Highlights from the Web
Seven habits of effective text editing
http://moolenaar.net/habits.html
If you program, you should learn a text editor that lets you move the cursor with just the keyboard. Seriously, it's so much faster. There's nothing worse than sitting there over someone's shoulder while they take forever to make changes to the code like a gd n00b.
June 24, 2018
Games Look Bad, Part 1: HDR and Tone Mapping
https://ventspace.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/games-look-bad-part-1-hdr-and-tone-mapping/
This is an interesting discussion of videogame graphics with a background from film studies. I never really considered film to be something so important for videogames, but now I'm a bit curious. Film studies is on my todo list now.
June 23, 2018
The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores
https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/04/26/the-linux-scheduler-a-decade-of-wasted-cores/
It's been a while since I posted a hardcore computer link. There's something really satisfying about reading about optimizations like this.
June 19, 2018
How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities
This is a funny little hacking story. It's kind of disappointing to me that most of the effective techniques for "hacking" into companies is really just talking to employees and lying about shit to password reset support people.
June 18, 2018
I Went Camping in the Trunk of a $145,000 Tesla
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-tesla-camper-mode/
I think I would cringe if I bought a new tesla and then ruined it by sleeping inside, but it's definitely a cool idea that I'd do after the tesla was not new. And now that they're coming out with the tractor trailer tesla, I think it would be cool to buy one and overhaul the interior of the tractor trailer into an apartment. That's a pie in the sky thing for when I'm a billionaire though.
June 17, 2018
More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809
Bugs are gross and they suck, but less biodiversity makes me concerned that we are losing stuff that we can't get back. Especially the ocean. People used to say that birds would block out the sun and fish would be so plentiful they jumped right into boats. I suspect that any random area of ocean today is barren compared to even 100 years ago.
June 13, 2018
It's really clear how prison is the perfect environment for inmates to learn skills and concoct elaborate plans while the guards are just normal people with lives and shit and can't keep up. Real good system.
June 12, 2018
Understanding the Emotional Response
https://alistapart.com/article/understanding-emotional-response
Ok here's this other thing to read while you contemplate why Anthony Bourdain is dead. Also, Anthony Bourdain is dead, did you hear about that? He's dead. Isn't that weird?
June 11, 2018
Anthony Bourdain: Celebrity chef found dead at 61
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44414747
What the fuck
June 9, 2018
ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1733/
Is this cool, or is this COOL???
June 2, 2018
Look at these goddamn links
Hey maaan, these snippets from the internet are p. cool imo. You should check them out. I think you should waste a bunch of time looking at them. It's totally worth it.
Cool Links from the Web
Something Awful 4Chan
Gunnerkrigg Court Octopus Pie Dr. McNinja Nedroid Picture Diary Dresden Codak Phuzzy Comics Johnny Wander Bearmageddon Cucumber Quest F@nboys Three Panel Soul Lackadaisy Cats Comics by Patrick Alexander
Joe Rogan Experience "Opie & Anthony" DVDASA
