March 2010
12 posts
WatchAuto Smiley analyzes your face while you are working and if it detects a smile it sends the the ascii smiley face letters “: )” as keyboard presses to the front most application. (via Auto Smiley – Computer vision smile generator - grazie uelni, è bellissimo)
heisenbug: /hi:´zen·buhg/
[from Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics] A bug that disappears or alters its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it. Antonym of Bohr bug; see also mandelbug, schroedinbug. In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialized auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (esp. lossage related to corruption of the malloc arena) or...
“il sapore ineguagliabile della pizza nel forno a legna lo riconosci appena la...”
What good did all the airport legislation achieve? None. It simply means that you and I now must get to the airport six years before the plane is due to leave and arrive at the other end with yellow teeth, smelly armpits and no nail file. Did it prevent a chap from getting on board with exploding underpants? No, it did not.
Happily, however, I have a solution to the problem, a way that normal...
“My mind circles around all of the biological metaphors we use for these things...”
– Chromium Notes
