There Is No Antimemetics Division
by qntm
Random House, 2025
ISBN 9780593983751

IPv4 address 35.211.226.190 requested the URL /posts/dfuds/ from my blog’s web server 841 times between 2026-01-16 and 2026-03-10, approximately once every 45 minutes.

Two real fortunes, in fortune cookies from the local strip mall Thai and Chinese restaurant.

I got a set of non-transitive Grime dice from UK enterprise Maths Gear.

I have verified Grime dice with a monte carlo simulation, but it’s not that hard to calculate the actual probabilities.

I’m a long-term user of members of the vi family of text editors. I believe I discovered it in maybe 1988, when SGI loaned my employers an IRIX graphics workstation.

Dobby, my pet iRobot Roomba i3+ ingested a short micro-USB cable.

What kind of latch or flip-flop is the best analog to my pair of night lights?

The Great Geppy
William Pène du Bois
© 1940, by the author
The Viking Press, Inc

Cheap, sensor controlled night lights are available to happy US consumers.

The Wikipedia article on voltage doublers says that a Greinacher circuit works by “following a Villard cell stage with what is in essence a peak detector or envelope detector stage”.

What if you put the peak detector or envelope detector stage after a full wave bridge rectifier? What wave form would result?