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New blog post: Histogramming bytes with positional popcount (GF2P8AFFINEQB edition) bitmath.blogspot.com/2024/11/hist...

So, I've found an even more irritating t-shirt than my previous one (a giant picture of Owen Wilson labelled NIRVANA):

Wow. I always found this dude kind of creepy and entitled, but this is a whole different level of fucked up. Not impressed to see that the university "investigated" this in 2019 and let him off with a warning, to repeat the behavior all the way to 2024. www.smh.com.au/technology/g...

An amazing artefact: a Wonder Woman comic, somehow involving Fritz Leiber's beloved swords and sorcery characters Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, and written by none other than Samuel Delany. Not a comics guy, but I couldn't resist.

Doing some David Lynch rewatching and...

One way to win the economic competition with China would be to make apps that don't suck shit. Have you considered that

Just a reminder:

Exhibit A (actually, exhibit AX'''''''''''''''''''''') for eco-trivialism, in which we're going to get bent out of shape about a practice where some people use 27L of water in a *year*. If you have a normal-flow showerhead that's 108 seconds of showering. Per year. Innumeracy.