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841.
by bane 4y ago
It's so interesting that the move to avoid being destroyed is to destroy oneself.
842.
by bane 4y ago
It's cool! We've all been there.
843.
by bane 4y ago
I don't think you read either the article or my post.
844.
by bane 4y ago
I don't know that it can be universally achieved car or no car, great public transit or no. But it's important to try for it. The key of course is to provide plentiful housing in varieties that support people at a variety of incom
845.
by bane 4y ago
I worked a full time job myself. It took longer to get the degree but it just became a regular part of my weekly schedule tbh.
846.
by bane 4y ago
Echoing lots of comments here, HN being down is a real bummer to my day. I feel less informed, less engaged, and frankly bored without it in my life. True appreciation to the team who works to keep it up, high-quality, and impactful.
847.
by bane 4y ago
I remember working with a client in the last 5 years that demanded a Kubernetes cluster to run custom analytics on very fast incoming data streams (several GB per hour). By "custom analytics" I mean, python scripts that loaded a d
848.
by bane 4y ago
Playground age for me was the early 80s which included the following spaces: - The neighborhood playground was made out of cast concrete in a few pieces that sat on top of concrete. It looked very similar to this [1][2] but had several othe
849.
by bane 4y ago
That's really interesting! Just to be clear in my post I'm referring to bog standard email addresses not fidonet...which was also very common at the time. I'm not aware of any fidonet<--> internet bridges during that ti
850.
by bane 4y ago
One of my university professors helped start CSNet which ran as an alternative to ARPANet for a few years over X.25 equipment. There's a complicated history but it sorta ran until the late 80s by itself until the Internet kind of swall
851.
by bane 4y ago
There was a brief period where BBSs also offered various gateway services into the Internet a long with the normal BBS services like doors. I received my first ever email address from a huge local BBS back in the early early 90s by paying a
852.
by bane 4y ago
After looking at lots of these new models, I've come to the conclusion that they're all basically weighted gibberish generators that produce output not entirely dissimilar to old fashioned hidden markov chains -- just more sophist
853.
Zeebo: Brazil's Bizarre Delisted Console(youtube.com)
2 points by bane 4y ago|0 comments
854.
by bane 4y ago
I'm wondering if anybody can shed light on the prevalence of 'TL' in so many Aztec language words? IIR it's a latinized way of representing a single unique consonant, but it's fascinating that it's in nearly ev
855.
by bane 4y ago
This is really cool. Simple media servers are I think are where it's at. I know lots of people like applications to handle managing their media (a la iTunes) but I really prefer this type of organization method myself...it let me be a
856.
The Dark – The ZX Spectrum's Greatest FPS(youtube.com)
1 points by bane 4y ago|0 comments
857.
AOL 3.0 Reverse Engineered in TempleOS(g.livejournal.com)
5 points by bane 4y ago|3 comments
858.
I'm ready for the next power outage(youtube.com)
2 points by bane 4y ago|0 comments
859.
by bane 4y ago
Samsung has sorta been trying this for a while with DeX.
860.
by bane 4y ago
Yes. It's generated in realtime along with the visuals.
861.
by bane 4y ago
Sometime in the mid-90s the local Microcenter had a deal on a $999 PC. IIR it was running Windows-95, but was otherwise a bare-minimum system. The "deal" was that the PC also had an ad infested border around the screen that ate up
862.
by bane 4y ago
And you can play it (and Gorillas) today! https://archive.org/details/NibblesQbasic https://archive.org/details/GorillasQbasic
863.
MEMS: The Second Silicon Revolution?(youtube.com)
1 points by bane 4y ago|0 comments
864.
by bane 4y ago
For people wanting to have a bit of fun and handle things that feel like weapons, I'd highly recommend searching out a contemporary Wushu (Kung Fu) school. It's the modern sport martial art of China, is sort of a combination of tr
865.
by bane 4y ago
I think you are referring to "The Last Dragon" which is considered an all time cult classic.
866.
by bane 5y ago
They still do them from time to time. I remember seeing some of this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2012 being built and a friend's son was tapped as a translator for it.
867.
Fixing all Super Mario 64 source and improving performance(youtube.com)
10 points by bane 5y ago|0 comments
868.
by bane 5y ago
oh man, this brings back some memories. In the early-mid 90s I worked at a mom-n-pop computer repair store and LapLink at some point became sort of a standard tool for all sorts of system setup and configuration stuff. Keep in mind that oth
869.
How 90s dial-up Internet worked, and let's make our own ISP(youtube.com)
5 points by bane 5y ago|0 comments
870.
Sierra Flashback with Ken and Roberta – Good, Bad and Disappointments(youtube.com)
1 points by bane 5y ago|0 comments

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