[Kert Gartner]’s ASCII Aquarium turns a cheap yellow display (CYD) into a tiny simulated aquarium, complete with ASCII sea creatures each with their own behaviors. There’s all kinds of options and ...

PCWorld explains how to insert special characters using Alt key codes and Microsoft Word’s Symbols library for enhanced document creation. Alt codes allow typing hundreds of symbols like copyright ...

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An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

ART is one of those Python libraries that will blow your mind, as it makes transforming any text into ASCII art or one-line art a breeze. For those who might not be familiar with it, ASCII art is the ...

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What comes to mind when you think of a slime tutorial? Hundreds of videos of children using glue and borax to make some horrifying concoction, perhaps? For the theater community, the phrase’s meaning ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII art. It turns out that chat-based large language models such as GPT-4 get so distracted ...