Tootfinder

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John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous yet surprisingly deep language.
http://raganwald.com/2020/05/03/fractran.html
saved 2020-05-11

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Rust in a KDE project.
https://jbbgameich.github.io/misc/2020/12/21/rust-in-a-kde-project.html
saved 2020-12-28

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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...

I live in a part of San Francisco called the APE Zone.

A guy I was trying to get a job interview with in March of 2020 just posted this long thing about how he uses AI at work.
Dodged a bullet thanks to COVID I guess?

On Website Technicals (2020-02) - Tech updates: GSC Review annoyance, CSS dark mode, video captions, lazy loading, srcset issues. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-33.html

On Website Technicals (2020-02)
Tech updates: GSC Review annoyance, CSS dark mode, video captions, lazy loading, srcset issues.

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

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Nornir: an automation framework in Python.
https://nornir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
saved 2020-03-23 https://dotat.a…

Former Cowboys DL Aldon Smith dies at 36 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/13/cowboys-dl-aldon-smith-obituary/90544064007/

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Void in Haskell is a smell.
https://tech.freckle.com/2020/09/23/void-is-a-smell/
saved 2020-09-24 https://

Statscast - Lockdown Changes, Log Noises (2020-05) - May stats and graphs #audification #lockdown2020 - https://www.earth.or…

Statscast - Lockdown Changes, Log Noises (2020-05)
May stats and graphs #audification #lockdown2020

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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 …

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

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PostgreSQL PostGIS trajectories through space and time.
https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2020/11/postgis-trajectory-intro
saved 2020-12-02

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What science can tell us about C and C 's security.
https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafety-and-security/
saved 2020-05-28

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Byrne's Euclid.
https://www.c82.net/euclid/
saved 2020-04-27 https://dotat.at/:/YEFV2.html

Byrne's Euclid
A reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

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Videogame doesn't infringe tattoo copyright by depicting basketball players.
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2020/03/videogame-doesnt-infringe-tattoo-…

Videogame Doesn't Infringe Tattoo Copyright By Depicting Basketball Players-Solid Oak Sketches v. 2K Games - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
This case deals with a venerable and vexing copyright law problem: if a person doesn’t own the copyright to his/her tattoos, do other people infringe by accurately depicting the person? The answer surely has to be “no.” Otherwise, ordinary daily...

Metacast 2: Podcast Specs and Workflow (2020-04) - Another podcast episode about podcasting - documenting for consistency. - https://www.earth.org.uk/metacast-2.html

Metacast 2: Podcast Specs and Workflow (2020-04)
Another podcast episode about podcasting - documenting for consistency.

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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.

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LLVM's getelementptr, by example.
https://blog.yossarian.net/2020/09/19/LLVMs-getelementptr-by-example
saved 2020-09-20

LLVM's getelementptr, by example

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Too much locality... for stores to forward.
https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2020/02/01/too-much-locality-for-store-forwarding/
saved 2020-02-02

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The alias method for efficiently sampling from a discrete probability distribution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_method
saved 2020-07-02

Alias method - Wikipedia

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ip2unix: turn IP sockets into Unix domain sockets.
https://github.com/nixcloud/ip2unix
saved 2020-07-08 https://dotat.at/:/5A9WC.…

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How to organize your Rust tests.
https://blog.logrocket.com/how-to-organize-your-rust-tests/
saved 2020-06-06 https://

How to organize your Rust tests - LogRocket Blog
Whenever you write any kind of code, it's critical to put it to the test. In this guide, we'll walk you through how to test Rust code.

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GNU Recutils: a database management system using human-readable text files.
https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/
saved 2020-01-26 https://

GNU Recutils
Fred and George, Turtles in love There are hundreds of cool command line tools that have been made over the years built on the unix philosophy. Plain text is powerful, ubiquitous, and human-centric. It was also the only option for computing for quite a while. It’s no surprise that some of the most sophisticated tools are focused on it. One such package is GNU Recutils, a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles.

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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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Write tracking for Nim.
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/09/01/write-tracking.html
saved 2020-09-02 https://

Write Tracking for Nim (Part 2)
7 years ago I wrote how Nim would get “write tracking” as an alternative to adding const to Nim’s type system. This year it finally made it into Nim nightly! Since then the feature was reimplemented and all the details how it works did change.

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Packaging a Rust project for Debian.
https://blog.hackeriet.no/packaging-a-rust-project-for-debian/
saved 2020-02-01

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

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What is the Scudo hardened allocator? (used by LLVM sanitizers and Android)
http://expertmiami.blogspot.com/2019/05/what-is-scudo-hardened-allocator_10.html
saved 2020-07-01

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UK public transport API.
https://www.transportapi.com/
saved 2020-02-26 https://dotat.at/:/ZF2L4.html

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Range: My least favorite Rust type.
https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/least-favorite-rust-type.html
saved 2020-09-21

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New amd64 micro-architecture levels.
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-July/116135.html
saved 2020-11-08

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MLIR: a compiler infrastructure for the end of Moore's Law.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11054
saved 2020-02-27 https://dotat.at/:…

MLIR: A Compiler Infrastructure for the End of Moore's Law
This work presents MLIR, a novel approach to building reusable and extensible compiler infrastructure. MLIR aims to address software fragmentation, improve compilation for heterogeneous hardware, significantly reduce the cost of building domain specific compilers, and aid in connecting existing compilers together. MLIR facilitates the design and implementation of code generators, translators and optimizers at different levels of abstraction and also across application domains, hardware targets …

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OLTP performance since PostgreSQL 8.3.
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/oltp-performance-since-postgresql-8-3/
saved 2020-10-08

EDB Home - EDB Postgres AI
Explore EDB Postgres AI's solutions, gain insights from experts, and learn about AI strategy behind 5x ROI. Sign up for interactive sessions & download insightful reports.

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Fast incremental compilation of Kotlin.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/09/the-dark-secrets-of-fast-compilation-for-kotlin/
saved 2020-09-24

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T1: a programming language for constrained environments, derived from BearSSL.
https://t1lang.github.io/
saved 2020-01-11 https://dotat.at/…

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cproc: a C11 compiler using QBE as a backend.
https://github.com/michaelforney/cproc
saved 2020-08-06 https://dotat.at/:/3GNQW…

GitHub - michaelforney/cproc: C compiler (mirror)
C compiler (mirror). Contribute to michaelforney/cproc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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TIME for a WTF MySQL moment.
https://gbl08ma.com/time-for-a-wtf-mysql-moment/
saved 2020-10-06 https://dotat…

TIME for a WTF MySQL moment
Many people have been experiencing strange time perception phenomenon throughout 2020, but certain database management systems have been into time shenanigans for way longer. This came to my attent…

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1:60 scale model of a Boeing 777, made entirely from manila folders.
https://www.lucaiaconistewart.com/model-777
saved 2020-07-07 https://

Model 777 — Luca Iaconi-Stewart
The homepage of the work for which I'm best known — a model Boeing 777, made entirely from manila folders!