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A few thoughts harvesting wheat with a scythe (2020)(lowtechinstitute.org)
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by amacbride 5y ago
“You’ll soon be glowing with health!”
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by amacbride 5y ago
I grew up in an area absolutely covered in targets (Mather AFB, McClellan AFB, Travis AFB, various Army depots, and the California state Capitol.) I figured I was radioactive vapor if things got that far, so I didn’t obsess over it.
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by amacbride 5y ago
I was in the same boat at my first startup (a series of 70-100 hour weeks and I was completely fried by year 2.) I had accumulated (and untouched) vacation time, so I wrapped up anything critical, drove to SFO, got on a plane to Mexico, and
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by amacbride 5y ago
I was very fortunate that he was friends with my sixth-grade art teacher, and he came by a few times to talk to the students. The Crocker Art Museum in downtown Sacramento has a number of his works, and did a retrospective last year for his
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by amacbride 5y ago
The BBS lives again!
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by amacbride 5y ago
There are some recent startups (Glyphic Bio out of MIT, and Jonathan Rothberg's Quantum-Si) that are tackling next-gen protein sequencing. I'm eager to see what they can do once they're widely available.
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by amacbride 5y ago
Note: this is just a letter (someone’s opinion, not peer-reviewed.)
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by amacbride 5y ago
As someone who was at Sun during this time (and eventually worked on the CDE project), it was hard to give up a desktop environment (OpenWindows v3) whose look and feel I thought was better than the replacement. Still, it was interesting to
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by amacbride 5y ago
I was 3-1/2 when it premiered, and it was my favorite show; apparently I could already read, but I’m certain the show helped improve that. “It’s a word, it’s a plan…it’s Letterman!” (narrated by Joan Rivers, Letterman played by Gene Wi
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by amacbride 5y ago
To this point, the Wikipedia article on Veritas International University notes their doctrinal stance as follows: “Veritas International University has an evangelical doctrinal statement that emphasizes ‘three legs’ of biblical authority: i
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by amacbride 5y ago
Not completely surprising (from Wikipedia): “While Zuse never became a member of the Nazi Party, he is not known to have expressed any doubts or qualms about working for the Nazi war effort.”
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by amacbride 5y ago
Or, "Arm Wrestling"
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by amacbride 5y ago
“Note that there is one less blank line here; it has been replaced by the #! line. But otherwise it is identical. Sun has merely passed on the copyright notice. I wonder if Sun has written permission from AT&T to use blank lines in thei
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Remains of impact that created the Moon may lie deep within Earth(sciencemag.org)
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by amacbride 5y ago
“Why doesn’t he seem to be fazed by more than a year of absolute isolation?” This line from the review reads much differently in 2021 than it would have in 2015.
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by amacbride 5y ago
This may be the single best thing I’ve ever read on HN; truly awesome and generous for you to have reached out in this way.
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by amacbride 5y ago
I had a 6100 and so I can confirm how startling the car crash sound was!
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by amacbride 6y ago
Probably this: “DO-178B, Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B
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by amacbride 6y ago
Avocet (CodeManager) ruined me for other source control systems for years and years — I still look back on it fondly.
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by amacbride 6y ago
Direct link to the university press release: https://news.yale.edu/2021/02/01/yale-researchers-develop-in...
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by amacbride 6y ago
“A lot of people would say support is 'can I just call someone', but support is also all of those updates and security fixes," he said.” Here’s the crux of it.
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by amacbride 6y ago
Just like his industry.
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by amacbride 6y ago
I loved the 1040ST that I bought at the bookstore at Berkeley, which I used throughout college. I had a color screen for games and MIDI, and a monochrome screen that I used for writing papers, programming, and rlogging into the VAXen (4.3 B
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by amacbride 6y ago
Or Heinlein’s “Shipstones.”
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by amacbride 6y ago
Clarke’s First Law: “ When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
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by amacbride 6y ago
My best comparison would be to a fine-tipped rollerball pen (like the Pilot Precise), on rough paper. I don’t tend to press down very hard, but I don’t really think about it as I’m writing.
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by amacbride 6y ago
It’s not quite as good, but for me it falls into the “good enough/pretty good” category. I write quickly so for me latency is very important; the latency on version one is pretty good, and so if they’ve improved that on version two, ev
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by amacbride 6y ago
I have the first version, and I really like it. The experience of writing on a textured e-Ink display is completely different than trying to do the same thing on smooth glass. (iPad Pro/Apple Pencil)
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by amacbride 6y ago
As an aside, kudos on the document format —- very reminiscent of Sun documentation from back in the day. (I still miss FrameMaker.)

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