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by jonah-archive 4y ago
Generally speaking, BGP route propagation does not include a TTL cache invalidation mechanism (i.e. routes are never invalidated and rechecked -- the BGP session's ongoing existence validates already learned routes and conducts the add
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
Another of Terry Bisson's short stories, "Bears Discover Fire", is an absolute gem, and free to read online: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bears-discover-fi...
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
One of my all-time favorite examples of an alternate communication channel is when, their URL banned from in-game chat, gold sellers spelled it out in corpses on a hillside: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments&#x
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
Our numbers as of the end of 2021: https://archive.org/web/petabox.php 4 data centers, 745 nodes, 28,000 spinning disks Wayback Machine: 57 PetaBytes Books/Music/Video Collections: 42 PetaBytes
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
A cool example of this is Allison Parrish's book generator project, a system of writing-like imagery produced by a generative adversarial networks that your brain really, really wants to think are real letters: https://githu
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
The SGI O2 was built like this (power & all bus connections were off an edge connector), some good pics of the mobo at: https://bukosek.si/hardware/collection/sgi-o2.html#pics
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Archive.org: Preserving Pro-Democracy Books from Shuttered Hong Kong Bookstore(blog.archive.org)
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
Thank you! We do our absolute best to do as much as we can as best as we can with your donated funds. It's really appreciated.
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
The big bang was extremely hot; the universe now is quite cold (microwave background). It was a continuous process of cooling, implying that there was an interval where the entire universe was comfortable (there are at least a few papers o
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
and for the curious -- cw stands for Continuous Wave, a radio term for signaling that's turned on and off (like Morse code -- as opposed to modulated like AM, FM, etc).
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by jonah-archive 4y ago
RIB is a common term in networking for "Routing Information Base" (being the set of all routes which could be chosen to be installed in the routing table (or FIB -- "Forwarding") by the control plane. I don't know
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
uh oh, I recognize this one. Love to have a file corrupt after months at rest with no access logged and no mtime changes because a file on a neighboring track needed rewriting (SMR, of course).
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
Ooof, I remember that. At the time I was writing shipping logistics optimization software for LTL shipping, and many clients were using ancient warehouse inventory systems (lots of data uploads over ftp, etc) that couldn't easily be m
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
Announcement tweet: https://twitter.com/playdate/status/1498427655175159822
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Playdate Software Development Kit is now available for free to all(play.date)
211 points by jonah-archive 5y ago|89 comments
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
Same -- went to the midnight (iirc they just moved it ahead to 10pm, since unlike LotR/etc no one cared) show at the Cinerama in Seattle and it was packed. People brought pool noodles to wave around, the whole crowd was hissing -- I&#
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
If you find this interesting, I cannot recommend Philip Hoare's "Albert and the Whale" (mentioned in the article as well) highly enough -- the best work yet by a great writer: https://www.simonandschuster.com/
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
You can harvest your own (Pinus monophylla) pine nuts in Great Basin National Park: https://www.nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/pinenutgathering.htm -- I highly recommend it, it's a great park and you'll real
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Download the original Red Hat Linux 0.9 “Halloween” release(redhat.com)
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
Spotted one up on Steens Mountain not so long ago: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4584052,-118.6942825,155m/da...
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
Here's a talk by Sina Bahram from five years ago -- at around 6:30 he specifically addresses how inaccessible HN is to a visually impaired user. Nothing that he mentioned has been addressed: https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
I mean... yes. And then there's the real world where your parent company has bought a dozen small companies over the years who have things spread across all of the 1918 ranges and you're setting up VPNs and static NAT and RIP and
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
Thank you! We're doing what we can with what have where we are, or maybe just what we must because we can, depending on your preferred aphorism :)
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
We've got a pretty solid diff view now, notes at https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/18/the-wayback-machine-figh... and an example at https://web.archive.org/web/diff/2017011820252
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
Oh my gosh, thank you for this -- I have an old CGP-115 and found the replacement gears awhile back, but hadn't found a source of pens other than Bradley and had a couple unsuccessful attempts to purchase them from him. The mini pen p
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
Typically when they do, they're built in to server chassis as a remote management/LOM tool. A few such add-on cards have been made over the years, though -- the PC Weasel 2000 was quite a nice card back in the day: https:/&
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
This is a bit tangential, but should be a pretty good aurora over North America tomorrow (Sat Apr 24) night -- visible on the horizon as far south as Salem, OR to Annapolis, MD: https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora
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by jonah-archive 5y ago
at one point the iPod bootloader was extracted by playing it aloud: http://www.ipodlinux.org/stories/piezo/
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The Sound of iPod(ipodlinux.org)
1 points by jonah-archive 5y ago|0 comments
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by jonah-archive 6y ago
Congratulations -- I left VC-funded tech for a nonprofit a few years back and it's the best thing that's ever happened to me (or I guess, that I did). It's certainly not perfect but working in an environment with people who

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