NelsonMinar

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by NelsonMinar 5mo ago
This video is another good demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJLncut79vE
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by NelsonMinar 5mo ago
Most old-timers here are familiar with a Prolog-variant: make. Anyone who's struggled over a complex Makefile wishes they had a more sane declarative language!
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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker(righto.com)
431 points by NelsonMinar 5mo ago|113 comments
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by NelsonMinar 5mo ago
Every time I read about ancient DNA work, it's about Reich's research. Can anyone expert in the field shed light on that? He certainly seems to have a successful research group. And he's a good communicator, I got a lot out o
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by NelsonMinar 5mo ago
I'm a little surprised it's not ZFS. Too difficult to add to their Linux environment? That's still a problem here in 2026.
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by NelsonMinar 5mo ago
I miss the old days when the choke was built into the (analog VGA) cable.
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by NelsonMinar 6mo ago
I wish they'd just switch to fuzzing the location instead of stripping it entirely. Instead of specifying 6 digits of lat/lon, publish 1 digit to identify what rough area you're in (to about 10km). I've done a lot of nea
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by NelsonMinar 6mo ago
I've recently switched my personal email to a brand new domain and am struggling with getting it delivered. And all I'm doing is ~100 emails a week hand written by me to other individuals. I've been doing Internet email for 3
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by NelsonMinar 6mo ago
I tend to think this, too. Or rather a small group of cryptographers working for a nation-state. It's the only way to make sense of the fact that Satoshi is enormously wealthy. I don't think any individual could sit on this kind o
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by NelsonMinar 6mo ago
I quit here too. This article is an embarrassment that should never have passed the editorial process.
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by NelsonMinar 6mo ago
You should see Tesla's rooftop solar business!
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by NelsonMinar 6mo ago
Matches: from:(*@linkedin.com) Do this: Skip Inbox
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by NelsonMinar 6mo ago
I've got one weird trick to lessen your email load, too.
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by NelsonMinar 6mo ago
They are serious about this in Germany. At the Christmas markets it's common to get a single Glühwein mug that you keep and have filled with drinks as you visit. Even these little souvenir keepsakes have a fill line marked on them, no
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by NelsonMinar 7mo ago
QGIS is the rare open source product that made great improvements in usability. It's still got lots of warts and lack of polish but a lot of the core features are quite accessible in a way they weren't 5 years ago.
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by NelsonMinar 8mo ago
Economist had a good article recently about how this came to be 15 years ago: https://www.economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/202... Long story short he got lucky in the 90s with an inheritance and a publ
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by NelsonMinar 8mo ago
I agree this is the interesting part of the project. I was disappointed when I realized this art was AI generated - I love isometric handdrawn art and respect the craft. But after reading the creator's description of their thoughtful u
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by NelsonMinar 8mo ago
Niagara is amazing. It's quite different from other launchers, so either it works for you or doesn't. It perfectly matches what I was doing before, which was searching for apps by name to launch them.
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by NelsonMinar 8mo ago
The article has a quote from the investment director saying it is not symbolism. "The decision is rooted in the poor U.S. government finances, which make us think that we need to make an effort to find an alternative way of conduct
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by NelsonMinar 8mo ago
Wow they were flying at 27,000 feet for a lot of that. I was wondering how they'd get over the Rockies but had no idea they'd go all the way up there. Obviously they need oxygen and the plane has to be designed to fly in that thin
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by NelsonMinar 8mo ago
It's remarkable that the ordinary DNS lookup function in glibc doesn't work if the records aren't in the right order. It's amazing to me we went 20+ years without that causing more problems. My guess is most people publi
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by NelsonMinar 8mo ago
For anyone not reading the article, she did fundamental work measuring the geoid, the non-spherical corrections to Earth's shape that is fundamental to very accurate GPS positioning. Here's some pictures of the EGM2008 geoid we us
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by NelsonMinar 8mo ago
I'd love to see this extended to non-ASCII characters. Not the full Unicode set, but maybe a big bag of alphabetic writing. BTW, aalib was using character shape back in the 90s. This is very cool but there is prior art!
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by NelsonMinar 9mo ago
New CTO too. This post is written by Raffi Krikorian who joined in September. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozilla-welco...
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by NelsonMinar 9mo ago
I think it's a littly funny he characterizes "Had the right flavor for every different context" as an advantage. It drives me crazy that Markdown is not the same everywhere and I'm still regularly getting confused about
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by NelsonMinar 9mo ago
I had no idea any of this stuff worked well enough to actually run modern games. The FEX emulation layer. The eGPU. It's not how fast this stuff runs that impresses me, it's that it runs at all.
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by NelsonMinar 9mo ago
A stopped clock is right twice a day. These recommendations come from a corrupted source and therefore have no value.
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by NelsonMinar 9mo ago
On Android vs iOS, it's worth noting Android apps are smaller than iOS apps. The details are complicated but this report says after installation Android apps take up about half the space as iOS. https://www.safetydetectives.
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by NelsonMinar 9mo ago
The fascist website Stormfront lost their .org in 2017 with some very unclear procedural action, but I don't think it was a ServerHold. It was offline for quite awhile and I think genuinely hurt the site. Although it looks like it&#x27
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by NelsonMinar 9mo ago
Roughly 40% of the Internet is IPv6. That's not taken over, and disappointing for a 30 year old standard, but it's not nothing. https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2024-10/ipv6-transition.html I've been

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