weekly reel June 25, 2023
👋, passerby, and music with more The Bad Plus.
Never Stop II by The Bad Plus (bandcamp.com)
News
[fr] Science Étonnante : La formule qui a transformé la finance mondiale : Black-Scholes.
Not just bikes - The dumbest excuse for bad cities: size and Oh the urbanity: The human-scale urbanism of Dutch suburbia.
Tang ping, a.k.a. “lying flatism”.
Tech
Please remind me how we are moving forward. In this video, a machine from year ~2000 (600MHz, 128MB RAM, spinning-rust hard disk) running Windows NT. Note how snappy opening apps is. HN.
Imaginary problems are the root of Bad Software. HN.
Masnick’s Impossibility Theorem: Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well (2019).
sirrandalot: Make your Blender renders unnecessarily complicated, via Nelson.
Games
Quake done Quickest Lite: Full run in 10:09, Cinematic movie, Commentary with runners by “Quake speedruns explained”.