Lydia Loveless, Let’s Make Out.

What Gemini is doing, is saying “we don’t need no videos, images, stylesheets, nor JavaScripts, because we want to have a lightweight web experience, so we throw all that crap out!”. Fine, sounds great. But why does it require a new protocol for that? Why couldn’t one simply build on top of existing HTTP infrastructure, throw away all the baggage and instead implement a new Content-Type, which existing browsers then could parse? — Gemini is Solutionism at its Worst

Do you feel like Google search results keep getting worse?

Hot end of the week in the kitchen ;-)

  Jacques Loussier Trio, Gymnopédie No. 1, Variation 1.

Postgres Indexes for Newbies. #database

  Stefano di Battista, Cosa avete fatto a Solande.

How vectorization speeds up your Python code. #python

Luschny’s webpage cites, for example, recent treatments of the subject by leading mathematicians such as Terence Tao. And his most compelling argument, from my personal perspective, is the way he unveils the early publications: I learned from him that my own presentation of the story, in The Art of Computer Programming and much more extensively in Concrete Mathematics, was a violation of history! I had put words and thoughts into Bernoulli and Euler’s minds that were not theirs at all. This hurt, because I’ve always tried to present the evolution of ideas faithfully; in this case I’d fooled myself, by trying to conform what they wrote to what I’d learned. — Concrete Mathematics and Bernoulli