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by jefurii 11y ago
TL;DNR Archives and library organizations file an amicus brief in support of a service that records TV and radio news and turns it into a searchable database. Stuff like this is part of preserving our cultural memory, and important for hol
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I know that backplanes (like the old S100 from the 1980s) hit certain performance walls, but they are more adaptable than motherboards. You could swap out any component including the CPU and even the various interfaces. It's nice th
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They list themselves as the "high powered, capitalist web agency" that Bernie Sanders should be using.
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> Deep in the archives of San Francisco-based Aquarius Records, buried between several days’ worth of “laptop glitchery” and “brutal industro-crunch,” lies this gem: Insect Noise in Stored Foodstuffs, Aquarius Records is awesome.
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From The Article: > But $7500 in the hole is not much cost to start a technology business. Unless I missed something, it doesn't sound like they paid the developer much at all.
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by jefurii 11y ago
Offtopic, but everytime I want to try Sublime I check to see if it can edit files on remote systems via SSH and it can't. Well you can if you install some package on the remote systems but that's clunky and doesn't count. I
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Ants use stigmergy[0]. They lay down different pheremones in their environment as they walk. Intelligent behavior arises out of the combination of all these signals. Wikipedia, the law, and open source software are great examples of stigmer
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> All config files should use the same standard format. I can't think of a single format that would lend itself to all cases, but I agree that config files should be in a standard format (i.e. a format that is supported by parsing
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Text config files plus the command line makes explainations and documentation a lot simpler, more concise, and more precise. You can exactly duplicate a series of commands and config changes. "Type this command to edit this config fi
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A few highlights: Black engineer in Silicon Valley. In 1970. Demolition Derby released months after Pong . Fairchild Channel F console had programmable cartidges and real game AI. Want to know more.
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> Millenials will experience a lost generation and things won't start to look good until we're well into middle-age. At least Millenials have better numbers than Gen X. Nobody even mentions us anymore..
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The conservative people I know certainly like to talk about discipline...
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The problem is that stupid businessman just can't seem to get it through their thick skulls that the environment might just be important. The only language they understand is money. Gonna be the death of us all. Idiots.
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For me a coworking space is so much better than home. As long as they're not talking directly to me, there's an energy I get from being around other people who are intent on their work even if they're not on a team with me.
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> If Sanders ideas can work so well, why don't all these eager people first implement them at a local level where they have more immediate power? Nope, they want to go directly to the executive because it is a figurehead. Lots of pe
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> A lot of them prefer this "lifestyle" For a number of years I helped run a Saturday morning soup kitchen at a church near the VA in West LA. Talked to a lot of people, mostly guys, and heard this a lot too, but for most of t
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These might be good for Emacs users too.
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In other words, he was operating exactly how the cable companies did when they first started. And the west-coast movie companies. And American book publishers in the 1700s. And Irish book publishers before that.
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Back in the 1970s/1980s cyclists had to struggle to carve out their legal place on the roadways. Part of the bargain was that they adopt certain car-like rules of the road, like riding in the same direction as traffic, not weaving in
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So I shouldn't celebrate the interesting and cool things about other peoples' cultures (and my own)? That's sad.
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Rather than IoT, I'd like to have networked Things under my control. The problem is not that they're networked but that they all want to phone home to central services.
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Not brutalist but since we're talking concrete... I've long been a fan of Japanese architect Tadao Ando[0]. A lot of brutalist buildings are imposing blocky structures but Ando's buildings are poetry in concrete. The looming
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Aren't we already doing this? Issue trackers, project wikis, and TODO comments in the code are all stigmergic practices.
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You'll be happy with your life choice when you're able to get to know your kids as adults and they (hopefully) grow up enough to realize that they don't know everything.
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Not an expert here, but Forbes doesn't seem like the go-to site for astronomy news.
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It's something like Django models but with Elasticsearch. You can create object classes and then save them to Elasticsearch, query them, etc. It's built on the lower-level https://github.com/elastic/elasticse
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The cake is a lie.
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Like the part in "Motel of the Mysteries" where the discoverer tries to figure out what the toilet set was for. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108831.Motel_of_the_Myst...
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Maybe it had something to do with the "6,000-year-old temple with sacrificial altars discovered in Ukraine"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753820
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You're just bitter because your text editor can't do this. ;)

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