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This: https://sidewalk.crustytoothpaste.net/tech/git/2020/01/11/sh...

go mod why generics (main module does not need package generics)

Can't stop the signal, Mal.

Currently, https://josephg.com/sp/current returns a png with 3x8 (RGB) bits/pixel. But since the image has only 16 colors, you can reduce its filesize to ~20% (from ~714 to ~147 KB…

lscpu (from the preinstalled util-linux package) works too. And now that Windows comes with the Ubuntu Bash …

Just the demanded mandatory comment to complain about CVS and Comic Sans. Whiiiiiiinne whine whine.... ;)

Wow, this is the first ›real‹ telnet interface i saw in years: telnet horizons.jpl.nasa.gov 6775 Thanks, NASA!

Also Spock (Chicken Scheme wiki): http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/spock

That’s a valid point. But Sputnik had also a component of harmed pride (›most advanced nation‹); at least this should be reproducible.

The NASA went to the moon because the russians wanted to do it. Today's space exploration is shaped by cooperation, but sometimes a little bit of competition is needed to achive gr…

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Hint: Think about the colors …

I didn’t know the chematics for the TIA, thank you very much! I find this Chip quite intriguing because it's so minimal; its stunning how much could be archieved even under the har…

Yes, it’s a Disassembler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disassembler

»the author commits the generated files to the source repository, so that they are available to clients that use go get:« I understand that they want to keep $ go get fast, but i t…

The release notes mention the graceful shutdown of a http.Server: "The net/http package now provides an optional Server.ConnState callback to hook various phases of a server connec…

The praise for OpenSSL („I can't recommend OpenSSL highly enough, […] we just could not have done better at Backblaze.“) is kinda funny now after Heartbleed and the massive code cl…

Instead of using ext2, just use ext4 (2008) without a journal to get 16 Years of Progress :)