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acz··on How I built a keyboard by hand
Oh these emacs users
acz··on Show HN: Ascii to SVG
Reminds me Markdeep https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
acz··on MH17 missile 'brought in from Russia'
What was the weather situation over this region on that day?
acz··on Pixels and voxels, the long answer
They mentioned Vangers!
acz··on Gnuplotting – Create scientific plots using gnuplot
Here is a nice video on the new Matlab palette, and why it could be better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
acz··on A Soviet scientist created tame foxes
Controlled selection
acz··on A Soviet scientist created tame foxes
A raccoon:

[X] Agile hands, use tools [X] Smart, large brain [X] Omnivore [X] Potentially bipedal [X] Social

acz··on Show HN: WebGL Fire Simulation
Oh me too, was fun and surprisingly not difficult. Still remember learning cool tricks from the Hugi demoscene diskmag.
acz··on Dutch men confirmed as world's tallest
>I wonder how much the negatives of being short are caused by lower self esteem due to simply what people say and think about heights.

There are statistically proven negative points in being not very attractive in general. Beautiful people have (significantly) higher chance to become successful in their job and/or businesses.

acz··on Dutch men confirmed as world's tallest
Do not forget kaaskroketjes!
acz··on Dutch men confirmed as world's tallest
You can go to the neighbouring Belgium to enjoy food.
acz··on Assessing IBM's POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian
But what is performance per buck?
acz··on How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters
Let’s start working on "SVG over UTF" RFC, should we?
acz··on Mir Spacecraft: Worst collision in the history of space flight [video]
"Mir spacecraft 1997 collision: Worst collision in the history of space flight"
acz··on Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released
Ah, so that was Iñigo Quilez!
acz··on Disney stops making video games in house – insiders reveal what went wrong
And there you have Ron Gilbert asking Disney to sell him Monkey Island IP back, to proceed with a sequel:

>Dear @Disney, now that you're not making games, please sell me my Monkey Island and Mansion Mansion IP. I'll pay real actual money for them.

src: https://twitter.com/grumpygamer/status/734843964709175297

acz··on VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report
The software has been written by Bosch by Audi’s request. Bosch have even put a disclaimer that it might be illegal using it out of testing lab.
acz··on VW 'Dieselgate' software developed at Audi in 1999: report
So the disassembling confirms that ECU is just not feeding the exhaust with AdBlue/Urea. So what is the advantage for VW in all this?! It does not make your car more powerful, it makes it less eco-friendly, you are just saving money on AdBlue/Urea.

They could easily reverse it back, the power will be the same, pollution levels will be okay, only AdBlue/Urea consumption will increase.

acz··on ASCII Art Weather
There is a hack to make PowerShell print vt100 colours http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28...

Doesn’t work for me, but works for others it seems.

acz··on ASCII Art Weather
For PowerShell: (Invoke-WebRequest wttr.in/Brussels).AllElements | ?{$_.tagname -eq "pre"} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty outerText
acz··on Is France's AZERTY keyboard heading for the scrapheap?
But you can go to Netherlands to buy one.

Luckily the company I work for provides QWERTY and AZERTY laptops to its employees.

acz··on Is France's AZERTY keyboard heading for the scrapheap?
In the default US International Çç is AltGr + ,

Also if you are on Windows you can use Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC) which is a free tool to develop keyboard layouts.

acz··on Is France's AZERTY keyboard heading for the scrapheap?
Œœ is not part of the French keyboard layout either
acz··on Swedish court: 'We cannot ban Pirate Bay'
It is the same in Russia. But does it implicate that, according to No-double-pay-for-one-service principle we can legally pirate stuff and store it on our storage drives?
acz··on [dead]
>2) All shareholders are humans

i assume individuals (?)

acz··on Ways to Say Nothing with Scientific Visualization (1994) [pdf]
The original article which this one refers to is quite an interesting read as well:

"Twelve Ways to Fool the Masses When Giving Performance Results on Parallel Computers, D. H. Bailey, 1991" http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/dhbpapers/twelve-ways.pd...

acz··on Show HN: Newspaper design
Looks cool, but i am curios what the hell is happening with the Cyrillic letter Ы when i enter it?!
acz··on 8-bit number to binary string
This really reminds me of the old demoscene diskmag Hugi article about adding 16 bit colors (without MMX).

http://www.hugi.scene.org/online/hugi18/cobrad.htm

acz··on D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
Still think that *ML syntax would fit Rust better.