Wooden spoon (award) Updated 2025-07-16
x86 Paging Tutorial Intel manual Updated 2025-07-16
Although it is impossible to understand without examples in mind, try to get familiar with the manuals as soon as possible.
Intel describes paging in the Intel Manual Volume 3 System Programming Guide - 325384-056US September 2015 Chapter 4 "Paging".
Specially interesting is Figure 4-4 "Formats of CR3 and Paging-Structure Entries with 32-Bit Paging", which gives the key data structures.
The Godfather Updated 2025-07-16
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U interview with Walter Murch by Web of Stories. He worked on sound design for all The Godfather films, and tells some interesting details about it. He's just super nice in general otherwise. E.g.:
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4OK8__gfGo talks about the sound design for the restaurant scene in The Godfather Part II (1974)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) Updated 2025-07-16
This is not bad, but some divergences to the better BBC miniseries, which presumably sticks more closely to the novel:
- in the film Jim Prideaux is captured in a cafe in Prague, in the series it's in the woods. It is therefore much more plausible that he would have been shot.
- in the film Peter Guillam is played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who feels a bit young to be Ricki Tarr's boss. Not impossible, but still.
- the series is much less chronological, and more flashback based, as new information becomes available. The film is more chronological, which makes it easier to understand, but less interesting at the same time.
- in the film they shoot the Russian girl Irina in front of Jim, in the series the fact that she was shot is only known through other sources. The film has more eye candy, which weakens it.
- Toby Esterhase is not threatened in an airfield, only in a safe ;house in London.
Webcam Updated 2025-07-16
XMPP Updated 2025-07-16
The Harvest of a Century by Siegmund Brandt (2008) Updated 2025-07-16
This is a good book, it gives a summary of biographies, and a reasonable description of the main ideas, with many illustrations. Each subject is not presented in incredible detail, but it is a good overview of events.
Wireless Updated 2025-07-16
Fictional pornography depicting minors Updated 2025-07-16
This is the kind of mind-bending argument twists that Ciro Santilli loves. If we take out the "a real child is hurt" aspect, does it still make sense to make it illegal?
Of course, hentai of young-looking girls has already existed since forever. Bit with newer image generation methods in the 2020s used for computer generated child pornography, especially sometimes photorealistic text-to-image generation, things are taken to another level.
Global Positioning System Updated 2025-07-16
They actually carry atomic clocks in them.
Johann Joseph Loschmidt Updated 2025-07-16
Messier object Updated 2025-07-16
What an awesome list the dude compiled. Contains many of the features we care the most about of the sky, since of course, apparent magnitude is a big determinant of that.
Planetary system Updated 2025-07-16
The Honourable Schoolboy Updated 2025-07-16
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honourable_Schoolboy#Adaptations mentions:
Jonathan Powell, producer of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979), said the BBC considered producing The Honourable Schoolboy but a production in South East Asia was considered prohibitively expensive and therefore the BBC instead adapted the third novel of the Karla Trilogy, Smiley's People (1979)
The Magnetic Moment of the Electron by Kusch and Foley (1948) Updated 2025-07-16
Published on Physical Review by Polykarp Kusch and Foley.
White snow in sunny spring Updated 2025-07-16
God this song.
White snow in sunny spring performed by Liu Dehai
. Source. From the 1996 album: "A Collection of Chinese Music Masterpieces: Pipa": www.amazon.com/Collection-Chinese-Music-Masterpieces-Pipa/dp/B000QZYN8E TODO recording date.White snow in sunny spring performed by Wu Man in 2020 at The Kennedy Center
. Source. Theme music Updated 2025-07-16
The Message (1976) Updated 2025-07-16
The most important physics experiments Updated 2025-07-16
Videos should be found/made for all of those: videos of all key physics experiments
- speed of light experiment
- basically all experiments listed under Section "Quantum mechanics experiment" such as:
- Davisson-Germer experiment
The most important projects done by Ciro Santilli Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli has sometimes wasted time with low impact projects such as those listed at Ciro Santilli's minor projects instead of doing higher impact projects such as those mentioned at: Section "The most important projects Ciro Santilli wants to do".
But maybe "Everything you did brought you where you are now." applies, maybe it is during the "low impact activities" that one gets the inspiration and experience required for the "high impact ones".
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