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Jez and Andy get together for crazy programming hijinks, trying to figure out from scratch how gzip compressions works, starting by making a valid minimal gzipped file, then trying to unzip it. Read Jez's blog at https://www.jezuk.co.uk/...
Translated by Howard Curtis Georges Simenon is more famous for his Maigret detective series, but he also wrote a large number of standalone psychological thrillers which he described as romans durs, or ‘hard novels’, in reference to the...
“it now seems clear that access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints“ https://writing.antonleicht.me/p/cut-off The post appeared first on Alessandro Muraro.
Bot traffic on the internet was always comparatively high, with search engine scrapers and whatever odd research tools doing their thing, but that changed massively in recent few years with LLM-training-content-scaping bots. Those don't...
I had a few hours of “fun” figuring out why my RP2350 could use my ILI9341 display, but not the ST7796 one. To be more specific, displaying stuff with the first display worked flawlessly, while the ST7796 would display a single frame...
2025 Victorian romance. Miles Quincey, a crusading newspaper editor, has been looking too hard into the Academy, so its deputy headmistress, Nell Trewlove, is sent to fob him off. An incident with a cat caught in her crinoline, and an...
"The Real World" is a 2000 science fiction short story by Steven Utley. It is about a scientist who has the distinguished honor of being the first person to travel back in time using a recently discovered time funnel. The question is:...
OK, so we're on to recognisable characters, although these days, they are coming so thick and fast, from so many streamers, with all the old favourites getting darker (Batman) or lighter (the dreadful Disney Pooh) makeovers, alternate...
Media. ‘How prosthetic penises in shows like HBO’s ‘Minx’ reinforce existing stereotypes and taboos‘ / a 1927 map of Paramount filming locations around Los Angeles / ‘It came from the deep: The bad movie that made Godzilla good’, The...
Yet another lost Commodore 16/Plus 4 title from Mastertronic, and this time in the shape of Los Angeles S.W.A.T - which sort of splits opinion with the Commodore 64 edition that was released. Some like it, though others loave it -...
Comfortable, leisurely, pleasant stagnation is just not good enough for the modern age.