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zOneLetter•about 3 hours ago

`Baby Steps in C` is hilarious lol. I'll be buying the print editions going forward. They hooked me right in with that.

unprovable•about 1 hour ago

Fun fact - the computiles piece is an uncredited rediscovery of Wang's work from the 1960's on computable tilings. Specifically, he went as far to show that the halting problem is equivalent to the 'domino problem' - can we tile the plane using a given finite set of dominoes (aka tiles) where we have infinitely many copies of each and the tiling must preserve edge-meet criteria. Every tiling is a computer program, every computer program is a tiling.

Graziano_M•about 1 hour ago

It’s credited in section 3

Rendello•about 4 hours ago

I like page 30: The Subpixel Zoo. It must be hell for text rendering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering

gynvael•28 minutes ago

Sorry, we moved this. It's on page 37 now - "Hardware" section works better for this one than "Food for thought".

https://pagedout.institute/webview.php?issue=9&page=37&artic...

brainwad•about 1 hour ago

Desktop OSes just assume the vertical subtiles (at best with an option between RGB and BGR). TVs and mobile devices don't generally support subpixel rendering at all.

lubujackson•about 4 hours ago

I've never seen this before, it's like a modern 2600 - deeply technical, scattered topics and depth, all very hacker-curious - and beautifully designed to boot.

Rendello•about 2 hours ago

For those interested, anyone can write a (one-page) article:

https://pagedout.institute/?page=cfp.php

bbayles•about 4 hours ago

Michał Zalewski's article on page 42 is very funny.

mixedmath•about 3 hours ago

Would someone be interested in explaining what in the world is going on in that article?

q3k•about 3 hours ago

What do you mean? It's just simple beginner's examples in C. Should be easy enough to understand, C is famously very simple ('portable assembler' as they say!).

yu3zhou4•about 5 hours ago

My fav zine

brcmthrowaway•about 3 hours ago

The anime avatar twitter people have finally created something beautiful.

gynvael•about 2 hours ago

Ahaha thank you for this comment, it's peak internet meme culture. Made my day :D

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