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user: weird_user created: 2023-01-04 karma: 801 submissions: Navigating the High Seas 5 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Double-mirror illusion 118 points | 46 comments The evolution of the On/Off power switch symbol (2008) 61 points | 62 comments The story of titanium 350 points | 181 comments Indiana Almost Made π 3.2 2 points | 0 comments Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003) 81 points | 43 comments Don't let websites overwrite clipboard in Firefox 33 points | 3 comments 0 points | 0 comments When the Null Pointer Is Valid 4 points | 0 comments The God of War 1 points | 0 comments Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions? 1 points | 1 comments The Remarkable Pneumatic People-Mover 2 points | 0 comments Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method 3 points | 1 comments Digital Fly-by-Wire: The Apollo Guidance Computer's Final Gift [video] 2 points | 0 comments Favorite Wikipedia articles about science 3 points | 1 comments Things Programmers Can Do in 1 Week 4 points | 2 comments Nuclear Conversion for Starship 139 points | 151 comments Super-Earths in Need for Extremly Big Rockets (2018) 36 points | 50 comments Bootstrapping Instruction Set 1 points | 0 comments Levenshtein automata can be simple and fast (2015) 2 points | 0 comments Let's build A distributed, concurrent editor 4 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Challenges in Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems (2009) [pdf] 1 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998) 2 points | 0 comments Build a Tiny Compiler from Scratch 3 points | 0 comments Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (2018) 226 points | 90 comments