Mathematics illustration software by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Many plotting software can be used to create mathematics illustrations. They just tend to have more data-oriented rather than explanatory-oriented output.
Mainframe computer by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Tape drive by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
One of the most enduring forms of storage! Started in the 1950s, but still used in the 2020s as the cheapest (and slowest access) archival method. Robot arms are needed to load and read them nowadays.
Video 1.
Web camera mounted insite an IBM TS4500 tape library by lkaptoor (2020)
Source. Footage dated 2018.
Open source CAD software by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Optimization problem by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Decompiler by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
SpaceX by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Video 1.
What Elon Musk's 42,000 Satellites Could Do To Earth by Tech Insider (2020)
Source. Good primer. The main difference from older systems is that they fly closer to Earth, and are not geostationary. As a result, you have better latency. But you also need a bunc of them to have continuous coverage of an area.
Torus by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Blood by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Christian denomination by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Gunpowder by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Change of basis between symmetric matrices by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
When we have a symmetric matrix, a change of basis keeps symmetry iff it is done by an orthogonal matrix, in which case:
Cellular compartment by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Meiosis by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Cataclysm DDA build from source on Ubuntu 21.10 by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
sudo apt build-dep cataclysm-dda-curses cataclysm-dda-data cataclysm-dda-data
git clone https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
cd Cataclysm-DDA
git checkout cdda-experimental-2022-01-27-0622
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DTILES=ON -DSOUND=ON -DLOCALIZE=OFF ..
make -j`nproc`
fails with:
:part_index_’ may be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
   55 |             return part_index_;
as reported at: github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/52657 now open for 3 months. Basically every commit I tried fails with a different -Werror check, they don't test GCC new enough regularly.
Carbon-14 by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Alan Watts by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
While listening to endless hours of vaporwave while coding, Ciro Santilli spotted some amazing Buddhist-like voice samples, and eventually found that they were by Allan Watts.
Self-help? Maybe. Cult leader? Maybe. But at least it is one that Ciro buys into.
Is there a correlation between software engineers and Buddhism and liking the dude? Because this exists: wattsalan.github.io
Nirvana by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Sand mandala by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created

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