Malic

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by Malic 8y ago
One of my favorite software horror stories is the one of $32 _billion_ overdraft by the Bank of New York. From "Computer-Related Risks" by Peter G. Neumann, published 1994 (REALLY recommended reading) "One of the most dramati
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by Malic 8y ago
Kurzgesagt had some nice summaries of: 1) Why white dwarves might be the last home for life in the universe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsN1LglrX9s 2) ...or maybe it will be black holes - https://www.youtub
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by Malic 8y ago
Ok, now that you mention it - that does sound correct. It was a long time ago... ;)
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by Malic 8y ago
If I recall correctly, Steven Levy's book "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" also covered some of this story. Woz was intimidated by disk controllers because he didn't know much about them, other than they were
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by Malic 8y ago
Just to chime in with more 68k nostalgia and trivia: The 68000 didn't have cache - but 68010 did. Three whole instructions worth of cache. "Wha...?" you might say? Tha' heck good is that? The point was that the 3-inst
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by Malic 8y ago
A tip of the hat is necessary to John Piña Craven (deceased), the Chief Scientist of the US Navy Special Project Office at the time. He made mention of his days on the Mississippi River and the occasional "Underwater cable - Do not dra
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by Malic 9y ago
Very true but depending on what latitude you live at, it may be impossible to get enough on sunlight alone. There's dermatologist that claims a link between latitude and mortality: https://www.ted.com/talks/richard
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Qantas Dreamliner takes off, fuelled by biofuel on LA to Melbourne flight(traveller.com.au)
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by Malic 9y ago
I forgot to mention - he was also a teacher of his craft and that counts too.
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by Malic 9y ago
Because being a hacker is about obsessively working to know all there is about a given subject and become better in a chosen craft. Bocuse was cooking hacker.
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by Malic 9y ago
LOL! Is the submitter trying to use this as a thinly veiled parable for JavaScript Fatigue?
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by Malic 9y ago
It's a marketing problem. Take pearls. A natural pearl seems like something you would prefer. But a cultured pearl is more uniform in size/shape/color and more desirable. What would need to happen is to push the idea that cul
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by Malic 9y ago
Yup - it's a fat soluble vitamin - this is a very good point to bring up. I made the "taking it with my low fat meal of the day" (breakfast) and made a change to correct that.
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by Malic 9y ago
The Making of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' by Taschen. This isn't a book so much to be read is it is to be /studied/.
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by Malic 9y ago
Ah then there was MLX! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLX_(software) TL;DR - MLX was a BASIC app for the C64 that allowed the key entry of hex code with checksums and live validation.
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by Malic 9y ago
Love the idea, but yes, the search needs some work. For example, the search engine doesn't get "St. Louis, MO" right at all. Iterate and carry on!
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by Malic 9y ago
"Copying games out of old magazines to play them" - a big yes here. I learned SO much from tracking down typos. It forced you to look at the code, understand how pieces of it worked, so you could fix it. Your reward? A fun little
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by Malic 9y ago
Oops - misinterpretation of skimming the article. Damn day job getting in the way of keeping up with HN articles! :)
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by Malic 9y ago
I wonder when Node.js will (if?) support WASM. Assuming it does, then this becomes a cross platform server-side solution for PDF generation AND THAT is something I could actually use this very day.
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by Malic 9y ago
I'll second that. Scott Manley is THE source KSP tutorials and just plain absurd fun-with-KSP-plugins. You'll get a lot more out of KSP if you watch/follow his videos.
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Charlie Stross: “Paging Agent 007” (or “Where do our leaders REALLY come from?”)(antipope.org)
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by Malic 9y ago
It's not quite the same thing but I can verify that certain Scandinavian countries really expect you to "get a move on" when crossing the street. There isn't enough time to walk across crosswalks in Denmark, for example,
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by Malic 9y ago
Ok... One - Do want, yes. Two - Might there be an accompanying launch pad gantry set in the future? :)
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by Malic 9y ago
I'll add a nod to the Kurzgesagt CRISPR video recommendation. It is really nice introduction to the discovery of CAS9, CRISPR as a DNA editing technique, and the fast evolving possibilities of CRISPR.
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by Malic 9y ago
I've been wondering how that's done for some time now - thanks for pointing me/us in the direction of that article!
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by Malic 9y ago
What could go wrong? One word: Blipverts
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by Malic 10y ago
And for the macOS folks out there: http://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/2/10/dust-c64... I might have to dust off the LADS assembly code of a decades old game I was trying to make during the su
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by Malic 10y ago
Define "robot". Much of automation doesn't come from something that looks like it has arms and a head with eyes in it. CNC machines have been around for decades, effectively are robots, but just don't look like what we m
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by Malic 10y ago
Sometimes they DID fail to keep it a secret for that very reason! http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/08/atomic-tests-were-a-...
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by Malic 10y ago
Now you got me wondering if there is place in the world for "Wisconsin-style Taverns", complete with shorty-beer chasers for Bloody Marys, beer brewer branding signage styled from the 50s, and dollar bills stuck to the ceiling by

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