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In the summer 2006 I started an open-source C++ library for handling UTF-8 strings. I wanted it to be portable and to work well with STL but did not go crazy with optimizations at the time. Recently, as I started writing about UTF-8 decoding, I spent more time revisiting the internals of the library. The function I...
In early 2023, Dan Olson at Folding Ideas made a scathing, smart, almost two-hour-long video essay about Decentraland, the metaverse that was one of the poster children of the web3 era: Most of what Decentraland does, and what it fails to do, are things that would be considered forgivable or quaint in a Kickstarter...
On a Sunday morningin ordinary time,for just a little while or even just now,why not let your heartbeat be the nameof the Friend?
I started to write a post about the redesign of this site, and all the cool stuff it can do, but then thought better of it - I assume people can figure it out. Besides, clicking around and looking at stuff is supposed to be fun. The whole point of this enterprise is to be surfin the web. But anyway that got me...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***For well over a century, people have been arguing about which is best? AC or DC?Well, DC, of course.After all, it gave us the random selection of comics below!And you don't get more random than this, as the...
Writing this on the balcony in in balmy 28ĀŗC evening ā this week started with really hot high 30ās and cooled down each day with a finally of a massive storm on friday. A 22ĀŗC tonic! I even put a sweater on to sit outside on thursday eve for the first time in months. Check out this video of tourists up the parthenon...
12 + 17-07-26. A couple of trips to Warriston, devoid of interest. šcommaGVWI was surprised Mary was in the photos on both days. She has been struggling with her sore knees which are still swollen and defy easy analysis and fixing. I suspect she didn't stay as long as myself on at least one of the occasions and...
The main entrance to the Kahilu Theatre in Waimea. This weekās Sunday Stills challenge theme is āReflections.ā See more responses here. Captions of the photos. Mural and reflections at Kailua Kona Airport. A Ruddy Turnstone prowls the shoreline. Look both ways! Reflections in Lily Lake at Hawaii Tropical Botanical...
In this article, we analyze the relationship between the measure of disorder \(\mathit{Amp}\), which I introduced a while ago, and another measure of disorder: \(\mathit{Mono}\), the number of monotonic runs into which a sequence can be decomposed. Identity of \(\mathit{Mono}\) \(\mathit{Mono}\) is a measure of...
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