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by ableal 13y ago
Also interesting at the site, the first few pages of an article about an AMD stab at a graphics API: http://semiaccurate.com/2013/09/30/amds-mantle-biggest-chang... "AMD’s GPU14 public presentation had
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Intel labels Ultrabooks a “Failure”(semiaccurate.com)
12 points by ableal 13y ago|6 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
I was curious about the test, but, for me, http://bingiton.com/ goes straight to plain http://www.bing.com . Geolocation, I suppose. I'm in Portugal.
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by ableal 13y ago
And yet, 'MrGrim' is still using reddit, namely this nice post last week: "I'm finally going to build the computer of my dreams" http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1mjbvl/b
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by ableal 13y ago
They linked the article that mentioned that 200 lumens/watt lamp ( http://www.treehugger.com/energy-efficiency/philips-shows-br... ), seems a replacement for fluorescent tubes. Quote from that: "[...] this
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by ableal 13y ago
"a farewell gift to guests as they exist the aircraft" Allow me to snip this little gem, to keep company to previously collected items such as "rear window defrogger" and "string loaded door". (Add cartoon i
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by ableal 13y ago
http://www.neowin.net/news/the-wps-wifi-protected-setup-flaw... (Quick search, seems a good explanation, if anyone else is curious.)
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by ableal 13y ago
Pohl was one of the pillars around which SF grew after 1950. The Space Merchants ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants ) is a remarkable cautionary tale, often mentioned. I also liked his Man Plus novel (
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Why Does Everyone Hate Ballmer?(pcmag.com)
2 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
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That politeness extends to omitting the very real fact that listening to a foreign accent is somewhat tiring - it's like running error-correction that consumes extra processing power ;-) (Not a native English speaker, but I noticed tha
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by ableal 13y ago
"You might be surprised to learn that the calculator chip cannot perform multiplication natively. There's no floating point unit to multiply two numbers. " Quite true. The sexy multiplier chips from TRW ( http://en
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by ableal 13y ago
This made more sense in the days when 80 column by 25 lines were all that one could see into a computer, and BSD Unix shells had no sensible response to arrow keys ... In those days, having three or four Emacs buffers where one could have a
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by ableal 13y ago
I filched this from an old mainstay of the web, the Arts and Letters Daily ( http://www.aldaily.com/ ), and submitted it with the ALD blurb that caught my attention: "Borges never wrote a work of fiction longer than fo
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Two New Books About Jorge Luis Borges(newyorker.com)
48 points by ableal 13y ago|24 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
Ah, delightful, unread Borges texts still popping up after a four course meal of collected works I got presented with a few years ago (not an English edition). Thanks. In Lisbon, there's a small, discrete monument to Borges - just a ca
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by ableal 13y ago
"Solving problems is the lowest form of design." Well, that may be right or wrong, but it is thought-provoking. In a Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, sort of way.
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Futile Marketing (A.StJohn on a model for game virality)(alexstjohn.com)
2 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
> phanopoetic It's not every day that we meet a legitimate word for which Google can only find a paltry 119 results ;-) (This result did the most for me: Do we privilege sight or sound? - Foetry http://foetry.com/f
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by ableal 13y ago
Sorry, I deleted my post because someone else posted at the same time a reasonable explanation - a rice substitute ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6029358 ). Thanks for adding information. My original text: "The
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by ableal 13y ago
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/histsci/ssvoral/enge... (just the content framed in the bottom corner ;-)
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by ableal 13y ago
My laptop's fan says that may not be advisable. P.S. sometimes people overlook how a well-drawn illustration may be superior to photos or video; think anatomical drawings, for instance. In this case I feel the lack of two simple curves
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by ableal 13y ago
> hospital room confrontation with Ashcroft. Good report on that here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/12/13/now-we-know...
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by ableal 13y ago
The interesting bit are the new metrics proposed for company performance, in page 2, after the first paragraph ( http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/business/an-unstoppable-cl... )
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by ableal 13y ago
The casual reference to "hypothyroidism in Antarctica" got me curious. Apparently there's a link with working in low temperatures, and research on it, e.g. http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/86/1&#
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Facebook's working on 'Reader' that might actually make money(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
Elusive critter. http://basecamp.com/pricing : "Pricing Starts at $1/day" , so, no. Search, hit: https://basecamp.com/personal "... $25 per project. Pay once, no recurring fees." Bu
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by ableal 13y ago
"Poison was used unsuccessfully in the assassination of Rasputin and Kolohan" Rasputin, most everybody knows about, but the second name is unfamiliar. I suppose it is this WW2 episode: "When an attempt to poison Holohan&#x
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These Maps Prove That Rich People Love iPhones(businessinsider.com)
1 points by ableal 13y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
I wonder if they were just punning on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quick_and_the_Dead_%28idiom... > Walking faster now. Joke there, I suppose, since the authors did seem to find it applied for diagnosis (poor he
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(Verity Stob) Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++(theregister.co.uk)
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