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Writing a PostgreSQL formatter / pretty printer in Rust.
https://blog.urth.org/2021/03/14/writing-a-postgres-sql-pretty-printer-in-rust-part-1/
saved 2021-03-18

#OTD 2021: Time for the annual bicycle harvest in Utrecht

Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan.
Now refugees across the United States are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.
Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during a fruitless 20-year war, after Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.
Thousands of them have since found a new home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
But in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard…

Trump Is Ready to Send Afghan Refugees to Their Death
ICE is detaining Afghan refugees in the wake of the National Guard shooting. Those in the Dallas-Fort Worth area fear for their lives, in both their new home and their old one.

After patching and rebuilding kwin_wayland to remove the bullshit-ass fucking hardcoded gestures that have been in there since at least 2021 with an open bug, funding spent, and no resolution in sight, and thereafter installing both fusuma and fusuma-plugin-sendkey, I have sucessfully gotten KDE on Wayland to behave normally qua gestures. I think.
XScreenSaver 6.11 has preliminary (non-locking) Wayland support, which may obviate my dirty hack to watch input devices DBus and run demo…

Wonder why anyone in Aotearoa NZ is celebrating RocketLab's US launch in aid of the US military. For his own gain and glory, Peter Beck (I don't see justification for his honourific) betrayed the trust of the kaumātua of Mahia Peninsula and sold us all out to perhaps the least honourable country in the world these days. Here's the story if you haven't already seen it:

It’s worth noting that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originator of the bad deductive rule in question, spent his later years falling for and vehemently defending a variety of hoaxes involving fairies and communicating with the dead:
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-175-ghost-racket-crusade-10-22-2021/

Es ist ebenso faszinierend wie lustig. Der einzige Artikel auf meinem Blog, der seit Jahren(!) zuverlässige Abrufzahlen hat, ist immer noch der, wie man das Tastaturlayout des Alphasmart Neo2 auf das Deutsche umstellt.
https://mela.de/blog/2021/01/15/alphasmart…

On Website Technicals (2021-02) - Tech updates: image preview tweak for dark mode, DNS secondary fun. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-45.html

On Website Technicals (2021-02)
Tech updates: image preview tweak for dark mode, DNS secondary fun.

Chinese prosecutors raise alarm about growth of domestic IP theft https://therecord.media/china-domestic-ip-theft-crackdown

Då det nu uppstått en debatt om de allt fler miljardärerna i Sverige - och huruvida de när eller tär - vill jag tipsa om den här intervjun med ekonomen Gabriel Zucman från tidigare i höstas. https://www.dn.se/varlden/stjarnekonomens-forslag-sa-ska-sup…

Gabriel Zucman: ”De superrika måste betala skatt som alla andra”
Den franske ekonomen Gabriel Zucman vill införa en minimiskatt för miljardärer. ”De superrika måste betala skatt som alla andra”

Does Order Matter : Connecting The Law of Robustness to Robust Generalization
Himadri Mandal, Vishnu Varadarajan, Jaee Ponde, Aritra Das, Mihir More, Debayan Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20971
arXiv:2602.20971v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bubeck and Sellke (2021) pose as an open problem the connection between the law of robustness and robust generalization. The law of robustness states that overparameterization is necessary for models to interpolate robustly; in particular, robust interpolation requires the learned function to be Lipschitz. Robust generalization asks whether small robust training loss implies small robust test loss. We resolve this problem by explicitly connecting the two for arbitrary data distributions. Specifically, we introduce a nontrivial notion of robust generalization error and convert it into a lower bound on the expected Rademacher complexity of the induced robust loss class. Our bounds recover the $\Omega(n^{1/d})$ regime of Wu et al.\ (2023) and show that, up to constants, robust generalization does not change the order of the Lipschitz constant required for smooth interpolation. We conduct experiments to probe the predicted scaling with dataset size and model capacity, testing whether empirical behavior aligns more closely with the predictions of Bubeck and Sellke (2021) or Wu et al.\ (2023). For MNIST, we find that the lower-bound Lipschitz constant scales on the order predicted by Wu et al.\ (2023). Informally, to obtain low robust generalization error, the Lipschitz constant must lie in a range that we bound, and the allowable perturbation radius is linked to the Lipschitz scale.
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Chinese chip designer Montage raised $902M in its Hong Kong IPO, jumping 64% in its market debut, the biggest rise since Kuaishou's $6.2B Hong Kong IPO in 2021 (Julia Zhong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Mac Jones confirms Kyle Shanahan wanted to draft him to 49ers in 2021: 'He wanted me to be here' https://www.nfl.com/news/mac-jones-confirms-kyle-shanahan-wanted-to-draft-him-49ers-2021

Scott Borchetta, who founded Big Machine Records and signed Taylor Swift in 2006, is leaving Hybe America, which bought Big Machine in 2021; Hybe retains assets (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/scott-borchetta-exit…

Scott Borchetta to Exit Hybe America, Relaunch Big Machine Records
Hybe America has announced that Big Machine founder Scott Borchetta is leaving the company. He will relaunch his Big Machine Records.

Raiders name Matt Robinson Safeties Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-matt-robinson-safeties-coach

from my link log —
How David Kindersley’s serifs lost the road war but won the streets.
https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2021/11/03/how-serifs-lost-the-road-war-but-won-the-streets/
saved 2026-02-12

How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets
It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads Research Laboratory is revving the engine of his Morris Oxford and preparing to release the handbrake. W…

Japan and the Octopus Trap of Modernity (file under: Takotsubo is not only a cardiac disease)
https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/journal/2021/6/10/cgq5rildc4mxhatmak817jxn3f9bef

Genealogies of Modernity — Japan and the Octopus Trap of Modernity
What we see in Japanese modernity, according to Maruyama, is a national franchise of these “idols of the market place” through the continuous specialization and internal diversifications that multiply these groups. Takeshi Morisato on how Japan became trapped in a hyper-specialized version of mode

Zugegeben - ein kleines bisschen stolz sind wir #Hessen schon auf unsere inzwischen sieben #UNESCO-#Welterbestätten.
2021 kam die Darmstädter

Trump’s Department of Justice moved to dismiss a criminal case against his former aide
Steve Bannon,
connected to his refusal to testify before Congress relating to the investigation into the January 6 insurrection.
The controversial hard-right strategist,
an ally of Trump,
was convicted in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress
after refusing to appear for a deposition before the House committee that investigated the 2021 attack on the Capitol
a…

On Being a Hardware Developer (2021) - What does it mean to be a hardware developer? #podcast #hardware - https://www.

On Being a Hardware Developer (2021)
What does it mean to be a hardware developer? #podcast #hardware

7th MIT Global Humanities Forum on “PILLAR 5: Environment, Biodiversity & Planetary Stewardship” on Feb 13 (online)
https://ift.tt/weVaRyc
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Rewatch Eric Stokes' 40-yard dash in 2021 👀🔥 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qLG9aGpa1FM

from my link log —
High performance correctly rounded math libraries for 32-bit floating point.
https://blog.sigplan.org/2021/08/26/high-performance-correctly-rounded-math-libraries-for-32-bit-floating-poi…

High Performance Correctly Rounded Math Libraries for 32-bit Floating Point Representations
Everyone uses math libraries. Surprisingly, mainstream math libraries do not produce correct results for several thousands of inputs. Developers are seldom aware of them, which affects reproducibil…

#OTD 2021

AP, Big Ben, Gronk lead '27 HOF 1st-time eligibles https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47847964/peterson-roethlisberger-gronkowski-lead-2027-hall-fame-first-eligibles

"China expects up to 287 GW of new PV capacity additions in 2026"
#China #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables

China expects up to 287 GW of new PV capacity additions in 2026
China’s PV industry expects 238 GW to 287 GW of domestic capacity additions in 2026 as it pivots away from volume-led growth after a loss-making year driven by overcapacity and sharp price declines. The shift follows rapid expansion in 2021-25 that lifted cumulative capacity above 1.2 TW, annual additions beyond 300 GW and exports over $180 billion.

from my link log —
The Wendelstein 7-X fusion stellarator proves its efficiency.
https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5125328/05_21
saved 2021-08-17 https://dota…

The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency
One of the most important optimisation goals underlying the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald has now been confirmed. An analysis by IPP scientists in the journal Nature shows: In the optimised magnetic field cage, the energy losses of the plasma are reduced in the desired way. Wendelstein 7-X is intended to prove that the disadvantages of earlier stellarators can be overcome and that stellarator-type devices are suitable for power plants.

CFP: Im Schatten der Aufklärung: kanonisches und marginales Denken in literarischen, philosophischen und religiösen Diskursen über die Bildung im 18. Jahrhundert (13.02.2026)
https://ift.tt/hv1kudK
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RE…

from my link log —
Debugging random slow writes with GIN indexes in PostgreSQL.
https://iamsafts.com/posts/postgres-gin-performance/
saved 2021-04-06

from my link log —
Route 53 DNS: Amazon’s premier AWS database.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/route-53-amazons-premier-database/
saved 2021-02-18 <…

Route 53, Amazon’s Premier Database
I’ve periodically made reference in a bunch of places to Route 53 being my preferred database. But I’ve only really told the story in podcast and tweet