"Pretend you are seven years old and don't care much about floating-point arithmetic..." I write @TwoBitHistory.
Joined December 2011
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Sinclair Target retweeted
7 Feb 2021
Trying to get back on this horse!
My latest post is my take (surprising and clever, of course) on why the ARPANET was such an important breakthrough, with a fun focus on the conference where the ARPANET was shown off for the first time:
twobithistory.org/2021/02/07…
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25 Nov 2020
We live in a brave new world of hyper-targeted marketing. Ernest Cline's new book appears to be going after that elusive younger sibling demographic
amazon.com/Ready-Player-Two-…
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20 Nov 2020
My god. The Pandas API is starting to make sense. I need to go outside
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2 Nov 2020
At last, after long four years, the horror and confusion of 2016 has been fully processed by our culture, revealing the ultimate truth about what it all meant:
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11 Oct 2020
Wouldn't it be GREAT if iMessage were clever enough to take your long, pre-composed essays and automatically split them into multiple extemporaneous-seeming texts?
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Sinclair Target retweeted
13 Apr 2020
So it begins.
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12 Feb 2020
Google delisted a post on my blog because my use of the word "did" in the title apparently infringes on the reality television show "Dance India Dance." It is now MY responsibility to contest this ridiculous complaint and get my page back into the search results. Thanks @google
12 Feb 2020
What the hell!!??????????????????????
Google has stopped listing arguably my most successful post because it apparently infringes on a reality show called "Dance India Dance"?!
Has anyone dealt with this before?
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4 Feb 2020
Surely there’s a joke in here somewhere about breaking SHA-1
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22 Jan 2020
“Beijing shops have sold out of high-spec surgical masks”—obviously terrifying but I’m there for the headlines with meter and sibilance
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16 Jan 2020
Nice. Gonna make it through grad school
16 Jan 2020
We have important news regarding Cyberpunk 2077’s release date we’d like to share with you today.
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15 Jan 2020
I love this mural in my grad school’s CS dept so much. Never has any artwork so powerfully induced in me the feeling of “wow, same”
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14 Jan 2020
Irrationally sad about the drop cap here looking great in Chrome but not Firefox. Is there a hotline for this kind of thing
nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
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Sinclair Target retweeted
5 Jan 2020
I first heard about the FOAF (Friend of a Friend) standard back when I wrote my post about the Semantic Web. I thought it was a really interesting take on social networking and I've wanted to write about it since. Finally got around to it!
twobithistory.org/2020/01/05…
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20 Dec 2019
Can confirm that The Witcher on Netflix has you covered if you’re looking for a mix between Game of Thrones and an Evanescence music video
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20 Dec 2019
Loving these photos of the decade round ups preceded by the warning “may contain graphic or objectionable content.” Indeed
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Sinclair Target retweeted
6 Nov 2019
I know it's been too long since my last post, but my new one is here! I wrote almost 5000 words on John Carmack, Doom, and the history of the binary space partitioning tree.
twobithistory.org/2019/11/06…
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28 Oct 2019
Confirm shaming has always been with us longer than you think
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Sinclair Target retweeted
20 Aug 2019
whether disney or sony should have spiderman, or what would be necessary for them to cooperate and merge for the production of spiderman, are not even the right questions
the answer is that spiderman was created in 1962 by the late stan lee and should be public domain by now
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