Human folly for 02024-08-31

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• Viewexhibitreport (apps.fcc.gov):

  An FCC filing including internal photographs of some e-reader.

• (youtube.com):

  #video #toread about 8-bit #microcontrollers becoming obsolete, from the guy who explained how you can reuse 8051s. Or, rather, he claims that components can’t become obsolete. “Has anybody in their right mind ever said that 74-series logic is obsolete?” Yes, I think so, use a CPLD. Video quality is not good. #electronics #hardware

• (youtube.com):

  #video #toread about reusing OTP EPROMs from the guy who explained how to reuse 8051s. #electronics #hardware

• (mail.python.org):

  #Hashing #algorithms in the CPython dict implementation; by adding a level of indirection to the (hashval, key, value) tuples, you can greatly reduce the amount of space used, thus improving #performance. As a side effect, you can iterate over entries in insertion order.

• (youtube.com):

  #video #toread on tiny Soviet pentode #electronics #hardware

• (youtube.com):

  #video #toread on changes in #Argentina since the 01990s

• (youtube.com):

  #video #toread Nicki Nicole new #song “Doctor”

• (youtube.com):

  #song #video #toread Emilia, Ana Mena, “Carita Triste” #todelete

• (youtube.com):

  #video of ant lion successfully catching and eating mealworms and cockroaches

• (youtube.com):

  #video #toread about #iPhone taking your picture every 5 seconds. #privacy

• 4001 footstepsfinal (forth.org):

  #PDF #ebook from 01988 by C.H. Ting, about the #Forth Novix #NC4000 #hardware design by Chuck Moore, a gate-array design from the 80s.

• Msg00058 (mail-archive.com):

  my note from 02002 about #Bicicleta, “functional programming for amateurs in an outliner” #UX

• Home2011 (worrydream.com):

  #Bret-Victor’s 02011 CV says he wrote #Magic-Ink in 02005 #UX

• Whatisbretvictortryingtodo (notes.fringeling.com):

  biography of #Bret-Victor #UX

• Magicink (worrydream.com):

  #PDF of the 02006 draft of #Bret-Victor’s #Magic-Ink

• Know more carry less (intrepiddaily.com):

  #toread on the slogan “The more you know, the less you need”, by Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard. “The more you know, the less you need. The experienced fly fisherman with only one rod, one type of fly, and one type of line will always outfish the duffer with an entire quiver of gear and flies. I never forget Thoreau’s advice: “I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes….””

• Amd64 (github.com):

  a macro assembler written in #sh. #small-is-beautiful #asm

• An overview of PSCI (thegoodpenguin.co.uk):

  PSCI, the Power State Coordination Interface, is a standardized interface for #power-management on #ARM so Linux maintainers can suffer less

• Isplsi1032Edatasheet (latticesemi.com):

  Lattice PLD #datasheet #PDF

• P3720 eldeeb (vldb.org):

  #PDF #paper of “Cloud Actor-Oriented Database Transactions in Orleans” on a “a popular open source distributed programming framework and platform which invented the virtual actor model, and has since evolved into an actor-oriented database system with the addition of database abstractions such as ACID transactions.”

• RK3229 (github.com):

  “This documentation details my experiences with building and installing mainline versions of OP-TEE, U-Boot and Linux for systems based on #Rockchip's RK3229. The primary focus of my efforts has been, and remains, on the Mecer Xtreme Mini S6,” #ARM

• Send request to curl with post data sourced from a file (stackoverflow.com):

  You can use --data-binary @filename with cURL to POST something that doesn’t fit on the command line.

• (youtube.com):

  #video #toread about #manufacturing TeO₂ glass #materials with bright fluorescence

• (youtube.com):

  #video on DIY #mechanisms from 01910, including improvising with tin snips and metal from a computer power supply