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Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply(righto.com)
145 points by fernly 9y ago|18 comments
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by fernly 9y ago
Thank you for posting that. Unlike the top-linked article and the LibreMesh docs, the Althea site does a pretty good job of communicating what it intends to provide, making the useful distinction between user nodes, intermediate nodes, and
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by fernly 9y ago
I've just spent some time browsing this article and some of the sites it links to, and I have to say that they all are doing a _terrible_ job of communicating to both the general audience that might be supportive _users_ of a local mes
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by fernly 9y ago
For all those posting variants of "It's no different from stocks", this is answered in TFA but even more clearly in the Paulo Santos article linked from it[1]. Editing it down a bit, > ...overwhelmingly, bitcoin is traded
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by fernly 9y ago
Seems like it should be technically feasible to capture the bits of a streamed song. Are there rogue players that can divert the content to a file?
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by fernly 9y ago
Chrome thinks "This page is in [Luxembourgish]" ... wtf?
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by fernly 9y ago
Thank you! That single integer "1099" clarified the whole thing for me! Of bloody course Coinbase is providing a service just like, say, Schwab does for stock accounts. And part of that service ought to be a nice, neat, verifiable
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by fernly 9y ago
The detection tool for Linux is a Python 2 script. It contains ~15 print statements. If you change them to print functions, the script works fine on Python 3. The Intel dudes could have added "from future import print_function" an
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by fernly 9y ago
Master storyteller. Unfortunately his work has dated because of the advance of technology: he set his wonderful characters and clever plots in "future" worlds that, for example, have no computers -- let alone ubiquitous, wireless
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by fernly 9y ago
Shall we insert Robert Heinlein's rant about the automobile[1]? > Despite the name “automobile” these vehicles had no autocontrol circuits; control, such as it was, was exercised second by second for hours on end by a human being pe
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by fernly 9y ago
Refer to the country's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi[0], > The Treaty established a British Governor of New Zealand, recognised Māori ownership of their lands, forests, and other properties, and gave Māori the rights of
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by fernly 9y ago
I did a detailed comparison of Soylent and its clones to Ensure here[0]. There are striking differences in the macronutrient ratios and in the prices. Soylent (Huel, etc) are much closer to the USDA recommended macro ratios, and have much l
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by fernly 9y ago
One, real convenience: a bottle in the fridge versus choosing, ordering, waiting, tipping. Two, takeaway WHAT? The common carry-out foods are not models of balanced nutrition. Often people who talk about Soylent say it saves them from a fre
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Nov 10 CHM: Live Xerox Alto demo with original PARC development team(computerhistory.org)
54 points by fernly 9y ago|18 comments
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by fernly 9y ago
Make your own meds at home? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
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by fernly 9y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Sense-Quantum-Mechanics-Bricmo... $55 to buy, $30 to rent.
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by fernly 9y ago
So many!
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by fernly 9y ago
Plated should be able to lower costs by participating in Albertson/Safeway's purchasing system. Everything that they pack in a meal kit is also an SKU for a grocery store. Then, there's lovely marketing synergy. On the one si
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by fernly 9y ago
I think the point is to externalize the concerns. If you only think about them, they are still "on your mind", whereas if you write them down, they are in a conceptual external storage and you can stop thinking about them.
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by fernly 9y ago
Interesting. He argues his way to this principle of genetics: > And the gene is most certainly not just a homogeneous drop of liquid. It is probably a large protein molecule, in which every atom, every radical, every heterocyclic ring p
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by fernly 9y ago
Python just revels in introspection. The standard module dis[1] lets the programmer disassemble and display bytecode, and includes a full list of the opcodes (which appear to be much simpler than the V8 ones described). The standard module
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by fernly 9y ago
Nice review of terminology at a high level.
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by fernly 9y ago
He cleaned it out some months ago. However, all the major posts are still on the wayback machine, see for a list: https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/6dbw74/rob_rinehar...
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by fernly 9y ago
There's a fairly well-known study (I could find a ref if wasn't too lazy) showing that people in retirement homes who were made responsible for the care of a potted plant, lived longer on average than a control group who were give
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by fernly 9y ago
Here are two PubMed surveys that show there is no evidence for Soy consumption having feminizing effects on men. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19524224 [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed&
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by fernly 9y ago
What a gorgeous site! The Internet is an amazing place; thank you!
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by fernly 9y ago
Exactly; Gutenberg/pgdp won't accept stuff published after ~1930 because it is too hard to clear copyright. In the case of an anthology mag you have overlapping copyrights of the mag and the authors of the stories.
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by fernly 9y ago
I discovered the historic CHIP-8 architecture and decided to write the mother of all CHIP-8 apps, including an interactive dev environment for it: https://github.com/tallforasmurf/CHIP8IDE
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by fernly 9y ago
In particular, people's evaluation of a company are not (wholly) based on its current annual output, whereas the GDP is exactly the amalgam of all companies' output. People evaluate a company at least in part on the assets it hold
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by fernly 9y ago
The article is well-done but speaks mostly from the artist's side. From the patron-side, I think an important factor in Patreon success is that it gives the donors the good feels for very little cost. I fund several web-comic artists w

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