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> What are you working on?

Myself, mostly. Trying to wrestle with realizing how much time I've not been spending on my supposedly main project[1] and questioning whether it's really worth doing.

> Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

Way too many. Writing todo lists is part of working on myself.

[1]: PAPER, a pure-Python ~(pip/pipx replacement), from scratch with an emphasis on simplicity and elegance. https://github.com/zahlman/paper . There's more locally that I haven't pushed, including factoring some stuff out into a separate project and planning more of the same. But yeah.


The link to paper documentation seems wrong, it's for some Minecraft server.

Oh, you mean on the badge? Yeah, I made the README from a template that assumes I'd already have the RTD set up, and well I don't. I'll fix that.

It seems hard to square that with the fact of the files being released, or indeed of the FBI being able to obtain files in the first place. You'd have to suppose that "the ruling class" expected/expects to be able to tank vast hordes of deeply obsessed Internet randoms poring through all that data, but not be able to tank Epstein himself speaking publicly.

On the other hand, as far as I can recall, nothing significant happened after the Panama Papers, so.


Yeah, I think murdered is clear but by agents of the state isn't. There are loads of people who'd want him dead.

> First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples (bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud)

I've seen foo, bar, baz, qu+x, plugh and xyxxy actually in use, not the others.

I've not used "qux" or followed the convention of adding more u's. From me it's been just foo, bar, baz, quux and then some Monty Python inspired ones: spam, ni, ecky, ptong.

Although eventually I learned enough about how to name things that I don't feel the temptation any more. I'll gladly pay that bit of joylessness to understand myself months later.


I've never seen qu+x, except in the title of that Gundam installment released last year, Gundam gquuuuuux. I found this speculation on myanimelist sufficient, but there's no real confirmation afaik. https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2209708&id=...

At least it is getting mainstream media coverage, I suppose.

> Big Insight #2 is that atoi() behaves as a (bad) hash function on ordinary text. It consumes characters and updates a 16-bit integer.

I could have sworn I remembered atoi() being defined to return 0 for invalid input (i.e. text not representing an integer in base ten).


That would be true of one using a libc, but in a boot sector, you only have the bios, so the atoi being referenced is the one defined in c near the beginning of the article

Ah, I somehow skipped over that exact code block on first read.

I was expecting tutorial material for beginners, but actually it's useful to have these kinds of discussions about terminology to establish common ground.

> A 2025 simulation-based study published in the journal Frontiers in Sports and Active Living suggested that every 2 cm of extra fabric in a ski jumpsuit could increase drag by about 4 percent and increase lift by about 5 percent. On a jump, that extra 2 cm of fabric amounts to an extra 5.8 meters, the simulations found.

This sounds... highly implausible.


So, 20cm of extra ski fabric could get them 50% extra lift...?

Yeah, that "every 2cm" is doing some heavy, heavy lifting. Like, Olympic sized lifting with dick fillers. :)


That was my reaction too, the entire story just sounds completely ridiculous. Did it first come up on Fox and Friends?

> With a single jump to the processor's reset entry point, I had somehow inspired someone to step back from academic competition in order to have more fun with learning.

Seems like it wasn't just the processor that reset.


Would love to hear the persons own story! What did they think? What happened afterwards? Where are they now?

You could also do this sort of thing with XCompose, yes?

Might I ask exactly what the typo was?

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