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+title: "Link clearance #3"
+date: 2025-09-01T12:25:00-07:00
+categories: ["link clearance"]
+---
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+This one is even lower effort than [#2](./2). Not even annotations for most because these recorded when I was on cellphone.
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+Oh, the **very first bullet is good**, heavily recommended read. Heck, I even bothered to type out that much text on my phone!
+Also, ok, I guess I did put in the effort to add link text, because otherwise this will literally be just a wall of links. Please appreciate that :D
+
+I should put in more effort in distinguishing between verbatim titles in link text, and own paraphrasing. Ugh, too much effort! Sorry!
+
+- [The Eternal Maineframe](https://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html)
+  Mainframe was never and still isn’t about the physical form, the racks and racks of metal upon which computers hung. It’s about inaccessibility (“priesthood”) and centralization.
+  “If offline use becomes uncommon, then the great and the good will ask: “What are you hiding?”
+  Aren’t all prophesies almost necessarily be slippery slopes? Talks of chance and reasonableness almost certainly fails when the scope is far far long in the future.
+
+- Series on tangents and meandering into epistemology
+  - [Rule Thinkers In, Not Out](https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/26/rule-genius-in-not-out/)
+  - [Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Thinking](https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/)
+
+- Very good [introduction to cryptography](https://www.crypto101.io) for application programmers
+
+- Comprehensive introduction to [using DDD](https://begriffs.com/posts/2022-07-17-debugging-gdb-ddd.html#gdb-front-ends) (the GDB frontend)
+
+- [Code Generation in Rust vs C++26](https://brevzin.github.io/c++/2024/09/30/annotations/)
+
+- [How Pi Almost Wasn’t](https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/how-pi-almost-wasnt/)
+
+- [The internet 20 years ago, or so as people thought](https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-01-07/the-internet-hasnt-made-us-bad-we-were-already-like-that-the-mistake-of-yearning-for-the-friendly-online-world-of-20-years-ago.html). I think this again is on HN frontpage at one point.
+
+- [Fan subbing effects](https://www.md-subs.com/blog/creative-fansubbing-techniques-2) (and why it’s better than your netflix srt subs) for outsiders
+
+- [Blacksmithing and Lisp](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43566651)
+
+- [What is HDR?](https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/)
+  Fantastic article (and blog!) clarifying all the mysteries behind HDR, specicially wrt. photography (as opposed to rendering).
+
+- Chomsky's (yes that one) [critique on LLM](https://chomsky.info/20230503-2/)
+
+- Series on investigation on Windows command line parsing
+  - [The wild west of Windows command line parsing](https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/02/18/)
+  - [How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed](https://daviddeley.com/autohotkey/parameters/parameters.htm)
+
+- [The radix 2^51 trick](https://www.chosenplaintext.ca/articles/radix-2-51-trick.html)
+
+- [Someone's rambling on centering](https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/)
+  Good introductory ideas, but leaves something to be desired on the topic of actually *designing* iconography and dealing with centering. Also, the sweeping take on icon fonts is inappropriate (granting the point of text centric logic used by fonts is unapt for icons).
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+- https://www.hopefulmons.com/p/children-of-the-geissler-tube
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+- [缺字危机：一本书背后有多少不存在的汉字？——「表意」文字体系与数字编码规则间的深层冲突](https://m.douban.com/note/872644094/)
+  About encoding and designing fonts for ancient Chinese glyphs.
+
+- [装配线上的“麦门”打工人](https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20250701A07MTZ00), 摘自虹线周刊