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91.
by blue1 5y ago
Shell (the oil company) is actually named Royal Dutch Shell. For a moment I was confused by the title. According to wikipedia it is really named after sea shells.
92.
by blue1 5y ago
what exactly is a cyberdeck (outside of Neuromancer)?
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by blue1 5y ago
Still waiting for The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic
94.
by blue1 5y ago
He seems to forget that the Amiga had the OS in a ROM (or, in the case of the A1000, in a separate Kickstart disk to be loaded at power-up). Boot-loaded Games disposed of the GUI (Workbench) and some other things, but the OS was not include
95.
by blue1 6y ago
Is there a good RPN calculator currently? The HP Prime is lacking apparently, and the 50G is no longer available (and a bit old)
96.
by blue1 6y ago
Agreed. https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/issues/46
97.
by blue1 6y ago
Nice, but I've never understood the appeal of reduced keyboards such as this, where even the digits require a modifier key. On the contrary, I would really like an XL version of the Lisperati with an enormous keyboard, space-cadet-like
98.
by blue1 6y ago
The Italian national identity is rather weak compared to other European nations. Metternich famously quipped that “‘Italy’ is a geographic expression”, and it is still true today to some extent.
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by blue1 6y ago
actually I consider Lisp a plus. I was asking about the algorithms mostly
100.
by blue1 6y ago
I loved PAIP at the time, but it's 30 years old now. Is it still relevant? anything newer?
101.
by blue1 6y ago
Seconded. But why legacy browsers? My mid-2010 MBP, still going strong, runs High Sierra, which supports all current browsers.
102.
by blue1 6y ago
Proxmox BS is recent and looks very good. The only problem, at the moment, is that the client is only available for a small set of platforms/OSes. Also no bare metal recovery of a proxmox VE installation (AFAIK).
103.
by blue1 6y ago
First thing to do when you buy a mac: buy a two-button mouse. For when you only have the trackpad, enable two-digit touch as secondary button.
104.
by blue1 6y ago
IIRC, vertical margins collapse, horizontal margins do not
105.
by blue1 6y ago
> The idea that buildings in Venice are layered, with newer ones built on top of older ones when they succumbed to the water seems to be mythological. It is pure invention. (Source: architect living near Venice). Probably originated from
106.
by blue1 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehnsucht ?
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by blue1 6y ago
meanwhile, Stefany Allaire put an end to the C256 Foenix project :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv9KELroAeo
108.
by blue1 6y ago
A post-it note is about 0.07 mm thick, so according to the article it’s within the allowed limit of 0.1 mm.
109.
by blue1 6y ago
pve-zsync ?
110.
by blue1 7y ago
If I understand the description correctly, dangerzone completely rasterizes the pdf. This seems pretty drastic. Isn't there some tool that just checks the PDF or removes the scripting, without having to install a commercial antivirus s
111.
by blue1 7y ago
Zfs on a laptop means you run zfs with a single disk?
112.
by blue1 7y ago
Luna is a feminine noun in latin. So, lunicula.
113.
by blue1 7y ago
Except it does not seem to work. All I get at the end of the procedure is: "Your download request has been completed, but no data of this type is available in your account.".
114.
by blue1 7y ago
Export to HTML had some non-trivial changes in output.
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Next-generation Amiga available for pre-order(forbes.com)
3 points by blue1 7y ago|0 comments
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by blue1 7y ago
Where? Isn’t V4 still unreleased?
117.
by blue1 7y ago
Nitpick: in system dynamics, a self-reinforcing loop is called "positive feedback", whether it is desirable or not. A "negative feedback" is a stabilizing mechanism.
118.
by blue1 7y ago
But what does "safe" really mean? Systems fail in unexpected ways; Chernobyl was operated in an improper way, which feels somehow "unfair" wrt risk assessment, but so it goes. Nassim Taleb suggests that we should minimiz
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by blue1 7y ago
So what is missing/wrong in the article? (btw, I submitted not because I agree with it – I am not knowledgeable enough on the matter – but because I thought HN could add some interesting comment on it)
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Why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change(leonardodicaprio.org)
40 points by blue1 7y ago|47 comments

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