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Origami artist Juho Könkkölä spent 50 hours folding an origami samurai from a single square sheet of paper, with no cutting or ripping used in the process. He describes his process on Reddit: Folded from a single square sheet of 95cm x 95cm Wenzhou rice paper…

Omniscient Mozart, being able to transcribe everything in the music, including vocal, drum, chord, beat, instruments, and more. - Music-and-Culture-Technology-Lab/omnizart

Anyway, with those changes we're up to a 94% pass rate for dEQP-GLES2 🙂 Pass: 13392, Fail: 642, Crash: 134, Warn: 20, Skip: 29, Timeout: 10, Flake: 39, Duration: 10:40, Remaining: 0

This is a small proof-of-concept. It relies on PGP - but you could use Keybase, GPG, or any other hard-to-use encryption program. Background Suppose you want to support an artist and give them money. That's easy. Most artists take PayPal, bank transfer…

Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM switch - haimgel/display-switch

A good scientist, in other words, does not merely ignore conventional wisdom, but makes a special effort to break it. Scientists go looking for trouble. — Paul Graham, What You Can’t Sa…

The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. The documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of civilian deaths — and scant accountability.

I've recently read an article criticizing Rust, and, while it made a bunch of good points, I didn't enjoy it --- it was an easy to argue with piece.
In general, I feel that I can't recommend an article criticizing Rust.
This is a shame --- confronting drawbacks…

Parsing, performance, and low-level programming.

The bizarre robots look like cobbled-together Tetris pieces. A new system "evolves" them to run, climb, and throw stuff better.

CNN literally selling public domain images from the Hubble Space Telescope as NFTs. Good lord. vault.cnn.com/packs/9 twitter.com/astrogrant/sta…

Perovskites toughen up displays

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites - Move myself to inactive · ytdl-org/youtube-dl@21b7590