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Interesting date on that Max Newman paper - 2nd September 1942. Newman started working at Bletchley Park on 31st August, where he was deeply involved in the decryption of the Loren…

I like this Python3 quine, which doesn't use repr printing: (lambda s,q,b,k,c,e:print(b+s+k+b+q+s+q+c+q+e+q+q+c+q+b+q+c+q+k+q+c+q+c+q+c+q+e+e+q+k))("lambda s,q,b,k,c,e:print(b+s+k+…

If you don't like those hard-coded character constants, lack of newlines, and compiler warnings, here's a C quine on similar lines: #include int main(){ char q='"',n='\n',b='\\'; c…

Interesting paper here: https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/russelljournal/article/view/208...

VRML is still used as an input format for colour 3d printing, eg. https://www.stratasysdirect.com/resources/design-guidelines/...

I'm sure there are some creative uses in C-style comments for U+2215, Division Slash: ∕

Lots of interesting details here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/cpl2bcpl.pdf

And BCPL was a cut down version of CPL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPL_(programming_language)

A nice run through of the recent Met production here: https://vimeo.com/39374902

How about a 3d model of the universe, inverted, say, in the (model) earth's surface?

Sassoon is designed for that purpose, this version seems OK: https://www.wfonts.com/font/sassoon

Raspbian used to have a hilarious implementation of memcmp that temporarily switched to big endian mode in a (probably misguided) attempt at speeding things up. Valgrind didn't lik…

A useful reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tunnels_of_the_Faroe_I...

They have tunnels through a lot of the islands as well - mostly single track with passing places (looked pretty terrifying when I was there a couple of decades ago, though I was ne…

Generating mazes on 3d polyhedra & other surfaces: http://matthewarcus.github.io/polyjs/maze.html

Sirius I found deeply moving and quite different from his more cosmic novels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_(novel)

Dr. Johnson gives both spellings in his Dictionary, along with relevant quotes from Milton and Dryden, which are all spelled "spelled" or "spell'd".

That was probably a factor - does HN do this for all newbie comments though? Most of the 'dead' comments I see are more obviously dodgy.

I don't (it wasn't my project) but I've emailed my housemate (seemed polite, since we are talking about him).