2009: "A new study [1][2][3] out of Harvard University seems to give Utah an unflattering distinction: No. 1 in the nation for pornography consumption." [4] There are more recent studies that rank Utah in the bottom 10.…
Excerpts from Mark Smotherman's ACS site [1] ... > To achieve a profit for the ACS program, Amdahl asked IBM management to approve three ACS/360 models: the high-performance design, a 1/3 performance version, and a 1/9…
> I've tried meeting him on every level of understanding. Graphs, story telling, Jira issues, business cases, ITIL, OLAs and SLAs, customer interviews, user interviews, you name it. Your concept of "every level of…
"From rich archival sources, [Haigh et al.] reconstruct the evolution of a program first run on ENIAC in April 1948 by a team including John and Klara von Neumann and Nick Metropolis. This was not only the first…
See it in action: In this video[1], a signaller instructs a railfan in routing a couple of trains through Swindon (UK), using such a panel. Shortly after the video was shot, this panel was decommissioned and removed. In…
Day of the Tentacle
60 days before shutdown, a game company just needs to transition their game to subscription-required. That gets them out from under this law. Then if enough players subscribe, the company could decide to keep the…
They call it a FLOP (Functional Loss Of Performance, or something like that), I was told on a tour of an FAA ATC computer facility.
These are good ... "Python for Data Analysis" by McKinney (2018) "The Go Programming Language" by Donovan and Kernighan (2016) "Hacker's Delight" by Warren (2013) "Algorithm Design Manual" by Skiena (2008) "Purely…
No draft in 1948.
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In Thunderbird's message list, you can bring all the starred emails to the top by sorting on the star column. Just click on the column header. Also, in the Quick Filter, you can click the star button to "Show only…
It appears to belong to another subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation: MZFO GERMANY GMBH, which would be subject to German, not US, law.
Stacked Git (StGit) [1] is a git CLI add-on for working with stacked commits in your local repo. Why are stacked commits useful? Multiple patches can be developed concurrently and efficiently, with each patch focused on…
Drilling down, one finds a link to a paper from Usenix Security 2018: "Efail: Breaking S/MIME and OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels", by Damian Poddebniak et al. [0] [0]…
Another contender: Russ Cox's "fast unrounded scaling" [1]. Cox writes: "The main idea of this post is to implement fast unrounded scaling, which computes an approximation to x · 2^e · 10^p, often in a single 64-bit…
Great minds think alike! For $99.95, you can own an exquisite 0.75m USB-C 2.0 "High-Definition Audio Cable" [1], featuring "high-purity 0.5% Silver conductors and a Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation for the most efficient…
> For things that are not visible, there are much fewer brands e.g. underwear. Personal care products - shampoos, soaps, lotions Nutritional supplements are counterexamples
Decentraleyes hasn't been updated since late 2024, so I switched to LocalCDN [1]. [1] https://www.localcdn.org/
There's a Cookie AutoDelete plugin [1] that cleans up cookies, cache, etc for a site after all of its tabs are closed. You can exclude sites that you want to stay logged in to. [1]…
> These [cameras] are mounted above the stoplights and aimed against traffic at stoplights to read faces. Those cameras are for traffic detection, so the signal can turn green when a car comes. They aren't reading faces.
Maybe at last we'll find out who wrote Shakespeare's plays.
They're different. Multiplication by i gives a quarter turn counterclockwise. -i gives a quarter turn clockwise. Opposite quarter turns cancel: (-i)(i) = (-1)(i^2) = +1 Quarter turn twice counterclockwise gives a half…
Drivers could change lanes safely if everybody wasn't tailgating.
Not so. Keeping a constant distance from the car ahead means both cars are moving at the same speed. When a jerk cuts in, after a moment all 3 cars will be moving at the same speed.
2009: "A new study [1][2][3] out of Harvard University seems to give Utah an unflattering distinction: No. 1 in the nation for pornography consumption." [4] There are more recent studies that rank Utah in the bottom 10.…
Excerpts from Mark Smotherman's ACS site [1] ... > To achieve a profit for the ACS program, Amdahl asked IBM management to approve three ACS/360 models: the high-performance design, a 1/3 performance version, and a 1/9…
> I've tried meeting him on every level of understanding. Graphs, story telling, Jira issues, business cases, ITIL, OLAs and SLAs, customer interviews, user interviews, you name it. Your concept of "every level of…
"From rich archival sources, [Haigh et al.] reconstruct the evolution of a program first run on ENIAC in April 1948 by a team including John and Klara von Neumann and Nick Metropolis. This was not only the first…
See it in action: In this video[1], a signaller instructs a railfan in routing a couple of trains through Swindon (UK), using such a panel. Shortly after the video was shot, this panel was decommissioned and removed. In…
Day of the Tentacle
60 days before shutdown, a game company just needs to transition their game to subscription-required. That gets them out from under this law. Then if enough players subscribe, the company could decide to keep the…
They call it a FLOP (Functional Loss Of Performance, or something like that), I was told on a tour of an FAA ATC computer facility.
These are good ... "Python for Data Analysis" by McKinney (2018) "The Go Programming Language" by Donovan and Kernighan (2016) "Hacker's Delight" by Warren (2013) "Algorithm Design Manual" by Skiena (2008) "Purely…
No draft in 1948.
[dead]
In Thunderbird's message list, you can bring all the starred emails to the top by sorting on the star column. Just click on the column header. Also, in the Quick Filter, you can click the star button to "Show only…
It appears to belong to another subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation: MZFO GERMANY GMBH, which would be subject to German, not US, law.
Stacked Git (StGit) [1] is a git CLI add-on for working with stacked commits in your local repo. Why are stacked commits useful? Multiple patches can be developed concurrently and efficiently, with each patch focused on…
Drilling down, one finds a link to a paper from Usenix Security 2018: "Efail: Breaking S/MIME and OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels", by Damian Poddebniak et al. [0] [0]…
Another contender: Russ Cox's "fast unrounded scaling" [1]. Cox writes: "The main idea of this post is to implement fast unrounded scaling, which computes an approximation to x · 2^e · 10^p, often in a single 64-bit…
Great minds think alike! For $99.95, you can own an exquisite 0.75m USB-C 2.0 "High-Definition Audio Cable" [1], featuring "high-purity 0.5% Silver conductors and a Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation for the most efficient…
> For things that are not visible, there are much fewer brands e.g. underwear. Personal care products - shampoos, soaps, lotions Nutritional supplements are counterexamples
Decentraleyes hasn't been updated since late 2024, so I switched to LocalCDN [1]. [1] https://www.localcdn.org/
There's a Cookie AutoDelete plugin [1] that cleans up cookies, cache, etc for a site after all of its tabs are closed. You can exclude sites that you want to stay logged in to. [1]…
> These [cameras] are mounted above the stoplights and aimed against traffic at stoplights to read faces. Those cameras are for traffic detection, so the signal can turn green when a car comes. They aren't reading faces.
Maybe at last we'll find out who wrote Shakespeare's plays.
They're different. Multiplication by i gives a quarter turn counterclockwise. -i gives a quarter turn clockwise. Opposite quarter turns cancel: (-i)(i) = (-1)(i^2) = +1 Quarter turn twice counterclockwise gives a half…
Drivers could change lanes safely if everybody wasn't tailgating.
Not so. Keeping a constant distance from the car ahead means both cars are moving at the same speed. When a jerk cuts in, after a moment all 3 cars will be moving at the same speed.