#version-control software succeeding bzr (Martin Pool’s Bazaar-NG), Bazaar (baz), and I guess TLA/arch; latest release last year
you can’t download Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct without giving Meta your contact information
stuff about #PL/M 80 including C ports of old PL/M software
#PDF #appnote from Intel from 01986 on “developing applications” on the “MCS-96” (#80C196) and its in-circuit emulator
Neil Johnson’s page on the Roland W-30 and its #80C196 processor, including an instruction set summary, etc.
How Western Digital figured out how to seal hard disks hermetically to let them fill them with helium, using laser welding and glass-metal passthroughs for electrical connectors
“While MPTP itself has no psychoactive effects, the compound may be accidentally produced during the manufacture of MPPP, a synthetic opioid drug with effects similar to those of morphine and pethidine (meperidine). The Parkinson-inducing effects of MPTP were first discovered following accidental injection as a result of contaminated MPPP.” #toxicology #oops
“The Zombocom Problem”: “People don’t want “anything at all”. They want something specific. To succeed, you need to solve a specific problem for a specific user and find specific product-market fit. (...) Platforms come from products, not the other way around.”
there is one Inca rope bridge still maintained 500 years after the conquest, rewoven every year from grass
a list of minced oaths in #English (for the pious)
more minced oaths in #English