Human folly for 02023-02-16

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• Django assets (devcenter.heroku.com):

  #Heroku recommends using #WhiteNoise for serving static files if you're using #Django on their machines and gives a #tutorial

• 20210222 how googles hot air balloon surprised its creators (bbc.com):

  #Heroku with #WhiteNoise for serving static files #Heroku with #WhiteNoise for serving static files

• Static files (cheat.readthedocs.io):

  Dan's cheat sheet for #Django static files, including #WhiteNoise as an option

• 20210222 how googles hot air balloon surprised its creators (bbc.com):

  article from 02021 on #AI course planning for #Google #balloons as part of #Project-Loon; also discussing DeepMind's #AlphaGo and #AI-risk, #GPT-2 on chess, etc.

• Pubhtml (docs.google.com):

  “Specification gaming examples in #AI - master list” on #optimization systems finding ways to cheat on their metrics Goodhart's-Law-style; I think this is where the arXiv paper came from #humor

• Hobby clubs missing balloon feared shot down USAF (aviationweek.com):

  "Pico balloons" exempt from FAA airspace restrictions are maybe the #UFOs the #USA Air Force has been shooting down

• Is using WhiteNoise instead of nginx good enough (old.reddit.com):

  conversation about using #WhiteNoise to serve static files with #Django

• Django (whitenoise.evans.io):

  how to use #WhiteNoise to serve static files with #Django (official docs)

• (github.com):

  A compiler for the "B" programming language from which #C grew, written in modern times to be compatible with the original bytecode interpreter, with backends for #PDP-8 (unfinished), #PDP-11, amd64, #RISC-V (64), and #MIPS (32); by the retrocomputerist #aap from Berlin, who has squoze.net. #history

• (squoze.net):

  notes on the #B programming language #history

• Odd (bell-labs.com):

  the first #PDP-11 that #Unix ran on didn't have memory protection or even a base register to enable quick context switching (it was a PDP-11/20 and those shipped originally without memory protection). So any buggy program could crash it. #history

• V0 (doc.cat-v.org):

  Doug McIlroy found a printed copy of a #Unix manual from 01971 in 02015; here it is. #history