Hulusi - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hulusi?variant=zh-twChinese flute as demonstrated by a man in the lift in my flat.
Kennelly–Heaviside layer - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennelly%E2%80%93Heaviside_layerThe Heavyside Layer, coveted destination of every Jellicle Cat, is a layer of the ionosphere whose discovery caused some controversy around its ability to reflect radio waves in a way which would seemingly require them to exceed the speed of light.
British Restaurant - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Restaurant> Originally called "Community Feeding Centres", the name British Restaurants was chosen by the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
Slowly realising that a lot of dystopian parody comes directly from 19th- and 20th-century British everyday life.
Davey Phillip Smith
https://m.facebook.com/100094057962727/Crazy guy I met on a bus
Enable installation logs for MSI installer without any command line arguments - Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54453922/enable-installation-logs-for-msi-installer-without-any-command-line-arguments/54458890#54458890Verbose logging for MSI installs. Fun.
Galactic algorithm - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithmA galactic algorithm is one with world-beating theoretical (asymptotic) performance, but which is never used in practice.
Erich's Packing Center
https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/Packing things optimally
python - Get last exception in pdb - Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19211034/get-last-exception-in-pdb/58591706#58591706Use PDB for post-mortem debugging with python3 -m pdb -c continue (the thing) and you drop into a debugger when an exception is thrown. Useful for curses.
Mac Source Ports
https://www.macsourceports.com/Game ports (mostly) to Apple Silicon
pikvm/ustreamer: µStreamer - Lightweight and fast MJPEG-HTTP streamer
https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamerThis, combined with a random eBAY HDMI capture card (identifying as 345f:2131 UltraSemi USB3 Video), worked straight out of the box.
Kernel same-page merging - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_same-page_mergingScan through page frames, find duplicates, remove one of them, and set the other COW. Didn't know Linux did this
12V 9AH AGM Battery Deep Cycle Battery AMP Lead Acid SLA Solar Power
https://www.sunyee.com.au/products/mobi-12v-9ah-agm-battery-deep-cycle-battery-amp-lead-acid-sla-solarFor the UPS I need 12V 9AH SLA batteries, ideally deep cycle (can handle being discharged to more than 80%)
How to root RN13 (sapphire)? | Unofficial Xiaomi European Community | MIUI ROM Since 2010
https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/how-to-root-rn13-sapphire.72626/How to root my xiaomi phone (assuming the bootloader is unlocked, which requires a Mi account, a 7-day wait, and Windows)
Explore
https://read.cv/exploreSocial network / job site / del.icio.us clone thingy which katja keeps telling me to visit even though it hurts my eyes
Rainwave Video Game Music Radio
https://rainwave.cc/all/video game music radio stations
Routing & Network Namespaces - WireGuard
https://www.wireguard.com/netns/#the-new-namespace-solutionYou can put network interfaces in namespaces in Linux. Namespaces now seem to be everywhere in Linux and it reminds me of the Zen of Python about how they're one honking great idea.
This came up when it turned out that rogue DHCP servers can push specific routes which are more specific than the default route set by the VPN and thus bypass it. This doesn't apply in namespaces because each namespace has its own routing table, so you can have a VPN-specific namespace where all the applications live where the only device available is the VPN virtual device.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Limited Edition) | The Folio Society
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-limited-edition.htmlkatja birthday
sendfile() is broken when sending a file from a Linux guest which is mounted in a shared folder | Parallels Forums
https://forum.parallels.com/threads/sendfile-is-broken-when-sending-a-file-from-a-linux-guest-which-is-mounted-in-a-shared-folder.363828/For my records, to compile this, you actually need to add the following to the prl_fs Makefile:
KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS := /usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/prl_tg/Toolgate/Guest/Linux/prl_tg/Module.symvers
(as per another forum post)
... and copy it over the appropriate spot in /lib/modules.
Termsonic: a terminal client for Subsonic - SixFoisNeuf
https://www.sixfoisneuf.fr/posts/termsonic-a-terminal-client-for-subsonic/It's good, but why do these subsonic clients only ever have an artist view?
agomphious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agomphious"toothless". What a good word. Gomph gomph gomph.
softheartclinic - Blanket Fort
https://softheartclinic.neocities.org/blanketfortFound this on Marginalia search and it's cute
Music like Tokyo Jihen - Similar Bands and Artists
https://www.music-map.com/tokyo+jihenFun music mapping site
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmine_of_Prussia,_Margravine_of_Brandenburg-BayreuthHeard her Concerto in G Minor tonight.
Swift.org - Build a Command-line Tool
https://www.swift.org/getting-started/cli-swiftpm/nonbeard 2024-04-21 01:16:55.303821
for-loops that run at least once and "Possibly unbound" · microsoft/pyright · Discussion #2033
https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/discussions/2033The comment by erictraut sums up the attitude of MS / Pyright in general: Python is too permissive and should be written more like "C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C#, Basic, Julia, etc"; rather than attempt to improve support for its dynamic nature, Pyright is being written to type-check a different language.
> Python is unlike most programming languages in that it allows local variables to appear within a scope but have no value bound to them. In all other languages I can think of (C, C++, Javascript, TypeScript, Java, C#, Basic, Julia, etc.), you would be forced to assign a value to a variable on all code paths, and you would receive a compiler/interpreter error if you failed to do so. So if you adapt your usage of Python to be like all other programming languages in this respect, you won't run into any problems with unbound variable errors.
Why Is It So Hard to Build an Airport? - by Brian Potter
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-it-so-hard-to-build-an-airport> When questioned about aircraft noise by a US congressman in 1962, the head of the FAA stated that “we feel the statement that people must live with noise is realistic in the light of our growing society using complex means of transportation and communication. Noise in urban America is one of the prices paid for progress and economic growth."
This context reframes the contemporaneous Simon & Garfunkel song The Sound[s] of Silence for me.
Antithesis: continuous reliability platform
https://antithesis.com/Completely deterministic execution of code with fault injection. Via HN
Classical music ripped off by popular culture - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGGvLjpNasfaqftQS-q1Jzkta0U-2E_oLjill's new playlist
zsync
http://zsync.moria.org.uk/rsync for individual files over the web
Square Signals : Vegetable stock: my secret lover
https://blog.andymatuschak.org/post/8092537664/vegetable-stock-my-secret-loverPassionate food writing gets me going. The secret subtopic is nasturtium soup, which sounds (at least when he writes it) delicious.
The related HN discussion talks about keeping peels, tops and tails, etc., in a bag in the freezer and using them to make stock.
BAM | Winter/Spring 2024
https://www.bam.org/winter-springNYC stuff
Buy Prepaid eSIM for USA from $0.7 per GB | MobiMatter
https://mobimatter.com/esim-united-statesAnother HN recommendation for roaming / international esim
Local and regional eSIMs for travellers - Airalo
https://www.airalo.com/HN recommendation for roaming / international esim
Simple turnip cake [lo bak go] recipe - Cook Simply
https://cooksimply.co.uk/turnip-cake-recipe-lo-bak-go/I really want to make a turnip cake.
Easy white bread recipe | BBC Good Food
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-white-breadDelicious. Though I was a little o_O when it described the concept of preparing the bread one day before and leaving it in the fridge overnight to be a "great timesaver". No time has been saved. In absolute terms some time has been wasted. Reality is a construct. Your perception defines your world.
wwmm/easyeffects: Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffectsApply various effects on-the-fly to Linux audio using Pipewire.
This was great. Someone on a meeting had random high-pitched noises and I could, on the fly, add an equaliser to attenuate all frequencies about 11 KHz -- minimal impact on voices and noise disappeared!
SaltyBet - Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/saltybetTwitch stream that plays bots off against each other in the Mugen fighting game. Been going for ages (decades?)
EFIStub - Debian Wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/EFIStub#Setting_up_a_Unified_Kernel_ImageSet up for grub-less Linux booting using EFI stub plus debian hooks
One Hundred and One Monochrome Mazes : John Vaughn / IBM : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/msdos_One_Hundred_and_One_Monochrome_Mazes_1983Game of the day. It's so monochrome it doesn't work with colour graphics adapters.
What’s inside popular disposable vapes? Let's open and take them apart!
https://disposavapes.co.uk/disassembling-popular-vapes/The activation mechanism is a microphone, which is pretty interesting.
What does the Cerebellum Do Anyway? - by Sarah Constantin
https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/what-does-the-cerebellum-do-anywayHN
Understanding SameSite cookies
https://andrewlock.net/understanding-samesite-cookies/One key annoyance is that from 2016 to 2019, omitting SameSite meant SameSite=None. From 2019 onwards, omitting SameSite meant SameSite=Lax. As of 2023 (https://caniuse.com/same-site-cookie-attribute), Safari and Firefox use the pre-2019 behaviour.
The Quiet Man (video game) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Man_(video_game)"Exhausting and miserable time". "Spectactular disaster". But the Imogen Heap accompanying song is quite sweet.
Intel iAPX 432 - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432Capability-based, OO-focused processor in 1976
iea-vs-reality-photovoltaics-2018.png 551×455 pixels
https://zenmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/iea-vs-reality-photovoltaics-2018.pngThick black line: solar energy capacity added in gigawatts over time. Other lines: international energy agency predictions. Note exponential reality vs flat prediction, what, 10 times in a row?
Is YouTube anti-adblock fixed yet?
https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/Browsing Youtube; didn't realise I was in the middle of a fight between some youtube exec and half the Internet.
The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding — Ridgeline issue 170
https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/170/"Magical Japan" articles are so 90s but this one on takkyūbin is very well written (hn)
... except that takkyūbin is apparently a trademark and the generic term is takuhaibin (again, the fine pedants of hn)