File system paths on Windows are stranger than you might think. On any Unix-derived system, a path is an admirably simple thing: if it starts with a /, it’s a path. Not so on Windows, which serves up a bewildering … Read more
If you’ve read my first post about assembly language, you might expect that this is another post on how to understand assembly language. I will write more about that at some point, but this post is not that. Instead, this … Read more
Nick Young is also confused Brainfuck (from now on BF) turns 30 this year. This puts it in the same league as Python (32), Java (28) and Haskell (33). I remember the first time I had heard about BF. It … Read more
List of scenes that I am particularly fond of: – Minecrat computer engineering: Culminated with this playable 3d simplified minecraft clone (CPU+GPU) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I – Shader computing scene: More of a subculture of an already marvelous subculture, people are finding weird … Read more
I’m old enough to remember when Weird Al Yankovic’s It’s All About the Pentiums first came out. Every few years I like to listen back and see how much more has changed from those heady days of the late 1990s! … Read more
The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option In this installment: some strange things I discovered when purchasing a FreeDOS laptop from Hewlett Packard. I suspect that the audience for this will be somewhat limited but I had fun exploring this. … Read more
ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, shortly after I had finished graduate school in the history of science, a friend was entering the field at a different university. She had done impressive research as an undergraduate in one of the byways of … Read more
Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss? 62 points by fatmoron 5 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 246 comments I am overweight and just curious. My theory, though untested, is that getting an oxygen tank might … Read more
GitHub – inconvergent/weird: Generative art in Common Lisp {{ message }} You can’t perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. … Read more
