BruceEel

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Regression with the C64(tensorthings.com)
49 points by BruceEel 5y ago|31 comments
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by BruceEel 5y ago
Pretty sure I'm singing to the choir here, but "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", I literally cannot recommend it enough.
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by BruceEel 5y ago
Indeed. This is purely a guess but my hunch a is that something like Breakthrough Starshot may already provide a glimpse of what will turn out to be the most viable and practical mid and long term solution, even for us...
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by BruceEel 5y ago
This is very true and I guess we should be weary of making assumptions about other civilizations' means and motives...
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by BruceEel 5y ago
> It is very unlikely that even Kardashev Civilizations of type II might build magnetic ramjets with axial solenoids. Well, this is a bummer. So, likely unfeasible for type I and II, certainly unfeasible for us... and type III, if they e
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by BruceEel 5y ago
This seems an irresponsible decision.
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by BruceEel 5y ago
Haven't had one for a (long) while but centuries ago I used to set it to: https://dailyrotation.com/ Amazingly, it still exists and appears to be up-to-date.
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by BruceEel 5y ago
and let's not forget our masterpiece "ten to half five", one of the most straightforwardly intuitive ways of saying "16:20"...
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by BruceEel 5y ago
Netherlands calling. Same problem over here. Perhaps I would find inversion a little bit less annoying if it were at least applied consistently but no "123" = "one-hundred-three-and-twenty"!
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by BruceEel 5y ago
Demos look very cool. Not including inverse Q's and hearts, not that retro apparently (probably a good thing.) Made me think of this post (2008) by James Hague: 'Slumming with BASIC Programmers' https://prog21.
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by BruceEel 5y ago
More like a cheat booklet ;-) Very nice!
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by BruceEel 5y ago
you mention it by name, the best macOS version ever (IMHO.)
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by BruceEel 5y ago
Purely based on the screenshots, I'd say that as UI design, theming and 'chrome' go, I'll take this over my current macOS (Big Sur) any day...
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by BruceEel 5y ago
> A fascinating account of someone productively using Kedit is included in the following article by John McPhee, of all people A truly fascinating read, thanks for sharing!
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by BruceEel 5y ago
..and a reminder to add Elias Canetti's 1960 masterpiece "Crowds and Power" to your to-read list! He won the Nobel prize in 1981 largely because of this book. You can read it online (as PDF too), at no charge.
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by BruceEel 5y ago
It's one of my faves too, so many wild ideas in that book! I've seen Simak's writing being characterized as 'pastoral scifi', I think that's accurate and we don't really have a contemporary equivalent to i
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by BruceEel 5y ago
This is very neat indeed. It could perhaps become an unofficial standard of sorts if enough developers adopt it...
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by BruceEel 5y ago
> My experience has been that very, very rarely is any installation as straightforward as "curl && ./configure && make PREFIX=whatever install", partially due to everyone in the known universe thinking they
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by BruceEel 5y ago
My experience is that both (Macports, Homebrew) are comically unreliable and frustrating to use. That said, with my insistence to install under $HOME, Macports seems to work slightly better. But truly, I got the best results from downloadin
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by BruceEel 5y ago
Memorable one. I miss Collins' x86 articles.
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Carl Sagan's 1994 “Lost” Lecture: The Age of Exploration(youtube.com)
2 points by BruceEel 5y ago|0 comments
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by BruceEel 5y ago
well put...
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by BruceEel 5y ago
Nice. Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOGru_4z1Vc ...bears reposting.
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by BruceEel 5y ago
Sharing this as I thought other HN'ers may find this type of command line utility useful. Although I sometimes get around tedious file renaming tasks using Total Commander, I've found myself more and more often missing a scriptabl
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Show HN: Multiplatform search&replace in file/directory names(github.com)
2 points by BruceEel 5y ago|1 comments
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by BruceEel 5y ago
..and in case you haven't watched yet, check out the excellent Melvyn Bragg docu/interview (available on YT here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Le9zFw-uc )
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Newly identified species of saber-toothed cat in North America during Miocene(sciencealert.com)
41 points by BruceEel 5y ago|14 comments
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by BruceEel 5y ago
Identifying Sensitive Program Portions.Control and data flow linearization need to be applied only to regions affected by secret data, as protecting non-leaky code only hampers performance. Idk, interesting, if you ca
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A Drake Equation for Alien Artifacts(centauri-dreams.org)
2 points by BruceEel 5y ago|0 comments
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by BruceEel 5y ago
There's also the 'Looking for Lurkers: Objects Co-orbital with Earth as SETI Observables' paper by James Benford, worth reading: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1903/1903.09582.pdf

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