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by cr0sh 7y ago
> The problem is the fear factor has really disappeared and few today experienced the fear of real nuclear threats like those during the peak of the cold war. Few even know about the clock, or what it represents, or historically represen
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by cr0sh 7y ago
It's basically the same way with VB6 apps - so many of them out there, and MS can't get rid of the runtime DLL...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> One of the world's top self driving car engineers reckons we might never get Level 5. I have some minor-level experience with self-driving car software, algorithms, etc. The majority of this is from various MOOCs I have participat
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Interesting code and fairly readable; I liked the simple scripting system, and there were a few comments and examples, and yes - double buffering of the Mode 13h screen (though the memory allocation seemed weird, but maybe there was a good
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Fun fact: medieval serfs had about 4 months of 'free' time each year. Of course it still included housekeeping and various chores, but it was nothing compared to the load of full time employment that everyone experiences toda
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> The Lepin logo crosses that line for me, their sets do not. Maybe they'll eventually go the way the vast majority of knockoff ATMega328 Arduino makers did; at first, many copied everything down to the logo (first with the Duemilan
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> For better or worse, I like having the option, as long as I am getting a discount and know what I am getting into. I kinda agree with you there - sometimes I want the cheapest thing possible, and I know I may get junk, but it's my
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Problem with reviews on Amazon is, just like any other review system - it can be gamed. Reviews can be "bought" - sometimes literally, sometimes "under the table" (reviewers are supposed to disclose things like "I w
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Like a router with a backdoor in it? Vitamins contaminated with carcinogenic material because testing and purity cost a lot but are invisible. Both of these things can and do happen with items at B&M stores and other vendors. Think
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> I'm guessing they are only thinking of raster images Someone somewhere will come up with a JPG to SVG or CSS converter for images, if it doesn't already exist.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I'm pretty sure I've used these and similar tricks over the years, and still do. For the most part, I've found that the first two mentioned were the ones that mostly would get me going. More often than not, I find myself hour
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> How can we really vote in a way that will make a difference? We (that is, tech users) have a choice, if we choose it. The ones who don't are the people who can't take that option (ie, your mother). You've stated as much.
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Between things like this, and the shenanigans Google pulls (with Android, the store, developers, and other things), I'm quickly going in a different direction. My ultimate plan is to build my own phone; yes, I'll still be stuck wi
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by cr0sh 7y ago
My wife has another good quote framed; I don't know who originally said it, but it's something like: "Worrying is suffering in advance." So - stop worrying about what and how other people are doing, and focus on improvin
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I have a friend who once owned several old Apple A/UX rack-mount servers, plus a few NeXTcubes. Sadly, he had a fire in his garage that destroyed everything. EDIT: Fixed ref to NeXT - didn't realize the NeXTstation was different f
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> Is it even possible to pay for a license for these old versions of Windows? Not from MS - they don't sell or support it any longer. But, you can easily find real install CDs with actual licenses on the used market. Check Ebay and
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Hey Duff, there's a couple of missing operating systems I noted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22099717 Monkey Linux and Caldera OpenDOS; I gave some links for the former, I think there are sources out ther
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I didn't see it on there; it's missing Monkey Linux, which was the first Linux I installed, on a 386 "laptop" (Compaq SLT/386) with 6 MB of RAM. Why 6 MB? Well, I bought it used without a battery, so I built one out
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I don't think any serious deep-learning researchers believe that their artificial models represent the reality of how an actual brain (or even the individual neurons) actually work. That's an idea, I believe, that has been perpetu
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Yes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_organoid
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by cr0sh 7y ago
VVVVVV's code is still better than the source code of Descent - holy hell, was that codebase a mess in areas, and virtually no comments in the complex parts of the 3D engine...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> IMO its worth a serious look from biochemistry point of view. I'm not a scientist, and certainly not a quantum physicist. But from what I understand, the main argument against this idea (that is, quantum effects within neurons - o
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> The circle of human empathy will stretch to encompass machine people, and they will be given some rights. No it won't. Look at it this way: There are still millions of people on this planet today that believe if you aren't &q
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Do you intuit - or think - or whatever - as a neuroscientist - that speed of this "swapping" matters? What about "swapping" one-by-one vs all-at-once? Would that matter? What I'm getting at - which is where things s
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> If anyone's at all interested in learning about what it's like to pitch a publisher with their own book idea, then I guess I've been successful at that now, so I'm more than happy to give you any advice. Maybe this
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by cr0sh 7y ago
Part of it is "clarifying ideas". But I think there's another important part: Clarifying processes I'd wager that the vast majority of businesses have no idea how their internal processes actually operate, what steps the
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> because otherwise they "know" that it is too difficult. This is something that frustrates me in general, and I'm sure others, too: That there seems to be among a certain population of people a mindset that declares failu
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by cr0sh 7y ago
> enabling it to actually be finished before it can be defunded or protested out of existence. Except, both of these things have already occurred: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_borehole_disposal#America...
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by cr0sh 7y ago
I have an Altair - when I bought it, it came with a controller card for an 8-inch floppy system...with one slight difference: It was for so-called "hard sectored" drives. If you know about floppies, you know they have a timing hol
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by cr0sh 7y ago
If you wait until you retire (unless retiring happens in 5-10 years maybe), you might not be able to afford the gear. Stuff is pretty expensive even now, depending on what you want, what you can get, and such. Or, maybe you'll get luck

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