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Emu86 is open source: contributors welcomed!
This is a fun project -- I love writing interpreters! -- and it should be very helpful in giving students an idea of what assembly language is like without having to actually learn to run an assembler, and then a symbolic debugger for when their program bre...

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My assembler is progressing
Here . Some things are still a bit funky, but I've got MOV, ADD, SUB, IMUL, AND, OR, and XOR basically working. No memory addressing yet! What has been intresting is that getting the Django bits working has been way harder then getting the interpreter worki...

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CSS Bleg II
Thanks to Matt, I fixed the weird table format problem. Now I want to get the registers up next to the code input field. I copied the CSS for doing this straight out of a book... and it don't work the same! The problem is almost surely that some native Djan...

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Half a world
"Thus, Anaximander's universe and its later modifications are uniform. And yet they are not complete. They do not contain mythological events, dreams or spawns of imagination... We push the events in question out of our physical world and into another world...

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Understanding the Russian "hacking" meme
The election of Donald Trump as president was a (legal) coup against the military-industrial complex that has dominated the US for decades. The people who have benefited from that dominance are now staging a counter-coup. In staging a coup like the one we h...

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A junk room, deserted by the gods
"Note the tendency here [in Parmenides] that is commonplace in contemporary science: the thinker, that is, in antiquity the philosopher, deals with things that do not occur in intuition and that have paradoxical qualities. These are the things that are "rea...

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The disappearance of the gods
"the disappearance of the gods… today... is generally regarded as 'rational,' and the gradual elimination of divine traces as a further increase in rationality. Yet this means identifying rationalism with materialism -- a dubitable procedure based on a naïv...

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CSS table bleg
I have undertaken the somewhat humorous project of writing and x86 assembly language interpreter in Python. The purpose is to allow my operating systems students (and ultimately any other students) to get a "light" introduction to assembly language without ...

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Mis-using Word
I have co-authored quite a few papers and articles. I have also taught Microsoft Word to college classes. And so I can report with confidence that many, many academics, despite depending upon Word as a daily tool in their work, have no idea how to use it we...

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And the Mises moocher
The mathematics lecturer said he was next going to discuss "the Menger sponge." "Ah," I thought, "he's going to discuss that bloody socialist Wieser ! I'll bet he sponged off of Menger all the time!" But no, it turned out he discussed this: (Actually named ...
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