Australia’s Owen Gun

Australia’s Owen Gun

For these design reasons, as well as the gun firing only the light .22 caliber round, the Australian Ordnance Officers in Sydney informed Owen that his weapon would not be suitable for the Army, although it fired accurately and did not jam. Finally, an Australian Army colonel rejected Owen’s gun because Australian Imperial Force (AIF) commanders saw no value in SMGs, stating, “That is an American gangsters’ gun; the army has no use for those.” A second reason for not supporting an Owen SMG prototype centered on the Australian Army’s disinterest in a locally manufactured gun.

Source: warfarehistorynetwork.com

Making a Fortune Telling Machine (2016)

Making a Fortune Telling Machine (2016)

(As a side note, the number of guests at the wedding was 81; since each guest received two cards and the major arcana was reserved for Chris & Rob, there were a satisfyingly exact six decks in play.) The visual design of the cards matched the style that Rob and I put together for the invitations, programs, and other paper goods for the wedding: clean geometric stars, dashed lines, and text in Raleway in white on a full-bleed navy blue background. Photo by Rob The design on the card backs (and later, on the front of the fortune machine) was inspired by the overlapping circle motif of Mrs. Miniver’s Problem, which coincidentally becomes the “wedding rings” quilt pattern when repeated.

Source: lea.zone

Oak, a Free and Open Certificate Transparency Log

Oak, a Free and Open Certificate Transparency Log

“Sectigo is proud to sponsor the Let’s Encrypt CT Log. Finally, Let’s Encrypt often issues more than 1M certificates each day, so we wanted to design a CT log that is optimized for high volume. We’d like to thank Google, Sectigo, Cloudflare, and DigiCert for also running open logs, and we look forward to contributing to better transparency in Web security!

Source: letsencrypt.org

PHP in 2019

PHP in 2019

So much that PHP web applications have comparable — in some cases better — performance than web frameworks in other languages. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of new features in PHP:

While we’re on the topic of language features, let’s also talk about the process of how the language is developed today. While most of core development is done on a voluntary basis, one of the core PHP developers, Nikita Popov, has recently been employed by JetBrains to work on the language full time.

Source: stitcher.io

Modernity’s Spell

Modernity’s Spell

Mesmerism is the brainchild of Franz Mesmer, a German doctor born in 1734 who practiced medicine in Vienna and Paris, and who believed in the influence of magnetic fluids and astronomical movements on human physiology. Precisely because the debunking had attributed the marvelous effects of mesmerism to unruly imagination, the second crop of mesmerists proposes the practice as a way to harness and manage human belief in the supernatural and the outlandish. Either the suggestibility of patients to performed technique produced the effects, or their pre-existing beliefs in magical thrall made them receptive to the hypnosis or clairvoyance that magnetic fluid could really induce.

Source: www.thenewatlantis.com

Baba Is Turing Complete: A Sketch of a Proof

Baba Is Turing Complete: A Sketch of a Proof

Each loop, the rock produces four distinct objects; a love, a star, a moon, and a pillar. Finally, sequence of rules is executed in order to implement Cellular Automaton Rule 110, transforming the love, moon, and/or star into either a rock or nothing. We only care about the bottom row, so after the love, star, and moons are generated, we turn the rocks into pillars, so that they do not generate any more objects and become inert, simply displaying the history of the cellular automaton.

Source: www.twitlonger.com

PHP isn’t the same old crappy language it was ten years ago

PHP isn’t the same old crappy language it was ten years ago

So much that PHP web applications have comparable — in some cases better — performance than web frameworks in other languages. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of new features in PHP:

While we’re on the topic of language features, let’s also talk about the process of how the language is developed today. While most of core development is done on a voluntary basis, one of the core PHP developers, Nikita Popov, has recently been employed by JetBrains to work on the language full time.

Source: stitcher.io

Bill Gates: A critical step to reduce climate change

Bill Gates: A critical step to reduce climate change

Here are some key areas of innovation:

Carbon capture and storage and nuclear: I often hear that lower cost solar and wind power along with the emerging breakthroughs in energy storage mean that these sources will be enough to get us to a carbon-free power grid. A recent study from researchers at MIT found that supporting renewable energy with a mix of clean energy solutions—including nuclear and carbon capture and storage (CCS)—would make carbon-free electricity up to 62 percent cheaper than using renewables alone. High-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission technology—as opposed to the alternating current power lines most electric grids in the U.S. use today for transmission—would help us integrate renewable energy into our world’s power supply.

Source: www.gatesnotes.com

You Had Me, And You Lost Me: Why I don’t read Megatokyo (2004)

You Had Me, And You Lost Me: Why I don’t read Megatokyo (2004)

Piro was essentially the straight man for the craziness, and the fun of the strip was watching the straight laced young anime and manga fan try to cope with the insanity Largo brought into his life, while also dealing with the alien world Tokyo turned out to be, instead of how he’d imagined it. First off, a huge number of them are “Shirt Guy Dom” days — stick figure art done by one of Gallagher’s associates, in emulation of Sluggy Freelance’s “Shirt Guy Tom” filler art strips. Going back through the last several strips doesn’t show any Shirt Guy Dom’s (though it does show an ad for tee shirts that featured a sulky Piro complaining that he needs to actually produce a strip because “people are starting to complain,” which makes me think things haven’t changed all that much).

Source: www.websnark.com

Making a Fortune Telling Machine

Making a Fortune Telling Machine

(As a side note, the number of guests at the wedding was 81; since each guest received two cards and the major arcana was reserved for Chris & Rob, there were a satisfyingly exact six decks in play.) The visual design of the cards matched the style that Rob and I put together for the invitations, programs, and other paper goods for the wedding: clean geometric stars, dashed lines, and text in Raleway in white on a full-bleed navy blue background. Photo by Rob The design on the card backs (and later, on the front of the fortune machine) was inspired by the overlapping circle motif of Mrs. Miniver’s Problem, which coincidentally becomes the “wedding rings” quilt pattern when repeated.

Source: lea.zone