I collected several of my "New Living Internet Translations" of Classical Chinese passages in the style of social media posts onto one page. https://xn--hmr.net/classicalchinese/livinginternet/

#classicalchinese #translation #philosophy #localization

That was unexpected

M 4.9 - 1 km ESE of Boulder Creek, CA

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ew1775119290/executive

So I took @warrenm's MetalSlug (https://github.com/metal-by-example/MetalSlug) - itself an implementation of the https://sluglibrary.com paper…

Ported it to https://metalsprockets.com…

Optimised it so it renders all text in a single draw call (from an original 40,000 draw calls…)

And then entered the matrix?

Every glyph is vector. Whoa.

(Code needs a cleanup - it got messy but will put it online soon)

No Kings protests on Saturday, March 28.

Let’s make it a rally to remember.
Let’s encourage our friends and family to attend.
Let’s keep it peaceful and pleasant.
Let’s energize people to vote for Democrats.
Let’s stay safe and make some good trouble.

Lots of resources at https://www.nokings.org/
#UsPol #NoKings
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Holy fuck.
> #Pizlix - Memory safe #Linux from scratch
https://fil-c.org/pizlix

Compiles the whole userland with Fil-C. Can't wait for this to trickle down to security critical distros like #TAILS .

Don't read the rest of the site if you are prone to falling down #compiler implementation related rabbit holes. 

edit: Turns out the author has some yikes views.  
https://xcancel.com/filpizlo/status/1971729138542371312?s=46&t=xEl8MN2MK5LDZ0-nyPEPyg

in 1873, a relatively minor professional artist named Viktor Hartmann died suddenly in his 30s. As part of his memorial, an exhibition of his paintings was held, including his winning design proposal for a new "Great Gate of Kiev" which was never actually built.

Most of those paintings have since been lost, and no-one knows what they looked like. And yet you do know: you've heard them.

The memorial exhibition was attended by Viktor's grieving friend, Modest Mussorgsky. Modest walked slowly through the exhibition, which included drawings that Viktor had given to him personally, and went home and sat down at his piano. He composed one of the world's most famous pieces of music.

"Pictures at an Exhibition" is paintings we can't see and a gate that was never built, made known to us by a grieving musician.

complete recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwJMpQiqCm4

full context for the grieving orchid: https://xkcd.com/1259/

#classicalmusic