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by fernly 12y ago
The Computer History Museum has a number of physical artifacts from the ILLIAC II, III and IV, including a number of the logic modules: metal chassis units that held from 3 to 8 vacuum tubes that performed a single function. http:/&#x
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by fernly 12y ago
Average SS monthly income is around $1500, or $18K annually. That kind of puts a floor on Basic, because if you propose a pay cut to all retirees, you would have a mob of cranky oldsters on your back.
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by fernly 12y ago
Hawking is just catching up, but that's ok, he's been busy with other stuff, quantum mechanics n shit. So thing is, Mr. H., these things have all been thought out and said in SF for decades. First author that came to my mind was K
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by fernly 13y ago
Smalltalk, Forth and Lisp are mentioned specifically and in some detail in the Avail docs, see e.g. [0]. The designer apparently has had extensive experience with all of them. I can't find the reference now but at some point in the stu
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by fernly 13y ago
Yeah, but how many of those garages are packed full of stuff, with the car parked out in the driveway, anyway?
726.
by fernly 13y ago
If you know, could you expand on the capital costs to convert a typical petrol station to, or augment it with, hydrogen capacity? I strongly suspect there's rather a lot of hardware (insulated tank and plumbing, major refrigeration, e
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by fernly 13y ago
Hypochondriac's dream! Or if you have a big family, maybe you could ask enough questions to justify $50/month. But I'm having a hard time picturing relevance to the typical single person or senior, at least one who has an est
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by fernly 13y ago
I'm using a laptop. Is there a significant difference in the reading experience between their "immersive and cinematic" one and just looking at, e.g., Questionable Content on Firefox? (I ask because I was going to try reading
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by fernly 13y ago
"Soylent is betting on the fact that consumers want to separate the nourishment of food from the ritual of eating." Not at all! The ideas is that many, or at least enough, consumers want nourishment without the effort or time spen
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by fernly 13y ago
In Chrome, it doesn't scroll. It appears to be only the image and the headline. (Edit: nope, nor Firefox either, for me)
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by fernly 13y ago
Interesting project, exciting news -- but! to me, using Chrome, the supposedly "scrolling" and "3200 x 8000 pixels" image is neither. Nor the second one, "an impressive 3000 x 5000 pixel view of the urban area surro
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by fernly 13y ago
"I think social could become one of the biggest applications of VR. Being able to sit in a virtual living room and see your friend’s avatar?" -- But that was Second Life! I'm trying to imagine what 2L would have been like wit
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by fernly 13y ago
The search function is not impressive. I put in the address of a hotel that I know exists (I have a reservation): "Finnegårdsgaten 2A, 2003 Bergen, Norway". It says "no results found". In the map window I have the OSM ma
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IMDB Top 100K Movies – Analysis in Depth, Part 2(bugra.github.io)
43 points by fernly 13y ago|24 comments
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by fernly 13y ago
The article and all comments are dated 2000. So has anything changed in 14 years?
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by fernly 13y ago
Posted a month ago [1]. Following that, a de-obfuscated version was published but I can't be arsed to find it now. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7012385
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by fernly 13y ago
For those who, like me, were clueless, DOBT = "Department of Better Technology"[1]. Not, oddly enough, "Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy" which is the only Wikipedia hit[2]. [1] http://www.dobt.co/ [2] http
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by fernly 13y ago
Yeah, I am aware of their customer satisfaction ratings. I've no intention of switching away from DirecTv for enterntainment TV, but I pay $39.95/month for 3Mbs download, just tolerable for one video stream with nothing else going
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by fernly 13y ago
Specifically why? Because I am really tired of DSL and comcast is the only broadband I could get.
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by fernly 13y ago
Within my very limited grasp of the paper, it seems to me it is asserting precisely the opposite of your second claim. Tegmark seems to me to be proposing a limited set of properties that an assemblage of matter must have in order to exhibi
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by fernly 13y ago
OK, now you've set aside that problem, here's another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_ruler Quite similar in its maddening simplicity.
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by fernly 13y ago
Right. The people who create MOOCs are professors who think of what they are making as _courses_ with all the attendant assumptions (grades, exams, success as completion with certain scores). The people who consume the MOOCs treat them as t
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On Hacking MicroSD Cards(bunniestudios.com)
399 points by fernly 13y ago|68 comments
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by fernly 13y ago
I met the Geneva drive when I was trained in servicing IBM 514 and 519 reproducing punches[1], in the mid-70s when these machines were on the way out. A 514 could reproduce a deck of punch cards[2] at 100 cards/minute. A punched card w
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by fernly 13y ago
In the article is the example of paying somebody 0.15 of a bitcoin with the input of 0.20 and two outputs, 0.15 to the payee and 0.05 back to oneself. I am picturing having my wallet cluttered with lots of such little fractional bits, the &
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by fernly 13y ago
Here's two dumb questions you might want to answer in a follow-up (and I encourage you to write more articles). 1. If it's a principle that "everybody" has a copy of the block chain, and the block chain records every tra
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by fernly 13y ago
Impressive but I agree with all who said you can't read the callouts below the 2nd or 3rd, because you have to scroll, which loses the focus on the item. I think it might work better if you just pop up one explanation box at a time, di
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by fernly 13y ago
Very important: by law in most states, you can control the conditions of your end of life care. State laws vary but if you are in California, this[0] is the form you print out, fill out, have notarized, and give copies of to your regular ph
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by fernly 13y ago
I have some personal experience with the related problem. At age 60 a gradually increasing "murmur" led to a diagnosis of Aortic Ectasia[0], a stretching of the ring of muscle that is the base for the aortic valve. As the valve wi
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by fernly 13y ago
A much closer parallel is the case of N-Rays [0]. Major scientific sensation that eventually turned out to be wishful observation. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-rays

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