$ cat /dev/strawberry
So much to put here, but so little time to get it into publishable state. For
now I mostly collect stuff about programming and mathematics here. If you want
to contact me for some reason, simply contact semz at semelz.de or PM semz
on Libera.
Programming and Software
Interesting links
Mathematics
- Franz Lemmermeyer: Der Schwanz ist eine monoton fallende Exponentialfunktion (mirror), ein deprimierender Zustandsbericht über den deutschen Mathematikunterricht
Programming
- Sean Eron Anderson: Bit Twiddling Hacks - A classic, very useful when writing branchless code for e.g. SIMD or cryptography code.
- Dijkstra on the deleterious effects of anthropomorphism in science
- Rich Felker: What is [Memory] Overcommit? And why is it bad?
- Rich Felker: Rich's sh (POSIX shell) tricks - Doubles as an elaborate argument against Bourne Shell derived languages.
- Rob Pike: The byte order fallacy (mirror) - Why caring about the endianness of the system usually means you're doing it wrong.
- Marcus J. Ranum: The six dumbest ideas in computer security
- François-René Rideau: EVAL-WHEN considered harmful to your mental health - An
explanation of
eval-whenand why you only really need the(:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute)version of it.