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Dash by Plotly - Plotly

https://plot.ly/dash/

Web graphs

nonbeard 2020-01-30 12:12:44

Johari window - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window

The Johari window is a technique[1] that helps people better understand their relationship with themselves and others.

nonbeard 2020-01-30 12:11:33

Myths about postdocs

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/blog/2019/12/02/#postdoc-myths
nonbeard 2020-01-20 16:58:21

Deconstructed Pavlova - A Perfect Pantry

https://www.aperfectpantry.com.au/easyblog/entry/deconstructed-pavlova
2019-12-28 12:15:05

The ultimate makeover: French onion soup recipe | BBC Good Food

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/9079/the-ultimate-makeover-french-onion-soup

Delicious vego onion soup recipe.

nonbeard 2019-12-01 23:30:46

rr: lightweight recording & deterministic debugging

https://rr-project.org/

full recording allows executing backwards (hn)

nonbeard 2019-11-29 10:28:13

Lasagne with spinach and ricotta Recipe | Better Homes and Gardens

https://www.bhg.com.au/lasagne-with-spinach-and-ricotta

For when the supermarket doesn’t have cannelloni tubes, which is too often.

nonbeard 2019-11-17 19:13:22

System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server

https://layerci.com/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/

Good example of how an ORM implicitly limits design choices: in Django I don’t think it would be obvious to even consider this option, because the relevant SQL requires bypassing the ORM.

nonbeard 2019-11-09 09:18:59

HyperDia | Timetable and Route Search in Japan.

http://www.hyperdia.com/sp/

Japanese train route finder.

nonbeard 2019-11-03 02:43:17

www.canningtonwalledgardens.co.uk

http://www.canningtonwalledgardens.co.uk/
nonbeard 2019-10-25 13:35:18

Basic Biscuit Recipe - Real Recipes from Mums

https://mouthsofmums.com.au/recipe/basic-biscuit-recipe/

Four-ingredient biscuits. Thanks, mums.

nonbeard 2019-10-11 10:18:47

This Japanese Toaster Costs $270. It Only Makes One Slice at a Time - Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/this-japanese-toaster-costs-270-it-only-makes-one-slice-at-a-time

Amazing Japanese toaster via Bryn: the Bread Oven. “We wanted to focus on the single slice, and treat it with respect” 

nonbeard 2019-09-03 13:50:36

An ethology reading list | neuroecology

https://neuroecology.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/an-ethology-reading-list/

Looking to animal behaviour to learn more about neuroscience. (Also explains the slightly odd title of the blog.)

nonbeard 2019-08-27 01:09:20

Health Star Rating - Guide for Industry

http://healthstarrating.gov.au/internet/healthstarrating/publishing.nsf/Content/guide-for-industry-document

Australian foods sometimes have a rating out of five stars on the front. The way this works is you give it points for total energy, fat, and sodium, then you subtract "redeeming feature" points for protein, fibre, and percentage of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes. You then convert that raw score into a star rating, with the higher the score the fewer the stars. The rating was created in collaboration with, and applied by, industry, and it really shows. For example, the rating system is supposed to allow shoppers to compare products across a category, but dairy and non-dairy beverages are in separate categories. That presumably benefits the beverage industry. But for someone looking for a drink, that doesn't make much sense. Also, weird things like: you can't subtract protein points if your baseline points are over 13, unless you have at least 5 fibre points. So if you've got a horrible product you can stuff fibre into it to add stars, and if you manage to get enough fibre in there you can put protein in as well to add even more stars.

nonbeard 2019-08-09 01:21:34

Pebble howtos

http://www.pebblejunkies.com/how_to-s.html

Pebble Time Round battery replacement, among other things.

nonbeard 2019-07-31 04:47:38

debian - systemd attempts to mount davfs2 too early - before DHCP address received - Server Fault

https://serverfault.com/questions/949715/systemd-attempts-to-mount-davfs2-too-early-before-dhcp-address-received

Most of the internet: add _netdev to your mounts so that it will come up when the network comes up. Reality: the mount is tried when an interface is enabled but before it has been assigned an IP (if those two things are distinct, e.g. DHCP). Also "network comes up" isn't a thing in modern Linux and what apparently happens is that the mount is tried every time an iface comes up until it works.

nonbeard 2019-06-30 06:32:21

Common degu - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_degu

A small Chilean rodent. "As a pet, the animal is larger than a golden hamster but smaller than a fancy rat."

nonbeard 2019-06-12 05:33:53

Poems | Judith Crispin

https://judithcrispin.com/2018/08/07/poems/

Australian poet

nonbeard 2019-04-28 10:08:58

xeno-canto :: Sharing bird sounds from around the world

https://www.xeno-canto.org/
nonbeard 2019-04-20 07:53:20

historicalsource (Historical Source) / Repositories · GitHub

https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories

Infocom game source. Interesting to see the .zil.

nonbeard 2019-04-17 01:17:48

Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html

Google Code Search: 1. create inverted index of trigraphs. 2. Use a regex engine to split the regex query in terms of trigraphs. 3. Farm the inverted index out over "some" machines.

nonbeard 2018-12-02 20:26:15

Accelerated Ray Tracing in One Weekend in CUDA | NVIDIA Developer Blog

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/accelerated-ray-tracing-cuda/

Even more ray tracing

nonbeard 2018-11-06 08:48:50

In One Weekend

http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/

More ray tracing

nonbeard 2018-11-06 08:48:39

www.sciencedaily.com

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180924174503.htm

Ancient dna integrated virus seems to manipulate behaviour

nonbeard 2018-09-26 02:46:31

DBMS Musings: NewSQL database systems are failing to guarantee consistency, and I blame Spanner

http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2018/09/newsql-database-systems-are-failing-to.html

This is pretty funny. Distributed database researchers: "It's impossible to guarantee that all systems will have exactly the same time, so we should use a consistency protocol that imposes a logical ordering on top of incoming transactions". Google: "We've got unlimited resources, let's set hard limits on the maximum time skew we could have and work from there". Everyone else: "We have pretty much no resources, but NTP is a thing, right? And if Google does it..." It also makes a really good point about the CAP theorem, which is that consistency is absolute, partitions are always a possibility... but availability is *never* 100%, so you can never sacrifice consistency for availability, but rather sacrifice consistency for (perhaps marginally) *more* availability.

nonbeard 2018-09-21 15:17:18

Evidentiality - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidentiality

From tvtropes on Sapir-Whorf tropes: most instances of this trope implicitly equate languages with their words, which is a failure to understand even basic linguistics. Linguists see languages as grammars [...] People consciously invent new words or adopt foreign ones all the time [... but] rarely consciously invent new grammatical tenses for their language, much less invent new obligatory grammatical rules for things like evidentiality.

2018-09-07 01:33:15

truepeacein.space | Metroid Password Generator

https://truepeacein.space/
nonbeard 2018-08-31 00:51:08

List of Metroid passwords | Wikitroid | FANDOM powered by Wikia

http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Metroid_Passwords

MOTHER BRAIN? FUCKIN TOASST

nonbeard 2018-08-31 00:48:14

Hammerspoon

http://www.hammerspoon.org/go/

Script lots of Mac things with Lua. Based on Mjolnir, hence the silly name? I wish I were motivated enough to hack my environment up this much.

nonbeard 2018-08-26 22:57:26

DCSS Guide - UV4

http://www.ultraviolent4.com/Guide.html

This would be a great Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup guide, except that I will never play DCSS again, because I hate it. It's the worst game ever and ridiculously unfair and frustrating and I will never open it again despite the fun times I've had in the past with my draconian axe-wielding fire elementalist

nonbeard 2018-08-25 00:03:12

Storyblocks Portfolio | ylivdesign

https://www.storyblocks.com/portfolio/ylivdesign

Icon designer

nonbeard 2018-07-24 10:37:45

The Portopia Serial Murder Case - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portopia_Serial_Murder_Case

"The culprit is Yasu"

nonbeard 2018-07-23 09:04:41

Giant flywheel to the rescue!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UudALNKY-Jw
2018-07-19 00:33:22

Eloston/ungoogled-chromium: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Version of Chromium I'm now using.

nonbeard 2018-07-18 14:34:53

PonyORM - Python ORM with beautiful query syntax

https://ponyorm.com/

I'm slowly moving towards not hating ORMs. I haven't tried this one, but it's used by supysonic and seems to be working very well.

nonbeard 2018-07-17 23:11:00

OAuth and REST in Android: Part 1 - Simple Programmer

https://simpleprogrammer.com/oauth-and-rest-in-android-part-1/

This was very helpful, even though leeloo has now become an apache project called Amber

nonbeard 2018-07-16 11:13:50

Viennese whirls recipe | BBC Good Food

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/viennese-whirls

This biscuit recipe is great, but ridiculously fatty!

nonbeard 2018-07-14 21:19:14

Docker Cleanup Commands | Calazan.com

https://www.calazan.com/docker-cleanup-commands/

bloody docker

nonbeard 2018-06-26 23:03:34

How to Secure Postfix Using Let's Encrypt - UpCloud

https://www.upcloud.com/support/secure-postfix-using-lets-encrypt/

because I'll need this in a few months when the LE cert expires

nonbeard 2018-06-21 18:27:37

SQLite: File Content

https://sqlite.org/src/file/ext/misc/appendvfs.c

"in place of a legal notice, here is a blessing" -- this paragraph sums up everything I find simultaneously delightful and exasperating about open source.

nonbeard 2018-06-08 22:45:52

(A Bit of) Biological Neural Networks - Part I, Spiking Neurons

http://jackterwilliger.com/biological-neural-networks-part-i-spiking-neurons/
nonbeard 2018-06-01 00:28:44

Procedural palettes

http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/palettes/palettes.htm

Great article on generating interesting palettes in a few bytes.

nonbeard 2018-05-30 18:29:18

Shadertoy BETA

https://www.shadertoy.com/user/Flopine

Flopine's shaders (revision 2018)

nonbeard 2018-05-30 18:28:44

Collected Advice for Doing Scientific Research | Probably Dance

https://probablydance.com/2017/09/02/collected-advice-for-doing-scientific-research/#more-7789
nonbeard 2018-05-29 14:57:53

Devils Advocaat Recipe - Genius Kitchen

http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/devils-advocaat-293984

Of course someone has already made the devil's advocaat.

nonbeard 2018-05-14 21:16:19

Questions about STDP as a General Model of Synaptic Plasticity

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3059684/

"outlook not so good"

nonbeard 2018-05-14 20:13:02

Portuguese Bread Recipes: Pão de Deus

https://portuguesebreads.blogspot.pt/2014/07/pao-de-deus_1.html?m=1#!

This was nice.

nonbeard 2018-05-04 22:22:03

Psion Link Protocol

https://www.thouky.co.uk/plp.html

psion serial sync protocol

nonbeard 2018-04-29 17:45:02

Open Watcom

http://www.openwatcom.org/download.php

Watcom C/C++ compiler supporting small memory model (8088/8086)

nonbeard 2018-04-27 22:33:36

Resampling (statistics) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resampling_(statistics)#Permutation_tests

The "permutation test" enables you to look for patterns in small strings of data without introducing a bias -- instead of making a statement about whether the string's patterns are significant versus an infinite string, you instead permute the string multiple times and perform the same analysis each time. You then determine whether the original string is unusual w.r.t. its permutations. Thanks, Numberphile!

nonbeard 2018-04-20 11:36:03
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