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Terence Eden’s Blog
• @edent
Verily, some of our brethren (and sistren) be afflicted with a sinister disposition. While the righteous scroll using the thumb of their right hand - as is good and proper - an accurs'd minority swing the other way. Look, you try writing an interesting bug report without sounding like a clanker, OK! I try to optimise my blog as much as possible. It may not look like much, but it has got it…
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
In July 1981, at the height of Pac-Man fever, Nintendo released its third stand up arcade game. This game, Donkey Kong, took over as the most popular arcade game in the world, but it had a lasting repercussions. It irreversibly
The post How Donkey Kong toppled Atari appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
It used some heuristics.
The post How did Windows 95 decide that a setup program ran? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Andrew Nesbitt
• Andrew Nesbitt
Names are for humans, hashes are for everything else
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
Raymond Edward Kassar was born January 2, 1928 and died December 10, 2017, aged 89, in Vero Beach, Florida. Ray Kassar was president, and later CEO, of Atari Inc. from 1978 to 1983. Atari’s parent company, Warner Bros, hired him
The post Ray Kassar, former Atari CEO appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
Gisteren deed ik op Mastodon live verslag van het kort geding van de aandeelhouders van Solvinity tegen de staatssecretaris van Digitale Economie en Soevereiniteit. Gek genoeg zag ik in de rechtbank dingen die ik later in het nieuws niet of weinig vernam. Pers en media waren in grote getale op komen draven, wat leidde tot de volgende artikelen: AD: Nederlandse overheid wilde bedrijf achter DigiD niet zelf kopen, stelt Solvinity in rechtbank NRC: Met harde woorden vecht Solvinity, het bedrijf achter DigiD, het verbod op verkoop aan een Amerikaans bedrijf aan (kadolink, laat weten als ‘ie niet meer werkt) Nu.
Entropic Thoughts
• kqr
Alternative titles:
These are all about equivalent to the risk of one year of smoking.
DYNOMIGHT
• dynomight
How to discount your expectations
John D. Cook
• John
I ran across a geometry theorem with the following diagram. The theorem corresponding to the diagram is interesting, but I found reproducing the diagram more interesting. The segment AB is a diameter and the line CD is perpendicular to the diameter. Assume the outer circle is a unit circle. I guessed C = (cos(1), sin(1)) and made the […]
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The Old New Thing
• Raymond Chen
You can't change your mind, but you can do it a different way.
The post I opened a file with <CODE>FILE_<WBR>FLAG_<WBR>DELETE_<WBR>ON_<WBR>CLOSE</CODE>, but now I changed my mind appeared first on The Old New Thing.
John D. Cook
• John
I ran across the approximation e ≈ 2721/1001 recently. What makes this remarkable is its accuracy relative to the size of the denominator. You can create a trivial approximation just by truncating a decimal expansion e ≈ 2718/1000 but this is only good to four significant figures, but 2721/1001 is good to seven, almost eight, […]
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Terence Eden’s Blog
• @edent
I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is amusing for the first five minutes, but quickly gets tiresome. Wow! You got your little computer friend to automate calling …
The Silicon Underground
• Dave Farquhar
On July 6, 1995, IBM bought Lotus Development for $3.5 billion. Lotus had once been the second largest software publisher in the world and was worth $5.5 billion at its IPO. Its flagship product, the spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3, had been
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