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@oblomov they are just hedgehogs, you can find them in nature, I'm told.

Gallery of #Futhark hedgehogs: https://futhark-lang.org/hedgehogs.html

Is the PDF viewer on the ACM DL wrong, or does the original QuickCheck paper
have terrible kerning? https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/351240.351266 Downloading the PDF from the ACM DL also results in a PDF with visual artifacts and overlapping letters, but this one is fine: https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/john-hughes/quick.pdf Has the ACM DL started passing PDFs through some buggy filter?

Managed a lecture about demand paging without crashing my laptop. Linux must have grown more robust in the presence of OOM.

Correcting exams this week, and my procrastination rate is becoming astronomical.

I always thought those "for dummies" books were oddly titled. I'd rather write a book "Futhark for the Handsome and Witty". But then one of my friends pointed out that maybe those titles do sell, and it's a better strategy to double down and write e.g. "JavaScript for Idiots" or "Friendless Racists' Intro to C#".

I really like websites about single topics. And I just found another one, this
time about cellular automata: https://cell-auto.com/