Malic

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by Malic 4y ago
This isn't the first time I've seen work in this area - the author of the article is in good company. Ian Bogost over saw a group of students to add CRT simulation (phosphor glow, color bleed, etc.) to the Atari 2600 emulator, Ste
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Multivalent nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine against all known flu virus types(science.org)
5 points by Malic 4y ago|4 comments
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by Malic 4y ago
Seems the case the developers were inspired by SCP-3008 - https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-3008 IKEA's actions concern me a little. The sub-genre of Urban Fantasy will call in lots of real world elements and
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by Malic 4y ago
James West would approve.
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by Malic 4y ago
That statement is somewhat analogous to what is said about software development (in the tone of JFK's "moonshot" voice), "...we do things things not because they are easy but because we thought they would be easy...&quot
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by Malic 4y ago
Car infotainment systems use Flash!? That's ... terrifying.
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by Malic 4y ago
CGP Grey did a video essay on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8
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by Malic 4y ago
Do you have a business plan to eat 10-15% more year-over-year on an ongoing basis?
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by Malic 4y ago
Pixelmator Pro. Biggest bang for the buck image editor for macOS.
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by Malic 5y ago
I gotta make a call-out for the book "Hackers" by Steven Levy. The book had a nice section covering those days back at MIT when Spacewar was developed. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hackers/97
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by Malic 5y ago
Web3 feels like a Google AMP caliber event; lots of excitement around it that, in hindsight, was created excitement to justify a technology that would be beneficial to the few at the expense of the many. Am I wrong here?
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by Malic 5y ago
This... this is a Monty Python sketch. (facepalm) https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/Probe-Around_on_Crime
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by Malic 5y ago
Personally, I think Weller's line of thinking may fit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9lDWPMWrM (TED Talk - Richard Weller: Could the sun be good for your heart?) TL;DW - It's not just Vitamin-D generated
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by Malic 5y ago
Let's add https://shapez.io/ to that list!
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by Malic 5y ago
I can't emphasize enough how much I like a browser's Reader View for web pages like this.
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'Joe Danger' crashing back into iOS after appeal from parent of autistic child(appleinsider.com)
3 points by Malic 5y ago|0 comments
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by Malic 5y ago
Yup. Twice a day, results show up somewhere before 90 days, ceasing treatment after point appears to continue to provide results. "In phase 1 and 2 studies, UNR844 exhibited a good safety profile and there were no treatment-related s
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by Malic 5y ago
I'm more interested in UNR844-Cl (by Novartis). It appears that it has longer lasting, possibly age-correcting, effects. "This prodrug is topically instilled binocularly, whereupon it penetrates the cornea and degrades into two na
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by Malic 5y ago
Well, they kinda did buy Visicalc. It's just that the dongle was kinda big and expensive...
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by Malic 5y ago
This is totally Peter G. Neumann* territory. Something to add to a second edition of his book, "Computer-Related Risks", if he ever makes one. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/
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by Malic 5y ago
It does appear there is a solution for this on the way. https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/wind-turbine-mak... TL;DR: It appears Vestas is partnering up with another company to bring to market a process to bre
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by Malic 6y ago
Keep looking! Linus Åkesson (AKA "LFT") has done A LOT of mind blowing things. Writing code for the Demoscene? Not good enough. He made his own hardware to run his own demos: http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/
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by Malic 6y ago
I was under the impression that Apple chose to develop ALAC because it was less CPU/battery intensive to decode. This is going back to iPod Rev.1 days, mind you. Processing power for simply decoding audio CODECs hasn’t been a challenge
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by Malic 6y ago
Do share the name of the short, if it comes to mind later.
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by Malic 6y ago
In light of shake-ups at the US Post Office in 2020, this ... smells funny. "The rumors that I hear, both internal and external, are that we're very seriously interested in acquiring post office real estate. The reason why the po
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by Malic 6y ago
Please explain.
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Variable Screen Placement: The Vic-II’s Forbidden Technique(bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
4 points by Malic 6y ago|0 comments
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by Malic 6y ago
We really are living in a William Gibson novel, aren't we?
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Black silicon photodetector breaks the 100% efficiency limit(phys.org)
20 points by Malic 6y ago|8 comments
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by Malic 6y ago
The Mars Pathfinder mission cost slightly less than that - so it costs more every year to develop/maintain/promote a web browser than it costs to go to another planet?

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