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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
"Like so many good ideas, nuclear pulse propulsion started with a Polish guy living in New Mexico." (Stanisław Ulam)
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
Victor Borge pronounced his punctuation marks. O:-) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=victor+borge+punctuation&ia=videos...
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Anthony+Hopkins+Bracken+Road&ia=vi...
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
Among other things, turbulent currents of liquid iron in the Earth's core can make the core drift eastward or westward, which causes the crust and mantle to turn slower or faster. Same thing with the strength of the jet stream.
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
A 20 year search leads to the discovery of the nitroplast, a nitrogen-fixing organelle hiding inside algae.
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
Bookmarklet: javascript:void(location.href=' http://megalodon.jp/'+location.href )
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
The vote for independence was on July 2. Then it took them two days to hash out the wording. They printed the first batch of broadsheets in Philadelphia and sent them to the state capitals. This batch was reprinted in NH a few weeks later.
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
Medieval Help Desk - how to use this new 'book' thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdkucf6wxU4#help
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
No, the Baudot / Western Union mechanical teletype code assignments were worked out in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This was later developed into ASCII. Computer keyboards came much later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
In the original performance, he had a page turner.
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
“You mean we all came from Earth?” said Nikolai, unbelieving. “Yes,” the holo said kindly. “The first true settlers in space were born on Earth—produced by sexual means. Of course, hundreds of years have passed since then. You are a Shaper.
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
The other commenters are referring to bare metal interpreted Forth with no OS, or bare metal ROM Basic with no OS, as opposed to machine code with no OS.
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
No magic. You just melt the rock, split it, polish it, write on it with fire and acid, put lightning inside it, teach it many things, and make it speak from afar. See? No magic at all. ...
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:There%27s_no_cabal.png No such thing.
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
"The third turtle lied" seems to be from a collection of logic puzzles called "Mathematical Circles". (although that was not in a 'turtles all the way down' context)
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
There was a security incident in 2002: Trooper Fears the Wurst, Stops Wienermobile in DC -- Hot doggers grilled near Pentagon
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
related: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=backup+guide
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
Byte Magazine had an April ad for a Noise Emitting Diode. The symbol was a diode wearing a pair of earmuffs.
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
There are egyptian paintings showing colossal statues being dragged on sledges by crews of men with ropes. -- https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-ancient-...
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
The Freefall webcomic can sympathize. http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fc01415.htm
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
[ wasn’t aware of this ] That's odd. Anyone familiar with the history of anonymous email services and remailers would know about the penet, cotse, and cypherpunk communities in the 1990s. It was a fertile field. Odd that you haven&#x27
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
Japan incinerates its plastic.
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
It supposedly has something to do with de-aligning water molecules via microwave RF and affecting surface tension and gas exchange. Sounds like fringe woo. They partnered with Themo Fisher at one point, but TF has taken that page down. htt
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
Our neighbors put a tv in their little girl's room, but it was rigged to only show the local PBS station. Worked out well.
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
SSSS is not the official canonical file format for SSS. Shamir did not specify an official file format when he described his technique. Each implementation knows how to recombine its own shares. The web apps can be saved and used on any dev
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
In a group of 12 people, the expected high-low range is about 15×3.26 = 49 points. (75 to 125)
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
There's a related 2-man sudo login system here, not sure how finegrained it is. https://github.com/Argonne-National-Laboratory/Pam-2man-Auth
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
There are several browser-based versions which can be used online or downloaded to use offline. https://bs.parity.io/ -- http://passguardian.com/ -- https://iancoleman.io/shamir/
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
Plain vanilla Shamir is information-theoretic secure and is completely impervious to QC. I can take a 1-byte secret, make 'threshold of 10' Shamir shares from it, give you 9 of the 1-byte shares, and no computer in the universe ca
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by ahazred8ta 4mo ago
"uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till"

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