Human folly for 02022-12-28

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• Punding (en.wikipedia.org):

  #stimulants and Parkinson’s provoke the compulsive performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, similar to stimming. #autism #neuroscience

• Geometric algebra (en.wikipedia.org):

  Clifford #algebra provides a different, unified way to handle #3D #geometry #Clifford-algebra

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of the flaws of #USB #USB-C

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  for high #performance numerical computation in #Python people recommend Numba, Jax, and switching to Julia or Taichi

• Design (man.sr.ht):

  Simon Heath’s "Garnet" is intended to be a small, simple version of Rust, sort of like Lua to Rust's Perl or Tcl

• How cook any whole grain popcorn (treehugger.com):

  #Cooking whole grains like popcorn. Causing barley, quinoa, rice, or buckwheat to puff up into a foam with two minutes of rolling around a hot skillet.

• Id11 (pcexpert1.tripod.com):

  "AngelPotion" was a #video #codec that was a slight hack of #DivX

• 629982 unburying an ancient (cohost.org):

  discussion of #MP3 and #MP4 and #video #codec stuff

• Linux (cs.cmu.edu):

  #history of how Linus debugged the earliest versions of #Linux, using an infinite loop to provide one bit of information about how far the boot process had gotten

• Howto CPM (retrotechnology.com):

  Herbert R. Johnson recommends running #CP/M on a #Heathkit if you want new hardware; or possibly any of many other things.

• Toprightmessi (old.reddit.com):

  #Messi is outstanding on most statistics

• Lionel Messi is impossible (fivethirtyeight.com):

  more about #Messi as an outlier

• Ehli (itcommunity.stanford.edu):

  #Stanford’s “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative”