ASCII typeface Updated 2025-07-16
Tis term was invented by Ciro Santilli, it refers to ASCII art of text, essentially creating a typeface. in that medium..
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convert -size 256x256 radial-gradient:white-black out.png Creator of Archive.today Updated 2025-07-16
- drive.google.com/file/d/1JTPVd09NPaGH-KzGv2jU3XXcFiJAoUjw/view some crazy due investigating, let's see how long until it goes down, posted at: Points to:"Alex Conferno" is also brought up: twitter.com/conferno
- www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/12trawt/has_anyone_ever_actually_spoken_to_denis_petrov/
- gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/. Trended on Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598
- gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20240326-archive-today/
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Crystal detector Updated 2025-07-16
The first diodes. These were apparently incredibly unreliable, especially for portable radios, as you had to randomly search for the best contact point you could find in a random polycrystalline material!!
And also quality was highly dependant on where the material was sourced from as that affected the impurities present in the material. Later this was understood to be an issue of doping.
It was so unreliable that vacuum tube diodes overtook them in many applications, even though crystal detectors are actually semiconductor diodes, which eventually won over!
For a long time, before artificial semiconductors kicked in, people just didn't know the underlying physical working principle of these detectors. What I cannot create, I do not understand basically.
MuJoCo getting started Updated 2025-07-16
Tested on Ubuntu 23.10;
git clone https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco
cd mujoco
git checkout 5d46c39529819d1b31249e249ca399f306a108ac
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
make -jNow let's play. Minimal interactive UI simulation of a simple MJCF scene with one falling cube:Test soure code: github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco/blob/5d46c39529819d1b31249e249ca399f306a108ac/sample/basic.cc. The only thing you can do is rotate the scene with the computer mouse it seems. Mentioned at: mujoco.readthedocs.io/en/2.2.2/programming.html#sabasic
bin/basic ../doc/_static/hello.xmlSome more interesting models can be found under the
model/ directory: github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco/tree/5d46c39529819d1b31249e249ca399f306a108ac/model E.g. the imaginary humanoid robot DeepMind used in many demos can be seen with:bin/basic ../model/humanoid/humanoid.xmlA more advanced UI with a few controls:Test soure code: github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco/tree/5d46c39529819d1b31249e249ca399f306a108ac/simulate. Mentioned at: mujoco.readthedocs.io/en/2.2.2/programming.html#sasimulate
bin/simulate ../doc/_static/hello.xmlA very cool thing about that UI is that you can manually control joints. There are no joints in the hello.xml, but e.g. with the humanoid model:under "Control" you move each joint of the robot separately which is quite cool.
bin/simulate ../model/humanoid/humanoid.xmlThere's also a Mentioned at: mujoco.readthedocs.io/en/2.2.2/programming.html#sarecord but TODO that produced a broken video, related issues:
bin/record test executable that presumably renders the simulation directly to a file:bin/record ../doc/_static/hello.xml 5 60 rgb.out
ffmpeg -f rawvideo -pixel_format rgb24 -video_size 800x800 -framerate 60 -i rgb.out -vf "vflip" video.mp4 CUDA hello world Updated 2025-07-16
Daisy chain Bitcoin inscription Updated 2025-07-16
This is a term invented by Ciro Santilli, and refers to a loose set of uncommon Bitcoin inscription methods that involve inscribing one or a small number of payloads per Bitcoin transaction.
These methods are both inefficient and hard to detect and decode, partly because Bitcoin Core does not index spending transactions: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/61794/bitcoin-rpc-how-to-find-the-transaction-that-spends-a-txo. This makes finding them all that more rewarding however.
On the other hand, they do have the advantage of not depending on any block size limits, as their individual transactions are very small.
Dan Abramson Updated 2025-07-16
Dan, if you ever Google yourself here, please contact Ciro Santilli: Section "How to contact Ciro Santilli" to do something with OurBigBook.com. Cheers.
Julia Vie Updated 2025-07-16
Ross Ulbricht told her about Silk Road, but then later said he had sold the website to someone else, without really doing that.
- LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/julia-vie-35296959/
- Twitter profile: twitter.com/destenyrangel
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Jeremy Sturdivant Updated 2025-07-16
en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Jercos mentions:www.bitcoinwhoswho.com/jercosinterview is the source. Persumably the contact was initiated via the private messaging feature of the Bitcoin Forum.
According to jercos the transaction was finalized over IRC chats. Jercos was 18 at the time of the transaction.
Bibliography:
en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Jercos
en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Jercos
Jena SPARQL hello world Updated 2025-07-16
They have a tutorial at: jena.apache.org/tutorials/sparql.html
Once you've done the Apache Jena CLI tools setup we can query all users with Full Name (FN) "John Smith" directly fom the rdf/vcard.ttl Turtle RDF file with the rdf/vcard.rq SPARQL query:and that outputs:
sparql --data=rdf/vcard.ttl --query=rdf/vcard.rq---------------------------------
| x |
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| <http://somewhere/JohnSmith/> |
--------------------------------- James Howells Updated 2025-07-16
- www.linkedin.com/in/howelzy/Epic.
Might know a thing or two about landfills.
- www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lost-bitcoin-crypto-james-howells-b2406517.htmlThe bizarre saga started in 2013 when Mr Howells, put the hardware from an old laptop that contained 8,000 bitcoins, the world’s leading cryptocurrency, in a black bag in his hallway.
- www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67297013
Domain name speculation Updated 2025-07-16
apport (software) Updated 2025-07-16
Next.js example Updated 2025-07-16
Our examples are located under nodejs/next:
- nodejs/next/hello-world: a hello world. There's an in-tree one at: github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/e75361fd03872b097e817634c049b3185f24cf56/examples/hello-world, but ours is truly minimal
- nodejs/next/hoc: shows how to use a higher order component (HOC) to factor out
getStaticPropsacross two pages: nodejs/next/hoc/pages/index.js and nodejs/next/hoc/pages/notindex.js - nodejs/next/typescript: simple TypeScript example, minimized from: github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/d61b0761efae09bd9cb1201ff134ed8950d9deca/examples/with-typescriptNotably, that shows how
requireerrors are avoided in that case as mentioned at: stackoverflow.com/questions/64926174/module-not-found-cant-resolve-fs-in-next-js-application/70363153#70363153 - nodejs/next/localStorage: a counter that is persistent across page reloads by using
localStorage. Used in: stackoverflow.com/questions/54819721/next-js-access-localstorage-before-rendering-page/68136224#68136224
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