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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 …

Filing: Lime files for an IPO, reporting 2025 revenue of $886.7M, up from $686.6M YoY, and a net loss of $59.3M, up from $33.9M; it was valued at $510M in 2020 (Jordan Fitzgerald/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bis 2014 dachten wir, Russland habe sich verändert und sei jetzt unser Freund.
😔
Nach 2020 dachten wir, die USA sei doch noch unser Freund.
😅
Seit 2025 wissen wir, wir haben uns geirrt.
🥴
Trump bewundert Diktatoren wie Putin.
Beide verachten uns.
Aber wir sind lernfähig.
Und wir haben immer noch uns.
🇪🇺🌏🇪🇺🇨🇭🇪🇺🌎🇪🇺🇨🇭🇪🇺🌍🇪🇺
#Europa

Solutocapillary instability in slipping falling films
Sanghasri Mukhopadhyay, S\'everine Millet, Bastien Di Pierro, Asim Mukhopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17519
arXiv:2605.17519v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a comprehensive framework for gravity-driven, surfactant-laden thin films flowing over slippery substrates, elucidating how wall slip modifies the coupled hydrodynamics and interfacial transport. A long-wave model is formulated with a conservative bulk-surface mass balance and a Navier slip condition. The Orr-Sommerfeld eigenvalue problem governs the linear regime, while a weighted-residual model captures the nonlinear evolution over a range of equilibrium surfactant coverages, Marangoni strengths, and adsorption kinetics. The analysis predicts a non-monotonic variation of the critical Reynolds number with equilibrium coverage, exhibiting a maximum at intermediate $\Gamma_e$, and a slip-induced transition from single- to double-hump solitary structures with increasing Marangoni number, accompanied by attenuated capillary ripples. Under fast adsorption kinetics, the surface field homogenizes, preserving the mean film shape and flux while flattening both the surface concentration $\Gamma$ and the bulk inventory $\chi h\phi$. A spurious interfacial mass growth reported by Pascal et al.(PRF, 2019) and D'Alessio et al.(JFM, 2020) is resolved through a revised surface balance ensuring strict conservation. Wall slip thus emerges as a key control parameter, reducing viscous resistance and mitigating Marangoni back-stress. The slip parameter $\beta$ is a useful control knob for surfactant-laden films. Slip prevents fragile multi-hump bound states, promoting a single broad crest or an almost flat, uniform sheet by carefully bonding $\beta$ to wave selection, ripple damping, and the bulk-surface surfactant balance.
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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.

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

[Bill/David Carradine:]
What Kent wears, the glasses, the business suit... that's the costume that Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak, he's unsure of himself, he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.
--Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004). Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino.
(From "The New Yale Book of Quotations”, Fred R. Shapiro, 2020)

Four Decades of the Meat Puppets' 'Up on the Sun' - a cool history and retrospective piece by The Self Portrait Gospel: https://www.theselfportraitgospel.com/reviews-premiers/four-decades-of-meat-puppets-up-on-the-sun

The Self Portrait Gospel
Nearly half a decade after the Atomic Bomb Club first formed in the late 1970s, what would eventually become the beloved Phoenix-based band of brothers, Meat Puppets , soon settled on their iconic name in the summer of 1980, and would go on to release their third album, “Up On The Sun” , after

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/

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

from my link log —
Kill the newsletter!
https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/
saved 2020-03-03 https://dotat.at/:/L7RVB.html

Trump erects statue to Colon, the coloniser, enslaver and murderer who discovered neither America nor 'America'.
Trump erects statue of Christopher Columbus in White House grounds | Donald Trump | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

from my link log —
Structured concurrency in C .
https://ericniebler.com/2020/11/08/structured-concurrency/
saved 2020-11-09 https://

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AMD Zen 3 Ryzen deep dive review.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-dive-review-5950x-5900x-5800x-and-5700x-tested
saved 2020-11-06

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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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Generics and compile time in Rust.
https://pingcap.com/blog/generics-and-compile-time-in-rust/
saved 2020-06-16 https:/…

Generics and Compile-Time in Rust | TiDB
Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "Generics and Compile-Time in Rust" here.

from my link log —
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.

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

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

from my link log —
6 things Markdown got wrong.
https://www.swyx.io/writing/markdown-mistakes/
saved 2020-04-04 https://dotat.at/…

"March heat surges past 100 in California and Arizona, smashing records"
#US #USA #America #California

March heat surges past 100 in California and Arizona, smashing records
A burst of unusual March heat is hitting the United States this week and into next, busting previous monthly heat records by wide margins. While heat is most acutely felt by people exposed to it, graphics and charts convey the scale of this extreme event. Temperatures in the West remain far above what's typical for March, a sign the early season heat is not letting up. Compared with the average highs for March between 1991 and 2020, temperatures across some parts of Oklahoma, Nebraska, northern…

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

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The design and implementation of the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) servers.
https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1984/5962.html
saved 2020-08-27

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

from my link log —
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.

from my link log —
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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DNS problems with conntrack and Kubernetes.
https://blog.codacy.com/dns-hell-in-kubernetes/
saved 2020-08-14 https://

DNS Problems Scaling With Kubernetes: Read More
DNS problems with Kubernetes, particularly intermittent delays, have been challenging moving our services to the Kubernetes platform for scaling.

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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!

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ELF statifier: create a static executable from a binary and its libraries.
http://statifier.sourceforge.net/
saved 2020-07-13 https://

ELF statifier
Download ELF statifier for free. Tool for creating portable self-containing Linux executable. Statifier is a tool for creating portable self-containing Linux executable. Statifier create from dynamically linked executable and all it's libraries (and all LD_PRELOAD libraries, if any) one file.

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…

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Dorking: how to find anything on the web.
https://www.alec.fyi/dorking-how-to-find-anything-on-the-internet.html
saved 2020-08-11