The Nascom character set has some fun-looking control characters. They look more like extra letters than quasigraphics, really. #retrocomputing
Ozy Brennan has a review of Julia Cameron’s book “The Artist’s Way”. “The morning pages are fiber for your brain: it clears out all the bad stuff and blockages so that the whole system works smoothly. (...) when you start doing the morning pages, all the problems you’ve been ignoring come raring. You can expect a few weeks of severe disruption, as you suddenly redecorate your house, start searching for a new job, dump your boyfriend who won’t propose, answer all the emails you’ve been ignoring for six months, and take the pottery class you’ve been putting off. I recommend only beginning a morning pages practice if your next few weeks are chill.” Paywalled.
“Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the #Trump administration over the #UK’s demand that #Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times.
The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD #Vance. (...) US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi #Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.” #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
Sweetwater, #Texas has a dump of #wind turbine blades. “General Electric filed a lawsuit last week claiming that Global Fiberglass Solutions has failed to fulfill its promise to recycle thousands of blades. GE says it paid the company $16.9 million to recycle about five thousand wind turbine blades, but that GFS instead stockpiled them at facilities in Sweetwater and Iowa. “Only after GFS took millions of dollars from GE, did GFS all but shut down its operations without recycling the Blades,” reads the complaint, filed in U.S. district court in New York.
GE says it later contracted with another company to recycle its blades and is seeking damages to cover these costs as well as reputational damage. Global Fiberglass has not responded to the lawsuit. GE removing its blades from Sweetwater wouldn’t clean up the giant dump; blades manufactured by other companies would still remain.” #energy
the #Minetest mod I use for hunger and running stamina
life expectancy of medieval European monarchs was in the 30s or 40s
#fracking gone wrong in Loving County: Devon Energy Corp. flooded Stateline Operating LLC’s oil reserves in the Permian Basin with wastewater
#Chicken #Scheme comes without a hash table implementation, but there’s a SRFI-69 egg.
“Make #JSON greppable! "gron" transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute ‘path’ to it.”
#Apache mod_rewrite docs.
Since #Python 3.0 you can put *, in your parameter list to ensure that the following parameters are keyword-only, freeing you from having to add any new ones at the end if you want to maintain backward compatibility, and allowing you to delete unused parameters without breaking backward compatibility with positional callers that weren’t using them.
““#LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, an expert on quantum optics at the University of Toronto. “They’ve thought of everything they could have, and anything new [the #AI] comes up with is a demonstration that it’s something thousands of people failed to do.”” #neural-networks
Graydon Hoare on the #history of #disjoint-unions (sum types) in #programming-languages, which are central to ML but were in Algol 68 and Mesa, but not Pascal or Modula-2.
#PDF of Tony Hoare’s 01966 “Record Handling” #paper, which may be the origin in #history of #disjoint-unions in #programming-languages.
#history on #Putin’s rise to power and the #CIA’s role. #toread
