Ircpipe – Netcat for IRC
ircpipe – netcat for IRC Home | ircpipe A feature often purported by IRC proponents (of which I am one) is that IRC is simple enough that one can connect to it using telnet or netcat. But in practice PING :e94e45cc PONG :e94e45cc — this gets annoying fairly quickly. To be precise, it’ll get PING […]
Guy Davenport – The Last High Modernist
Books & the Arts / August 21, 2024 In the essays collected in Geography of the Imagination, one can glimpse the inner workings of the mind of a 20th-century literary genius. Ad Policy Guy Davenport, 1997.(Photo by Jonathan Williams / Courtesy of Dim Gray Bar Press) Whitman appearing at Poe’s funeral, toward the back. A […]
An Overview of Datalog
An Overview of Datalog By Jeffrey Straszheim What Datalog is, and what it can do for you. Work in Progress Introduction Datalog is a logical query language. It exists somewhere between relational algebra (the formal theory behind SQL) and Prolog, but is closer in motivation to the former than the later. It was invented to […]
Did you lose your AirPods?
Did you lose your AirPods? | Alex Yancey GitHub LinkedIn Socials 2024-08-23 A friend found some AirPods on the ground and tapped them to his phone, revealing only the serial number and the last four digits of the owner’s number. He turned to me for help. Could I really brute-force spam all phone numbers ending […]
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Show HN: Hacker News for film buffs
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Show HN: Play this game to prove your humanity against AI
Time to prove your humanity Create a username to start playing. You’re against 4 other players. The goal isn’t to get the answers right, but it can help. Some of the players may be AI. All answers are delayed to mask who’s AI and who’s human. You have to prove humanity in 5 rounds Username […]
Canon R5 Mk Ii Drops Pixel Shift High Res – Is Canon Missing the AI Big Picture?
Introduction Sometimes, companies make what seems, on the surface, technically poor decisions. I consider this the case with Canon’s new R5 Mark ii (and R1) dropping support for sensor Pixel Shifting High Resolution (what Canon calls IBIS High Res). Canon removed the IBIS High Res mode, which captures (as I will demonstrate) more real information […]
BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time
Demand for cars in Europe increased by 2% last month compared to July 2023. JATO Dynamics’ data for 28 European markets revealed that a total of 1.03 million units were registered in the region, taking the number of year-to-date registrations to almost 7.9 million. Growth was particularly prominent in Poland (+19%), Portugal (+27%), and Slovakia […]
People with Disabilities Use the Web
Accessibility: It’s about people Introduction How do people who cannot move their arms use your website? What about people who cannot see well or at all? Or people who have difficulty hearing, or understanding, or have other disabilities? This resource introduces how disabled people use the web, including people with age-related impairments. It helps developers, […]