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Short post today. New ZJIT contributor dak2 submitted a PR to fix an overflow bug in fixnum division in ZJIT. We did the division fine, but lied about the type of the result in the case of dividing FIXNUM_MIN by -1. You can see how this...
The U.S. lacks privacy protections because it's too corrupt to function, but the consolidated press is too broken to make that clear to anyone.
I promised to record audio of my translated passages from Beowulf, and I have. As a bonus, I’ve also recorded the introduction in the original version, for those who want to have an idea of how Old English was pronounced.… Continue...
This is a work of fiction. image by AI; my own prompt I had been blathering on about our lack of free will, in my usual annoying way, when my friend said to me: “You keep insisting that we have … Continue reading →
By Richard McKenna Incredibly, it took only four years for the spectacle to regurgitate the absurdist nightmare future that George Miller had assembled in 1982’s Mad Max 2 as that most inane and transitory of commodities: a children’s...
A new podcast about old things.
Movies The Awakening (2011) D: Nick Murphy. S: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Shaun Dooley. Classy enough melodrama about post-Great War ghost hunter Hall going to investigate a boys’ school with a...
Book of the Three Dragons is an unusual illustrated volume, being an American edition of a retelling of Welsh myths by a Welsh writer, Kenneth Morris, with illustrations by a Hungarian artist, Ferdinand Huszti Horvath (1891–1973). Morris...
Robbie and I MC 🎤 Cascadia JS for the next 2 days See ya there 🤘🏻
Here is the annual update to my periodic comparison of storage bytes per inflation adjusted dollar for magnetic hard drives and flash SSDs (you can find all the past posts here), which I have done every June since 2012: Raw data:...
Last year, we got our second taste of Grand Gulch, and even before we returned home, I knew I wanted to hike the whole thing. Not all at once - I'm insane, but not that insane - but over the course of several trips. Almost immediately we...