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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.

An association of thousands of FBI agents and other groups
are backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau employees who were fired last year
for their roles in an investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.
A legal brief by the FBI Agents Association is one of five filed by outside parties in the last week in support of the agents,
who were terminated as part of a broader personnel purge by FBI Director Kash Patel

Fired FBI agents get broad support in lawsuit against Trump administration
An association of thousands of FBI agents is backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau employees who were fired last year for their roles in an investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. A legal brief filed by the FBI Agents Association is one of five filed by outside parties in the last week in support of the agents. They were terminated as part of a broader personnel purge by FBI Director Kash Patel that has targeted employees wh…

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

@… Mearls, iirc war das in 2020

ngscopeclient now has a newly unbitrotted RGMII protocol decode!
We had this years ago in scopeclient but it used the old inefficient (std::vector<bool> at each sample) parallel bus data model and was commented out for ngscopeclient until we could come up with a better data model.
Now it's back, in time for v0.2.
I also had to un-bitrot this session file: it was an ancient (June 2020) dataset that predated the modern multi-instrument data model in ngscopeclient.…

Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election were brazenly antidemocratic.
Yet Trump and his supporters nonetheless justified their actions under the dubious pretense of preserving American democracy
– as a matter of getting the vote right, of reversing voter fraud.
There’s a good reason they took this approach.
Authoritarianism has long been rejected across the political spectrum.
Democrats and Republicans routinely lob insults like “di…

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

Not going to link to the context, but whenever you see Katie Miller’s name anywhere, keep in mind that she eagerly married and had a child with her husband Stephen, who is an orc, in 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

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

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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.

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

[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)

Titans to curtail Jeffery Simmons' snaps to keep star DT fresh for key moments https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-to-curtail-jeffery-simmons-snaps-to-keep-star-dt-fresh-for-key-moments

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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The ARM Morello board: porting experimental capability extensions from CHERI-MIPS.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/cheri-morello.html
saved 2020-07-01

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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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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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.

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How NAT traversal works.
https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
saved 2020-08-21 https://dot…

How NAT traversal works
Learn how NAT traversal works, how Tailscale can get through and securely connect your devices directly to each other.

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

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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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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Kill the newsletter!
https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/
saved 2020-03-03 https://dotat.at/:/L7RVB.html

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The UX of Lego interface panels.
https://www.designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO-Interface-UX/
saved 2020-08-03 https://…

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.

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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.

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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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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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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

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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

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