ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Some promising and exciting research from my own university (#RMITUniversity) on development of very clever catalytic #chemistry to allow production of #hydrogen from seawater without prior desalination. Find out more in this news article and in the primary research published in Small on:
https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/media-releases-and-expert-comments/2023/feb/hydrogen-seawater

#greenhydrogen #energy

Beautiful Dicky Beach on the Sunshine Coast #photography #landscape

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#generative #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #Processing #glsl #shaders #monochrome #maze

Top-notch observation disguised as a meme. It's not new, but it's great.

Often, math is beautiful. When it isn't beautiful, that kind of blows my mind.
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RT @KangarooPhysics
The optimal known packing of 17 equal squares into a larger square - i.e. the arrangement which minimises the size of the large square.
https://twitter.com/KangarooPhysics/status/1625423951156375553

Apropos everything, I’m reminded of this from Douglas Adams:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

struggling (noun): an adolescent Strugg

My three favourite things are eating my family and not using commas.

incredible stuff here Bing

Before criticising someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then you'll be a mile away. And you'll have their shoes. -- Jack Handey

Being a Linux developer is just repeated adventures in discovering that almost any electronic device you purchase is in violation of international treaties and you're technically in a position to enforce that

Periodic reminder of this 1999 review of Google

Australian standards should be public domain

Over 450 malicious PyPI python packages were found installing malicious Chromium browser extensions to hijack cryptocurrency transactions made through browser-based crypto wallets and websites.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/451-pypi-packages-install-chrome-extensions-to-steal-crypto/

Apple has released emergency security updates to address a new zero-day vulnerability used in attacks to hack iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apple-fixes-new-webkit-zero-day-exploited-to-hack-iphones-macs/

Got my 1982-vintage 326298 Commodore 64 motherboard working again. Three main faults: Me being a dork and confusing the 74LS08 in the memory multiplexing section with a 7406 (I swapped out the original with the wrong chip a while back), a bad RAM chip and a faulty NE556-chip in the reset circuit. Now it works all fine again. I've modded this one quite a lot, it's converted from NTSC to PAL, and the reset circuit is now the same as the usual one in newer C64 motherboards. Also corrected the well documented issues with wrong value caps and resistors, the only thing that's left to do is to swap out the filter caps for the SID.

The discussions about #GoLang and it's future are intriguing. I started with BASIC and FORTRAN IV back in the early 70s. Went through ALGOL, Simula 67, APL, PL/1, LISP, BCPL, and more at college, then yet more new languages in subsequent jobs.

I guess this makes me language agnostic, or independent.

So long as the code can be read I'll write it, but I want it to do what I want, and *only* what I want, not what the language creator-owner wants.

No data to be sent to Google, no way.