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Explore a nearly 2000 year old papyrus containing the last book of Homer's Iliad.

mwengeon Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

If not now, when?

mwengeon Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value

It is indeed proven and the reason they're called Turing machines! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

mwengeon Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider

Well no, as a consumer you need to feel comfortable that you know how to get your money back if there's a problem with your purchase, as a merchant you need similar protections and a stable cost model, and as a bank you need an income model to cover all the costs and risks associated with processing the transaction. Moving the money is the easy part and is not the main set of problems that the card payment schemes have solved.

mwengeon We are no longer a serious country

But this isn't 'buy now, pay later'. This is a tax giveaway to the rich, enabled by future borrowing and savage cuts to public services.

mwengeon [dead]

Invariably an error I don't understand, why do you ask?

mwengeon The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

Do you have a public example of this? I'd love to see how to do this with Github Actions.

mwengeon Advice on Reading Homer in Translation

If you'd like to give the Iliad a go in the original Greek you can try https://iliad.rocks

mwengeon Executable PDF

View a PDF file, or run whatever little executable program it contains. The choice is yours!

mwengeon The Brotherhood of Morons

Sounds like the thermocline of truth: https://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-...

mwengeon I Was a Heretic at the New York Times

"Doesn’t all of this talk of ‘voter suppression’ on the left sound similar to charges of ‘voter fraud’ on the right?”

The exact moment you can stop taking him seriously.

mwengeon Interactive Code Cells

In the same vein: https://mwenge.github.io/blog/io10.html

mwengeon Pipeworld: Spreadsheet Dataflow Computing (2021)

I made something with a similar inspiration recently: https://mwenge.github.io/blog/io10.html The idea is that you create data pipelines and operate on each step in the language of your choice.

mwengeon Tell HN: Revolut suspended my account for no reason

Such heartwarming words of encouragement.

mwengeon Atari Video Music

Arguably Psychedelia by Jeff Minter [1] has a claim to be the first software music visualiser. The algorithm is pretty straightforward [2] and I recently 'ported' it to Javascript for fun.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelia_(light_synthesizer... [2] https://github.com/mwenge/psychedelia [3] https://mwenge.github.io/psychedelia.large/

mwengeon Jeff Minter's Psychedelia in the Browser

Based on the original 6502 assembly for the C64.

mwengeon A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits

https://www.copytrack.com/

mwengeon A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits

This particular operation seemed to be in Germany - we're in another European country. She got two notices and ignored both. Nothing has come of them so far. Whatever about tweeting an infringing image, retweeting it seems like a bit of a reach.

mwengeon A couple of messages about changes to ianVisits

My wife received one of these threatening notices. In her case she had simply retweeted someone's tweet that contained the offending image. This enforcement activity is definitely the wrong side of abusive.

mwengeon Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment

Wow the comments in here are revealing and dismaying.

mwengeon Atari revives unreleased arcade game that was too hard for 1982 players

What makes this special is that the remake is by Jeff Minter, who is famous for, among other things, his multiple trippy remakes of Tempest on multiple platforms.

mwengeon A legal dispute that will test the limits of fair use

Guy colored in someone else's photo for profit. And doesn't kick any of it back. I also don't suppose his estate lets anyone else sell copies of that image. Seems like having your cake and eating it.

mwengeon Xlite: Query Excel and Open Document spreadsheets as SQLite virtual tables

https://dirtylittlesql.com and https://io10.dev also support this.

mwengeon The Beauty of Unix Pipelines (2020)

I made https://io10.dev/ to apply this concept to code notebooks.

mwengeon Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research

https://lineara.xyz/ is also worth a look

mwengeon A fast SQLite PWA notebook for CSV files

Forgot to add a semi-colon as a possible delimiter! Fixed it there now.

mwengeon A fast SQLite PWA notebook for CSV files

There are a lot of different solutions knocking around for running queries on one or more CSV files. This is a web-based notebook that prioritizes loading large files quickly so you can get running queries on them as soon as possible. It supports most text files, Excel files, JSON. It can also display your results as graphs.