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@CondeChocula@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-06 16:19:49

What a beautiful game, I will surely play it again, I beat this game on real hardware in monochrome back in the day but this ROM hack is so good. The image bring me a lot of nostalgia :'). Kudos for the author \o/
romhacking.net/hacks/3784/

An image from the game Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins for GameBoy, this is a hack mod to bring color.

Super Mario Land 2 DX
Super Mario Land 2 DX is a color hack for Super Mario Land 2 in the same vein as Link’s Awakening

@arXiv_mathCO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-03 08:42:40

Sums along the edges of random regular graphs
Itai Benjamini, Georgii Zakharov, Maksim Zhukovskii
arxiv.org/abs/2507.01138

Sums along the edges of random regular graphs
Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices and $(H,+)$ be an abelian group. What is the minimum size ${\sf S}_H(G)$ of the set of all sums $A(u)+A(v)$ over all injections $A:V(G)\to H$? In 2012, Alon, Angel, the first author, and Lubetzky proved that, for expander graphs and $H=\mathbb{Z}$, this minimum is at least $Ω(\log n)$, and this bound is tight -- there exists a regular expander $G$ with ${\sf S}_{\mathbb{Z}}(G)=O(\log n)$. We prove that, for every constant $d\geq 3$, the random $d$-regular gra…

@kazys@mastodon.social
2025-06-15 18:49:08

Sunday reading. A long-form essay on the Rise and Fall of the Author. I won't hide the link today so it'll be shadow-banned across social media. Well, what else is new? Except that this should either be a book or heavily edited down. So it goes.
varnelis.net/works_and_project

The Rise and Fall of the Author - varnelis.net
The Library of All Plagiarized Books, Google Imagefx, 2025In Jorge Luis Borges’s 1939 short story, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” Menard undertakes what appears to be an impossible, even insane, task: recreating, word for word, “the ninth and thirty-eighth chapters of the first part of Don Quixote and a fragment of chapter twenty-two.” Menard ...

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-22 20:51:26

In an article entitled While the Media Chases Trump’s Distractions, Here’s the Story They’re Not Telling You,
Lev Parnas discloses that he hasn't slept in two days.
"I’ve been on the phone nonstop, speaking to sources across the globe" he said, noting that
"what the media isn’t reporting is even worse" than what journalists are currently disseminating.
They’re not asking the real question:
Why now?" he asked.
"They’re not ta…

Trump's former 'trusted operative' spills Iran story 'they're not telling you'
A man who was once Donald Trump's "trusted operative" spilled details he said you won't find on CNN or MSNBC.Author and former Trump insider Lev Parnas, who has reported on Trump's purported "humiliation" by Russia's Putin, on Sunday wrote about his take on Trump's military strike on Iran's soil.Par...

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-06-23 20:42:04

from my link log —
Thoughts on hashing in Rust.
purplesyringa.moe/blog/thought
saved 2024-12-13

Thoughts on Rust hashing
In languages like Python, Java, or C++, values are hashed by calling a “hash me” method on them, implemented by the type author. This fixed-hash size is then immediately used by the hash table or what have you. This design suffers from some obvious problems, like: How do you hash an integer? If you use a no-op hasher (booo), DoS attacks on hash tables are inevitable. If you hash it thoroughly, consumers that only cache hashes to optimize equality checks lose out of performance.

@al3x@hachyderm.io
2025-06-20 19:24:40

I am struggling with how to deal with very long articles on topics I'm interested about but at a different level than the author.
1. I'm acknowledging that "very long" is a "very" subjective matter. I'd say that for me that's usually what goes beyond 5min read time.
2. I'm also acknowledging that it's quite impossible to find the perfect match of the level of details provided by an article and the level of detail I'm interested.
1. If I save the article for later, I know I won't read it.
2. Many times listening to the article (using ElevenReader) provides a solution.
3. I am starting to use AI summarization more often. Not Safari's which is useless.
I don't feel quite right about this last approach.