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Implementing the Raft distributed consensus protocol in Go
19 Feb 23
AnyDice is an advanced dice probability calculator, available online. It is created with roleplaying games in mind.
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A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
18 Oct 22
Butterick’s Practical Typography
20 Sep 22
We’ve been using a Sony Vaio VGN-P588E for the past few months as our primary personal laptop. This thing’s great; it’s got a small but not uncomfortable keyboard. It’s got a trackpoint, which we absolutely need to keep our hands healthy. Crucially, it’s only 1.5 pounds. We’re disabled in a way that means we’ve got to care about every bit of weight we add to our bag when we leave home, so that’s a big deal! One catch: the Intel Atom inside hits a peak speed of 1.33GHz, with a normal speed of 800MHz under most thermal conditions. Oh yeah and there’s only 2GB of DDR2, GPU drivers don’t work in Linux, and it’s a 32 bit processor too did I say one catch I meant four. Let’s talk about life in the slow lane.
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The SCP Foundation’s ‘top-secret’ archives, declassified for your enjoyment.
05 May 22
Examples of common UI elements and interactions with HTML and CSS alone.
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A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
16 Aug 21
Mobile, Open Hardware, RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) Development Kit
16 May 21
Open a new window somewhere in the world. Look through windows shared by real people, and share yours to become a part of this global community.
Neuroscientist Simon Baron-Cohen argues in his new book ‘The Pattern Seekers’ that 70,000 years ago humans evolved new abilities for systemization and innovation, and that autism spectrum disorders may reflect an overexpression of that ability.