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by gxqoz 6y ago
As someone not overly into animals, I do really like this recurring feature in the LRB. My favorite recent one was on the Hedgehog. Among other great anecdotes: "The 1566 debate led to the decision to put a tuppence bounty on hedgehogs
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Does anyone have more details on Zoom vs. Discord latency? We've been experimenting with Zoom and Discord for online trivia tournaments where if one participant had better latency than another that would give a big advantage. I'm
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I've heard that the original Bluetooth standard is pretty terrible for audio, especially for microphones. On Windows PCs at least, old protocols can cause a bad experience: "Modern high-end Bluetooth headsets support AptX, an audi
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by gxqoz 6y ago
This book is in a genre I like (microhistories) but I found it pretty dull reading. It's basically a very superficial history of "the world" (mainly Western Europe) that posits malaria to be the cause of pretty much every wor
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I'd say I need to use it for less than 5% of queries. And often those 5% aren't solved by Google either because they're just hard to search for stuff or my original query wasn't good enough. I do regularly use other Goog
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Related: The Museum of the Bible in DC recently admitted their "Dead Sea Scrolls" were forgeries: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of... And a longer piece about a forged fi
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by gxqoz 6y ago
They host the Aspen Ideas festival which I'm guessing is often a big revenue driver. Many publications (the New Yorker for instance) have moved to hosting these events to diversify their revenue streams. Whoops.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
As someone who widely appreciated being able to have a calculator out in some classes to play Assembly games in classes this is sad news. That said, I can't recall using an Assembly program for any legitimate use. Are there real apps o
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by gxqoz 6y ago
An interesting parallel to today from the Mount St. Helens eruption is what happened in the city of Ritzville, Washington that was directly in the path of much of the ash. Many motorists coming back from Eastern Washington got stranded ther
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by gxqoz 6y ago
This is one of the benefits of listening to a text-to-speech article over a podcast. You just need to pull up the article's original text and highlight it in that app (if you're using something like Pocket). Still annoying that yo
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I enjoy both but have probably 5x the time for listening compared to reading.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I'm probably in the 99th percentile of listening to articles via text to speech but the book experience (especially fiction) is not nearly as good in this form. One difficulty is you're at the mercy of the text quality--visual art
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by gxqoz 6y ago
What was the GBA game?
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Yeah I don't either anymore. However, ArtStor does let you create credentials independent of a school account (once you've logged in with a school account through the library). Thus, if you have someone who does have university ac
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by gxqoz 6y ago
First article I've seen from what looks like a newly launched site. Seems like a neat niche--tech stories outside of the West. Any existing sites/newsletters already on this beat?
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by gxqoz 6y ago
If you have a university library account, ArtStor ( https://www.artstor.org/ ) is probably the biggest resource out there for detailed paintings, although it's behind a paywall and some images are better quality than oth
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by gxqoz 6y ago
It's not in a browser per se but this New Yorker article from a few years ago goes into how a company uses various high-tech scanners to create very convincing reproduction of paintings that include their depth: https://www.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Agreed, this is a great book that goes over many different types of fraud with amusing examples.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
By the way, here's just one great quote from that series: "Yet Stein found the game to be a harder sell than he’d anticipated. For all that everyone who sat down to play it seemed to have difficulty standing up again, Tetris was j
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Those interested in NES Tetris should check out this excellent documentary on the NES Tetris World Championship: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836974/
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Another excellent source is this 8-part series in The Digital Antiquarian. https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/tales-of-the-mirror-world-par... Basically like a short book on the context of Soviet computing, how Tetris
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I felt that Greg Grandin's Myth of the Frontier was actually the second-best counter-narrative to the standard accounts of American relations with its neighbors published in 2019. The most interesting was How to Hide an Empire by Danie
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by gxqoz 7y ago
Uh, why? In what world does reducing the number of media outlets benefit the internet?
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by gxqoz 7y ago
That Minitel book is okay, but I didn't get too much out of it that wasn't on an early Reply All podcast episode.
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by gxqoz 7y ago
A good history of early British computing is Programmed Inequality. Gets at why that country squandered its WW2-era computing lead (spoiler alert: sexism was part of it). https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequa
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by gxqoz 7y ago
The NES book in the Platform Studies series (I Am Error) is the best of the lot, although they're pretty good (particularly Racing the Beam). https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9805921.Nathan_Altice
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by gxqoz 7y ago
I'm having a hard time following these two paragraphs. Is it saying that SoftBank invested $3 billion into WeWork which, among other things, funded Neumann's $970 million exit? And they now think they can recover that $3 billion a
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by gxqoz 7y ago
Everyone on board the ship was actually paid a share of the profits. But yes, there were disproportionate rewards to those at the top, just like in a modern startup.
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Comparing values in the past to values today is tricky and comes down to judgement. "It helps if one understands how the comparators are constructed. They have two components. The first is prices of a range of goods which the ordinary
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by gxqoz 7y ago
The recent book VC: An American History by Tom Nicholas argues that the whaling industry in the early 19th century shared many characteristics with modern VC markets. The profits of whaling vessels had distributions similar to startups (mos

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