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Yesterday I wrote that a lot of the special functions that pop up in mathematical physics are solutions to second order linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients. More generally, holonomic functions are defined to be...
I spent two months cloning almost every OS posted to r/osdev and running the code through an analyzer. Almost everything was a reskin of a reskin of Linux, and almost nothing boots on real hardware. Then I said so in public, and 137...
Hello, loves! This morning I’ll try to spike in a Section for the Scroller. I’ll waste 90 minutes. This afternoon, I’ll win! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. We’ll need three Sections if we stick with Sections: the map, the scroller, and the...
Country/blues tune, a little bit risqué, popular with the novelty acts in the 40's and 50's. The 1933 release by Bill Carlisle of "Rattlesnake Daddy" is generallty credited as the very first and original version. Two years later bluesman...
It’s been a super lazy week, I’ve enjoyed it immensely. My only real social activity was a few drinks after work on Thursday. Nothing too carried away and nothing too expensive (the main goal). It’s hot again. Our flat is hot again. I...
The new Spider-Man movie has been out for two days and it's already made more money than The Odyssey.
The Far Outliers are back in the Pacific now, as my reading reflects. I’ve been reading a new book that came out after we left for our academic year in Poland: Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the...
MARY DURHAM, Mystery Writer: A Bio-Bibliographical Essay by Jamie Sturgeon. If you look in Hubin, the indispensable Crime Fiction Bibliography, amongst the authors, you will see the name Mary Durham, for eleven murder mysteries she had...
Some years ago, more specifically when Top Gun: Maverick was released, something not so unusual happened. I was too broke to see it in theaters. A few months later, I finally watched it at home, and I regretted missing it on the big...
We went in search of the brown pigeon with string foot again this weekend and although we spotted him twice he was far too wary to come close enough for a rescue attempt. So instead we went to St Nicholas Kirk to say hello to the very...
Thousands of users of a hardware wallet called Coldcard, a physical device developed by the Canadian Coinkite firm to allow bitcoin holders to store their bitcoin on a device that's not connected to the internet, have suffered more than...
E. Azalia Hackley Collection, Detroit Public Library.Roland Hayes pictured with a diamond tie pin presented by King George V, of England on April 23, 1921. I sang a composition arranged by Roland Hayes this Sunday at church. Our church’s...
Forking tsc to support Go's defer.
Ditto to last week: still not finished my Canada blog post Work's been particular busy this week with various bits going on, and an accidental major release And as it'd been a pretty intense week, Friday was a little bit more a "catch...