Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping
https://ventspace.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/games-look-bad-part-1-hdr-and-tone-mapping/
https://ventspace.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/games-look-bad-part-1-hdr-and-tone-mapping/
Promit's Ventspace
Games Look Bad, Part 1: HDR and Tone Mapping
This is Part 1 of a series examining techniques used in game graphics and how those techniques fail to deliver a visually appealing end result. See Part 0 for a more thorough explanation of the ide…
Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline
https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline
The Verge
Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
It’s time to change to a new URL shortener.
Steam, Itch.io Are Pulling 'Porn' Games. Critics Say It's a Slippery Slope
https://www.wired.com/story/steam-itchio-are-pulling-porn-games-censorship/
https://www.wired.com/story/steam-itchio-are-pulling-porn-games-censorship/
WIRED
Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship
A conservative group is targeting payment processors as “a weapon” to get adult games deindexed in storefronts. Even games that have nothing to do with sex or abuse have been caught in the dragnet.
Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009)
https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python
https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python
Wisdom And Wonder
Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python
Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happened was because engineering in 1980 …
Tea App Users' Faces and IDs Reportedly Posted to 4chan in Security Breach
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/tea-app-users-faces-and-ids-reportedly-posted-to-4chan-in-security-breach/
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/tea-app-users-faces-and-ids-reportedly-posted-to-4chan-in-security-breach/
CNET
Tea App Users' Faces and IDs Reportedly Posted to 4chan in Security Breach
Women's driver's licenses and selfies are among the data rumored to be circulating online.
Implementing a Functional Language with Graph Reduction
https://thma.github.io/posts/2021-12-27-Implementing-a-functional-language-with-Graph-Reduction.html
https://thma.github.io/posts/2021-12-27-Implementing-a-functional-language-with-Graph-Reduction.html
The "computer janitor" of the Manhattan project
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/richard-hamming-the-computer-janitor-of-the-manhattan-project/
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/richard-hamming-the-computer-janitor-of-the-manhattan-project/
Allaboutcircuits
Richard Hamming: The ‘Computer Janitor’ of the Manhattan Project - News
If you've ever used a memory stick, streamed audio without glitches, or received deep-space telemetry from a probe billions of miles away, you’ve already encountered Richard Hamming’s work.