Human folly for 02017-11-25

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• 60227 Babylonian clay tablet trigonometry (livescience.com):

  Wildberger’s rational trigonometry makes a surprising appearance in Babylonian clay tablet of Pythagorean triples, or perhaps their squares. #math

• Creating input method (developer.android.com):

  how to create an #Android input method editor

• Burnout and Twitter fatigue (nolanlawson.com):

  Nolan Lawson writes about why he’s largely abandoning PouchDB and also Twitter

• Blog (scottaaronson.com):

  Scott Aaronson declares his quasi-support of James #Damore

• White nationalists alt right vague grievances what do they want (nationalreview.com):

  The US conservative press sympathizes with the neo-Nazis but ridicules them as “knuckleheads” #USA #politics

• Monitoring and observability (medium.com):

  Cindy Sridharan on #SRE #monitoring and #observability

• Ols2002 pages (kernel.org):

  #PDF #paper on #futexes and #concurrency in #Linux

• Ask a female engineer thoughts on the Google memo (blog.ycombinator.com):

  #Damore

• La realidad la prostitucion trabajo sexual Mendoza debate pendiente (diariosomos.com.ar):

  #prostitution in Mendoza, #Argentina

• How the Google memo hysteria punishes op (reason.com):

  Reason Magazine on #Damore

• Google memo four scientists respond (quillette.com):

  Quillette Magazine supporting #Damore (this article attracted a DDoS)

• Docker in real life the tricky parts (blog.kaliop.com):

  #introduction to #Docker

• Netanyahu junior says leftists more dangerous than neo Nazis (timesofisrael.com):

  Binyamin Netanyahu’s son Yair Netanyahu: “I’m a Jew, I’m an Israeli, the neo nazis scums [sic] in Virginia hate me and my country. But they belong to the past. Their breed is dying out. However the thugs of Antifa and [Black Lives Matter] who hate my country (and America too in my view) just as much are getting stronger and stronger and becoming super dominant in American universities and public life.” #USA #Israel #politics

• Whtnu17 (tinaja.com):

  #Don-Lancaster’s blog, largely about #electronics

• Week reaction (socialmatter.net):

  Apparently this is a new #neoreactionary blog; here it’s talking about #Damore mostly (which it refers to as "Googlegate"), and of course has all the usual evil people cackling over how awesome Damore is. #USA #politics

• 1ML (people.mpi-sws.org):

  "1ML" is “a reboot of #ML starting from first-class modules, and unifies core and module layer into one small and consistent language”, from 2015.

• Manlang17 (ssw.jku.at):

  #PDF #paper on “lenient execution” of #C, relevant to “friendly C”. It assumes allocated memory to be initialized, provides garbage collection, and so on.

• Article (journals.plos.org):

  “Is Decoupling GDP Growth from Environmental Impact Possible?” No. #paper #economics #politics

• My first fifteen compilers (composition.al):

  Lindsey Kuper on Kent Dybvig’s "nanopass" #compilers course, explaining why saying “transpiler” is harmful.

• Index (docs.racket-lang.org):

  The #Racket implementation of the #nanopass #compilers idea.

• (alexaobrien.com):

  Alexa O’Brien was threatened with #Google automated #censorship because she published information related to the #Manning case and #al-Qaeda, as part of the “roll out of [Google’s] counter terrorist protocol.”

• (lists.llvm.org):

  #LLVM #compilers optimization problems related to linking.

• Iverson (eecg.toronto.edu):

  #PDF of Iverson’s 1979 #APL Turing Award paper/lecture, "Notation as a Tool of Thought". #toread

• Dotgrid (github.com):

  a simple vector drawing tool for corporate-logo-like things.

• Papers I like part (fgiesen.wordpress.com):

  #Ryg recommends papers #toread. He’s limited it to 10 and they’re mostly focused on #graphics. I haven’t read a single one of them.

• Python FAQ why should I use Python (eev.ee):

  Eevee explains why they like Python 3.

• Heres how Breitbart and Milo smuggled white nationalism (buzzfeed.com):

  BuzzFeed’s profile of Milo #Yiannopoulos based on leaked documents; this is the reporting that got the Mercers to pull their backing from the dude

• Babies at work its weird that it s weird (hackernoon.com):

  Tilde supports babies in the workplace.

• Measure anything measure everything (codeascraft.com):

  #Observability at Etsy; this is the 2011 post that introduced statsd

• 1166 170929190146 Google removes Catalan referendum app from Google play after Catalan high court issues take down order (thespainreport.com):

  #Google #censorship of #Catalonia referendum app from its app store in compliance with a Catalan High Court ruling

• Crazysmallcpu (minnie.tuhs.org):

  Warren Toomey’s 4-bit #hardware CPU design, using 12 chips, the "Crazy Small CPU"

• Latest (streamz.readthedocs.io):

  a simple Python data stream processing toolkit

• As a woman in tech I realized these are not my people (bloomberg.com):

  Megan McArdle endorses #Damore, explaining that her perhaps-gender-related lack of interest was why she left tech, and switched to business, which she is in fact happy to do on nights and weekends. Basically she “followed her passion”.

• I bought a book about the internet from 1994 and none of the links worked (motherboard.vice.com):

  #archival

• Donald TR (theintercept.com):

  ump-has-been-a-racist-all-his-life-and-he-isnt-going-to-change-after-charlottesville/ #Trump #USA #racism #politics

• About (akkartik.name):

  #Kartik Agaram’s blog

• Linuxdeploy (github.com):

  Install and run GNU/Linux on #Android

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  how to do #NAT traversal, from the ZeroTier guy

• (sqlectron.github.io):

  MIT-licensed #SQL client desktop/terminal with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, MacOS, and Microsoft Windows support.

• Coders trade wall street designs staff future (bloomberg.com):

  Goldman Sachs turned programmers into traders so they would stop quitting.

• Wp 02 17 Levy and snir potterian economics (iset.tsu.ge):

  Harry Potter #economics #PDF #paper. If you’ve read Harry Potter, this is probably the 34-page book to read to understand the basics of economics.

• Myrddin (eigenstate.org):

  "Myrddin" is a programming language aimed at the niche of C, but using type inference, algebraic data types, pattern matching, and generics. I don’t understand its memory-management story; is it affine like Rust? The “closures” section says, “The environment is stack allocated by default, but can be heapified on demand.”

• (youtube.com):

  #video of 2016 installation of #Chernobyl “New Safe Confinement” installation, a sort of giant Quonset hut slid into place over the plant.

• Mutation testing (en.wikipedia.org):

  mutation #testing: mutate the program to see what tests need to be added

• Quadrs (github.com):

  quadrature decoding #DSP in sed

• The worlds first negative emissions plant has opened in Iceland turning carbon dioxide into stone (qz.com):

  Climeworks’s atmospheric #carbon-capture pilot in #Iceland, carbonating basaltic rock for (supposedly) US$30 per tonne CO₂.

• Google wrong article (nydailynews.com):

  Bioethicist Peter Singer endorses not firing #Damore

• My unusual hobby (stephanboyer.com):

  an #introduction to #formal-methods with #Coq

• Voxelspace (github.com):

  #3D terrain rendering #algorithms from Novalogic’s 01992 game “Comanche” in 20 lines of #graphics code, using ray-casting in voxel space (?) — a pretty standard #heightfields rendering thing really #smallisbeautiful #voxelspace