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by bane 10mo ago
The people I know who work in life sciences R&D (basically anything bio) have had their funding absolutely annihilated. PhDs with 20 years of experience working second jobs as substitute high school teachers, lab workers taking up tech
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by bane 10mo ago
Sometime in 2006 we bought a house and our realtor gave us a gift certificate for $2500 at Best Buy (weird, but...those were the days). A brand new, state of the art 720p DLP projection TV was just a hair under that - we still have it and i
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by bane 10mo ago
Thanks for answering! I'll ask you this question as another form of an answer. Is it possible you are making a false dichotomy expecting that the different media are expected to provide the same result for their relative consumers?
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by bane 10mo ago
Let me turn your question around, what are the benefits of communicating science via video such that it's a very popular medium that people use to learn about science?
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by bane 10mo ago
Thank you. There is goodness in this world!
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by bane 10mo ago
During COVID, by father was dying in a hospice center (from something else, not COVID). Because of the circumstances and the condition of the medical system, it was impossible to get into where he was to see him, and the staff was too overw
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News broadcast reunited 10,189 families separated by war [video](youtube.com)
1 points by bane 10mo ago|0 comments
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by bane 10mo ago
I don't know why my sense of ethical outrage over the cancerous spread of this worthless garbage technology doesn't extend so hard to LG in this. But I've finally just hit the wall with Microsoft. Between all the forced accou
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Building Games for Old Retro 1985 Hardware is fun(youtube.com)
2 points by bane 10mo ago|0 comments
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Computers Almost Killed the Chinese Language(youtube.com)
1 points by bane 10mo ago|0 comments
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The Macuahuitl – The Obsidian Sword of the Aztecs(youtube.com)
6 points by bane 10mo ago|0 comments
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MD Engine – No Code Game Creation Software(youtube.com)
2 points by bane 10mo ago|0 comments
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by bane 10mo ago
Or if these chat apps could hold a conversation as basic as "I don't know where you are, would you allow me access to your gps?"
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by bane 10mo ago
A lot of AI models also suffer this flaw.
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by bane 10mo ago
It also pioneered billions of other users with "hey google" and "siri" uselessness which also copied and then completely flatlined with things to do beyond calling the wrong person in your call list, setting timers, and
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by bane 10mo ago
You have good points! For me, eliminating the few hours dealing with some stupid config option I messed up is easily worth $250, which unraid basically makes go away. But yeah, most of the things the system does are really just some basic l
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by bane 10mo ago
As an American, we grow up almost entirely without this gem of children's literature. I'm so thankful that PBS aired this story when I was a small child. The imagery was so strong that it has forever stuck in my head. When I see o
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by bane 10mo ago
Unraid weirdly requires booting off of a USB for the base OS. I think it's to manage licensing. SSDs are generally expected to be used as write-through caches with the main disc pool. However, if you have a bunch you can add them to a
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by bane 10mo ago
I personally think big-box computer retailers that build custom turn-key computers (e.g. Microcenter) should get into the NAS game by partnering with unraid and Fractal. It's as turnkey as any commercial NAS I've ever used but com
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Solving Polynomials Is Hard(youtu.be)
4 points by bane 11mo ago|0 comments
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Can I Port Sonic to the Amiga from the Sega Megadrive?(youtu.be)
3 points by bane 11mo ago|0 comments
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by bane 11mo ago
I've also considered a side-effect of this. Each generation of software engineers learns to operate on top of the stack of tech that came before them. This becomes their new operating floor. The generations before, when faced with a pr
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by bane 11mo ago
Perl "died" through a 1,2,3 knockout of 1. failing to have a coherent path to Perl 6 2. Ruby (on Rails) taking over the workhorse task of serving up dynamic content that Perl had owned before then 3. Python completely dominating t
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by bane 11mo ago
You're welcome. I think hearing her talk about her life and experiences in her own way is incredibly rewarding. The ANTIC podcast has done a great job of preservation of people involved in early computing and it deserves a lot of suppo
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by bane 11mo ago
A little late, but man this sucks, cancer sucks. Rebecca was not only an amazing programmer, but a true hacker from the get go. From what I understand she managed to achieve what she did without even a high school diploma -- a real natural
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The weird technical restrictions of the Nintendo 64(youtube.com)
7 points by bane 11mo ago|0 comments
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by bane 11mo ago
This is shockingly almost exactly the same conversation that goes on in the retrogaming community regarding pre-HD consoles. "The artists meant for this art to be viewed on a CRT". The challenge is that everybody's memory i
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The American Catalog Home Boom and Bust(youtube.com)
2 points by bane 11mo ago|0 comments
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by bane 11mo ago
This is a great reminder that the Eternal September still exists and perhaps mercifully appears to be affecting those with at least some technical exposure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by bane 1y ago
I'm struck with how long the history of Apple's earliest iPhone has shaped and produced long-term damage to the concept of digital ownership. Apple originally didn't allow anybody but Apple to create software for the 1st gen

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