In drie programma’s vroeg men zich af: hoe krijg je een ex-topsporter klaar voor een tv-carrière. Bij de meesten gaat dat vanzelf. Bij Estavana Polman moet iedereen zich er eerst mee bemoeien.
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Varvara is a fantasy computer slash art project from Hundred Rabbits, based on the Uxn 8-bit virtual machine. Programmed in a Forth-like assembly langauge called Unxtal, it was originally designed as the foundation for a port of the iOS adventure game Oquonie, similar to the virtual machine used to power Another World. Since that time, it has found a small but appreciative community, with ports to new systems, games, and creative applications written for it. You can learn to write Uxntal with a tutorial, or try a livecoding environment in your browser.
Uxn first hit my radar as a part of the "collapse computing" movement, which aims to create software that could be run on low-powered hardware in the case of a supply-chain unravelling (this could be charitably portrayed as an attempt at conceptualizing more sustainable computing, or uncharitably as weird prepper bullshit for nerds). But after writing an implementation of Varvara, I think it's actually much more interesting than that: a system that contains a lot of very intentional friction for tasks that are interesting (meaning that they activate the part of puzzle-solving part of the brain) but don't necessarily scale, with the end result of incentivizing little personal software programs.
Uxn first hit my radar as a part of the "collapse computing" movement, which aims to create software that could be run on low-powered hardware in the case of a supply-chain unravelling (this could be charitably portrayed as an attempt at conceptualizing more sustainable computing, or uncharitably as weird prepper bullshit for nerds). But after writing an implementation of Varvara, I think it's actually much more interesting than that: a system that contains a lot of very intentional friction for tasks that are interesting (meaning that they activate the part of puzzle-solving part of the brain) but don't necessarily scale, with the end result of incentivizing little personal software programs.
They Met In A Convent, Now They're Married. This link is a short version of the story in English. This link is a much longer version of the story in Portuguese, but google translate works well on it. (Brasil)
De gewelddadige en compleet gestoorde gek Herman de K. sloeg in 2014 samen met zijn vader Hans de toen 54-jarige Cor Verolme dood. En waarom? Cor gedroeg zich 'irritant'. Zoon Herman ramde het hoofd van Cor in met een hamer. Vervolgens brak vader Hans, uit piëteit natuurlijk, de nek van het slachtoffer: "Ik heb daarna Verolmes nek gebroken. Het was één grote bende, zijn hersens lagen eruit." En daarna staken ze het lichaam in brand. U leest: Hans en Herman zijn nogal gek. Toch wil Herman nu dat zijn tbs wordt beëindigd. Om deze reden: "Voor jullie betekent een verlenging van twee jaar misschien niet veel, maar mijn hele leven gaat op deze manier naar de knoppen. (...) Zo kan ik hier nog wel tien jaar blijven zitten en gaat mijn hele leven naar de tering." Ja Herman, dan gaat JOUW leven naar de tering. Helemaal goed kerel!
Ukraine's top drone commander said Wednesday that Kyiv hit 20 Russian vessels in the Black Sea overnight.
BORK!BORK!BORK! Paris might sometimes be called "The City of Light" or perhaps "The City of Love" by the romantically inclined. Judging by this hotel's elevators, "The City of Bork" is more appropriate. Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Nathaniel in a Paris hotel, what we assume to be digital signage is instead stalled on the all too familiar American Megatrends BIOS configuration screen. The computer behind the scenes also seems a bit overpowered to serve information for hotel services. Instead of enticing elevator riders into the undoubtedly delightful bars and restaurants of the establishment (apparently a Novotel not far from the Eiffel Tower) or whatever it should be doing, this screen has temptations of an altogether more technical nature. A CometLake CPU? An i5 no less? Sort of up-to-date. And that 8 GB of RAM? The way memory prices are going, that might be enough to buy you a nice hotel room in some cities, and at least a decent coffee and a croque monsieur in Paris. It all seems a bit excessive for something that an elevator user might glance at impatiently, while cursing silently at whoever jabbed the call button on the floor that wasn't theirs. The 10210U CPU, launched at the end of 2019, is one of Intel's 10th-generation Core i5 processors (and so acceptable to Windows 11, although we're not sure we'd want Microsoft's flagship operating system anywhere near a metal box held aloft by steel cables). Aimed at the mobile segment – in this case, mobile in the vertical sense of the word – it wasn't a bad bit of silicon. It supported DDR4-2666 memory, which appears to be what is fitted here, and there was Intel UHD graphics as an option. Less than ideal for the latest polygon-heavy first-person shooter, but more than adequate for entertaining elevator riders for a few minutes. Or a sideways BIOS setup screen in text mode. ®
