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It's amusing (and annoying) that a browser pops up a new tab when you restart it to update it, like I'm not doing it just to get rid of the nag button, like I even give a fuck what they changed

"In Memoriam: Platinum Curidas, 2020-2026"
#fountainpens

from my link log —
Code smell: concrete abstraction.
https://matklad.github.io/2020/08/15/concrete-abstraction.html
saved 2020-08-20 ht…

Wolfgang Porsche, the Austrian-German automotive magnate,
appears to have abandoned plans to build a private 500-metre tunnel for his cars through the Salzburg hills
after a public uproar over the “tunnel for one”.
In 2020, Porsche bought a storied 17th-century villa on the outskirts of Salzburg for €8.4m (£7.2m),
and last autumn he secured permission from the city authorities for an estimated €10m private access road through the rugged limestone hill.
The 83-ye…

Porsche magnate puts historic Salzburg villa up for sale after row over private ‘tunnel for one’
Plans by Wolfgang Porsche to bore private 500-metre road link through Austrian hill caused anger among locals

Burnam's suggestion that, should he be PM, he would spend most of his time outside of London will prompt the sort of questions about the separation of function and location that would normally only be prompted by wartime.
Resilience in the long term, with technical adaptation, but for the foreseeable it's a helicopter on permanent standby.
(Many other organisations, of course, went through this in early 2020.)

Court Rejects Smithfield Foods' Arguments, Giving Low-Income Neighbors of Hog Farms Hope | The Daily Yonder
https://dailyyonder.com/court-rejects-smithfield-foods-arguments-giving-low-income-neighbors-of-hog-farms-hope/2020/12/18/

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…

from my link log —
It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437
saved 2020-11-20 https://dotat.at/:/6EPK8.html…

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister
When the Mersenne Twister made his first appearance in 1997 it was a powerful example of how linear maps on $\mathbf F_2$ could be used to generate pseudorandom numbers. In particular, the easiness with which generators with long periods could be defined gave the Mersenne Twister a large following, in spite of the fact that such long periods are not a measure of quality, and they require a large amount of memory. Even at the time of its publication, several defects of the Mersenne Twister were …

Every major party presidential nominee since Nixon had voluntarily released their tax returns
— Trump was the exception, not the rule,
and the “harm” he suffered was exposure to the same transparency his predecessors embraced without incident.
The original piece laid out why the whole thing was a scam:
Trump is the plaintiff,
the IRS and Treasury are the defendants,
and the DOJ defending those defendants is stocked with Trump’s former personal attorneys

Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked
Back in January, we covered Trump’s audacious lawsuit demanding $10 billion from his own IRS over the 2019-2020 leak of his tax returns by IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn (who is currently …

from my link log —
Linux eBPF projects and documentation.
https://ebpf.io/
saved 2020-08-12 https://dotat.at/:/WV3ZE.html

eBPF - Introduction, Tutorials & Community Resources
eBPF is a revolutionary technology that can run sandboxed programs in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code or loading a kernel module.

Donald Trump is “inventing fraud”
in California’s primary elections,
and likely to ramp up unfounded allegations when more races go against him,
pro-democracy experts have warned.
While the felon-president has used this playbook for years
– from his loss at the Emmys as a reality TV star to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election
– election integrity campaigners fear this time could be different.
“California’s election is not the problem here,” …

How much household stuff can you move across 8 states, 1600 miles, in a Chevy Sonic? 🚗
A lot as my wife and I established in Nov. 2020 at the height of COVID. 🗓️ #throwback
Anyway, sad to say goodbye to that car today. 🎁 #donation
#tbt #throwbackThursday #accomplishment