Tootfinder

Just 10 months ago, NASA asked three companies if they could do something nobody had done before.
Could they build and launch a satellite to save a $500 million astronomy mission at risk of crashing back to Earth?
What’s more, could they do it in less than a year on a tight budget?
Katalyst Space Technologies, a startup founded in 2020, presented the most compelling solution.
“They came back with a response that was technically and programmatically plausible,
an…

A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."

from my link log —
Weighted round robin / weighted random integers with the golden ratio low discrepancy sequence.
https://blog.demofox.org/2020/06/23/weighted-round-robin-using-the-golden-ratio-low-discrepancy-sequence/

Weighted Round Robin (Weighted Random Integers) Using The Golden Ratio Low Discrepancy Sequence
UPDATE 6/25/2020: The bottom of the post now has a section about using 2D low discrepancy sequences with an alias table and compares results vs the 1D methods. The code has been updated as well to …

I just found this old SD card and was reminded how it came to be...
#DIY

SD Card Rescue Mission
Save an SD card by tearing it apart and transplanting it...

NFL community observes Juneteenth holiday https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-community-observes-juneteenth-holiday-2026

India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged (Nikhil Pahwa/@nixxin)
https://x.com/nixxin/status/2067100573648953610

Nikhil Pahwa (@nixxin) on X
A few additional thoughts on the Telegram ban in India: 1. Is this a permanent ban? It's unusual for the Indian government to issue a press release about the telegram ban: the precedence that I remember is when Chinese apps were banned in India in June 2020 including tiktok. A

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

More than a million live birds imported to Asia in 15 years, report finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/more-than-a-million-live-birds-imported-to-asia-in-15-years-report-finds/

More than a million live birds imported to Asia in 15 years, report finds
Hong Kong and Singapore imported more than 1 million live wild birds between 2006 and 2020. Nearly two-thirds of the birds were from Africa.

from my link log —
A Golang-style defer mechanism for C.
https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/a-defer-mechanism-for-c/
saved 2020-12-14

A defer mechanism for C
An overview of a paper that presents a reference implementation of a defer mechanism (co-authored with Robert C. Seacord) has been accepted for publication at SAC’21. The full version is avai…

The DoJ civil rights division has seen dramatic changes since Trump came back into office last year and installed Harmeet Dhillon, a former Republican Party operative in California, to lead it.
Dhillon has fired employees in droves,
pushed out others through separation incentives tied to pressure campaigns,
reassigned staff
and rewritten the mission statements for each section in the division.
She has vastly reshaped the types of cases the office pursues
…

How Trump Transformed the DOJ’s Civil Rights Office
New, permanent hires include an attorney sanctioned for attempting to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss.

Cowboys Sign Former 2nd Round Pick WR Ahead of Training Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/sign-ufl-wide-receiver-denzel-mims/

from my link log —
Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA.
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/11/reverse-engineering-forgotten-1970s.html
saved 2020-11-16

Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA
" As I recall, those two chips were fairly large. And fairly late -- to the marketplace. We had lots of issues with them. [...] Sometimes th...

from my link log —
SELECT WAT FROM SQL;
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/select-wat-from-sql/
saved 2020-04-17 https://

Wer nutzt #orgmode für #Journalling?
Ich komme von #Logseq und lege mir dort bei jedem Tag einen Eintrag an. Dieser ist mit einem Hauptthema verlinkt. So komme ich vom Hauptthema zum Tag oder vom Tag zum H…

from my link log —
Faster integer parsing.
https://kholdstare.github.io/technical/2020/05/26/faster-integer-parsing.html
saved 2020-06-24

{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

The Trump administration is waging war on voting rights using justice department lawsuits,
FBI investigations,
and an executive order to limit voting by mail,
-- moves mirroring the US president’s false claims he lost the 2020 election due to voting fraud, say election experts and ex-officials.
🔥Since Donald Trump began his second term, numerous 2020 election denialists have been installed in key agencies such as the DoJ, the FBI and elsewhere to pursue widely discred…

Oooooh 👀
"Procès climatique contre TotalEnergies : la justice ordonne au groupe pétrolier de prendre en compte les émissions de CO₂ de ses clients"
https://www.

Procès climatique contre TotalEnergies : la justice ordonne au groupe pétrolier de prendre en compte les émissions de CO₂ de ses clients
Depuis 2020, une coalition d’associations et la Ville de Paris demandent à la justice de contraindre la multinationale à réduire ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Le tribunal vient d’exiger que le géant pétrogazier intègre dans son plan de vigilance les émissions de ses clients. Une avancée significative.

from my link log —
JavaScript got better while I wasn't looking.
https://eev.ee/blog/2017/10/07/javascript-got-better-while-i-wasnt-looking/
saved 2020-02-02

JavaScript got better while I wasn’t looking
IndustrialRobot has generously donated in order to inquire: In the last few years there seems to have been a lot of activity with adding emojis to Unicode. Has there been an equal effort to add ‘real’ languages/glyph systems/etc? And as always, if you don’t have anything to say on that topic, feel free to choose your own. :p Yes. I mean, each release of Unicode lists major new a

Energy Sec Glumly Admits Biden Won 2020 Election - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/07/energy-sec-glumly-admits-biden-won-2020-election/

It’s weird watching videos from 2020 when the person alludes to the pandemic but never mentions it… I wonder if this will completely confuse people in the future.

An analysis of 600 Elon Musk claims over 15 years finds he met deadlines 19% of the time; he achieved 75% of his 2015 goals on time, but under 50% of 2020 ones (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/0

Elon Musk Laid Out 602 Goals. We Counted How Many He Hit.
The billionaire has stated many plans for his businesses, but has delivered only some of what he said he would, when he said he would, according to a Times analysis.

Hong Kong’s national security law has already crushed the territory’s once-vibrant civic and political life.
But now the city’s hard-line authorities are making the law even more repressive for anyone caught in its net.

Under updates which took effect this week,
the city’s chief executive can classify any case as a national security crime under the 2020 law,
even when the alleged offense was committed before that law took effect.

For good reasons, people cann…

Hong Kong’s nightmare gets darker
At China’s behest, the city says people can now be charged retroactively for crimes that didn’t exist when they allegedly committed them.

Ce qui est intéressant dans la décision, c'est que la justice française s'aligne sur une classification faite par la justice allemande il y a 6ans (BGH Urt. v. 18.06.2020, Az. 4 StR 482/19). Le cas allemand était encore moins claire, car la volonté n'avait pas été relevé avec la même clarté. Selon le BGH, il suffisait que l'automobiliste était indifférent au sort des autres.

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Sergeant Damon Christopher Gutzwiller was a 14-year veteran of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office in California.
He was killed in the line of duty on June 6, 2020, during an ambush by an armed suspect in Ben Lomond, California.
On the day of his death, he and other deputies responded to a report of a suspicious van containing firearms and bomb-making materials.
When officers tracked the vehicle to a home, they were immediately ambushed with gunfire and improvised…

Suspect in sergeant's slaying now charged in killing of federal officer in Oakland: Officials
The man suspected of killing a Santa Cruz, California, sheriff's sergeant this month has now been charged in the May slaying of a federal officer in Oakland.

My web site's GenAI/LLM policy:
#NoAI

About
Updated: Summer 2020 Greetings. My name is Pete Prodoehl. I am the publisher behind RasterWeb! which started in August of 1997. RasterWeb! is one of the longest running continually updated weblogs. I give some credit to Dave Winer for getting me involved in all of this. His work in web publishing in the mid-1990s, as [...]

from my link log —
Boost UDP transaction performance.
https://www.slideshare.net/lfevents/boost-udp-transaction-performance
saved 2020-04-19

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

from my link log —
Every Jurassic Park dinosaur illustrated with modern science.
https://jurassicparkterror.net/jurassic-park-dinosaurs/
saved 2020-06-06