Human folly for 02024-11-03

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• (youtube.com):

  #video by #NileRed on making pop-rocks candy by bubbling CO₂ under pressure into candy as it cools

• (youtube.com):

  #video by #Posy on his “lazy” channel.

• (youtube.com):

  #video of color amplification and #motion-amplification with “Eulerian magnification” by filtering a Laplacian pyramid (?) by Miki Rubinstein

• Vidmag (people.csail.mit.edu):

  #motion-amplification #paper #toread

• Myrinet (netlib.org):

  #Myrinet history 01994–02004 (it died about 02005) #HPC #supercomputers #Beowulf

• CHERI (cl.cam.ac.uk):

  #CHERI home page #security

• Lisp (git.sr.ht):

  Virgil Dupras’s #Lisp in #Forth for #DuskOS

• Miniforth (compilercrim.es):

  a #Forth in 512 bytes. Lots of syntax-highlighted #asm, I think the full literate program. By @meithecatte. #toread #small-is-beautiful

• Mei (donotsta.re):

  #Mastodon of @meithecatte who wrote a 512-byte #Forth.

• Odin weird to market (gingerbill.org):

  the #Odin programming language has no killer feature.

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of #Odin

• Rural population (macrotrends.net):

  #Botswana’s #population is now 27% rural, down from 50% in 01996, 68% in 01987, 88% in 01975, 94% in 01968, and 97% in 01960. Major changes in growth rate are 01971, 01992, 02007, and 02012.

• Senegal cryptocurrency Akon city Akoin (foreignpolicy.com):

  Akon’s #cryptocurrency city Akon City in #Senegal has unsurprisingly failed: “I come with the concepts and let the geeks figure it out.” #Akoin is now delisted from the exchanges where it was traded.

• Document (inria.hal.science):

  #PDF #paper on the #Kronos high-level CPU #architecture from the 01980s, influenced by Oberon.

• (beige.party):

  #Bluesky lacks #decentralization

• Forth200X (forth200x.org):

  the #Forth #standards process, with meeting notes, etc.

• 690060118 FTP (deepblue.lib.umich.edu):

  #PDF #paper on hazards of #hydrogen ignition

• Songs for the days after (debigotlib.bandcamp.com):

  Debora’s album #music

• Futures symbols and months (bettertrader.co):

  FGHJKM NQUVXZ #finance #futures

• Reaintratrearat1Ye (fred.stlouisfed.org):

  #statistics on the one-year inflation-adjusted interest rate #USA #finance #economics #data

• Textview (home.treasury.gov):

  #statistics on the inflation-adjusted interest rate on #USA treasury bonds at different maturities and different dates. #economics #data #finance