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A bridge made from 3D-printed wedge-shaped hollow concrete blocks held together by gravity and compression—no mortar or reinforcement required
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Kanawa tsugi, or Japanese scarf joint: a way of joining two timbers without metal or nails but instead using intricate carving and a wooden peg
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Oddly named package for producing a diagram of your Django project's object model
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Fifty years of text games: 1976: Adventure. My dad introduced me to this game (a version named ADVENT) when he took his children to the college where he worked. We typed commands in to a terminal connected to a networked PDP-11.
(Via Tony Finch's link log)
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BBC 1968 radio dramatization of The Hobbit is available to listen to gratis on archive.org.
(Via @gwjschenk on Twitter)
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Type & Media graduates for 2020
(Via @typemedia on Twitter)
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Carry-propagation is expensive in modern CPUs because it reduces parallel processing, so adding 256-bit integers by switching to base-2**51 and deferring carry propagation until the end can counterintuitively be faster.
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I really enjoyed Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop, a Japanese animated film available on Netflix. The setup is as old as time: haiku-writing boy collides with live-streaming girl in a shopping centre built on the site of an old vinyl-pressing plant. Energetic, colourful animation that makes a lot of anime look pastel by comparison.
(Linking to the Japanese site because there isn’t an official one in English.)
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Breakdown on life on Earth in terms of biomass (measured in millions of tonnes of carbon). Scroll down for a surprise!
