Human folly for 02024-03-24

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• Category:We are beautiful (commons.wikimedia.org):

  #3D #meshes of many human bodies from the We Are Beautiful project (now #hiddenbeauty)

• 476551 bsnn (hiddenbeauty.ch):

  #3D model of human breasts from the #hiddenbeauty project, by #Mayhem, the MusicBrainz guy with the multicolor hair. #meshes

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of Alan Kay’s talk last month

• Sutherland (alexwarth.github.io):

  Alex Warth’s reimplementation of Ivan Sutherland’s #SKETCHPAD truss models

• ABC ARM64EC explained (emulators.com):

  #ARM’s #ARM64EC (or Microsoft’s?) is a new #ABI for #ARM64 designed to facilitate calling back and forth between native code and emulated code, so in particular emulated binaries can dynamically link to native-code system libraries (DLLs); each entry point into an aarch64 library has an amd64 “fast forward sequence” which the emulated code calls. The OS kernel, however, maintains a bitmap to keep track of which pages contain native code and which contain emulated code.

• Essential guide JavaScript newest data type BigInt (smashingmagazine.com):

  #JS got #bignum support ("BigInt") in about 02019 in Chrome 67 and Opera 54, but polyfills are impossible.