Human folly for 02022-10-12

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• 2019 01 22 conscious c++ (genodians.org):

  how #Genode uses #C++ “consciously”

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  commentary on #MJD’s "Why I Like #Java"

• Revistas (lu4dq.com.ar):

  #radio #ham club #LU4DQ in Quilmes has started a magazine, maybe six issues a year

• Hamfest (lu4aao.org):

  #ham fests in #Argentina

• Index (genode.org):

  #Genode can run on Linux, its own micro #hypervisor NOVA, bare hardware, #seL4, Fiasco.OC, L4ka::Pistachio, OKL4, and L4/Fiasco

• (gynvael.coldwind.pl):

  “hello world” in Python in a lot of detail

• Index (wearcam.org):

  original #chirplets #paper scanned

• Chirplet (wearcam.org):

  more notes on #chirplets

• Loramac node (github.com):

  a #LoRa protocol stack for something called #LoRaWAN

• Mla 617285621 handy walkie alcance 5km real handies manos libres par x2 jm (articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar):

  a pair of GMRS walkie-talkies claiming 1–3 km range (and, fraudulently, 5) cost AR$4159 (US$14.49)

• Post collapse computing (blogs.gnome.org):

  “Post #Collapse Computing Part 2: What if we Fail?”

• Your looks and online dating (web.archive.org):

  Your looks and your inbox #okcupid

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  commentary on #OKCupid’s blog being censored after match.com bought them

• (yle.fi):

  surge in demand for iodine tablets in #Finland on Tuesday due to increased risk of #nuclear-war due to #Russia invading #Ukraine

• (yle.fi):

  #Finland iodine tablets nearly sold out in Yliopiston Apteekki on Tuesday and crashed their website #nuclear-war

• (thelittletyper.com):

  a #Little-Lisper series book about type systems

• Loopsnoop (lel.ed.ac.uk):

  #halting-problem #proof in verse

• Monopol soap (history.evonik.com):

  Monopole Soap was a sulfonated castor oil soap to help in #dyeing fabric

• Ernest glitch (lateralscience.blogspot.com):

  #steampunk #fiction "Ernest Glitch" who builds, among other things, a #TEA-laser and a 3-D printer

• Laserpower (jarrodkinsey.com):

  a #TEA-laser powered by a #Wimshurst-machine

• 4X4 (simplifier.neocities.org):

  a 4×4 pixel #font

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  rebuttal to some criticisms of #wasm as ill-suited to streaming #compilers

• Msg00089 (lua-users.org):

  #LuaJIT intellectual property disclosures from 02009 #compilers

• Reverse linear scan allocation is (brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com):

  #register-allocation by reverse linear scan for #compilers

• 2022 10 04 ssra (mattkeeter.com):

  more notes on #register-allocation in #compilers

• William Shatner space boldly go excerpt (variety.com):

  William #Shatner on his #Blue-Origin trip to #space and the dramatic perspective change it forced on him

• (blog.kenperlin.com):

  Ken #Perlin designed a tiny #font using LCD subpixels

• Really small font (github.com):

  another tiny #font using LCD subpixels

• Plaster (simplifier.neocities.org):

  making gesso #bootstrapping

• Getting dollars into Argentina to purchase real estate (baexpats.org):

  “My wife was blocked by #Western-Union after sending her about 15 000 USD in 3 weeks (AFIP investigation).” #Argentina #money

• Buying dollars at official rate (baexpats.org):

  300 000 people have permission to buy dollars at the “dólar solidario” rate in #Argentina as of January, out of 45 million people. #money

• W29874 (nber.org):

  “Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark”, “This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree (“business managers”) reduce their employees’ wages. Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark.” #economics #politics

• Reality is just a game now (thenewatlantis.com):

  discussion of “alternate reality games” in #USA #politics

• Lambda (github.com):

  a C compiler compiled into the λ-calculus. #bootstrapping #compilers

• GE layoff 20percent of onshore wind workforce hundreds of jobs (cnbc.com):

  #GE, in preparation for splitting into three companies, cuts 20% of its onshore #wind #energy workforce because of aggressive competition from Siemens, among other things. “While demand for clean energy options is rising as energy shortages continue to wreak havoc, analysts say it's been difficult to make wind energy a cost-effective option.”

• E ink laptop (blog.za3k.com):

  #za3k’s #e-ink laptop

• Mpw7 (github.com):

  an analog submission to #Efabless

• Obfuscationandesotaric (web.archive.org):

  “The World of Transcendental Programming” #ebook about #quines and such

• Debian includes proprietary code (tomshardware.com):

  #Debian will include proprietary drivers now because the #free-software movement has failed

• VAX (yarchive.net):

  John Mashey on #RISC vs. CISC and in particular why the #VAX was doomed. #architecture #history

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  some notes on the #VAX’s notorious floating-point evaluate-polynomial instruction

• B5000 algolrwaychoff (ed-thelen.org):

  #ALGOL 60 on the #Burroughs 5000 by #Knuth, as well as surrounding developments

• Note potential issues of using a USB powerbank as a UPS (goughlui.com):

  notes on using a #USB powerbank as a UPS for, for example, a Raspberry Pi; “passthrough charging” may not be uninterruptible

• Wal (sqlite.org):

  #SQLite’s WAL #transactional mode for #MVCC

• Books (engineeringmedia.com):

  #CC licensed #ebook about #control-theory