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by jonah-archive 3y ago
For the interested, the book Two And Two has a lot more about the Old House. I used to visit regularly when I lived northeast and there's no place quite like it. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rafe-barth
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Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Connectors(frame.work)
138 points by jonah-archive 3y ago|82 comments
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by jonah-archive 3y ago
Hey -- I don't see another way to get in touch with you, so advance apologies for the comment spam. In a past comment you mentioned that you used to run the Ricochet modem wikispace and have a bunch of documentation/etc -- perhap
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by jonah-archive 3y ago
A favorite HN comment of mine from a few years back ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21590482 ): > Outside of fundamentally better workflow improvements, most professional fields don't randomly change their tool
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by jonah-archive 3y ago
"He told me that in 1886 he had invented an original system of numbering and that in a very few days he had gone beyond the twenty-four-thousand mark. He had not written it down, since anything he thought of once would never be lost to
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
Sorry folks! One of our datacenters lost power for a couple hours. We're fairly redundant across sites but in the case of an ephemeral event, it can make more sense for us to wait it out than to fully fail over/etc. As we like
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
I totally agree with this. One of the strengths of the original Dune series is how willing Frank Herbert is to leave things unsaid -- it's a complex universe that has lost a lot of knowledge, just like ours! It covers timespans that
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
IMHO the Dune Encyclopedia (written in collaboration with Frank Herbert) does a much better job elucidating aspects of the Dune Universe in an interesting way than Brian's books do -- there's a narrative thread that weaves through
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
re the advice in that post -- I completely agree but I would say that if you enjoy God Emperor (I do, deeply), between that and Heretics go read _The Dune Encyclopedia_, which is a hard-to-find paperback but an easy-to-find PDF written as a
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
!! I need to check this out. A friend gave me an old Lytro Illum with a bad test firmware awhile back that I never got around to doing anything with, maybe there's some possibility here.
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
We're having a contest to remix public domain material that will be judged at our in-person Public Domain Day party on January 20th! Check it out: http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/public-domain-day-202
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
Dave Arnold tried this and was not impressed: https://cookingissues.com/2009/06/11/maillard-pipe-potatoes/ ---------------------------------------- As you can see from the photo, the potato turns a dark
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
ah, found it! Page 88 of this PDF: https://www.ardent-tool.com/NIC/3c5x9b_Technical_Reference.p... ---------------------------------------- It is the user’s responsibility (with help from the configuration program) to
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
Pretty much -- IIRC connecting the pad bypasses the internal EEPROM and loads a default configuration, and from there you can read/write the EEPROM as well.
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
I had something like this happen once -- a company I was at had these old RAID arrays that we kept limping along while we waited for budget to buy ones from a company that hadn't ceased to exist, and at some point a disk failed in some
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
That phenomenon is the source of one of my all-time favorite man page entries: https://web.archive.org/web/20210421224904/https://nixdoc.ne... ep0: 3c509 in test mode. Erase pencil mark! This mea
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
Canonical link is at https://archive.org/details/jonah-edwards-presentation -- I'm also always happy to answer any questions folks might have about it if I see them.
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Linux Kernel ORB: write device drivers in Perl (2000)(lore.kernel.org)
3 points by jonah-archive 4y ago|0 comments
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
etymologically, the term Schmoo or Shmoo (typically based on the characteristic shape) originates with the cartoon character popularized by Al Capp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo A favorite example is the shape o
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
A slightly hyperbolic but technically accurate description of knitting I once received that blew my mind a little was "tie this string into a knot in the shape of a sock".
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
Many (many) years ago I worked for the Earth & Space Sciences department at the University of Washington (setting up some of the first GPU farms! If only I'd known) and the lab where Minze Stuiver calibrated the Carbon-14 (and O18
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
I guess a more direct analog to the original link would be https://archive.org/download/FDNYforcibleEntryReferenceGuide... , which will take you directly to the PDF and provides the load-balanced benefits. I linked to
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
It looks like this is a link directly to the PDF on one of our servers. You can link to e.g. https://archive.org/details/FDNYforcibleEntryReferenceGuide and it will serve from one of the servers that can source the it
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
For the curious, here's the satellite view: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.0334984,-115.4461277,1423m/d...
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
True, though I'm not always passing through something that will give me a shell (often enough that this generally works, though)
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
Not quite -- I want something that will show me a hostname or instantiating command from the SSH escape sequence subsystem (e.g. if I'm N SSH sessions deep and hit ~~~., where will the kill land).
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
This seems like the right place to ask: does anyone know of a hack or modification that will e.g. dump hostname on a ~? -- so many times I'm in a few layers deep and likely to miscount.
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
So, roughly speaking, many of these problems arise because Linux is a weak end system in an RFC1122 sense ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1122.html ). This is by design, not a bug, etc -- the "meaning" is
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
I would recommend that everyone go check out Sian Bahram’s 2016 talk on computing while blind. At around 6:30 he specifically addresses how inaccessible HN is to a visually impaired user: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1r5
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ArchiveTeam File Format Wiki(fileformats.archiveteam.org)
88 points by jonah-archive 4y ago|3 comments

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