Articles by susam
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Equal Length Words (susam.net)

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Penn and Teller Help Rob Pike and Dennis Ritchie Play a Prank on Arno Penzias [video] (youtube.com)

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Creating Your Own Website (32bit.cafe)

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How I Make These ASCII Pictures and Links to Other Tutorials (2000) (archive.org)

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Love Actually is around Heathrow (2021) (heathrow.com)

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My Coding Adventures in 2025 (susam.net)

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Introduction to LoongArch (kernel.org)

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The Duodecimal Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 1, Year 1209 [pdf] (dozenal.org)

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Dear ACM, you're doing AI wrong but you can still get it right (recoil.org)

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How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit? (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

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Keyboard shortcuts – Perform common Firefox tasks quickly (support.mozilla.org)

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Larry Wall, the Guru of Perl (1999) (linuxjournal.com)

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Scripting on the Lido Deck (2000) (archive.org)

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I Fed 24 Years of My Blog Posts to a Markov Model (susam.net)

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Three Dogs Stroll (reddit.com)

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Show HN: A minimum viable Markov gibberish generator in 32 lines of Python (github.com/susam)

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The curious case of Mark V. Shaney (2008) [pdf] (rice.edu)

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HTML 3.2 Reference Specification (1997) (w3.org)

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Powers of Ten (1977) [video] (youtube.com)

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Planets and dwarf planets' tilt and rotation speed (wikimedia.org)

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The difference between meteorological and astronomical seasons (2025) (rmets.org)

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Lisp Style & Design (1990) [pdf] (archive.org)

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Transactions for Ghostty (hackclub.com)

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It's Not Always ICache (matklad.github.io)

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How do lava lamps help with encryption? (cloudflare.com)

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How can I have a Win32 drop-down combo box with a read-only edit control? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

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An ortographical typo in Zen of Python text (2008) (python.org)

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N-gated Hacker News (mastodon.social)

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Zork is now open source (zarfhome.com)

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content_scripts won't load with pdf.js tabs (2018) (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

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Unique shape of star's explosion revealed just a day after detection (eso.org)

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Demystifying a visual illusion: Why we see colour that's not there (southampton.ac.uk)

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Temml: A TeX-to-MathML conversion library in JavaScript (temml.org)

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3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf] (retrocmp.de)

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FDD – Diskettes (retrocmp.de)

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Re: A Few Comments on 'Age' (2019) (groups.google.com)

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When do the clocks go back? (rmg.co.uk)

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'Muggle' Goes into Oxford English Dictionary (2003) (bbc.co.uk)

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What are good math abbreviations? (reddit.com)

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Scrolls vol. 23 – IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity (shellsharks.com)

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The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension (2015) [pdf] (ppig.org)

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Apple's Jobs says Michael Dell should eat his own words (2006) (appleinsider.com)

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Who is André Nicolas, the #2 all-time user on Math SE, and what happened to him? (reddit.com)

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Internet Tilde Perfectly Conveys Something We Don't Have the Words to Explain (thecut.com)

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I Reinstated My Guestbook After 20 Years! (susam.net)

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Counting Mutually Attacking Knight Placements with Closed Form Expression (susam.net)

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Is "Open Source" ever hyphenated? (2024) (opensource.org)

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How We Picked the Name 'Monzo' (2016) (monzo.com)

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Lycos Buys Tripod for $58 Million (1998) (nytimes.com)

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I Reinstated My Guestbook After 20 Years! (susam.net)

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Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012) (boardgames.stackexchange.com)

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Codeberg Pages is now in maintenance mode (codeberg.org/codeberg)

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Why, in old books, are dates often given with the years redacted? (2012) (english.stackexchange.com)

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The winter solstice: the most human of days (sgtscholar.wordpress.com)

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Was da Vinci recognized as an inventor during his time, or mainly as an artist? (history.stackexchange.com)

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Analysis of Text Entry Performance Metrics (2009) [pdf] (archive.org)

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Synchronous Text (2019) (tive.org)

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Why can recv() in client program receive messages even after calling shutdown()? (stackoverflow.com)

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WebAIM's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Checklist (webaim.org)

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WebAIM: Seizure and Vestibular Disorders (webaim.org)

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Counting Mutually Attacking Knight Placements (susam.net)

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Tooltips and Toggletips (2017) (inclusive-components.design)

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NMS Ceefax (nmsceefax.co.uk)

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Teletext in North America (computer.rip)

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Change the default temp file prefix to be "SQLite" spelled backwards (2006) (sqlite.org)

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Miller-Rabin Speed Testing Examples (susam.net)

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ZFS scrubs check (much) less than you probably think they do (2018) (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2006) [pdf] (gaussianprocess.org)

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Mutually Attacking Knights Placements (susam.net)

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eBPF Networking Techniques – Packet Redirection (2023) (ldelossa.is)

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Miller-Rabin Speed Test (susam.net)

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Mutually Attacking Knights (susam.net)

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Moon Bugs (2018) (michalfarkas.net)

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The OEIS WebCam: Best Sequences (oeis.org)

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Mutually Attacking Knights (susam.net)

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Making the two-dimensional one-dimensional (johndcook.com)

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Zigzag Number Spiral - Closed Form Expression (susam.net)

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Zigzag Number Spiral (susam.net)

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Go's race detector has a mutex blind spot (doublefree.dev)

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Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD (undeadly.org)

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Lichess Accuracy Metric (lichess.org)

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Zigzag Number Spiral (susam.net)

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KaTeX – Supported Functions (katex.org)

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Lichess Accuracy Metric (lichess.org)

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My Blogroll Is Now My RSS Feed Reader (susam.net)

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Almost Always Auto (2013) (herbsutter.com)

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C++ Trailing Return Types (2022) (danielsieger.com)

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Clang-Format Style Options (llvm.org)

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Infinitic Tac Toe - There’s always a winner (maxwellito.github.io)

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Million Times Million (susam.net)

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Why do we use \C to end the output of the shell echo command? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go (2019) [pdf] (songlh.github.io)

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My Blogroll Is My Feed Reader (susam.net)

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Million Times Million (susam.net)

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Hundreds of Brother printer models have an unpatchable security flaw (theverge.com)

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The Implementation of Postgres (1990) [pdf] (dsf.berkeley.edu)

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Infinite Tic Tac Toe (maxwellito.github.io)

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History of the browser user-agent string (webaim.org)

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CS 325: CXML Parser (northwestern.edu)

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A Macro Story (Lisp) (northwestern.edu)