The Popeye movie from 01980 with Robin Williams was initially reviewed poorly.
beautiful prose #toread about #writing beautiful prose, quoting the KJV Ecclesiastes, Macbeth, etc.
“Coding theorists are concerned with two things. Firstly and most importantly they are concerned with the private lives of two people called Alice and Bob.” From 01984, giving an #introduction to #compression and #crypto. #humor
Hillel Wayne on why people don’t use #formal-methods #toread
solid-state #batteries and their #materials #toread
“The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that publishers and VPN providers aren’t liable for #copyright infringement” #law #human-rights #privacy
#Google’s new #Android #age-verification API in Google Play Services
#GCC is rejecting all code generated by #AI #neural-networks, or anyway LLMs.
#Rain1’s "Tarot" #Scheme compiler is a Scheme compiler written in 1907 lines of Scheme, which (when compiled) runs on top of a virtual machine implemented in 2033 lines of C, can compile itself, and can be run from plain sources on the Tinyscheme interpreter in about 10 minutes. #small-is-beautiful #bootstrapping
“Command Line Programs for the Blind”
#history of #aesthetics: #Japan’s 19th-century influence on the West
the Viśuddhaprabhā Dhāraṇī, from the 8th century, used to be the oldest surviving woodblock print in the world, from #Korea, significant to the #history of #printing. It was printed on hanji paper, made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry. More recent discoveries have found older prints in #China.
endoh1 #IOCCC entry is shaped like a Nixie tube. #C #small-is-beautiful
Noelle Murata’s talk at BSidesLV about alternatives to bearer tokens to sandbox #AI agents with #security
#Darcs has given up on fixing certain fatal bugs.
very strange nonlinear #optics can produce subharmonics and difference frequencies of optical signals
#Psmith book review of Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900, by David A. Graff, with some amusing remarks about #survivalists such as John Psmith. Also what looks a lot like some racism against Chinese people.