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by bmgxyz 7y ago
You may be right, but for what it's worth I caution you against equating being early and being smart.
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
I'm too young to have been a part of Usenet, but it seems to me that there's no good way to recreate the space described in the article without keeping most people out. My understanding is that the "Golden Age" of Usenet
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
That looks neat. I'll put it on my list of things to play with eventually.
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
Indeed, it was Zeronet. Thank you for reminding me!
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
It may be worth repeating what the article already states: this project is based in Barcelona, where there is considerable sunlight. Other locations may be unsuitable for this sort of thing. I do like the idea, though, and its implementatio
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
There was a project I stumbled upon over a year ago that implemented a P2P Web, but I can't seem to dig it up now. There was a client that mediated the connection between your machine and the network, and you'd just browse the web
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
> And at the end of it, I was like... this is stupid. I should have tracked clicks and tracked the games. Why do you feel this way? I agree with your positions at the beginning ("I don't like apps that track data, so I didn&#x2
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
You'd probably want to tether the balloon somehow. A balloon I worked on stayed aloft for about two hours, but in that time it traveled about 100 miles. Even then, when it was above the horizon we could hear it with our equipment on th
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
It seems the story of how this galaxy formed remains unknown. > Many of the details of the galaxy remain a mystery, foremost of which is how it formed. So-called "classic" ring galaxies are generally formed by the collision of
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
It's neat that such an interesting and pleasing object just happens to be facing us.
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
I agree. If death is compulsory, why not have fun? Some others in this thread have brought up the point that sudden death is more difficult for those who live on. I agree with that, too, so I suppose I don't know what I think about thi
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
Sonoff devices don't do this out of the box, but with some basic equipment you can flash [open source firmware][1] on them and make them work even better than stock, and no packets leave the LAN. [1]: https://github.com&#x2F
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
I think this has less to do with Rust and more to do with people using the Web as a tool to be unkind to what they think are unhuman pixels. Sometimes I think the Web was a mistake, and that none of us are ready for the scale that it brings
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
I agree that it seems like engineers of the past were more clever than us today, but I suspect that we feel that way only because a lot of the garbage systems and code have been lost to time. The good stuff gets immortalized and passed down
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
Thanks for this, it's quite interesting. I have a friend who used to work in a lab doing super-resolution microscopy (i.e. beating the diffraction limit by various means) for use with bio/medical applications. Some of the techniqu
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
I can't decide whether or not I like this idea. I feel like it would be weird to speak code into a computer, but maybe that's just because I don't already do it. It would be neat if it worked, though. Having played around wit
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
Indeed. I learned this the hard way when I made some claim to a political science roommate about the local acceleration due to gravity near one of the outer planets and was corrected and embarrassed. It's easy to forget that gravitatio
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by bmgxyz 7y ago
I didn't know about this and enjoyed reading it. What a pleasing little story. Thanks.