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lifthrasiir

14,215 karma · joined February 20, 2010

Kang Seonghoon aka lifthrasiir and many other nicknames. (Twitter @senokay, Bluesky @mearie.org, Github @lifthrasiir, https://mearie.org/) Views my own, I'm not a laywer (nor any other occupation that might require professional qualifications), your mileage may vary, yadda yadda yadda.

Brief bio: Born in South Korea. Was a wannabe programming language researcher until I realized I'm not fit for the academia. Went to several startups with various duties. Then became a gamedev---primarily server frameworks and infrastructure but did many others too---in a big company for nearly a decade until I finally burnt out. Then worked for an ML accelerator startup doing tons of systems programming. Still doing strange things over the course: one winning IOCCC entry, a full-fledged type checker for Lua, several influential Rust libraries including Chrono, compression stuffs like Roadroller and J40 etc. Known for needlessly big walls of text.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/lifthrasiir; my proof: https://keybase.io/lifthrasiir/sigs/dGcjGsucdiIiTpeVc7WH5YfQNZnkypj-azYwkMJH60Y ]

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Metaprogramming for Madmen (2012)

fgiesen.wordpress.com·68 pts·lifthrasiir·
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CERT/CC: Sensational bug names spark fear, hype; we'll give flaws our own labels

theregister.com·2 pts·lifthrasiir·
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The average HTTP response code

aarontag.dev·1 pts·lifthrasiir·
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The Infinity Machine

chiark.greenend.org.uk·2 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Twitter testing automatic translations for tweets in different languages

9to5mac.com·1 pts·lifthrasiir·
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There are 48 regular polyhedra [video]

youtube.com·2 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Human-readable 2D Barcode (Concept)

mitxela.com·2 pts·lifthrasiir·
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JS1024 Annual JavaScript golfing competition (js1k successor)

js1024.fun·4 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Wavenerd: Small and experimental live coding gadget using GLSL codes

twitter.com·1 pts·lifthrasiir·
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IE6-compatible SPA example in TypeScript

github.com·3 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Trávník's smooth self-referential formula

jtra.cz·2 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Ordinal Markup: an incremental game based on ordinal numbers

ordinal-markup.glitch.me·2 pts·lifthrasiir·
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QID Emoji Proposal

unicode.org·1 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Nth commit must have commit hash with N leading zeros

github.com·133 pts·lifthrasiir·
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No Maintenance Intended

unmaintained.tech·236 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Mutant Standard – an alternative emoji set standard

mutant.tech·1 pts·lifthrasiir·
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How to Pass the Turing Test by Cheating [pdf]

nyu.edu·1 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Metric Interchange Format

people.csail.mit.edu·4 pts·lifthrasiir·
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GrafEq Gallery

peda.com·1 pts·lifthrasiir·
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The Unicode Consortium Launches New Website in Celebration of World Emoji Day

home.unicode.org·3 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors

ieeexplore.ieee.org·2 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Tenants get real keys after suing landlords for fitting smart-lock to front door

theregister.co.uk·16 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Golf.horse – leaderboards for the Kolmogorov complexity of word lists

golf.horse·2 pts·lifthrasiir·
0

Generative Art with CSS

web.archive.org·1 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Minard / Morse / Tufte and Authenticity on the Web (2018)

masswerk.at·70 pts·lifthrasiir·
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A draft proposal for handling RTL and BiDi text in terminal emulators

terminal-wg.pages.freedesktop.org·1 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Autograms: Self-enumerating Sentences

autograms.net·121 pts·lifthrasiir·
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RISC-V XBitmanip Extension

github.com·4 pts·lifthrasiir·
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners

petrl.org·2 pts·lifthrasiir·
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Tom Scott: How the First Ever Telecoms Scam Worked [video]

youtube.com·2 pts·lifthrasiir·
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