Random links

• An exploration of why tools with multiple outputs are hard to describe in Makefiles.
• The meaning of "array list" mode in Nordic EasyDMA.
• Douglas Hofstadter writes about the shallowness of Google translate.
• The storage allocator used in LuaJIT, interesting for its repertoire of interfaces to the services of various operating systems.
• A puzzle about how shared pointers interact with lambdas in C++.
• A handy guide to finding fonts on GitHub.
• Manuals for Claude Shannon's Minivac 601.
• Krzysztof Apt's biographical article about Edsger W. Dijkstra.
• A wonderful example of the interaction between compiler optimisations and undefined behaviour.
• A bizarre note from Niklaus Wirth advocating the dis-invention of block structure in the name of 'functional programming'. (Local copy.)
• William Lane Craig's refutation of the 'central argument' of Dawkins' book.
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• Nerd sniping.
• Another place where the words Kripke and kōan appear on the same page (broken link).
• What is Computer Science? from Bristol.
• How Ulrich Drepper thinks we should organise memory for JIT.
• Thomas Harriot's manuscripts are online.
• The math blog of the other Mike Spivey who has an account at the Bank of San Seriffe.
• Assembler source for integer divison routines for the Cortex-M0.
• A penetrating analysis of what ails the Church of England.
• A promising-looking site about programming the RasPi-3 on the bare metal.