Posts by wiert@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AZtRK93CCD6aJgihYu by wiert@mastodon.social
2023-09-18T13:38:55Z
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@EU_Commission Spoiler in my next post: there is a stat for that.
(DIR) Post #AZtRKCfwiastYjsBsW by wiert@mastodon.social
2023-09-18T13:39:10Z
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@EU_Commission https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20200813-2CC @isotopp
(DIR) Post #AdMggUbgT03ivggvpI by wiert@mastodon.social
2023-12-30T17:37:01Z
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@Gargron I tried to switch. Serious keyboard queue handling issues are holding me back moving as because of #a11y reasons I need excellent keyboard support.Hopefully @stevetex gets through their treatments and recovers well (fingers crossed, not just out of experience). After that (health first!) I hope to assist their team in addressing those issues.
(DIR) Post #Ak1TdqXQh6ggojqPoG by wiert@mastodon.social
2024-07-17T13:24:01Z
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@foone for most printers: cook yes, bake no.
(DIR) Post #AkC4mxefF9qZNe2MQC by wiert@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T16:07:45Z
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@foone I laughed a bit too loud. Thanks!
(DIR) Post #AlMzLJiTJI9OSktL28 by wiert@mastodon.social
2024-08-26T14:53:28Z
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@lproven @deBaer @brezelradar @elbosso @freezeanopensore @hatter Wow, didn't expect the NSA to actually release these tapes to the public anytime soon, but they did!https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3884041/nsa-releases-copy-of-internal-lecture-delivered-by-computing-giant-rear-adm-gra/via https://x.com/RGB_Lights/status/1828061518895722696
(DIR) Post #AtGtQAWBlN5tfNTF0S by wiert@mastodon.social
2024-08-01T08:15:10Z
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@jwildeboer I finally had some time to check out more on the history of these book index puns (having gained back energy after the refurbishing and move last winter exhausted me a bit too much):Donald Knuth did put a recursion joke in The Art of Computer Programming - Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms.- Index and Glossary page 631: "Circular Definition"- Index and Glossary page 633: "Definition, Circular"1/
(DIR) Post #AtGtQFMnjhYWhi7JZI by wiert@mastodon.social
2024-08-01T08:16:09Z
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@jwildeboer I need to check out the first and second edition of The Art of Computer Programming - Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms as well, as given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth I expect this to be in the first edition which makes me think he started this whole series of index puns.In the end, a blog post will come up with more of these jokes as I think they are historically very interesting and it is remarkably hard to actually find the materials to make photos/screenshots from.2/2
(DIR) Post #AtGtgGlyHCiFhKWwAC by wiert@mastodon.social
2022-11-23T18:55:22Z
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@jwildeboer Turbo Pascal did a similar thing (:https://wiert.me/2016/11/23/recursion/
(DIR) Post #AtHKxygAz3VFYaUJxQ by wiert@mastodon.social
2025-04-20T09:52:05Z
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@clacke @jwildeboer @WGAvanDijk @pkalina @smpaley I archived most and summarised them in a New Year's blog post.Some of them however had been lost forever.That's why I immediately archived that blog post in the wayback machine:https://web.archive.org/web/20250101170124/https://wiert.me/2025/01/01/old-programming-books-had-cool-little-puns-in-their-references-modern-lack-them-in-their-indices-on-the-why-and-history-of-them/If you have edits to that post, please let me know.