Progress

Not a lot.

The wire for the lawn robot is broken again. I've ordered a wire-searching device, to find out where the break is.

Also, the underground watering line is broken, and I have no idea how that can happen. At least I can see where it is without a special device.

TWIL that you can install Chrome Extensions in Edge, simply by going to the Chrome Add-On-Store and click "install".

Articles

• Dual action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance nearly impossible
• 25 years ago, NASA almost a lost a Shuttle • The Register
• Imitating generative AI videos – @rongzhi on Tumblr
• Mercedes bleibt im schmalen Radweg an Klosterkirche Birnau stecken -- SÜDKURIER: aus der Kategorie „Rentner fahren in Dinge“
• How to Beg/Borrow/Steal Your Way to a Cross Platform Bluetooth LE Library - Nonpolynomial
• Calculating the Cost of a Google Deepmind Paper - 152334H: quite costly
• Implementing the “one or more” UI component — Verb Noun Enter
• Fake Papers
• Paolo Melchiorre - Maps with Django⁽¹⁾: GeoDjango, SpatiaLite & Leaflet
• Counting Bytes Faster Than You’d Think Possible -- Matt Stuchlik
• Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times - Vortexa
• My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding
• Alertfor -- Get answers for complex question and receive alerts when the answers change
• C Macro Reflection in Zig – Zig Has Better C Interop Than C Itself
• Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands -- Martin Janiczek: Grandiose beginning, the end result is... not as impressive.
• Genetically synthesized supergain broadband wire-bundle antenna -- Communications Engineering
• find + mkdir is Turing complete
• Spyware turned this Kansas high school into a 'red zone' of dystopian surveillance • Kansas Reflector
• history - Was this quote on a clay tablet about unruly kids written by an Assyrian? - Skeptics Stack Exchange
• Do most aircraft have a ditch button in the case of emergency? - Aviation Stack Exchange: Airbus yes, Boeing have a manual what you need to do.
• How I Got My Laser Eye Injury - Funranium Labs
• Introducing Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation From Single Images — Stability AI: will have to try that out.
• How Fear of Regret Influences Our Decisions -- The MIT Press Reader
• [2403.00801] Self-Retrieval: Building an Information Retrieval System with One Large Language Model
• Brighter Than a Cloud - by Claire L. Evans: "How to describe a scintillating scotoma?"
• 8mm film scanner Kotokino Mark IV – Sabulo, Inc.
• You can now train a 70b language model at home – Answer.AI
• 1BRC merykitty’s Magic SWAR: 8 Lines of Code Explained in 3,000 Words
• Eric Roberts (spy) - Wikipedia
• Light comms on the 003 - mitxela.com
• Early Bookcases, Cupboards & Carousels - Lost Art Press
• Quark Stars -- Azimuth
• cr.yp.to: 2024.08.03: Clang vs. Clang: on compiler optimisations and their usefulness
• AnarSec -- Make Your Electronics Tamper-Evident
• GitHub - ataradov/usb-sniffer-lite: A simple USB sniffer based on Raspberry Pi RP2040
• SNES Coprocessors: DSP-1 and Friends -- jsgroth's blog
• Making your own hot sauce -- Successful Software
• Porting my JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason - PhobosLab

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - info-beamer/exec-portal: Run a program in another environment on the same machine by forwarding arguments, environment variables and open file descriptors through a single unix domain socket.
• An Explanation of the Double-Dabble Bin-BCD Conversion Algorithm by C.B. Falconer
• GitHub - RustPython/RustPython: A Python Interpreter written in Rust

Books

• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Games

• Viewfinder: Such an excellent puzzle game. It follows the structure laid down by other famous puzzlers such as Portal or Thalos Principle: each puzzle is a separate level, with mechanics slowly layered on, until you have to pull everything you know in a timed nine-puzzle run at the end. The puzzles are great, and so are the mechanics. 10/10
• Dragon Fist VR Kung Fu: nah, not really great. I don't like the movement, and the kung-fu is... I don't know, janky? Not my thing, 3/10
• The 7th Guest VR: VR really adds to this experience. I've never played the original, but I'm definitely going to play more of this one.
• Google Earth VR: That is such a great experience!
• Half-Life: Alyx

Recipes

• Meloneneis
• Mirabelleneis
• Mousse au chocolat

Other media

• How to build a submarine and survive - media.ccc.de
• Our Weapon of Choice... side by side, frame by frame - YouTube
• why you were forced to learn the recorder in school - YouTube: If you're looking for really, really nice people: everyone in music that I've met is super-nice.
• Unreal Engine Tips You Might Not Discover Quickly On Your Own - YouTube
• I Made the Same Game in 8 Engines - YouTube
• The Director Who Revolutionized The POV Shot - YouTube
• STEALTH CAMPING ON THE SMALLEST ROUNDABOUT YET -- Wild camping UK -- No tent/tarp -- City Of Sunderland - YouTube: "wild camping on roundabouts and reviewing bad whiskey there" is not a category I knew of before
• In Praise of Great Exposition - YouTube
• How Do Archers Resist Firing Arrows At Everyone In The Spectator Gallery? - YouTube
• When a Giftee Throws Away Your Homemade Gift - YouTube
• when you make a satire too good... - YouTube
• STEALTH CAMPING ON THE SMALLEST ROUNDABOUT YET -- Wild camping UK -- No tent/tarp -- City Of Sunderland - YouTube: "wild camping on roundabouts and reviewing bad whiskey there" is not a category I knew of before