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DPhil Updated 2025-07-16
Short for Doctor of Philosophy, it's how some weird places like the University of Oxford say PhD. In Oxford they also analogously say MPHil.
Dragon Ball Updated 2025-07-16
Dragon Ball Z Updated 2025-07-16
Although this was one of the children cartoons Ciro Santilli liked to watch, watching Dragon Ball Z as an adult feels like watching paint dry, everything takes forever! Apparently padding to sync with the manga: www.quora.com/Why-does-DBZ-drag-on-for-so-long The original Dragon Ball was likely strictly better, as it was much more fun and took itself less seriously. Also in DBZ power level inflation is taken to ridiculous levels. This is why One-Punch Man is good. Out of all evil characters, Frieza is one that made a big impression on Ciro, his graphical design is so good.
Dragon boat Updated 2025-07-16
E. Coli Whole Cell Model by Covert Lab Model validation Updated 2025-07-16
TODO compare with actual datasetes.
Dragon boat (pipa piece) Updated 2025-07-16
The explosive moments presumably represent the intense rowing action of a dragon boat race competition.
TODO date composed.
Dragon boat performed by Yuanchun Yu (2021)
Source. Drake (robotics software) Updated 2025-07-16
TRI means Toyota Research Institute BTW.
The Robotics team at TRI is working hard to close the gap between simulation and reality. For manipulation, one important piece is accurate simulation of rigid-body contact.
Dream Updated 2025-07-16
Dream argument Updated 2025-07-16
Drew Berry Updated 2025-07-16
This is the dude that made many of the amazing WEHImovies animation.
Unfortunately, the process appears to be quite manual and laborious, more art than simulation, based on the software list used: www.drewberry.com/faq
Animations of unseeable biology by Drew Berry (2021)
Source. Presented at TED. D. Richard Hipp Updated 2025-07-16
** The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of
** a legal notice, here is a blessing:
**
** May you do good and not evil.
** May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
** May you share freely, never taking more than you give. Drosophila connectome Updated 2025-07-16
The hard part then is how to make any predictions from it:
- 2024 www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02935-z Fly-brain connectome helps to make predictions about neural activity. Summary of "Connectome-constrained networks predict neural activity across the fly visual system" by J. K. Lappalainen et. al.
2024: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03190-y Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly's neurons in exquisite detail
As of 2022, it had been almost fully decoded by post mortem connectome extraction with microtome!!! 135k neurons.
- 2021 www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/science/drosophila-fly-brain-connectome.html Why Scientists Have Spent Years Mapping This Creature’s Brain by New York Times
That article mentions the humongous paper elifesciences.org/articles/66039 elifesciences.org/articles/66039 "A connectome of the Drosophila central complex reveals network motifs suitable for flexible navigation and context-dependent action selection" by a group from Janelia Research Campus. THe paper is so large that it makes eLife hang.
Dr. Strangelove Updated 2025-07-16
EC2 instance store volume Updated 2025-07-16
Large but ephemeral storage for EC2 instances. Predetermined by the EC2 instance type. Stays in the local server disk. Not automatically mounted.
- docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceStorage.html (archive) notably highlights what it persists, which is basically nothing
- serverfault.com/questions/433703/how-to-use-instance-store-volumes-storage-in-amazon-ec2 mentions that you have to mount it
ecash Updated 2025-07-16
Eclipse (IDE) Updated 2025-07-16
Once upon a time (early 2010's), Eclipse dominated the IDE landscape and all was good. NetBeans was around too. And Java was still unmarred by Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc..
But then something happened.
And the project that had once been a vibrant community of awesomeness, started to become... a zombie of its former self.
Buggyness started increasing. And not even hard to fix bugs. One liners that affect every user immediately after startup.
Sometimes, to Eclipse's defense they weren't "bugs". Just features that it became evident with time every programmer expected from a modern IDE.
But somehow the Eclipse community had a deep problem. A cancer. It had completely lost touch with user experience.
Perhaps is was due to the increasing interest of the several corporations that had adopted Eclipse as the base IDE for the proprietary solutions?
Perhaps.
Many users stuck to the IDE.
Some heroic efforts were made as plugins that drastically improved certain defects. The Darkest Dark plugin comes to mind.
But all those efforts required configuration. A setup time that most users simply don't have. The core devteam had become dumb and dead, unable to incorporate such changes.
This greatly opened up the space for other competing IDEs to come along. The "semi feature complete but at least easy to use and not so buggy" Visual Studio Code and the proprietary JetBrains IDEs being some of the most notable ones.
Using Eclipse as of the early 2020's is such a mixed experience. If you spend enough time to configure out the key buggyness, there are moments where you can feel "OMG, this feature is amazing".
But the effort is just too great, and soon another bug or obvious missing feature hits you and brings you back to reality.
Every young person uses VS Code now. Eclipse is dead, and there is no way back, usage will just continue dropping.
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ELF Hello World Tutorial ELF header Updated 2025-07-16
Running:outputs:
readelf -h hello_world.oMagic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF64
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: REL (Relocatable file)
Machine: Advanced Micro Devices X86-64
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x0
Start of program headers: 0 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 64 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 64 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 0 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 0
Size of section headers: 64 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 7
Section header string table index: 3Running:outputs:
readelf -h hello_world.outMagic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF64
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: Advanced Micro Devices X86-64
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x4000b0
Start of program headers: 64 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 272 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 64 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 56 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 2
Size of section headers: 64 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 6
Section header string table index: 3Bytes in the object file:
00000000 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.ELF............|
00000010 01 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |..>.............|
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |........@.......|
00000030 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 07 00 03 00 |....@.....@.....|Executable:
00000000 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.ELF............|
00000010 02 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00 b0 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 |..>.......@.....|
00000020 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 |@...............|
00000030 00 00 00 00 40 00 38 00 02 00 40 00 06 00 03 00 |....@.8...@.....|Structure represented:
# define EI_NIDENT 16
typedef struct {
unsigned char e_ident[EI_NIDENT];
Elf64_Half e_type;
Elf64_Half e_machine;
Elf64_Word e_version;
Elf64_Addr e_entry;
Elf64_Off e_phoff;
Elf64_Off e_shoff;
Elf64_Word e_flags;
Elf64_Half e_ehsize;
Elf64_Half e_phentsize;
Elf64_Half e_phnum;
Elf64_Half e_shentsize;
Elf64_Half e_shnum;
Elf64_Half e_shstrndx;
} Elf64_Ehdr;Manual breakdown:
- 0 0:
EI_MAG=7f 45 4c 46=0x7f 'E', 'L', 'F': ELF magic number - 0 4:
EI_CLASS=02=ELFCLASS64: 64 bit elf - 0 5:
EI_DATA=01=ELFDATA2LSB: little endian data - 0 6:
EI_VERSION=01: format version - 0 7:
EI_OSABI(only in 2003 Update) =00=ELFOSABI_NONE: no extensions. - 0 8:
EI_PAD= 8x00: reserved bytes. Must be set to 0. - On the executable it is
02 00forET_EXEC.Another important possibility for the executable isET_DYNfor PIE executables and shared libraries.ET_DYNtells the Linux kernel that the code is position independent, and can loaded at a random memory location with ASLR. - 1 2:
e_machine=3e 00=62=EM_X86_64: AMD64 architecture - 1 4:
e_version=01 00 00 00: must be 1 - 1 8:
e_entry= 8x00: execution address entry point, or 0 if not applicable like for the object file since there is no entry point.On the executable, it isb0 00 40 00 00 00 00 00. The kernel puts the RIP directly on that value when executing. It can be configured by the linker script or-e. But it will segfault if you set it too low: stackoverflow.com/questions/2187484/why-is-the-elf-execution-entry-point-virtual-address-of-the-form-0x80xxxxx-and-n 40 00 00 00on the executable, i.e. it starts immediately after the ELF header.- 2 8:
e_shoff=407x00=0x40: section header table file offset, 0 if not present. The Intel386 architecture defines no flags; so this member contains zero.
- 3 4:
e_ehsize=40 00: size of this elf header. TODO why this field needed? Isn't the size fixed? 38 00on executable: it is 56 bytes long02 00on executable: there are 2 entries.- 3 A:
e_shentsizeande_shnum=40 00 07 00: section header size and number of entries - 3 E:
e_shstrndx(Section Header STRing iNDeX) =03 00: index of the.shstrtabsection.
Drug liberalization Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli supports full legalization of all drugs, because he feels that it would be better overall for the world to have cheaper drugs and more drug addicts, but way, way less organized crime.
These should be extremely controlled of course, with extremely high taxes that puts their price just below the current illegal market, and a complete ban on any positive advertising.
Ciro believes that maybe the government could even go as far as giving free drugs to drug addicts so they don't have to rob to get a fix.
This is notably considering that drug-led organized crime completely dominates and corrupts the politics of many production and trafficking zones, which are already generally poor fucked up places to start with:Ciro's experiences in Brazil such as mentioned at São Remo, the favela next to USP, although much less extreme than the above, also come to mind.
Drug traffic corrupts everything. It prevents development of honest people. It is a cancer, which we have failed time and time a gain to cure. The only cure is to accept the other less insidious of addiction.
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