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Identifier length and limited programmer memory
Dave Binkley, Dawn Laurie, Steve Maex, Christoper Morrell
Science of Computer Programming
Volume 74, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 430-445, ISSN 0167-6423

I wanted to convert a large number of string representations of common Base 10 number to Bijective Base 10. I found a textual method of creating the Bijective Base 10 string representations from Base 10 string representations.

Here’s an imitation of a pseudomathematician’s rant about the use of the symbol 0 (zero).

A paper I read on astronomically calibrating pre-Cambrian sediments to get a more accurate chronology of important evolutionary events led me to look up where Earth’s rotational axis has pointed over geological time.

The Just Born candy company, makers of Mike and Ike® brand candy (and of Peeps® brand marshmallow candies!) has some real talent for unsettling flavor and candy names.

How should you decide how well ssh tarpitting works? Can you tell if the people who run ssh password guessers have changed their code to account for the presence of endlessh in their target population?

Blindsight
Copyright © 2006 by Peter Watts
A Tor Essentials book
ISBN 978-1-250-23748-4

I found the advice from an Enlightened Unix Master about arranging input text for the the venerable troff typesetting system that seems to be ancestral to Semantic Line Breaks.

A not-quite-so-baffling Smurfs™ product from Dollar Tree. Full disclosure: I didn’t buy this, nor have I used it.

You can download the troff source of Brian Kernighan’s UNIX for Beginners - Second Edition from the Plan 9 archive of the 7th Edition Unix documentation. The Plan 9 people re-packaged the various files as bun archives probably sometime in the 1990s, but you can extract the troff input files and run them through GNU groff today, in the 21^st Century.