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by bouvin 4y ago
It did. I have fond memories (no doubt in part shaped by Stockholm syndrome) of writing a Pascal(ish) compiler targeting the SPARC ISA as an undergrad back in 1993 based on four? pages of ISA documentation. As I recall, handling procedure c
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by bouvin 4y ago
For me, the most startling one was seeing (a) Frida Kahlo smile.
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by bouvin 4y ago
If you ever wanted to use the sound of the Apollo transmissions creatively, the Lunar Module [1] is possibly the most niche of Eurorack modules. [1] https://ajhsynth.com/Lunar.html
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by bouvin 4y ago
According to other posters, liquid CO₂ can be stored at 5 atm pressure which is trivial from an engineering POW.
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by bouvin 4y ago
I can see that your question has already been answered, but I can confirm what it says. The cavity left after surgery changes over time, and the prosthesis, even if it is glass, eventually gets worn, leading to irritation. I presume that th
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by bouvin 4y ago
Neat! I have for the past 40 years had a new prosthesis made every second year or so by F.Ad. Müller Söhne [1] – it is always a wonder to see the ocularist work with miniature glass blowing equipment creating an eye fit just for you. [1] h
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by bouvin 4y ago
As an owner of a couple of Förnuftigs, I have each connected to a smart switch (which I already had) triggered over HomeKit by Eve air quality sensors (which I also had). Had the upgrade, the Starkvind, been on the market, when I got onboar
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Investor-state dispute settlements could delay global climate investments(phys.org)
1 points by bouvin 4y ago|0 comments
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by bouvin 4y ago
Neat, and I will never not think that trilobites are not cool animals. However, apart from the 'metamaterial' used for this bifocal lens, most of the range of the system is focused post-capture: "Without further processing,
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by bouvin 4y ago
I suppose that I have always found his designs very beautiful. (I also happen to enjoy the aesthetics of (good) brutalist architecture).
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by bouvin 4y ago
I am a huge fan of Le Corbusier – here's a page about Cité Frugès de Pessac (the text may be in French, but the pictures are not!) [1]. For anyone entertaining thoughts about functionalist architecture only being boxes, I turn your at
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by bouvin 5y ago
That and Simon's Basic were my earliest programming experiences.
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by bouvin 5y ago
AppleScript is not much of a general purpose programming language (the syntax certainly takes a while to get used to), but for automating stuff, sorting files into folders, and the like, it is a nice tool. I have scripts that are indispensa
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by bouvin 5y ago
After WW2, Ukrainian partisans fought on until the late forties – without the foreign aid that be expected this time.
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by bouvin 5y ago
The wonderful podcast Literature & History [1] did an episode on wisdom literature [2]. [1] https://literatureandhistory.com [2] https://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/8/1/a/81ab7d2ecc9c1f1f/epis
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by bouvin 5y ago
kitty seems to do the right things.
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by bouvin 5y ago
For an author who loved his engineer protagonists, none are more skilled than Cyrus Harding. This is the OG competency porn novel, and highly recommended – especially if you have also read (and enjoyed) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Se
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by bouvin 5y ago
5:2 has certainly worked for me – I started fasting on a whim at the beginning of the Corona closedown, and it took 10 kgs off of me. I feel hungry in the morning around the time I would normally eat breakfast, but after that there is no mo
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by bouvin 5y ago
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” Mel Brooks [1] [1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21470-tragedy-is-when-i-cut...
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by bouvin 5y ago
This remains my favourite conference, and it is fun to see the very first proceedings. While there are many fun papers here, the first systems paper, KMS, deserves special attention. KMS was one of the very first hypermedia systems to take
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by bouvin 5y ago
At least here in Denmark, they very often do. If they do not, you can just hand the empty to the shopkeeper and they will reimburse you.
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by bouvin 5y ago
Well, that's one way to make me feel young again. Part of my PhD [1] (2001) was creating solid ways of linking into Web pages with the aim of creating hypermedia structures on top of existing Web sites without requiring write access to
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Smarthalo 2 Closes Down(kickstarter.com)
2 points by bouvin 5y ago|1 comments
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by bouvin 5y ago
Agreed. Seems The Connection Machine was the last gorgeous supercomputer.
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Counting to a Googol(youtube.com)
1 points by bouvin 5y ago|0 comments
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by bouvin 5y ago
From the mid eighties onward, BYTE was instrumental in steering me towards Computer Science with inspirational articles by people like Dick Pountain and Steven Ciarcia (and, to a much lesser degree, Pournelle, whose articles seemingly mainl
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by bouvin 5y ago
This, I believe, was something introduced by Expert Sleepers in their Eurorack modules. That was certainly the first place I saw it.
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by bouvin 5y ago
For a chilling look at how dirty things can be, I turn your attention to Cobalt Bombs: https://youtu.be/ANIc4NKj6WQ
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by bouvin 5y ago
Heh, we did much same at my (Danish) university with the store FøTeX.
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Bitcoin is ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’(theregister.com)
25 points by bouvin 5y ago|11 comments

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