Lots and lots of amazing photos of moths by Nicky Bay!

"At Borneo Jungle Girl Camp, I stayed for 4 nights with a group of friends and returned with almost 7000 photos, recording almost 600 species of moths and lots of other insects and arachnids."

https://www.nickybay.com/moths-of-borneo-gunung-trusmadi/

#NickyBay #Moths #Images #Borneo #Entomology

@chrisg Nah. By then Emacs boots off bare metal, and everything runs as a buffer inside it. 🙂

A look at the inner beauty of basic electronic components. From the book, "Open Circuits" by @oskay and Eric Schlaepfer.

"As the authors write, everything about these components is deliberately designed to meet specific technical needs, but that design leads to “accidental beauty: the emergent aesthetics of things you were never expected to see.” "

https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-circuits

#Technology #Electronics #Electrical #Engineering

RIP, Fred Brooks, author of "The Mythical Man-month", managing developer of IBM's System/360 and much more.

"Steven M. Bellovin @SteveBellovin

Sad news from @unccs — Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago."

https://twitter.com/stevebellovin/status/1593414068634734592

[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks ]

#ComputerHistory #FredBrooks #Computers #IBM #System360

Of course, Improbable Research would feature this. 🙂

"Yuri Nakahashi, a student at Hosei University, Japan, wrote a thesis about sleeping with a cat night after night in locations chosen by the cat."

https://improbable.com/2022/03/19/sleeping-next-to-the-cat-wherever-the-cat-chooses-to-sleep/

#ImprobableResearch #Cats

Looks useful, especially for reading technical PDF documents (where you need to do a long of referencing and jumping around). On HN, the developer promises MacOS and Linux versions soon.

"Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed for reading research papers and technical books "

https://sioyek.info/

Via Hacker News [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27893303 ]. For Windows at the moment.

#Software #Documents #Research #PDF #Reading

Remotely connecting to computers was done before ARPANET. What ARPANET did was to standardize the way to communicate with computers over a network.

https://twobithistory.org/2021/02/07/arpanet.html

#Computers #Networking #ComputerHistory #NetworkingHistory #Arpanet #Internet