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by achairapart 3y ago
Check out Hauntology [0] by French philosopher Jacques Derrida (also used as a music genre[1]). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology_(music)
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by achairapart 3y ago
Yes, at first I thought it was the same app with a new name or even a ripoff! Then I realized they just share the same framework, along with many other apps I guess: https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/advancedcatal
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by achairapart 3y ago
Also, be sure your web server is not serving dotfiles/dotfolders (apart for a few legitimate reasons, ie .well-known).
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by achairapart 3y ago
Yes, it looks like there is some artificial placement. This may be driven by malice (some sort of paid or more lucrative placement, like you said), but also by stupidity (algo prioritizing songs already in the client cache, to save some egr
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by achairapart 3y ago
I know at least one startup that closed its doors because they lost both production and backup data on that OVH data center.
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by achairapart 3y ago
They already "kill people" based on metadata alone, at least since 2014.[0] [0]: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-bas...
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by achairapart 3y ago
Looks like the price for Europe is always 349 Euros VAT included, whatever your local VAT is (it goes from 16% to 27%). Rest of the world is always $299, no VAT applied. Shipping is always free.
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by achairapart 3y ago
This is essentially what was called ~20 years ago "Progressive enhancement", and was lost togheter with "Graceful Degradation" when a new generation of "Front-End Engineers" started over-engineering the www aro
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by achairapart 3y ago
I read many times that 486SXs were rebranded 486DXs with a defective co-processor unit, don't really know if it was rumors or just plain fiction.
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by achairapart 3y ago
AutoCAD for DOS shipped at some point with a cool NASA Space Shuttle demo, I remember seeing it render (can't remember if on a 286 or 386) without a co-processor and it took several minutes, as each line slowly rendered on screen. The
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A font website dishonestly earns money(uxdesign.cc)
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We're All Lurkers Now(embedded.substack.com)
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Geneva, the online place to find your offline people(geneva.com)
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by achairapart 3y ago
You may enjoy the Klim Type Foundry Blog (especially the "design information" posts): https://klim.co.nz/blog/
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by achairapart 3y ago
Fun fact: Lou Reed poems were published in a “Special Poetry Supplement” to The Harvard Advocate[0] (as Louis Reed!) around that time (1971). There is a poem called "The Coach and Glory of Love" that is in fact the very song &quot
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Failed Hardware Features: Tech That Didn’t Inspire Big Trends(tedium.co)
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Tell HN: Spotify flooded with fake, AI generated artists playing the same tune
2 points by achairapart 3y ago|1 comments
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by achairapart 3y ago
I think the point is that part of luck is made of just attitude. "Lucky people" may be even able to transform their bad luck into good fortune. You go to the bank, there is a heist. Somebody get shot in his left arm. The unlucky w
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by achairapart 3y ago
The story may be opinionated, but for sure Intel and DR went back and forth a lot on this, till a late E-2 step, as quoted in another InfoWorld article[0]. [0]: https://books.google.com/books?id=_y4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21&
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by achairapart 3y ago
I have no idea about the actual technical matter, but here is another take on this story[0] (at the end of the page "The true story or..."): Did you ever own an original IBM AT? On the IBM AT, the power-up post routine print
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by achairapart 3y ago
There was an OS especially made for the new 286 and its protected mode: Concurrent DOS by Digital Research (aka Gary Killdall). This OS would function strictly in protected-mode, allowing users to take full advantage of the protected mode t
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Chartwell, a font that turns data into graphs(vectrotype.com)
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Photography's new bag of tricks (1984)(nytimes.com)
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Kenneth Anger, Dies; Experimental Filmmaker Left a Pop Culture Legacy(nytimes.com)
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by achairapart 3y ago
No direct experience but I saved some links about this: https://wiby.me/about/guide.html https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass https://yacy.net/ Interesting thread(s) on HN
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by achairapart 3y ago
Anectodal from a few years of use, surprisingly those stupid requirements are almost a thing of the past nowadays. But yes, some edge cases still require some bits of muscle memory, which may be your thing, or not. I'm a bit ashamed th
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by achairapart 3y ago
I really don't know how many accounts I have, for most of them I don't even store passwords, I just generate them in a deterministic way with a little password generator I made[0]. Some time ago I realized what a waste was to stor
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by achairapart 3y ago
This is an impressive project. I wonder about the longevity of the 3d-printed mechanism. Anyway, some years ago I went to a Lumière brothers exhibition. At the end of the exhibition there was an original "Cinematograph" in functio
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by achairapart 3y ago
But, your WiFi may still leak your location, eg: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.05716.pdf
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by achairapart 3y ago
Perhaps it was a mockup made to show the greater real estate picture of the Xerox Star screen (and maybe capability also – given the "high resolution" car) compared to the Lisa one? Like 1024×808 vs 720x364?

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