Random post #743447

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Commentary

Came across this article from six years ago, on the hilarity, or seriousness, and the need, or abuse, of "emotional support animals". The author managed to get an exemption for carrying aro…

Fantastic Fungi

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Movies

I saw a poster for Fantastic Fungi somewhere (can't remember where now) last year, and since I'd just seen The Hidden Life of Trees, I was immediately curious. I found https://fantasticfungi.…

On the "unix philosophy"

Computing

There's this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ea3pkTCYx4 There's this blogpost about an aspect of the talk: https://blog.deref.io/unix-and-microservice-platforms/ There's this disc…

A poetic paradox

Curated

Caveat: I like poemhunter.com, but it's extremely ad-riddled, and the only way it's tolerable to me any more is in "reader-mode" that strips out all the distracting fluff. I read ra…

The World of Tomorrow

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Curated History

I came across the old footage of the 1939 World's Fair, which was promoted, at the time as "the world of tomorrow", talking about the magnificent world of twenty years from now, of 1960!…

(Through) A Scanner Darkly

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Movies

I had written previously about how 2006 was a year with a lot of great movies. Yet, since I was going by what came to mind then, there was one important omission: “A Scanner Darkly” If you didn’t kn…

Rediscovering Disco

Music

After dipping into movie soundtracks several years ago, I haven't actually returned to any other consistent "genre" (I know soundtracks aren't a genre, I lack a better word, and musi…

Simple calculator in Rust

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Programming

Sometime last year, I had tried writing a parser for basic arithmetic to drive a simple calculator in Scala. To follow-up, I decided to try writing this in Rust. I looked at some parser crates, sett…