appgurueu

local vars = {}
for i = 1, 50 do table.insert(vars, ("v%d"):format(i)) end
local all_vars, all_vals = table.concat(vars, ", "), "1" ..  (", 2"):rep(#vars - 1)
local pathological_code = ([[
local %s = %s
return function(get_all)
	if get_all then return %s end
	return v1
end
]]):format(all_vars, all_vals, all_vars)

osnr

A few years ago, I tried to turn a Pi Zero into a ‘synthetic USB stick’ – where you’d plug it into your laptop and it’d appear like an ordinary flash drive, but the program on the Zero could intercept reads and writes and dynamically generate content. Like a FUSE filesystem, but as a piece of hardware, sort of.

So you could edit a Python file on your laptop, save it to the USB drive, and then the output of your Python code would magically appear as a sibling file on the drive; things like that. I thought it would be particularly cool as a way to get some dynamism and programmability

shaunlebron

Transcribed from an interview with Toby Schachman and Paula Te on The Afrofuturist Podcast:

There's this notion of the open-source movement. There are a lot of things
that we totally resonate with that because it's about understanding how your
technology works. We're totally 100% on board with that.

But then there are other issues with the open-source community, where it's
very internet-based and so open-source ends up benefitting this group of
people who have really strong access to internet and understand how to use

paniq

from math import *

# a performant solution would store a prefix sum of line lengths to
# a sidechannel and then use that to do a bsearch; on the GPU,
# you'd do a sum tree / histopyramid as a preprocessing step
def find_point(points, d):
    d = d
    for i in range(1, len(points)):
        x0,y0 = points[i-1]
        x1,y1 = points[i]

egmontkob

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

[ Update 2020-05-31: I won't be maintaining this page or responding to comments anymore (except for perhaps a few exceptional occasions). ]

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

daurnimator

--[[
A short module to read binary floating point numbers for lua.
]]

local has_ffi , ffi = pcall ( require , "ffi" )
local has_bit , bit = pcall ( require , "bit" )

local read_float , read_double
if has_ffi and has_bit then
	local cast = ffi.cast

fish.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python3.2

"""

Python interpreter for the esoteric language ><> (pronounced /ˈfɪʃ/).
Usage: ./fish.py --help

More information: http://esolangs.org/wiki/Fish

Requires python 2.7/3.2 or higher.

KartikTalwar

/* file: "tinyc.c" */

/* Copyright (C) 2001 by Marc Feeley, All Rights Reserved. */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

/* 
 * This is a compiler for the Tiny-C language.  Tiny-C is a