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by fernly 6y ago
Oh geez, that end, where it's getting stuck? WHO DOES THIS SOUND LIKE?!? > But maybe I'm drawn to it because I'm good at it. Maybe I'm drawn to it because I'm good at abstract reasoning. Maybe that's why I&#
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by fernly 6y ago
Some vocabulary info would help. As a beginner, words like "hatha" and "ashtanga" mean nothing, so hard to select.
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by fernly 6y ago
Indeed, it is highly useful for learning projects. See Ben Eater's "Building a 6502 Computer" series[1], and Quinn Dunki's "Veronica"[2], each a from-the-ground-up creation of a system around the 6502. [1] htt
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by fernly 6y ago
TIL: about the Demoscene[1], "an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audio-visual presentations. The purpose of a demo is to show o
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by fernly 6y ago
This is the same person whose story, "Restoring and MIDI-fying a Baby Grand Piano" made the front page of HN a couple weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23562784
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by fernly 6y ago
Could somebody translate this into English? > Autobidder is a real-time trading and control platform that provides value-based asset management and portfolio optimization, enabling owners and operators to configure operational strategies
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by fernly 6y ago
So sad, nobody remembers Imzy, the "nice reddit" founded by Dan McComas. It really was nice, had highly varied, friendly communities and a pleasant UI. Couldn't get traction, apparently. https://nymag.com/inte
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by fernly 6y ago
Thank you! But I don't see anything in there that isn't normal attempted cybercrime. What Steve Gibson dubbed "Internet Background Radiation", the continual poking for vulnerabilities.
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by fernly 6y ago
In the shots over his shoulder you see him using the original mouse with his right hand, and a "chord keyboard" with his left. He calls it a "keyset". That's a set of buttons, basically function keys, except they ca
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by fernly 6y ago
Thanks for posting this reminder. I never met Roberts but whenever I lead a tour at the Computer History Museum I walk by the Winnebiko. It's on display there, looking just like the top left picture on the above page. (Also, I have spe
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by fernly 6y ago
The book is available free in Portuguese and in French from Gutenberg.org: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9685
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by fernly 6y ago
Alright, what the bloody hell is this text, and Peter Galison, attempting to say? > A black hole hoards images of the past. Light is composed of photons, and each one carries a bit of the image of whatever it hits. So when you see a tree
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by fernly 6y ago
Just for some needed context, here's what IA says about "borrowing a book"[1]. The critical point, > Click on the book you would like to borrow. You will be taken to the item page and will be given the option to Borrow Thi
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by fernly 6y ago
I'm sorry, that is some ugly stuff there.
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by fernly 6y ago
I started writing systems software (at IBM, in 360 assembler language) in 1967, but I didn't have your stamina, or single-mindedness: I retired in 1997. But I still write code for fun.
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by fernly 6y ago
For context, the first FORTRAN compiler was delivered in 1957[1] and LISP in 1958[2]. My eye was caught by this remark, a propos the careful specification of Algol 60's syntax, > indeed many early languages were virtually defined b
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by fernly 6y ago
> design an airframe There's the problem for this plane, they were using an existing airframe. Which looks to me like it really needs the weight in the front third to balance that ungainly long passenger cabin, so I bet the batterie
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by fernly 6y ago
Does it deal in any fashion with longer blocks of text than a single line? Paragraphs under a heading?
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by fernly 6y ago
IANAL, but if your log was introduced in evidence in your suit, you would be attesting under oath it was correct to the best of your knowledge. If it later turned out you faked the data, that would be perjury. So it's the threat of pun
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by fernly 6y ago
> The virus has already killed over 0.1% of the entire population of New York City Wait, what? That would be one person in every 1000? Population of 8,398,748[1] that would be... huh. Confirmed deaths, 8,448[2]. Nice, as they say on anot
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by fernly 7y ago
The Market at Edgewood (Embarcadero at 101 in Palo Alto) has an online order form and brings the order out to your car. https://www.marketatedgewood.com/delivery
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by fernly 7y ago
Is this current news? In trying to find non-pay-walled coverage (FU,NYT), I quickly found previous stories on this from February and in November. The November 25 article[1] mentions the "squirming out" remark by the judge. A WaPo
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by fernly 7y ago
There is an available replacement for Python's standard re library, regex[1], which adds a long list of features and enhancements. It is too little known IMO, despite having existed and been continually maintained and enhanced for near
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by fernly 7y ago
> [On patient died but] For all other patients in this cohort of 80 people, the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin resulted in a clinical improvement that appeared significant when compared to the natural evolution in pat
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by fernly 7y ago
From the abstract, I gather this is a solid "maybe, maybe not".
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by fernly 7y ago
Could somebody with medical knowledge speak to the lifetime of exogenous antibodies in another person's blood? And, does their presence in any way "train" the host immune system to make more? Or is the benefit solely from the
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by fernly 7y ago
Here is a great breakdown of the curves and the risks[1]. Scroll to the heading "Risk-based model" or go directly to the spreadsheet[2]. Fill in the numbers for your area. [1] https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/co
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by fernly 7y ago
The reason I wondered, is that in years past I had serviced machines that used a "wrap spring clutch"[1] which I knew used the same principle. These are mentioned in passing in the Wpedia article on clutches[2] where it says they
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by fernly 7y ago
The aeolipile was literally the first item discussed in the OP.
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by fernly 7y ago
I don't understand why this is called an "amplifier" rather than simply "a clutch". The torque input is always the same; there is no "amplification" of the torque. The tensioned rope or spring simply appli

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