Среди изучающих китайский мало кто не слыхал про ту самую лапшу бян-бян, в которой biáng записывается через довольно увесистый иероглиф:
В 2020 году его даже добавили в Юникод: 𰻞 (трад.), 𰻝 (упр.).
Многие ошибочно полагают, что его создали не так давно и просто забавы ради, однако не всё так просто. По всему Китаю существует множество похожих иероглифов, и все они имеют историю как минимум в 200 лет.

Type safe SQL builder with code generation and automatic query result data mapping - go-jet/jet

Sophisticated Linux key remapper. Supports per-device and per-application settings. Wayland and X. I should look into this.

A paper about the old NoteCards program. I printed it out on an office printer and read it, unlike most other papers I saved in this Betula.

Organizing data in notecards, linking them. Notecards are not scrollable. Fileboxes and Browsers, special notecards. They state the system is programmable, but no detailed description of programmability is given. Interface is not really detailed.

Overall, this paper is not enough. I shall look for more.

When a player starts a session, they are the car driver, and each person that joins is seated in one of the other three passenger seats.

Players are automatically connected via voice chat.

The radios stations are real-life internet radio streams and several of them are available in the game world.

Hour of the shroom

Yume Nikki and related games wiki

Yay jQuery 4! I don't do such things nowadays, but this release made me glad. I wish it an even brighter future.

CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.

Domestic animals are sensitive to human cues that facilitate inter-specific communication, including cues to emotional state. The eyes are important in signalling emotions, with the act of narrowing the eyes appearing to be associated with positive emotional communication in a range of species. This study examines the communicatory significance of a widely reported cat behaviour that involves eye narrowing, referred to as the slow blink sequence. Slow blink sequences typically involve a series of half-blinks followed by either a prolonged eye narrow or an eye closure. Our first experiment revealed that cat half-blinks and eye narrowing occurred more frequently in response to owners’ slow blink stimuli towards their cats (compared to no owner–cat interaction). In a second experiment, this time where an experimenter provided the slow blink stimulus, cats had a higher propensity to approach the experimenter after a slow blink interaction than when they had adopted a neutral expression. Collectively, our results suggest that slow blink sequences may function as a form of positive emotional communication between cats and humans.

Taking a look back and using a 20 year old iPod today.

A cute small wiki engine. I like the markup: it is Gemtext + HTML + Wikilinks.

From a discussion of how the newest version of the first wiki sucks. The version does suck, by the way.

I am blind. I do rely on accessibility to interact with a computer. Yes, you could accuse me of deliberately avoiding the modern web, but I have my reasons. Primary reason is performance. Even though I feel like you are talking down to me from a pretty high horse, I still don't wish for you to ever experience how sluggish it feels trying to use the "modern web" with a screen reader on something like Windows. Don't even make me start about the hellhole that is Linux GUI accessibility. It was a nice ride once, before GNOME 3 and the elimination of CORBA killed most of the good work done by good people. Fact is, I am too used to a system which reacts promptly when I press a key to be able to switch to a modern browser by default. That would kill all my productivity. Yes, its a trade, but for now, having no JS engine by default is still way better then the alternatives.

Have a nice day, and enjoy your eye-sight.

A proper mirror of WikiWikiWeb.

My principle objection to OOP goes back to the basic ideas involved, I will outline some of these ideas and my objections to them.

Joe Armstrong is the creator of Erlang. He has 4 objections to OOP:

1. He says functions and data structures are very different, so it's incorrect to bind them together. Feels like a weak argument to me.

2. He somehow says that everything being an objects is wrong, and everything should be a different type instead. This is an even weaker argument.

3. He dislikes that he can't put all the types in one file. Yeah, it's good you can't!

4. And something incoherent about states.

I'm not the biggest fan of OOP myself, but this rant is just useless. I am keeping this bookmark just because the site looks cool.

Our neighbour is quite happy about him having a safe haven from the other cats. When he was bullied so much that he wasn't even left alone to eat in peace she gave us cat food to give him. Nowadays we just buy our own. I don't know if he ever eats there any more, but he surely eats at our house every single day.

This is a collection of random thoughts regarding the application of permacultural ideas to the computer world.