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Ashridge (2020)
(Today, six years ago... On one of the first outings in the English countryside after the lockdowns)
#LandscapePhotography #CloudAppreciation #Buckinghamshire

A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beating 2021's 34; PitchBook: the average time to hit $10B dropped to 5.5 years in 2025 vs. 9.4 in 2020 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/decacorns-record-venture-capital

Minting decacorns at a record pace
Startups are reaching $10 billion valuations faster, and more frequently.

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Taking back control from systemd networking.
https://www.naut.ca/blog/2018/12/12/disabling-systemd-networking/
saved 2020-02-19

Justin Herbert has endured more hits than any other QB since 2020. When will it end? https://www.nfl.com/news/justin-herbert-has-endured-more-hits-than-any-other-qb-since-2020-when-will-it-end

Raiders increase season ticket prices for 3rd time since 2020 relocation https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-increase-season-ticket-prices-for-3rd-time-since-2020-relocation-3884657/

The continued warm weather has now brought 2026 to the #1 spot on the list of warmest years-to-date in the Netherlands (at main met station De Bilt).
2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022 are in the top-10 as well, btw.
#ClimateChange #Globalwarming

from my link log —
Building the fastest RaptorQ (RFC6330) FEC codec in Rust.
https://www.cberner.com/2020/10/12/building-fastest-raptorq-rfc6330-codec-rust/
saved 2020-10-15

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ips4o: in-place parallel superscalar samplesort.
https://github.com/SaschaWitt/ips4o
saved 2020-10-19 https://dotat.at/:/38VTJ.ht…

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Linear types for Haskell are merged into GHC.
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-06-19-linear-types-merged/
saved 2020-06-19 …

Linear types are merged in GHC
Looking back at the journey which brought us there, and forward to what still lies ahead.

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 …

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The Go language for data science.
https://github.com/qiniu/goplus
saved 2020-06-19 https://dotat.at/:/F528G.html

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

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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 …

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Modelling BBR's interactions with traditional TCP loss-based congestion control.
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/01/24/modelling-bbrs-interactions-with-loss-based-congestion-control/
saved 2020-01-25 …

Modelling BBR’s interactions with loss-based congestion control | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: While BBR is supposed to be a rate-based algorithm, when competing with other flows, BBR is window-limited.

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chibicc: a small C compiler.
https://github.com/rui314/chibicc
saved 2020-10-04 https://dotat.at/:/HB8B4.html

GitHub - rui314/chibicc: A small C compiler
A small C compiler. Contribute to rui314/chibicc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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/

When did you ORIGINALLY join Mastodon and/or the Fediverse?
Pre-COVID
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027

from my link log —
cson: CoffeeScript object notation.
https://github.com/bevry/cson
saved 2020-10-23 https://dotat.at/:/BLNG7.html

GitHub - bevry/cson: CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. Same as JSON but for CoffeeScript objects.
CoffeeScript-Object-Notation. Same as JSON but for CoffeeScript objects. - bevry/cson

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Capability-based computer systems. (1984)
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/
saved 2020-03-08 https://

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yubikey-agent: a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.
https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent
saved 2020-07-08 https://

GitHub - FiloSottile/yubikey-agent: yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.
yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys. - FiloSottile/yubikey-agent

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Lezer: a parser system in JavaScript.
https://lezer.codemirror.net/
saved 2020-10-21 https://dotat.at/:/VL4WJ.html

Lezer
Incremental parsing system