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"The basic maze generating routine had been partially written by a stoner who had left. I contacted him to try and understand what the maze generating algorithm did. He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain, he coded it up in assembly overnight before he passed out, but now could not for the life of him remember how the algorithm worked."
Slightly older article. More research hsa been done since then: https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue59/3/index.html

This sounds like a cool idea

"It’s a mistake to judge The Fediverse as though it’s a Valley startup" - 2018 article about how all the "Mastodon is doomed!" articles going around at the time were based on evaluating it on completely the wrong criteria.

"Where do hands and fingers fall on the device? This question is the linchpin for every form factor this book examines, and the answer tells you how to design your layout for comfort and efficiency. Since we hold phones, phablets, tablets, and laptops very differently, it’s no surprise that each of these touchscreen variations has its own UI needs."
Older article, but the length of the human thumb hasn't changed in the last decade. Though it has been a while since I've seen the term "phablet."

"Six months ago I inhaled a rare, flesh-eating bacteria that nearly killed me.
Naturally, I went back and interviewed my doctors (among others) about what might have happened, had I been uninsured."

"There are two dangers of measuring happiness along just one axis. The first is that you will be easily disappointed, because the unbalanced approach to maximizing a single variable increases the chance that you will end up behind.
And the second is that you might actually succeed in hitting a limit. And then where will you find your happiness?"

"Instead of worrying that emoji is replacing competent language use, we can celebrate that emoji are creating a richer form of online communication that returns the features of gesture to language."

"Australia's nine-year "millennial drought" transformed attitudes toward water. Could California duplicate the gains without the pain?"

"The Farm, as it was known, was a social-studies experiment established by UC Irvine in 1968, in which members of indigenous groups from Samoa, Mexico and Guatemala were invited to inhabit the old Irvine Ranch buildings adjacent to the campus so that they could teach scientists and university students about their ways of life."
Let's just say my experience at UCI was *much* different!