mwenge | 1 month ago | on: Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad
Explore a nearly 2000 year old papyrus containing the last book of Homer's Iliad.
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mwenge | 2 months ago | on: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning
If not now, when?
mwenge | 6 months ago | on: Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value
It is indeed proven and the reason they're called Turing machines! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
mwenge | 7 months ago | on: Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
Well no, as a consumer you need to feel comfortable that you know how to get your money back if there's a problem with your purchase, as a merchant you need similar protections and a stable cost model, and as a bank you need an income model to cover all the costs and risks associated with processing the transaction. Moving the money is the easy part and is not the main set of problems that the card payment schemes have solved.
mwenge | 10 months ago | on: We are no longer a serious country
But this isn't 'buy now, pay later'. This is a tax giveaway to the rich, enabled by future borrowing and savage cuts to public services.
mwenge | 10 months ago
Invariably an error I don't understand, why do you ask?
mwenge | 1 year ago | on: The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
Do you have a public example of this? I'd love to see how to do this with Github Actions.
mwenge | 1 year ago | on: Advice on Reading Homer in Translation
If you'd like to give the Iliad a go in the original Greek you can try https://iliad.rocks
mwenge | 1 year ago | on: Executable PDF
View a PDF file, or run whatever little executable program it contains. The choice is yours!
mwenge | 2 years ago | on: The Brotherhood of Morons
Sounds like the thermocline of truth: https://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-...
mwenge | 2 years ago | on: I Was a Heretic at the New York Times
"Doesn’t all of this talk of ‘voter suppression’ on the left sound similar to charges of ‘voter fraud’ on the right?”
The exact moment you can stop taking him seriously.
mwenge | 2 years ago | on: Interactive Code Cells
In the same vein: https://mwenge.github.io/blog/io10.html
mwenge | 2 years ago | on: Pipeworld: Spreadsheet Dataflow Computing (2021)
I made something with a similar inspiration recently: https://mwenge.github.io/blog/io10.html
The idea is that you create data pipelines and operate on each step in the language of your choice.
mwenge | 2 years ago | on: Tell HN: Revolut suspended my account for no reason
Such heartwarming words of encouragement.
mwenge | 2 years ago | on: Atari Video Music
Arguably Psychedelia by Jeff Minter [1] has a claim to be the first software music visualiser. The algorithm is pretty straightforward [2] and I recently 'ported' it to Javascript for fun.[3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelia_(light_synthesizer... [2] https://github.com/mwenge/psychedelia [3] https://mwenge.github.io/psychedelia.large/
mwenge | 2 years ago | on: Jeff Minter's Psychedelia in the Browser
Based on the original 6502 assembly for the C64.
mwenge | 2 years ago | on: A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits
mwenge | 2 years ago | on: A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits
This particular operation seemed to be in Germany - we're in another European country. She got two notices and ignored both. Nothing has come of them so far. Whatever about tweeting an infringing image, retweeting it seems like a bit of a reach.
mwenge | 2 years ago | on: A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits
My wife received one of these threatening notices. In her case she had simply retweeted someone's tweet that contained the offending image. This enforcement activity is definitely the wrong side of abusive.
mwenge | 2 years ago | on: Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment
Wow the comments in here are revealing and dismaying.
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