#martial-arts were militarized in #Japan before and during #WWII, and then sort of prohibited during the US occupation. #history
#PDF about the #history of #8051 #microcontrollers
“Read Dr. Emily Barker’s account of working in #ABA and special education, the #abuse and neglect she witnessed, and her proposed solutions.” #autism #child-abuse
which #filesystems support #reflinks: on #Linux, Bcachefs, btrfs, XFS, OCFS2, but not OpenZFS; on FreeBSD, neither OpenZFS nor #ZFS; on Solaris, ZFS (with cp -z); on MacOS, APFS (which Apple is switching to; with cp -c or the clonefile system call), and on Microsoft Windows, NTFS and DUPLICATE_EXTENTS_TO_FILE.
“Lightweight Software #Transactions for Games”, a #paper from 02009 about SpaceWars3D, where they tried to “realize the #performance potential of multiple cores” with #transactional-memory, only to be terribly disappointed. “[W]e depart from classic STM designs and propose a programming model that uses long-running, abort-free transactions that rely on user specifications to avoid or resolve conflicts.” #videogames
Oh, the #Thiel Foundation is one of the top past contributors to #MIRI/SIAI/#LessWrong.
Excellent #history of the #LessWrong crowd.