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by kloch 3y ago
Is the source for the original 1995 version available? At a retro arcade it is the one game you can never play because there is always a line (harder to get a spot than Tron). I remember playing it on pc around 1997 also.
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by kloch 3y ago
I find it amusing that you need a normal distribution of scalars to generate a uniform distribution of vectors on an n-sphere.
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by kloch 3y ago
I didn't know Bob but I was fortunate enough to work with another legend of live sound: Tommy Linthicum. The sound company he started with his highschool friend (National Sound) ended up doing the first 11 world tours for Rush. He pion
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Non-Alcoholic Beer in America(nabeerclub.com)
2 points by kloch 3y ago|0 comments
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Computers I've Known and Loved(bogpeople.com)
2 points by kloch 3y ago|1 comments
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by kloch 3y ago
I found this wonderful page while searching for pics of a SPARCstation SLC
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by kloch 3y ago
Wiki page for the star system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_110067
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by kloch 3y ago
> Zip ties have an annoying square head, and the tag end is often cut off not quite flush with the head, giving a great jagged edge to lacerate some poor mechanic's hand. In decades past my hands were cut many times in data center r
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by kloch 3y ago
You don't need a garage. You just need the ability to make things that work. And by "work" I mean actually work , and in a way that others want to use it (an intuitive interface that needs almost no training/explanati
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by kloch 3y ago
> Luckily NetBSD still exists, I very much doubt they will depreciate 32 bit: I love NetBSD and their focus ppears to be so you can run a modern supported/bugfixed OS on legacy hardware. So FreeBSD and NetBSD are perfect compliments
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by kloch 3y ago
Wasn't one of the key purposes of Patents to catalog inventions (not just to encourage their creation)? Today we have Wikipedia and other free open databases for that.
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by kloch 3y ago
> Speaking as someone who was actually using Unix systems when this happened, the "ssh" command was replacing the rsh command, A different data point: I was also a Unix sysadmin at the time (thought just out of school) and for
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by kloch 3y ago
Quaternions are hard to get right, and impossible to get right the first time. https://twitter.com/grapefrukt/status/1618517709767016450
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by kloch 3y ago
I'm trying to discourage others from breaking things with blanket IP bans.
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by kloch 3y ago
When clicking on the link from my office (which happens to be in a data center) I get this: > whoa there, pardner! Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing.
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by kloch 3y ago
> it would be enormously expensive for Boeing to design a replacement for the 737 Max from scratch Boeing has spent enough on stock buybacks for three or four clean-sheet 737 redesigns: https://www.commondreams.org/opinio
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by kloch 3y ago
> So, where are the bolts? Probably sitting forgotten and unlabeled (because there is no formal record number to label them with) on a work-in-progress bench, unless someone already tossed them in the scrap bin to tidy up. So this is lik
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by kloch 3y ago
For hacker customers, yes. For the company selling it was an unmitigated disaster.
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by kloch 3y ago
I agree, Mosaic was groundbreaking but when Netscape 0.9 launched in the fall of 1994 was like waking up in another century. Or we could go back to 1991 with IRC, Archie+FTP, and Telnet BBS's on Wyse terminals or SparcStations. I'
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by kloch 3y ago
Very good collection but I was surprised to not see the i-Opener on there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Opener
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Riemann Sphere(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kloch 3y ago|0 comments
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NASA unveils the X-59 Quesst 'quiet' supersonic jet(space.com)
14 points by kloch 3y ago|11 comments
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by kloch 3y ago
Indeed many (most?) technology breakthroughs and great products start as "garage" experiments. - Aviation didn't start with someone rolling out a 747, it started with the Wright Flyer - something that barely flew with just th
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by kloch 3y ago
In case anyone is confused, the $500 ARIN fee is per transaction, not per IP. $48 x 1024 (IPv4 /22) = $49,152. For that transaction the ARIN fee is effectively 1%, considerably lower than the commissions charged by the brokers (which a
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by kloch 3y ago
Articles talking about the reproducibility crisis focus on soft science where it is more likely to occur but there is at least one major hard science (physics) reproducibility crisis: We are unable to reproduce measurements of the Gravitati
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by kloch 3y ago
If you don't have a good use for them then you can sell them. There is a market for IPv4 and 3,4,5-digit ASN's. ARIN does not frown on this marketplace, in fact they encourage it and even endorse specific brokers.
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by kloch 3y ago
There is a massive disconnect between the attitudes toward EV's of people who have owned EV's and those who have not. Range anxiety tends to dissipate after a short time of real world driving experience. You're just not going
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by kloch 3y ago
It's so cool to see someone actually try to build their silly daydream. When I was about 12, in the early 1980's when consumer VCR's were hot "new" tech, I imagined building a giant purely mechanical (except for I&#
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by kloch 3y ago
Today I prefer the Pilot G-2 0.7mm. The construction is plastic but decent quality for a disposable pen. The clicker and screw joint have excellent fidget properties. The ergonomics are good except for the injection nub on the rubber grip,
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by kloch 3y ago
Pascal was the second language I learned after Fortran. I didn't particularly like Fortran but Pascal really hit home and motivated me to learn C.

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