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Implications of the Copernican principle for our future prospects (J. Richard Gott III)
Making only the assumption that you are a random intelligent observer, limits for the total longevity of our species of 0.2 million to 8 million years can be derived at the 95% confidence level. Further consideration indicates that we are unlikely to colo…
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Do not invite big-tech to join your digital autonomy discussion
Some time ago, I attended an event to discuss European digital autonomy and digital dependencies. I accepted the invitation without checking too carefully, and I belatedly found out that most of US big tech was invited as well, and would be presenting the…
via Bert Hubert's writings June 16, 2026systemd has not implemented age verification
This needs to be clear: systemd is under attack by a trolling campaign orchestrated by fascist elements. Nobody is forced to like or use systemd, but anybody who wants to pick a side should know the facts. Recently, the free software Nazi bar crowd s…
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- FiniteCurve: upload a photo to see it drawn in a single, non-crossing line →
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Giovanni Battista Bracelli: engraver and painter active in central Italy in
the Baroque period, between about 1616 and 1649 → - Images of a selection of airline timetables, of which many are old and rare →
- A vocal ensemble trained to sing the baroque Cantar Lontano technique →
- Raffaella Traniello's website: openvideo and education →
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L'Archivio Luigi Ghirri è l'organo ufficiale di gestione,
certificazione e diffusione dell'opera del maestro della fotografia di
paesaggio italiana → -
Jamie Livingston, photographer, filmmaker, circus performer,
accordion player, and New York Mets fan was a pre-Instagram visionary. He
died on his forty-first birthday leaving behind hundreds of friends and a
collection of over 6754 photographs, chronologically organized and neatly
stored in a fruit of the month club box and three suitcases. Livingston
started taking a Polaroid every day a few weeks before he graduated from
Bard College in 1978. He continued until the day he died of cancer → -
Franco Grignani was an Italian architect, graphic designer and
artist. He is best known for black and white graphics, particularly the
Woolmark logo, which was voted 'Best Logo of all Time' by Creative Review
Magazine in 2011. → - This is a Turing Machine implemented in Conway's Game of Life →
- Donald Knuth: The Complexity of Songs →
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This web page is being served by a completely home-built computer:
Bill Buzbee's Magic-1 HomebrewCPU. Magic-1 doesn't use an off-the-shelf
CPU. Instead, its custom CPU is built out of ~200 74 series TTL chips. Magic-1
is running a new port of Minix 2.0.4, compiled with a retargeted LCC portable
C compiler. The physical connection to the internet is done using a native
interface based on Wiznet's w5300 TCP-IP stack. → - Analog computers resources →
- History of Visualization of Biological Macromolecules →
- The Bell System Technical Journal (1922-1983) →
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Fabrice Bellard’s webpage. Bellard is a French computer programmer known
for writing FFmpeg, QEMU, and the Tiny C Compiler. He developed Bellard's
formula for calculating single digits of pi. → -
Cat-v.org hosts a series of sites dedicated to diverse subjects that
share an idiosyncratic intellectual perspective, questioning orthodoxy
and fomenting elitism and high standards in topics from software design to
politics, passing by art and journalism and anything else interesting. Other
than total and complete world domination, the overriding goal is to encourage
and stimulate critical and independent thinking → - D.J. Bernstein: Placing documents into the public domain →
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Source code for the 'hoc' calculator, from the book The Unix Programming
Environment, modified to compile and run on Linux → - Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web →
- Sunrise-Sunset Algorithm →
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The Descent to C by Simon Tatham This article attempts to give a sort of
‘orientation tour’ for people whose previous programming background is
in high (ish) level languages such as Java or Python, and who now find that
they need or want to learn C. → - Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust →
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Douglas McIlroy's webpage. McIlroy is the “unsung hero of
Unix”. His page includes a wonderful gallery of map cards created
using several projection algorithms → - A Story About ‘Magic’ →
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The purpose of this project is to provide computer simulations of the onboard
guidance computers used in the Apollo Program's lunar missions, but primarily
the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) used in the Command Module and the Lunar
Module, and to generally allow you to learn about these guidance computers → - Project Apollo: Virtual AGC and AGS AGC Document Archive from MIT/Dibner (HRST) →
- The case of the 500-mile email →
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ShellCheck is a static analysis and linting tool for sh/bash scripts.
It's mainly focused on handling typical beginner and intermediate level syntax
errors and pitfalls where the shell just gives a cryptic error message or
strange behavior, but it also reports on a few more advanced issues where
corner cases can cause delayed failures → - Douglas McIlroy: Virology 101 →
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Home page of Kazuhiro Sunamura (JF1OZL) QRP, HAND MADE AMATEUR RADIO, paper
model, Boomerang → - Jiri Pittner's Electronics Page →
- A comprehensive introduction to CMOS and bipolar analog IC design →
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Rebuilding a piece of the first digital voice scrambler. This 1943
analog-to-digital converter helped make an unbreakable code → - The Galileo Eccentric Satellite Surprise →
- The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft →
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This is Words and Buttons Online - a collection of interactive tutorials,
demos, and quizzes about mathematics, algorithms and programming → -
Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage By L. F. MENABREA
of Turin, Officer of the Military Engineers from the Bibliothèque Universelle
de Genève, October, 1842, No. 82 With notes upon the Memoir by the Translator
ADA AUGUSTA, COUNTESS OF LOVELACE → - Some disasters caused by numerical errors →
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Understanding the chain fountain: if a chain is initially at rest in a
beaker at a height h1 above the ground, and the end of the chain is pulled
over the rim of the beaker and down towards the ground and then released,
the chain will spontaneously ‘flow’ out of the beaker under gravity → - Gian-Carlo Rota: Ten Lessons I wish I had been Taught →
- Schrödinger: Indeterminism and Free Will →
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Einstein: The cause of the formation of meanders in the courses of rivers
and of the so-called Baer's law → - Feynman: Simulating Physics with Computers →
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A truly fascinating documentary about an increasingly obscure and obsolete
technology. Prior to watching ‘BBS The Documentary’ I had never heard of
Bulletin Board Systems, let alone participated in that culture, yet by the
end of this epic doc, I found myself longing for the BBS days, back before
the Internet consumed and dominated the world → -
While new stories are no longer posted, we are honored to continue this site
in memory of Ninjalicious' (1973-2005) groundbreaking and charismatic work
within the field of Urban Exploration → -
Plagiarism as a patent amplifier: Understanding the delayed rollout of
post-quantum cryptography → -
Archivio Bordin: taccuini, documenti e scritti. Consulta il patrimonio
archivistico sul lavoro di Massimo Bordin → - Mike the Headless Chicken →
- Myers–Briggs Type Indicator →
- The Man of the Circular Ruins (Alexander Grothendieck) →
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Riflessioni psicoanalitiche (e non) di uno psichiatra e di altri compagni
di viaggio. → -
A three-decade monopoly: How Amgen built a patent thicket around its
top-selling drug → -
This web page contains an oral history by the cryptographer Gus Simmons of
his childhood in rural West Virginia during the depression of the 1930s → -
Archivio Tullio Gregory: storico della filosofia e della cultura. I
suoi studi si sono rivolti in particolare ai momenti di transizione del
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