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by f00zz 5y ago
wget works if you set an user agent string, e.g. wget -U Mozilla [url]
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by f00zz 5y ago
Reminds me of those late 19th century predictions according to which in 50 years London would be neck-deep in horse poop
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by f00zz 5y ago
I guess this sets an upper cap on economic growth
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by f00zz 5y ago
> In my case I have a "fear of getting started". There's a book by the guy who ported R-Type (an old arcade game) to the ZX Spectrum (an ancient 8-bit computer). It doesn't look like much today, but at the time the po
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by f00zz 5y ago
> There is a stage in country's development where the country don't care about environment and prioritise on development. OTOH renewable energy sources are getting economically competitive so development doesn't have to me
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by f00zz 5y ago
Great news. I deactivated my account a few months ago, but once in a while I still find myself opening the site to read tweets from people I used to follow. Now I won't waste time any more.
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by f00zz 5y ago
I guess it depends on the audience. Pretty sure that if the parent post were a Twitter thread it would get 32,000 RTs, as everyone seems to be a doomer on that site. Glad to know that HN is mostly in the optimist camp. As argued in the arti
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by f00zz 5y ago
Right, but despite that I think it's still possible to acknowledge the high level of production value that went into it. Never played it but it does look pretty. Edit: also, nice music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t
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by f00zz 5y ago
RISC-V vector instructions are not tied to register size.
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by f00zz 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY
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by f00zz 5y ago
> "That's just from EU consumers, never mind the rest of the world - spending so much on mobile netlink that companies can clear more than thirty billion in profit, in profit alone, over two years. Think of the gross! So you te
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by f00zz 5y ago
The i960 was the main CPU in the Sega Model 2 arcade board, used in games like Daytona USA and Virtua Cop. At the time (early 1990s) the texture mapped 3D graphics in those games were pretty impressive. https://segaretro.org&#x2F
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by f00zz 5y ago
https://thesolutionsproject.org/bezos-earth-fund/
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by f00zz 5y ago
Wow, unlocking a Xperia is super easy.
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by f00zz 5y ago
That was the original concept, unfortunately the current SpaceShip III won't be capable of point-to-point transportation. > "The current SpaceShip III is designed to provide just a few minutes of weightlessness and views for sp
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by f00zz 5y ago
Lots of cynical takes on HN whenever there's a post on Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin. Personally I'm super excited about pieces of actual physical hardware that can fly really fast. Definitely beats reading a blog post on micro
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by f00zz 5y ago
Nice, I didn't know that. Should get one of those.
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by f00zz 5y ago
Back in the day me and a friend made bootleg t-shirts with the CM-1 logo.
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by f00zz 5y ago
I've tried to uninstall OneDrive from my wife's computer a few times, but the cursed thing keeps coming back.
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by f00zz 5y ago
I read "Around the World in 80 Days" not too long ago, and as I was reading the part where they're crossing the US I had exactly that same thought: the US was the China of the late 19th century.
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by f00zz 5y ago
Comments like this are the reason I keep coming back to HN, thanks!
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by f00zz 5y ago
Outsource your job to me, I'll take 50% of your FAANG salary
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by f00zz 5y ago
Does that answer still apply? I'm using the intel_pstate driver and limiting frequency via scaling_max_freq seems to work fine. It should work, if I'm reading this correctly: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html&#x
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by f00zz 5y ago
> try to run your software on a Pentium 4 Alternatively, on Linux you can limit the maximum CPU frequency with something like FREQ=800000 # 800 MHz for i in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*; do
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by f00zz 5y ago
Bloomberg managed to interview a former NK cracker who defected, it's pretty interesting: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-07/inside-ki...
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by f00zz 5y ago
"One Bitcoin transaction would generate the CO2 equivalent to 706,765 swipes of a Visa credit card, according to Digiconomist’s closely-followed index, albeit with none of the convenience of plastic." https://www.bloomb
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by f00zz 5y ago
Usually the narrative boils down to the elite (with help from the United States) conspiring to keep the country down. I've been hearing this drivel since elementary school, it's tiresome. > Also, I don't think Brazil is a
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by f00zz 5y ago
Only skimmed through it, but looks like a fairly typical specimen of the verborrhea produced by the Brazilian intelligentsia (who themselves usually come from the very elite that they claim to hate), except that this time it's written
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by f00zz 5y ago
That handshake starts the opening sequence in the (otherwise awful) movie "Valerian": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oTziHKM_c
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by f00zz 5y ago
Great list, thank you so much! Constellation Games looks fun.

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