Steve Minutillo :: messy-78

Beijing girl, embarrassed to let go

steve — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:23:44 +0000

Jenny’s cousin Brandon is here visting from Taiwan and posts little stories like this to Facebook. When auto-translated they take on an almost poetic quality, and just enough of the meaning comes through to keep them intelligible:

A wonderful experience, with the mother in a New York subway station to buy a ticket today, when you are trying to put all my loose change into the machine, Chinese beauties from the side of a tall, long hair all of a sudden the bear hug me … … Tender lip with I cheek distance only 15 cm of affectedly sweet Beijing cavity, with I said “alas Hey you in do what,” I dear mother in aside hand plug Pocket see silly has eye,, and not for Vault by lure and the are Hong Kong Taiwan man and has wife of I, now not think is Aventure and immediately touch pants of purse and the phone are also stable, quietly whispers eyes with points melancholy of said “you found wrong people has, I not Yu wins”…… Beijing girl, embarrassed to let go

Latency

steve — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:35:47 +0000

Abrash and Carmack on latency. This, among I’m sure many other real world limitations, is what turned this exciting concept into this somewhat less exciting reality.

Also does it seem weird to anybody else that when I make a video call using Glass, the other party doesn’t see me, instead they see what I see? When I’m talking to somebody what I’m looking at is generally not that interesting, unless you like fidgeting, doodling, or pacing.

As if by magic

steve — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:44:54 +0000

Having recently replayed this classic game and then completing all the “homework” from this excellent book, I was left wondering how things really work down at the silicon level. The game I’m sure is a much simplified version of reality, and the book starts at the level immediately above the game. I looked at a few Wikipedia pages and whatever “Electronics 101″ class notes I could find, but all I managed to learn is that in the real world 1) everything needs to be grounded and 2) resistors are involved somehow? I think?

All that said, when I found this blog post by Ken Shirriff today, it was as if it was made just for me! The post zooms in on the actual silicon of the 6502 processor, showing in detail exactly how the overflow flag is calculated. Ever used an Apple II or an Atari 2600? These microscopic wires lit up every time the processor added two numbers.

So from the book, I know how to build an entire computer using only NAND gates. And now from this blog post, I KNOW HOW TO MAKE NAND.

New World Record – best opening lines of a spam message

steve — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:47:50 +0000

Dear Mr. Managing Director,

Have a nice day to you.

I received your contact information from a mold friend of mine.

This is how you diplomacy in 2012

steve — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:45:32 +0000

Advanced and Persistent

steve — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:26:53 +0000

Alternate universe? I meant Cyberpunk novel. My email program will now warn me if and when a state-sponsored attack on my account is suspected. That’s pretty astounding. Seems like the Internet cold war is rapidly heating up. Great time to be a security researcher though!

So Refreshing

steve — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:35:14 +0000

I love this dialog box from Screenshots of Despair. I would love to see the grief counseling available if you click “help me decide”. Here I have a counterpoint, a message of renewal that my IDE shows me several times a day:

.lol

steve — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:40:07 +0000

We are definitely living in an alternate universe. There is no way that in the normal universe the father of the Internet would register the .lol domain.

New New New New thing confirmed as newest thing EVER

steve — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:44:38 +0000

There it is, the new new new new thing, following in the footsteps of the new new new thing, the new new thing, and the new thing. You’ll never guess what’s next!

At least I can still wave my knols. What?

steve — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:35:49 +0000

Oh how quickly things change. Remember this post? It’s SO FOUR MONTHS AGO. First they announce that you can no longer feed your posts to your book as notes. Great. And streaming your buzzes to your circles? HA! WHAT buzzes?

So what to do now. Make a pipe that firehoses everything to a planet? Kind of old fashioned. Tweet shortlinks to pinboard? Two more services I’d have to sign up for. Maybe what I need to do is make my own plugin that can push each post to my plus… of course I’d have to use the graph to post notes to my wall for friends who aren’t in my circles. Bah, too much work.

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