Human folly for 02021-01-13

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• How silicon Valley in a show of monopolistic (greenwald.substack.com):

  #parler #censorship

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  #sci-hub on #handshake to avoid #censorship via #DNS

• Live programming (microsoft.com):

  something or other about "live programming" on the "YinYang" prototype; the page doesn’t load properly

• Blocks courtesy of Konrad Zuse (journal.infinitenegativeutility.com):

  Konrad #Zuse’s #Plankalkul #notation seems to have used vertical brackets to enclose multiple lines of code

• Tr10 (unicode.org):

  The standard #Unicode collation algorithm

• The Royal treatment (cgw.com):

  how Inigo Quilez #iq did the moss and grass #graphics for the movie Brave

• Hugo (web.archive.org):

  the good-looking textured light-sourced bouncy fun smart and stretchy page, on #graphics #algorithms

• Raymarchingdf (iquilezles.org):

  #iq’s gallery of things he’s drawn with raymarching of a #signed-distance-field

• PeerTube v3 its a live a liiiiive (framablog.org):

  "PeerTube" apparently handles live streaming now #decentralization

• Using GreenPAK configurable devices in non OTP config (eevblog.com):

  forum thread on #GreenPAK #hardware which includes reconfigurable analog parts

• Ditherpunk (surma.dev):

  a fairly comprehensive summary of #graphics #dithering #algorithms

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of #graphics #dithering #algorithms including output-dependent feedback

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of “repl-driven programming” as distinct from the more ordinary use of REPLs; for Mike Levins, in REPL-driven programming you never have to restart your program

• DALL (openai.com):

  "DALL-E" draws images from text descriptions in an astounding fashion. #AI

• Taking FOSDEM online via matrix (matrix.org):

  #Matrix #chat will try to host FOSDEM

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  #IQ has done a thing called "GraphToy" which I hope to see soon

• FAQ (github.com):

  "Verona" is a #language without concurrent mutation to explore possibilities for “safe scalable memory management and compartmentalization.”

• Incremental (github.com):

  Darius’s whack at #incremental #parsing with a #PEG

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  notes on #programming-for-everybody “teaching your kids to program”

• Whats entering the public domain in (openculture.com):

  list of things entering the #public-domain in 02021

• Reverse engineering early calculator (righto.com):

  Ken Shirriff explains how four-phase logic #hardware worked on the Sharp EL-8 #calculator. Also, gorgeous 8-segment and 9-segment VFD displays!

• Ditching Excel for Python (amypeniston.com):

  apparently reinsurance, of all things, is moving from #Excel to #Python

• A+Guide+To+The+Kafka+Protocol (cwiki.apache.org):

  the #Kafka protocol, long ago. #pubsub #protocols

• Protocol (kafka.apache.org):

  the current #Kafka protocol #pubsub #protocols

• Beyond Jupyter whats in a notebook (khinsen.wordpress.com):

  Konrad #Hinsen on #reproducibility and #notebooks: "Beyond Jupyter"

• (gtoolkit.com):

  Tudor Gîrba’s "Glamorous Toolkit" is a free-software “moldable development environment”, putting code editing and data visualization in the same interface, an extension of Pharo #Smalltalk; #Hinsen says, “The first software system that I can seriously imagine to replace Emacs for me.”

• The language of choice (codewords.recurse.com):

  #BDD #algorithms, "The Language of Choice"

• STED microscopy (en.wikipedia.org):

  "STED microscopy" is differential #microscopy by selectively depleting fluorophores, getting resolution down to 2.4nm

• Article (informit.com):

  Andrew Tanenbaum explains the #CP/M #filesystem

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  vituperative discussion of #Parler #censorship

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  is it possible to avoid big-tech #censorship?

• Instances (github.com):

  #Nitter for now permits access to public #Twitter via this list of mirrors: nitter.kavin.rocks, nitter.vxempire.xyz, nitter.unixfox.eu, 3nzoldnxplag42gqjs23xvghtzf6t6yzssrtytnntc6ppc7xxuoneoad.onion, nitterlgj3n5fgwesu3vxc5h67ruku33nqaoeoocae2mvlzhsu6k7fqd.onion, nitter.i2p, nitter.13ad.de, nitter.42l.fr, and a couple dozen others.

• APIO (github.com):

  "APIO" is a sort of distribution similar to gEDA: “Open source ecosystem for open #FPGA boards. Apio (pronounced [ˈa.pjo]) is a multiplatform toolbox, with static pre-built packages, project configuration tools and easy command interface to verify, synthesize, simulate and upload your #verilog designs.” #hardware #yosys

• Hello youve been referred here because youre wrong about section 230 communications decency Act (techdirt.com):

  Mike Masnick’s #CDA FAQ. #censorship

• What silicon Valley gets right on software engineers (blog.pragmaticengineer.com):

  rah rah Silicon Valley gives engineers more autonomy

• GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker (jayfax.neocities.org):

  thumbnails in the file picker are essential and GTK lacks them #UX

• UPduino v3 (github.com):

  The tinyVision.ai UPduino v3.0 Board Features: Lattice UltraPlus ICE40UP5K #FPGA with 5.3K LUTs, 1Mb SPRAM, 120Kb DPRAM, 8 Multipliers; 4MB SPI Flash; #APIO support; etc.

• Imorn14 (wunderground.com):

  10-day hour by hour #weather forecast for Morón — but in degrees Frankenstein. UGH.

• Pronostico (smn.gob.ar):

  less detailed #weather forecast for Morón, but it loads faster and it’s in Celsius

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  #TI #censorship of 1960s datasheets from #Bitsavers

• Collections that Dothraki Horde part IV screamers and howlers (acoup.blog):

  contrasting the Song of Ice and Fire’s Dothraki with steppe nomads and Plains Indians #history

• Thing:1435515 (thingiverse.com):

  LaserSaber/LaserHacker licensed a bunch of machine designs under #CC BY-SA

• Index (surma.dev):

  building #webassembly with the #Emscripten compiler

• (datacolada.org):

  problems with #reproducibility due to dependency upgrade #software-collapse

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  #Google #censorship of #LBRY #decentralization

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of a generative grammar for jazz chord sequences, Steedman, 1984. #music

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  later discussion of #LBRY, flagged into oblivion. #decentralization