax.com):

  "Alphasmart" #hardware #hacking (it was a battery-powered USB keyboard with local file storage)

• 25732 hacking the Alphasmart neo (hackaday.io):

  #Hacking #Alphasmart Neo #hardware (apparently you could put new apps on it)