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by amacbride 3y ago
It's really gorgeous in person, and the Trinity Library itself is an absolute must-see if you're in Dublin and love books.
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by amacbride 3y ago
The Hug of Death seems to have shown that it's not a * scalable * architecture.
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by amacbride 3y ago
"Would the public stand to lose a quarter of the fleet in a single day? Would it fork over another billion dollars to build a replacement? Would it stand for spending millions to train astronauts to be truck drivers, only to lose truck
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Biggest set of human genome sequences opens to scientists(nature.com)
2 points by amacbride 3y ago|0 comments
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An autonomous laboratory for the accelerated synthesis of novel materials(nature.com)
2 points by amacbride 3y ago|0 comments
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Scaling deep learning for materials discovery(nature.com)
3 points by amacbride 3y ago|0 comments
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Boeing 757: A Modern Classic (2019)(flyingmag.com)
1 points by amacbride 3y ago|0 comments
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by amacbride 3y ago
I worked on things like the standardization of the naming registry, and a bunch of behind-the-scenes coordination with Apple. The team was pretty small; I had worked on CORBA when I was at Sun, so I also did some work with SOM.
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by amacbride 3y ago
That was a nice walk down memory lane. I worked for CI Labs for about a year and published a book on OpenDoc that was released just as the project was canceled. C'est la vie!
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by amacbride 3y ago
The hump is typically housing the drive train in RWD or AWD cars; the exhaust is relatively small and can be routed along a flat floorpan.
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by amacbride 3y ago
There's an interesting startup company out of Shanhui Fan's group at Stanford that is commercializing something like this -- SkyCool Systems. Their panels radiate in the 8-13µm region (the mid-infrared atmospheric window, https:&
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by amacbride 3y ago
Explored brilliantly in "Learning To Be Me" by Greg Egan, a short story in his collection "Axiomatic."
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by amacbride 4y ago
It’s definitely not perfect, but I’m enjoying it, as someone who has been unhappy with Spotify’s haphazard approach to classical music. I was exploring the “Harpsichord“ category and Bach’s Toccata No. 6 in G Minor, and saw a performance by
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by amacbride 4y ago
Oh, how I loved this book (and the whole series) as a kid -- I probably read it for the first time in 1975 or 1976, when it was still science-fictional, and yet the personal computer revolution was just about to get underway.
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by amacbride 4y ago
As a traditionalist, I swear by good ol' X11 "fixed" (6x13) -- great density and legibility, with pretty much any glyph one would want. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
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by amacbride 4y ago
I have very fond memories of my 1040ST — I bought one as soon as I got to college, and the “hi-res” screen made it perfect for writing papers and (more importantly for me) logging into the BSD VAXen from the dorms.
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by amacbride 4y ago
I loved Jerry Pournelle’s “Chaos Manor” columns, and Steve Ciarcia’s “Circuit Cellar” — it was nice to have both software and hardware represented. The articles on the Inmos Transputer were fascinating, and sparked my interest in parallel a
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Solving grammar’s greatest puzzle(cam.ac.uk)
10 points by amacbride 4y ago|1 comments
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by amacbride 4y ago
One the insurance companies realize that this sort of device would be much cheaper than a home health aide, I expect adoption will grow.
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by amacbride 4y ago
English version from the same site: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2227/?nocache=true
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If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?(hbr.org)
9 points by amacbride 4y ago|0 comments
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by amacbride 4y ago
As in William Gibson, author of “Neuromancer” and the originator of the term “cyberdeck.”
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I come bringing good news about hydrogen(noahpinion.substack.com)
5 points by amacbride 4y ago|0 comments
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MicroVAX 78032(en.wikipedia.org)
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by amacbride 4y ago
Meh. This was all solved decades ago with the turbo encabulator.
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Ex-Qualcomm VP charged with fraud; hid role in $150M startup the company bought(marketwatch.com)
2 points by amacbride 4y ago|0 comments
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by amacbride 4y ago
I know of Oklo, Helion, and UPower; there may be others. These three were relatively early (2014-2015 or so.)
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by amacbride 4y ago
I enjoyed it! One minor thing; typo on the final summary: “My closest guess had an color accuracy of XX%!” => (“…a color…”)
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by amacbride 4y ago
and Dropbox
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by amacbride 5y ago
I’m also fond of “When HARLIE Was One” and “The Adolescence of P-1.”

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