Tea-bagging Updated 2025-07-16
Webdev's Creed Updated 2025-07-16
Without me, my stack is useless. Without my stack, I am useless. I must fire my requests true. I must shoot straighter than my hackers who are trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will ...My stack is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its ORMs and its asset bundlers. I will keep my stack clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will ...
Explanation: this is an allusion to the Rifleman's Creed. This particular version talks about the website stack chosen for a website, i.e. the libraries used.
Ciro Santilli has always felt that choosing a stack is an almost religious choice. It is perhaps part of why the prayer style of the original Rifleman's Creed resonates with the web stack choice.
It is very hard to know how things are going go, the ups and downs, before putting big hours into it.
And once you start, it is hard, though not impossible, to move away.
Clausius entropy Updated 2025-07-16
Computer algebra system Updated 2025-07-16
Fast neutron Updated 2025-07-16
Make a bug report for a crash on Ubuntu Updated 2025-07-16
On Ubuntu 23.10, a crash led to the creation of:After that simply running apport-cli as: led to the creation of: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/2049368 a bug on the
/var/crash/_usr_bin_gnome-shell.1000.crash
apport-cli gnome-shell
gnome-shell
package. Nuclear reactor Updated 2025-07-16
Some of the most notable ones:
- 1942: Chicago Pile-1: the first human-made nuclear chain reaction.
- 1943: X-10 Graphite Reactor: an intermediate step between the nuclear chain reaction prototype Chicago Pile-1 and the full blown mass production at Hanford site. Located in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
- 1944: B Reactor at the Hanford site produced the plutonium used for Trinity and Fat Man
The correlation between software engineers and Buddhism Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli believes that there is a positive correlation between being a software engineer and liking Buddhist-like things.
Maybe it is linked to minimalism and DRY, which software engineers value so greatly.
Even Ciro had to try an unoriginal Buddhist joke intro in one of this Stack Overflow answers.
Ciro also feels that his "minimal reproducible example" scientific language/concept learning method obsession of breaking things into tiny sub-problems has a strong link with Koans.
Some notable Buddhism/programmer examples:
- www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ "The Unix Koans of Master Foo - Rootless Root (无根的根)" by the legendary Eric Steven Raymond is notable
- thecodelesscode.com/ "The Codeless Code" by anonymous Qi.
- canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
- wiki.c2.com/?MysticalProgrammingKoans
- rubykoans.com/ even evil programming languages adopt them!
- The Zen of Python
Another thing that points the correlation out is the existence of wattsalan.github.io/ on a
github.io
about Alan Watts. Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup Updated 2025-07-16
Physics engine Updated 2025-07-16
There is no clear distinction between "serious simulations" and "physics engines", it's just that "physics engine" have a "for video game" connotation.
And especially, in the context of gaming, it usually means "rigid body dynamics simulation" in particular.
The deplatforming of Donald Trump Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli believes that the Donald Trump bans were extremely unfair, and highlight the need for government to ensure greater freedom of speech in social media, more information at: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/unjust-social-media-censorship-in-the-west, related: globalization reduces the power of governments.
Ubuntu 21.10 Updated 2025-07-16
GDM crashes sometimes when switching windows right after opening a new window: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/1956299
WebGL Updated 2025-07-16
HTML snippet:
new class extends OurbigbookCanvasDemo {
init() {
super.init('webgl', {context_type: 'webgl'});
this.ctx.viewport(0, 0, this.ctx.drawingBufferWidth, this.ctx.drawingBufferHeight);
this.ctx.clearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
this.vertexShaderSource = `
#version 100
precision highp float;
attribute float position;
void main() {
gl_Position = vec4(position, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
gl_PointSize = 64.0;
}
`;
this.fragmentShaderSource = `
#version 100
precision mediump float;
void main() {
gl_FragColor = vec4(0.18, 0.0, 0.34, 1.0);
}
`;
this.vertexShader = this.ctx.createShader(this.ctx.VERTEX_SHADER);
this.ctx.shaderSource(this.vertexShader, this.vertexShaderSource);
this.ctx.compileShader(this.vertexShader);
this.fragmentShader = this.ctx.createShader(this.ctx.FRAGMENT_SHADER);
this.ctx.shaderSource(this.fragmentShader, this.fragmentShaderSource);
this.ctx.compileShader(this.fragmentShader);
this.program = this.ctx.createProgram();
this.ctx.attachShader(this.program, this.vertexShader);
this.ctx.attachShader(this.program, this.fragmentShader);
this.ctx.linkProgram(this.program);
this.ctx.detachShader(this.program, this.vertexShader);
this.ctx.detachShader(this.program, this.fragmentShader);
this.ctx.deleteShader(this.vertexShader);
this.ctx.deleteShader(this.fragmentShader);
if (!this.ctx.getProgramParameter(this.program, this.ctx.LINK_STATUS)) {
console.log('error ' + this.ctx.getProgramInfoLog(this.program));
return;
}
this.ctx.enableVertexAttribArray(0);
var buffer = this.ctx.createBuffer();
this.ctx.bindBuffer(this.ctx.ARRAY_BUFFER, buffer);
this.ctx.vertexAttribPointer(0, 1, this.ctx.FLOAT, false, 0, 0);
this.ctx.useProgram(this.program);
}
draw() {
this.ctx.clear(this.ctx.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
this.ctx.bufferData(this.ctx.ARRAY_BUFFER, new Float32Array([Math.sin(this.time / 60.0)]), this.ctx.STATIC_DRAW);
this.ctx.drawArrays(this.ctx.POINTS, 0, 1);
}
}
webpack Updated 2025-07-16
Webpack is like a magic hydra that can eat any type of file and bundle it into a single output: .js, .ts, .ccs, .scss, .jsx, .tsx,
require
, import
, import
css from .js
, it doesn't matter at all, it just digests all into the same dump.When it works, you are just left in awe and with a single Js file. When it doesn't, you're fucked and have to debug for several hours.
Demos under: webpack/. To run all of them by default:To easily make changes and reload the .js output live let this run on a terminal:
cd webpack/min
npm install
npm run build
xdg-open index.html
npx webpack watch
Examples:
- webpack/min: minimal hello world. Doesn't do much, just copies
index.js
todist/index.js
. - webpack/require:
require
andimport
demo. Both work from the same file.dist/index.js
now contains all of:notindex.js
notindex2.js
- Lodash, a common third-party helper library specified in the package.json and installed with npm
- webpack/node: produce Node.js output, as opposed to the default web output. To test it run:Achieved simply with:
npm run build node dist/index.js
as documented at: webpack.js.org/concepts/targets/target: 'node'Fatman in Robin,
- webpack/sequelize: attempts at getting Sequelize to work with webpack. It's just not supported by Sequelize:
Power supply Updated 2025-07-16
Electric battery Updated 2025-07-16
Inductor Updated 2025-07-16
It resists to change in electric current. Well seen at: Video "LC circuit by Eugene Khutoryansky (2016)".
Website stack Updated 2025-07-16
Light-emitting diode Updated 2025-07-16
How LEDs work by VirtualBrain
. Source. 2021. Good 3d schematics clearly explaining part of the LED electronic package. Luboš Motl Updated 2025-07-16
physicist with lots of focus on politically incorrect/Right wing stuff:
- motls.blogspot.com/ his blog
- physics.stackexchange.com/users/1236/lubo%c5%a1-motl he has lots of contributions to Physics Stack Exchange
- settheory.net/crackpot-physics: some comments about him from settheory.net
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