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by leoc 2y ago
Wasn't one of the brothers also a (heterosexual) stalker with an Asian fetish and a habit of drawing art about it? Presumably that was Maxon. It's been a long time since I've seen the documentary. TFA is also frankly pretty u
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by leoc 2y ago
There's also at least one other drag-and-drop Nand2Tetris-compatible simulator out there, Andrew Wilkes' desktop-based LogicSimX/Logic Simulator 2 https://logicsimx.com/about/ https://andrew-w
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by leoc 2y ago
It's not the case that Bell etc. were simply overlooked: the whole question of experimental tests of interpretations of quantum mechanics was actively stigmatised and avoided by physicists until well into the '70s, at least. Claus
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by leoc 2y ago
Strongly agreed. This is likely more obvious, but I think it's worth saying: the "Treasury" in the Kildare Street building of the National Museum of Ireland should also be at the top of any visitor's list. The Ardagh Cha
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by leoc 2y ago
Apparently Dave Nutting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzkGNL2AxP0 's reimplementation of Taito's 1975 Western Gun / Gun Fight for Midway was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor, though I d
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Dodo-Lean(darrellmann.com)
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by leoc 2y ago
Related: "Dodo-Lean" by Darrell Mann https://www.darrellmann.com/dodo-lean/ , about systems which have been optimised into fragility.
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by leoc 2y ago
Sure: D&D is the American Dream. (Lizzie Stark said it in 2012 https://nordiclarp.org/w/images/a/a0/2012-States.of.play.pdf and I'd been saying it for the best part of a decade already at that p
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by leoc 2y ago
It was Warsaw who first suggested implementing `import this` back in 2001! https://www.wefearchange.org/2010/06/import-this-and-zen-of-...
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by leoc 2y ago
The keyboard with the strongest psychological boost I've ever experienced is the M0116 Apple Standard Keyboard https://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_Standard_Keyboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h
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by leoc 2y ago
Yes, Olivetti PCs frequently looked nice. The sting in the tail was incompatibility with third-party components, combined with high prices.
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by leoc 2y ago
Compare the 2011-14 L'Aquila earthquake trials, when Nature magazine and most of the I-love-science claque rallied behind the scientists who gave incorrect reassurances to L'Aquila residents https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by leoc 2y ago
Cutting and pasting an old 2019 comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19944627 : > There are similar problems with uploading to publishers in ePub format. The last time I was bashing my head against ebook publishi
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by leoc 2y ago
(Intentional) jumbo frames at layer 2 and expanded MTUs at layer 3 are certainly available (as you may know). In fact it seems (I am, it should be obvious, not an expert) that using jumbo frames is more or less the common practice by now. T
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by leoc 2y ago
Your periodic reminder that Google is still under the full control of two guys, Page and Brin. They have (IANAL) substantially unlimited ability to impose whatever changes they want on the company. And in fact they are willing to pop up aga
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by leoc 2y ago
Are rr’s problems with Ryzen CPUs now firmly in the past or not?
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by leoc 2y ago
JSON is hardly the greatest structured format, but nearly anything is better than Unix text streams.
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by leoc 2y ago
Didn't they fire the Servo team?
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by leoc 2y ago
I'm not saying that this is a bad comment, or that it should not have been made; but at the same time, I am also a bit wearied to see that the HN comment section has achieved a Time To Palestine of 1 on this post.
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by leoc 2y ago
He was great on camera, for example as the presenter of the Computer History Museum's old Computer Pioneers: Pioneer Computers video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qundvme1Tik&list=PL14396C953...
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by leoc 2y ago
Did a car in fact pivot around it?
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by leoc 2y ago
Above all I want to see automatic bollards which pop up along the full length of both sides of a pedestrian crossing when the light is green for pedestrians.
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by leoc 2y ago
A.Z. Foreman does reconstructions in a terrifyingly wide variety of languages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H10k4Dps-s , including Early Modern English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldiq6482XPE . Ioann
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by leoc 2y ago
FWIW, I've wanted things like that for so long. I'm sad that I never even heard of Blekko.
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by leoc 3y ago
(The singulars are ‘maximum’ and ‘minimum’, ‘maxima’ and ‘minima’ are the plurals.)
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by leoc 3y ago
Apparntly the bad news is that the remaining scrolls most likely contain yet more Epicurean philosophy, maybe largely from not-top-rated guys like Philodemus. (Apparently it's possible that the library actually is, or incorporates, Phi
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by leoc 3y ago
The BBC's 1991 Horizon documentary "Colonizing Cyberspace" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuZonQVN4uw&list=PL256A5BBCA... , co-presented by the late John Perry Barlow, was pretty good. It has a lot of co
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by leoc 3y ago
'Behold my masterpiece: a single pixel of the purest black. I call it "You Suffer" '. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybGOT4d2Hs8 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Suffer )
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by leoc 3y ago
John Rollwagen put the story about while chairman of Cray Research: https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c... http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby/writing/PCW&#x2
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by leoc 3y ago
Watch was cute but fussy and a little pointless when it first came out, and only gradually became really compelling.

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