Sat, 22 Dec 2018 10:57:04 GMT
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- INPUT 64 ist ein von 1985 bis 1988 im Heise-Verlag erschienenes Computermagazin für den Commodore 64, das aus einer Kassette oder Diskette, sowie einem Begleitheft bestand. (via)
STEM/MINT:
- Bluetooth-equipped capsule communicates from the gut – bald gibt es Cloud-Retardierung.
- 300 years of element discovery
- 34 erstaunliche Zecken-Fakten!
- Siberian Worms Buried in Arctic Permafrost for 42,000 Years Come Back to Life
- vdash: a formal math wiki
Software/Programming:
- A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator – for your high-end-TUI.
- Library for using generic and type safe container in pure C99 language for a wide collection of container
- awesome awesomeness
- Parse command line argument by defining a struct in Rust
- Rust Emacs
- Convert your ascii diagram scribbles into happy little SVG
- LaTTe : a Laboratory for Type Theory experiments (in clojure) (via)
- Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us
- Silbentrennung per CSS3
- Ein Twitch-Streamer ist der größte Albtraum aller Telefonbetrüger – I like the videos :3
WTF:
- NSFW: Glass Vibrator Urn
- High School Student Injects The Book Of Genesis Into His Body (via) – but why?
- Russian Bears Are Hooked on Huffing Jet Fuel Until They Pass Out
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- If you try to design something idiot proof the universe will just design a better idiot.
- Datenbanken sind doch auch nur Multiplayerexcel.
- Neil Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon. "Neil A." backwards is "Alien"
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Fri, 07 Dec 2018 14:42:45 GMT
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- MIT researchers create a robot houseplant that moves on its own (via) – has science gone too far?
- A Portal Port Programmed For Platforms Of The Past
- Six Degrees of Wikipedia (via)
- The blue eyed islanders puzzle
- Mensa Online-Test
STEM/MINT:
- Mitochondrial DNA Can Be Inherited From Fathers (via)
- Record-breaking atomic clocks precise enough to measure spacetime distortions
Software/Programming:
- Google, Mozilla working on letting web apps edit files despite warning it could be 'abused in terrible ways' (via)
- The Kernel Underground
- Microsoft to Silently Remove the CONCATENATE Function from Excel, Offers Paid Alternative: CONCAT
- Quiz zum Tag der Computersicherheit
- Compiler basics: lisp to assembly (via)
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Sat, 24 Nov 2018 22:10:02 GMT
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- „Cyber Kitchen“: Deutsche Telekom bringt Kochbuch raus
- Katholische Kirche bringt Pokémon-Klon
- A bra that falls off when you clap your hands (new patent)
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Fri, 09 Nov 2018 03:04:41 GMT
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Politics/Law:
- Straftäter dürfen Bitcoins nicht behalten – "Auch der Einwand, dass die Behörden ohne Kenntnis des privaten Schlüssels nicht auf die Wallets der Angeklagten zugreifen könnten, ändert hieran nichts. Das sei eine reine Vollstreckungsfrage, so das Gericht."
- Kommentar zur IoT-Sicherheit: Europas Verordnung ist zahnlos – was ich ja immer nicht verstehe ist, wieso es nicht einfach standardmäßig so ist, dass die Hersteller in vollem Umfang haftbar gemacht werden können?
STEM/MINT:
- Lumen in Watt richtig umrechnen
- BIGNUM BAKEOFF contest recap "The aim of this contest was to write a C program of 512 characters or less (excluding whitespace) that returned as large a number as possible from main(), assuming C to have integral types that can hold arbitrarily large integers. [...] The final and winning entry, {loader.c}, diagonalizes over the Huet-Coquand `calculus of constructions'."
- Ein BIOS-Update von Lenovo Ziegelsteint die Rechner – es geht um irgendwas mit Thunderbolt. Man sollte halt das BIOS vielleicht nicht zu oft verändern, und vielleicht auch nicht zu komplex gestalten.
- Typesetting modal logic
- iPhones are Allergic to Helium
- Psychedelic psilocybin therapy for depression granted Breakthrough Therapy status by FDA
- World-first aerogel is made from plastic bottles
- How to implement strings – maybe interesting for beginners (or people who never used any low-level programming language).
- Cookie Editor for Chrome-Bases Browsers
- GSM-Codes: Befehle für das Mobilfunknetz
- C-QUIZ
- pointers are more abstract than you might expect in C
- Orgmode for GTD
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- It's terrifying that both of these things are true at the same time in this world: 1. Computers drive cars around. 2. the state of the art test to check that you are not a computer is whether you can successfully identify stop signs in pictures.
Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:50:09 GMT
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- Otto goes AWS "Die Cloud steht für Skalierbarkeit, Kosteneffizienz und kurzer Time to Market für neue Features. Davon will auch otto.de profitieren und trat deshalb im Sommer letzten Jahres die Migration in die AWS an." – ich dachte erst der Text wäre Satire.
- World's first hydrogen fuel cell-powered train enters service
- Experimental refrigeration system uses magnetic fields and shape-shifting alloys
- Firefox unveils virtual reality web browser – I would rather prefer to have Tab Mix Plus back.
- The “honest” placebo: When drugs still work even though patients know they're fake
- A new version of Common-Lisp.net has been launched!
- Garbage collection and the underappreciated power of good enough
- Haiku OS Releases R1 Beta 1
- Atmospheric water harvester takes out $1.5m XPrize
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Art (Comics etc.):
- Two Men Enter
- Behind Your Ear
- Cash Is Fine
- So hip hausen Deutschlands Erstis
- Stick
- Every European City
- Sprechen Sie Österreichisch?
- Loser
- Roboter
- Journalists
Quotes:
- We used to laugh at comedians and listen to politicians. Now we laugh at politicians and listen to comedians.
Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:18:48 GMT
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- Die älteste Beschwerde der Welt ist fast 4.000 Jahre alt
- Video: 10 Songs You've Heard and Don't Know the Name
Nerd Culture:
- Windows 95: Now in "App" Form – didn't try it, though.
- If programming languages were cars...
- The incredible palindromic hat-trick
STEM/MINT:
- Phone numbers were never meant as ID
- Japan to conduct first test as part of space elevator project (via)
- Linux-Smartphone: Librem 5 – ich habe Zweifel.
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Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:53:43 GMT
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Nerd Culture:
- The parentheses riddle
- Build a fun cpu in your browser
- Simulation of Conway's Game of Life in Robot Karol
STEM/MINT:
- Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found (via)
- The tick that gives people meat allergies
- XEP-0387: XMPP Compliance Suites 2018
- Wild Animal Suffering Research
Art (Comics etc.):
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- The more you know … … the dumber you sound to stupid people.
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:01:45 GMT
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- Where Vim Came From (via)
- The Idea of Lisp
- The Worst Computer Bugs in History: Race conditions in Therac-25 (via)
STEM/MINT:
- Neue NASA-Mission – So nah wie nie an der Sonne
- Negative curvature schwarzite rounds out trinity of carbon nanostructures
- Lab-Grown Lungs Have Been Successfully Transplanted Into Living Pigs (via)
- WPA2 und WLAN-Sicherheit: Direkter Angriff auf WLAN-Router
- A timesyncd total failure and systemd's complete lack of debugability
- French park trains crows to pick up litter (via)
- Tesla will kaputt gespielte Autos von Hackern reparieren
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Thu, 02 Aug 2018 21:49:39 GMT
Popular Culture:
- Man Skipped Work For 6 Years And No One Noticed Until He Won An Award
- Triesdorf: So lebt es sich in Deutschlands kleinstem Hochschulort
- A new digital divide: Young people who can’t use keyboards
Nerd Culture:
- Petition: Add Waluigi to Higher Algebra
- Axel-Stoll-Klangbrett
- Fields-Medaille und Brieftasche gestohlen
STEM/MINT:
- A Virus-Infecting Virus
- Fibonacci meets Pythagoras
- QED - an interactive textbook – I don't like that kind of classical logic, though.
- 3D-printed Deep Learning neural network uses light instead of electrons
- Nutritional supplement may succeed where antidepressants fail
- Sparkassen starten neue App „Mobiles Bezahlen“ mit digitaler Mastercard und girocard – what could possibly go wrong?
WTF:
Zeroth World/SciFi becoming Reality:
- 40,000-year old worms revived from Siberian permafrost
- Humans Show Racial Bias Towards Robots of Different Colors (via)
Art (Comics etc.):
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- Some people are like slinkies not really good for much, but bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 11:14:28 GMT
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- Chiiz sonic toothbrush is designed to give a 30-second all-teeth clean
- Smart kids eventually grow up (via)
- 1985 ad for Lisp implementation for TRS-80
STEM/MINT:
- C Is Not a Low-level Language (via)
- App von Google soll Blinde unterstützen
- Microsoft deploys underwater data center off the coast of Scotland
- Android in a box – I didn't try it yet as there is no NixOS package so far.
WTF:
Zeroth World/SciFi becoming Reality:
- Roboter Pepper kämpft mit massiven Sicherheitsproblemen
- Dropcopter's drones boost crop pollination by up to 60% in bad bee years
Art (Comics etc.):
Tue, 29 May 2018 14:33:48 GMT
Popular Culture:
- Richtung 2000 – Vorschau auf die Welt von morgen, Teil 1 2 3. Aus den 70ern. Sehenswert. Fängt zwar wie eine normale utopische Zukunftsdoku an, aber kriegt dann die Kurve.
Nerd Culture:
STEM/MINT:
- Beams of antimatter spotted blasting towards the ground in hurricanes
- A more powerful C/C++ macro preprocessor
Art (Comics etc.):
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:43:04 GMT
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STEM/MINT:
- Apple plant inklusive Emojis – die Zerstörung von Unicode – jetzt auch inklusiv!
Art (Comics etc.):
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- Natürlich darf man Witze über den Islam machen… … Die Frage ist nur, ob man dann noch Zeit hat, die Pointe zu erklären.
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:40:09 GMT
Politics/Law:
- Video: Die Grenzen Europas 1000-2013 – wie eine Petrischale.
Nerd Culture:
- The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (via)
- How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (via)
- Some Very Entertaining Plastic, Emulated at the Archive (via)
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WTF:
- A Shower Curtain That Can Hold Phones And Tablets Is Now A Thing – this will definitely be used to produce amateur porn
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Sat, 10 Mar 2018 22:21:29 GMT
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Popular Culture:
- NASA Has Compiled a List of the Best Air-Cleaning Plants for Your Home (via)
- Apple employees keep walking into glass walls
- Lego to launch its first sustainable, plant-based plastic bricks this year
Nerd Culture:
STEM/MINT:
- Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements (via)
- "Giant atoms" swallow other atoms to form new state of matter
- Chimps and bonobos share common sign language (and maybe we do too)
- How generics were added to .NET
- How Qt Signals and Slots Work (via)
- GRV is a terminal interface for viewing git repositories (via) (didn't try it, but looks useful)
- Visualizing the sphere and the hyperbolic plane
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Sat, 03 Mar 2018 21:36:37 GMT
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Nerd Culture:
- Das Xiaomi-Ökosystem vom Hersteller befreien – "Auf dem Staubsauger läuft etwa ein nur wenig angepasstes Ubuntu-Betriebssystem, das auch schnell mit Patches versorgt wird."
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Zeroth World/SciFi becoming Reality:
- How Disney Rides Know Our Names (via) grusel
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Sun, 25 Feb 2018 07:03:38 GMT
STEM/MINT:
- How Should I Get Application Configuration into my Docker Containers?
- Möbius Transformations are Isometries of a Sphere
- Hotswap Agent – "Java unlimited runtime class and resource redefinition.", also Using HotswapAgent to Speed up Development, also Steps to setup Hotswap Agent in Eclipse
- DCEVM – "The purpose of the project is to maintain enhanced class redefinition functionality for OpenJDK HotSpot 7/8 and Oracle JVM."
- GiNaCRA is a C++ library providing data structures and algorithms for real algebraic computations.
- Going back in (QuickLisp dist) time
- ejabberd joins Google Summer of Code 2018
- Micro Hydro Power Plant
- Riesige Tunnel, die von ausgestorbenen Tieren gegraben wurden
- Docker container: Backup and Recovery
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Sun, 18 Feb 2018 08:59:55 GMT
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Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:02:52 GMT
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- An AI That Reads Privacy Policies So That You Don't Have To (via)
- Unerfreuliche Funde – "Ein Kollege hat […] in P2P Netzwerken Kinderpornografie entdeckt." – "Ich kann […] in solchen Fällen nicht empfehlen, […] sich […] ermittelbar zu machen." – Geiles Rechtssystem das wir da haben!
Popular Culture:
STEM/MINT:
- HTTP 0.2 (ie., HTTP 2.0 / 10)
- Obarun — ArchLinux without systemd (via)
- All command-line software which outputs text with ANSI color added should check for the presence of a NO_COLOR environment variable that, when present (regardless of its value), prevents the addition of ANSI color. (via)
- X's network transparency has wound up mostly being a failure (via)
- Processor bugs are everywhere (via)
- Construction begins on first manned Orion spacecraft
- Xerox Is No More
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Sat, 03 Feb 2018 01:37:07 GMT
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- Die SPIEGEL AKADEMIE lehrt digitales Arbeiten Die Digitalisierung krempelt auch Ihren Job um? Sie wollen vom Wandel profitieren, statt ihm nur nachzulaufen? Sich fit für die Zukunft machen? Die neu gegründete SPIEGEL AKADEMIE hilft Ihnen
Nerd Culture:
STEM/MINT:
- Video: Reading Silicon: How to Reverse Engineer Integrated Circuits
- texlive.js – A LaTeX Compiler for Javascript
- FreeTikZ
- Background reading on the reference counting vs tracing garbage collection debate
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Sat, 20 Jan 2018 22:50:57 GMT
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- Verhandlungstermin: Verwendung von Vordrucken, die eine spezifisch weibliche Personenbezeichnung vorsehen »Die Klägerin verlangt von der Beklagten, im Geschäftsverkehr mit ihr Vordrucke zu verwenden, in denen sie als weibliche Person ("Kundin", "Kontoinhaberin", "Einzahlerin", "Sparerin") erscheint.«
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- Hope is the first step… …on the road to disappointment
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:34:52 GMT
STEM/MINT:
- Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities Explained
- Fat fighting drug could let you lose weight without dieting – well, that has been promised often before.
- Does reference counting really use less memory than tracing garbage collection? and Does reference counting really use less memory than tracing garbage collection? Mathematica vs Swift vs OCaml vs F# on .NET and Mono
WTF:
- Wealthy Bristol residents cause uproar by installing 'anti-bird spikes' on trees (via)
- Großmutter verwechselt Majoran mit Marihuana und vergiftet ihre ganze Familie
Zeroth World/SciFi becoming Reality:
- Graphene "tattoos" measure plants' thirst – the cyborg plants are coming.
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Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:18:36 GMT
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- The Free Software movement is Barking up the wrong tree (via) – "This is very strange and goes against the very nature of software. Why do people put up with this? Because they are so poorly educated about computers that they cannot imagine anything different."
- Earth’s slowing rotation could cause huge earthquakes in 2018 (via)
- haroldbot (via) can do proofs with machine integers.
- AI Is Fueling Smarter Prosthetics Than Ever Before
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Tue, 26 Dec 2017 18:13:00 GMT
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- Virgin Hyperloop One sets new speed record
- Ketamine found to rapidly reduce suicidal thoughts and depression
- Turtles tested on a teeny treadmill – ok…
- DARPA backs development of "unhackable" Morpheus computer system – remember when the Titanic was unsinkable?
- Laser shoes get Parkinson's patients moving
- NASA Plans to Launch an Interstellar Mission to Alpha Centauri in 2069
- Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together (via)
- Artificial Intelligence Used to Identify Bacteria Quickly and Accurately
- Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD
- SpaceX resupplies the ISS with recycled rocket and spacecraft for the first time
Art (Comics etc.):
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- If you work hard enough you can … …replace depression with exhaustion
