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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 …

Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24
- the first time that had happened over a five-year period.
Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected.
"It's incredible to think that a single jab can almost eliminate a particular type of cancer,"
said Prof Peter Sasieni, the lead researcher at Queen Mary University of London.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

Am freien Freitag (! Angesparte Flexa-Tage) relativ spontan mit dem Kollegen ein wenig im Garten Abhängen.
Aus der Barrelworks Serie von #FirestoneWalker
Ein Mitbringsel aus Kalifornien, Produktionsjahr 2020.
Lecker Aprikose und weisse Trauben als Bier vergoren.

A: "My vintage 2020-era cornbread is moldy!"

from my link log —
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.

The first half of 2026 was the 5th warmest on record here in the central Netherlands.
Just following the forecast for the coming 2 weeks, and then the 1991-2020 average (cool by now) would already bring this year into the top-3 warmest since 1901.

A study of 600M article visits to a major US metro newspaper site from Jan. 2020 to Dec. 2023 finds hard news stories are most likely to drive subscriptions (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/what-ki…

What kind of stories are best at turning local news readers into subscribers? It’s hard news, not the soft stuff
An analysis of billions of visits to a metro newspaper's website finds that entertainment and sports stories might generate lots of pageviews, but it's topics like government, transportation, and health that get people to pull out their credit cards.

from my link log —
What made the 1960s CDC6600 supercomputer fast?
https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/what-made-the-cdc6600-fast/
saved 2020-02-15 …

Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, will this weekend headline a faith rally on the National Mall in Washington DC
hosted by a private foundation operating in partnership with the White House,
which includes speakers that experts have characterized as Christian nationalist or extremist.
"Rededicate 250", billed as the faith-based component of America’s semiquincentennial, features speakers including
a Detroit pastor who has called the Democratic platform “demon…

The BBC reports license fee payers fell 539K YoY to 23.3M in 2025-26, the biggest fall since 2020-21; license fee income rose £36M to £3.9B after the fee uplift (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/bbc-licence-fee-payers-plummet-c…

BBC License Fee Payers Plummet By Half A Million
The number of BBC licence fee payers fell by 539,000 last year as charter renewal negotiations enter a new stage, according to the annual report.

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020) - Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZWF01483W-freestanding-washing-machine-REVIEW.html

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020)
Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles.

All the Dictator's Men -- The assault on liberal democracy is a whole-of-government Trumpist project. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-dictators-men-trump-blanche-clayton-democracy-midterms-elections-2020
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p49#a260716p49

from my link log —
SCION EPIC: a path-aware clean-slate internet architecture.
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/11/25/epic-exploring-challenges-and-opportunities-in-next-generation-internet-architectures/

EPIC: Exploring challenges and opportunities in next-generation Internet architectures | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: Path-aware architectures are showing potential as means to improve efficiency and solve many of the security issues of today’s Internet.

from my link log —
Finding a goroutine bug with TLA .
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/tla-golang/
saved 2020-09-25 https://dotat.a…

Trump's whacked out claims about @splcenter.org being
"a part of the rigging of the [2020] election"
are front and center in SPLC's motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution.
https://bsky.app/profile/rparloff.bsky.social/post/3mmrvwe2gm22y

Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
The SPLC has filed its motion to dismiss for vindictive and selective prosecution. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.almd.90264/gov.uscourts.almd.90264.49.1.pdf

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Query-based compiler architectures.
https://ollef.github.io/blog/posts/query-based-compilers.html
saved 2020-06-25 ht…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/116635660928832452
this core flow change is interesting but it doesn’t correspond to any significant change in LoD
it happened about 10 years before the LoD abruptly dropped in about 2020
(and ther…